{"id":419,"date":"2005-12-15T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/12\/15\/wikipedia-not-as-good-as-britannica\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T12:33:14","slug":"wikipedia-not-as-good-as-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200512\/wikipedia-not-as-good-as-britannica\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia not as good as Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abi <a href=\"http:\/\/nanopolitan.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/breaking-news-about-wikipedia.html\">points to<\/a> a study which  finds that the average Wikipedia article contains four errors while the average Encyclopaedia Britannica article contains three. Abi thinks that the study vindicates Wikipedia, and if you think that Wikipedia is ridden with errors, then indeed it does. But if you, like me, expected Wikipedia to be better than EB, then it must be a bit of a disappointment. <\/p>\n<p>So here is a question. There are two ways to measure the quality of Wikipedia. One is to take a sample of articles in Encyclopaedia Britannica, take their corresponding articles in Wikipedia, and compare the two on quality. The other is to take a sample of articles in WP, take their corresponding articles in EB and compare the two in quality.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a difference between the two methods? If so, why and which is the better way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi points to a study which finds that the average Wikipedia article contains four errors while the average Encyclopaedia Britannica article contains three. Abi thinks that the study vindicates Wikipedia, and if you think that Wikipedia is ridden with errors, then indeed it does. But if you, like me, expected Wikipedia to be better than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}