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George ChrissComparing Wikipedia and Britannica: The Story Behind Nature's Encyclopaedia Story (2006)

Jim Giles, then of Nature Publishing Group, details his Nature publication of factual errors in Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica:

Giles, J. Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head. Nature 2005, 438, 900-901. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/438900a

This presentation was given at Wikimania 2006, August 4-6th, 2006 in Boston, MA.

Additional information may be found at the following URLs:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:JG1
http://www.archive.org/details/wikimania_2006_jim_giles

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Producer: George Chriss
Production Company: Self
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: Wikimania; Wikipedia; Wikimedia; Britannica; Encyclopedia; Factual errors

Creative Commons license: Attribution 3.0 United States

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