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Wikipedia Corrects Encyclopedia Britannica

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-plain-wrong dept.

javipas writes "Despite all the controversy about Wikipedia's work model, no one can argue the potential of a project that has so effectively demonstrated the usefulness of the 'wisdom of crowds' concept. And that wisdom has detected a large number of mistakes in one of the most revered founts of human knowledge, the Encyclopedias Britannica. Among the wrong information collected on this page are the name at birth of Bill Clinton and the definition of the NP problems in mathematics."

2 of 381 comments (clear)

  1. it's the new myspace by socsoc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wikipedia is the new myspace, where is your entry? wiki mods thought they were better than me and keep deleting it.. but it'll stay eventually

  2. Wisdom of Crowds by jandersen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a project that has so effectively demonstrated the usefulness of the 'wisdom of crowds' concept

    Except that the crowd in this case is those 0.1% of the users who actively contribute and actually know what they are talking about. The 'wisdom' of crowds is what elected a twit like George W Bush as well as the British Poodle; I wouldn't hang my hat on that one.