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Wikipedia-Sponsored Pilot Study Lauds Wikipedia Accuracy

Posted by samzenpus on from the accuracy-and-truthiness dept.

netbuzz writes "The Wikimedia Foundation today is releasing the results of a 'pilot study' it commissioned last year to assess the accuracy and quality of Wikipedia in such a way that it would provide a methodology blueprint for others do more thorough reviews of online encyclopedias. The results are in, and despite ready acknowledgment of the small sample size and paragraphs worth of other caveats, the parents of Wikipedia can't help but note that its baby was judged to have outperformed other online encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia Britannica, in three different languages. Britannica, which disputed the Wikipedia-friendly results of a much-cited Fortune comparison report back in 2005, has yet to offer a reply to this one."

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  1. Re:In before... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You have to wonder who writes the pro-warmongering reports for the U.S. Military. Is it the military themselves, is it the military industrial complex? The evidence strongly suggests a certain Middle-Eastern ally with a blue and white flag is behind it all.

    When you're in charge of the goyim and their money, they will do whatever you tell them to. Meanwhile, I will be in my money vault rubbing my hands together with an evil grin.

    -- Schlomo Silverstein

    How was copper wiring invented? Two jews fighting over a penny.

    Guess that was a long time ago. They finally learned they can get a lot more pennies by uniting together and running everyone else's media and banks.

    Just a FACT. Jews run the media. You could get the top decision makers for all USA media (newspapers and TV and magazines) and comfortably seat them in a one-story house. They'll all be Jewish too. Ted Turner was one exception but once he got out of the biz they made damned sure he didn't get back in.

    I'll prove how programmed you and your feelings are. If it was nothing but white men who owned all of the media and banks, you'd say we need more diversity, that this should not be, etc. It is almost exclusively jews at the top levels of the banking and media industries. Where's your urgency for diversity? See how this standard is not evenly applied? The Jews promote the hell out of diversity and multiculturalism but do not practice these themselves because they know it would Balkanize their people, exactly what they want it to do to the rest of us.

  2. Re:Very variable. by Brett+Buck · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's what they should do, though! Wikipedia isn't a place to publish your own personal knowledge, but a place to publish information that can be cited, ideally to peer-reviewed articles or books.

          So your theory is that it's OK if something is wrong, as long as it is well-sourced?

        Hate to break it to the ivory-tower types, but "peer-review" is basically bullshit in many cases. The ability to get through the review process is hardly any indication of value or correctness. All it means is that you can find sufficient people to sign the damn paper.