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the terms that did not have any entry in Britannica (they all appeared in Knowledge (XXG)), and any for which the entries were vastly different in length. Sometimes the lengths were balanced by amalgamating two or three Britannica entries into one coherent piece – for example, 'ethanol' was done this way. We felt this represented 'everything Britannica had to say on the subject' – at least, everything we could find by a quick search of Britannica online, exactly the way a user would approach
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that we didn't consider to be significant errors, so we're also writing up an accompanying document to explain which errors we counted, and how we arrived at all the numbers. We're also asking the reviewers if they mind being identified, so we'll name those who give permission. That's all quite a bit of work, especially with Jim being away, but I hope we can send this to you by the end of next week, as well as putting it up (free) on our own website. Thanks for your patience!
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WikiMedia foundation advisers and personnel and the employees of Wikia) do not and never will understand these concepts correctly and with depth. One user in particular, Pinktulip, did demonstrate such intellectual mastery and made a steady single-handed effort during January 2006 to ensure that another month did not pass before all the corrections were accomplished. Pinktulip also then
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words is probably better than 1 error in a 1000 words); and it might make even less sense to mix both categories in an attempt to gauge any bias in favour or against Knowledge (XXG) (or Britannica) in the Nature experiment. I would therefore be very careful in drawing any conclusions based on the numbers in the table below. --
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were not just syntactical corrections: they required an understanding at the semantic level on these scientifically non-controversial and well-understood topics for which there are, in an absolute and objective sense, right and wrong answers that are not intuitively obvious but require the ability to
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article was a Featured article at the time of the review and that this article is fortunate to have three PhD chemistry candidates as caretakers (having such expertise involved on an extended basis is a rare situation at Knowledge (XXG)). The remaining articles required a conceptual understanding of
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As a note of caution, since Nature said the lengths of articles they compared were roughly equal, the versions they compared must be different from those whose length we compare here (since our versions are now longer than the EB articles.). This isn't surprising considering the lead time needed to
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While some progress was made in the days immediately after the report came out, the effort stalled as the Christmas 2005 holiday approached. When one examines the progress made before Christmas, one can see that much of the work was "low hanging fruit" in the form of easy corrections to superficial
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I've emailed the news editor and asked if they could provide the exact article date/time versions that they sent to those 50 experts. That should be useful for figuring out if the errors have already been fixed, and for comparing the versions they sent and the soon-to-be more accurate ones. It's
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Of the 42 articles reviewed, 38 were found to have at least one error – Britannica had 40 articles with at least one error. (NOTE: Nature took some of the excerpts for the study from the version of Britannica for children and youths rather than use the official version for adults. Britannica claims
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For the academically honest, these later corrections were not subject to public opinion or Knowledge (XXG)'s style of consensus building akin to voting since most people (and probably most Wikipedians, including the Board of Trustees and past and present members of the Arbitration committee, other
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After failing to make an article contribution to the failed Nupedia proeject, Wales explained years later that even he was intimidated at the thought of submitting an article (in economics: his area of training and experience) to it because was intimidated that experts (rather than amateurs) would
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Each of the reporters that worked on the survey chose 10 to 15 scientific terms that were roughly in their scientific beat – the sorts of things we ourselves would check in an encyclopaedia. We had not looked at any of these entries in either encyclopaedia when we selected them. Then we weeded out
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If it seems to make sense to calculate and compare the ratio errors/words, it probably makes less sense to compare the ratio omissions/words (1 omission in a 5000 words article might be considered to be more serious than 1 omission in a 1000 words article on the same topic, whereas 1 error in 5000
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In light of the amount of interest, we have decided to make the reviews public as far as possible, although obviously we'll have to edit them to remove the names of the reviewers, any libellous statements etc. The reviewers didn't all respond in the same format, and some of them highlighted points
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Around minute 70 of audio track. March 17, 2006. This further propagates the misconception prompted by the fact that Knowledge (XXG) has millions of accounts registered. More realistically, Knowledge (XXG) has only a few thousand active editors (or ten thousand if you use a generous definition of
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which lists appromixate 1000 users for a realistic list of contributors who have ever contributed substantial amounts of original quality content (with perhaps a factor of 5X for substantial sub unlisted collaborators). There are about 1000 administrators, and less than 100 other users with more
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Oh @#$ #@, no it's my fault. I miscounted the EB Vesalius article — it's one of the (very few) EB articles which is spread over multiple pages, and I only counted one page. Similarly with the Woodward article. I'll go back and recheck any others where the imbalance seems to be large.
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article (which is one of the egregious examples where WP is 10 times the word count of EB), and you have to go back to 2002 to get significantly shorter than it is now, which seems unlikely. I find it more likely that the editors simply tossed out any obvious stubs or near-stubs.
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Your fluff is another person's interesting tidbits. =) Honestly, it's hard to make a quantitative assessment of information content, but if there is a large difference in article length then it is a hint that apples are not being compared to apples.
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In the long run, it seems that the project survived the tagging of all articles in which Nature's experts found errors. I would suggest that the tagging was even constructive and usefu. I note that we tag tens of thousands of articles as part of the
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I find that a bit dubious. By that theory, we should be able to date the review by going back to the last time the articles were comparable to the EB articles (which presumably haven't changed much recently). However, I just checked the
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program. This gives a slight over-estimate because it counts anything surrounded by whitespace as a "word". Britannica counts were taken from Britannica Online. Knowledge (XXG) articles were from 14 December 2005 except where otherwise
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specifically states "All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both encyclopaedias. In a small number of cases some material, such as reference lists, was removed to make the lengths of the entries more similar."
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review did not consider referencing quality. Nature refers to "factual errors, omissions or misleading statements", so some of the "errors" listed below may be errors of omission in incomplete articles, rather than factual errors.
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According to their website (to which my university gives me access), I am searching the full EB. (They also have "student", "concise", and "elementary" versions of EB, but I'm not using those.) I'm not accusing
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article, even one year ago, was 1108 words or 4.5 times the word count of the EB article. I've searched around EB, and I can't find any huge alternative article on this virus that they could have used instead.
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We're trying to see if we can publish the full list of errors found by our reviewers, or least send them to you (and to Britannica if they want). We'll post an update here as soon as we have a firm answer.
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Please post below a table of errors/word statistics, based upon the Nature article and the word counts in the corresponding articles, so that we can see a more controlled comparison of error rates.
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by rank amateurs and teen-agers with éclat. Perhaps our amateurs are simply uncomfortable being reviewed by experts — just as Jimmy Wales finds working with domain experts to be "intimidating".
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March 24, 2006. Quote: "Nupedia’s 7-step peer review process was heavily biased toward Ph.D holders and other alleged "true experts in their fields," and was evidently elaborate and daunting.
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So something is amiss. I somehow doubt Nature compared a 62 word EB article on Robert Burns Woodward to his Knowledge (XXG) 2300 word article. (And found no significant omissions in EB!) -
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Britannica has replied to Nature's article and claim the nature article was itself innacurate in a number of ways. It would probably be good for Wikipedians to check the sources
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Note that, for a fair comparison, we shouldn't include tables of contents, external links, "see also", or references — most Britannica articles do not include these, and the
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Is this really more controlled? The average WP article has lots of fluff, with no space-pressure to remove same. Errors/omissions-per-article seem a reasonable metric to me.
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of dishonesty, but I admit I'm mystified. I wouldn't be surprised if they thought a factor of two was "comparable" length, but a factor of almost 5 seems like a lot.
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unnamed information scientists also "point to other problems with article quality, such as undue prominence given to controversial scientific theories" (see
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science articles and sent them to experts in the field. The number of "factual errors, critical omissions and misleading statements" were recorded.
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To be clear: it took several weeks before even 50% of the listed corrections were made. Unfortunately, some Knowledge (XXG) commentators like
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Putting a "This article has been identified as possibly containing errors" tag on the front page of each and every articles identified by
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So, the criterion was not "vastly different" in length, which would allow e.g. a factor of two difference, and maybe even a factor of 5.
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also received a private email from them in response to a request for more information. I hope they don't mind me posting it below:
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that Knowledge (XXG)'s strongest suit is the speed at which it can be updated, a factor not considered by the journal's reviewers.
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were under the false impression that "almost all" of the corrections were made within the first 24 hours of the effort. See
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the study is invalid as a result because none of the articles taken from Knowledge (XXG) were "for children or youths.")
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possible that they didn't think to check their versions, but they probably did. I'll pass on the reply when it comes. --
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If there winds up being a significant difference, then the explanation is most likely error or a difference in versions.
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chemistry, math, physics and engineering at around the college undergraduate level. The criticisms of articles such as
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study is washed out by systematic problems, although that of course depends on the type and severity of the errors.
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Nature mag cooked Knowledge (XXG) study - Britannica hits back at junk science - By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
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Is there an alternative EB website? Are we counting the words in an EB "junior" site? Just a possibility. -
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claims that the article lengths were comparable, but I'm finding this hard to reconcile in some cases, e.g.
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Britannica displays the word count for each article, doesn't it? At least that part shouldn't take long.
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seemed to some to be a bit of an overreaction. Others were quite comfortable with the practice.
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Nature has now issued comments on Britannica's rebuttal, and stands by its original article.
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criticisms or where specific corrections were offered by the expert reviewers.
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In Knowledge (XXG)'s defense, Michael Twidale, an information scientist at the
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Tables of contents, external links, see also, and reference sections were
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Note that the references, external links, and "see also" sections were
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No doubt, but this seems the quickest reasonable statistic to gather.
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A complete list of errors with their current status can be found at
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Tagging every Nature-reviewed articles w/errors an overreaction?
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of my counts. I still find discrepancies I can't explain. Our
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the detailed reviewer reports are now available (see above).
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of the completion of the overall effort on 25 January 2006.
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is now tended by a few PhD Chemistry candidates and is FA.--
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status with the latter being a former featured article (see
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The following articles had the highest number of errors:
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You'd think that not all words are created equal. —
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Knowledge (XXG):External peer review
Knowledge (XXG):External peer review/Nature December 2005/Errors
Nature
14 December
2005
Nature blog: Comparing Knowledge (XXG) and Britannica
"Internet encyclopaedias go head to head"
Nature reviewer reports
Knowledge (XXG):External_peer_review/Nature_December_2005/Errors
List of articles reviewed
Nature editorial
BBC News
Business Week
Aljazeera.net
USA Today
Scientific American blog
Wikinews
"Fatally flawed: refuting the recent study on encyclopedic accuracy by the journal Nature"
Nature mag cooked Knowledge (XXG) study - Britannica hits back at junk science - By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Britannica 'still rules' over web rival
The Times
March 25
Nature
Knowledge (XXG)
Britannica
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Microsoft Word
Knowledge (XXG):Knowledge (XXG) Signpost/2005-12-19/Nature study
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