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Published online 27 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070226-6
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The more, the wikier
The secret to the quality of Wikipedia entries is lots of edits by lots of people
Why is Wikipedia as good as it is? While the debate about precisely what level of goodness that entails has been heated, the free online encyclopaedia offers a better standard of information than many would have expected from a resource that absolutely anyone can write and edit.
Three groups of researchers claim to have untangled the process by which many Wikipedia entries achieve their impressive accuracy
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