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Nature 440, 582 (30 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440582b; Published online 29 March 2006

Britannica attacks

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... and we respond.

Last December, Nature published a News story about the accuracy of two online references sources. We compared the website of an established publication, Encyclopaedia Britannica, with that of Wikipedia, a new kind of online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit and update, regardless of expertise.