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Encyclopedia Britannica smacks down Wikipedia--slowly

Encyclopedia Britannica smacks down Wikipedia--slowly

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
In December, the journal published an article that suggested Wikipedia is essentially as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Now that it's the end of March, the Britannica folks have gotten around to publishing a 20-page report questioning Nature's findings. It took them three months? And people wonder why the encyclopedia is considered an outmoded, dusty, moldering, slowpoke sort of information medium. Score one, Internet.