Nature test: Good qualitity of scientific entries in Wikipedia

EN: The current issue of Nature contains a special report [1] and an editorial [2] reporting the good quality of scientific articles in Wikipedia. A comparison shows that on average the number of errors is not much higher than in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The topic is also discussed in the current entry of Nature podcast.

[1] "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head", Nature, 438, 900-901, 15 December, 2005
[2] "Wiki's wild world - Researchers should read Wikipedia cautiously and amend it enthusiastically", Nature, 438, 890, 15 December, 2005