A while ago, I talked about Wikipedia and ways that it has of correcting errors. This was in the midst of great controversy: is wikipedia reliable? Can you trust a system that might errors as much as you can trust the stolid, ever-accurate Brittanica?
One counter-argument, of course, is that if you find an error in Wikipedia, you can fix it.
Today, Many2Many points to an article in the Times Online
A schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest — the fifteenth — edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
And now, of course, Brittanica readers are stuck with the mistakes...
And this is a gratuitous reference to Borges because I can.
January 26, 2005 03:27 PM | TrackBack | in Data and Documents