Academic Computing Blog

Larry Press recently posted a message to the DIGLIB List announcing his survey on the accuracy and completeness of Wikipedia articles.

On May 19th, he posted a quick summary of the results so far:

So far, 50 respondents have evaluated a Wikipedia article in an area of their expertise. Of those, 76% agreed or strongly agreed that the article was accurate and 46% agreed or strongly agreed that it was complete.

Of the 50, 18 compared the article they reviewed to the article on the same topic in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Thirty four percent of those people found the Britannica more or substantially more accurate and 39% found the Britannica article to be more or substantially more complete.

You can see detailed results at: http://bpastudio.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/wikieval/

The survey is at: http://express.perseus.com/perseus/surveys/1734848031/1e78143f.htm

Please complete it (for as many articles as you wish) and forward it to others.

For more research on the accuracy and completeness ofthe Wikipedia, see http://del.icio.us/lpress/wikieval).

Larry Press