debate over wikis

In academia especially, a debate is raging about how wikis like Wikipedia can and should be used in research. In December, the science magazine Nature published a study in which they compared the science entries in the online version of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica to Wikipedia's. The findings bode well for Wikipedia, and guess who got pissed.

That's right, EB. They fired back. And Nature is firing back back. Either way, we've got a reminder to double-check the accuracy of all sources, no matter what they are. Unless you're typing on an Internet blog. Then you can just perpetuate any and all rumors and unsupported "facts" with wild abandon. Which I embrace.