The Wikipedia is Rated Nearly as Accurate as Encyclopedia Brittanica

Academics were often critical of articles in the Wikipedia, as the quality of the articles in that encyclopedia varied greatly in quality. However, n December 15, 2005 the journal Nature, published in London, conducted a peer-review comparison of selected science articles in the printed Encyclopedia Britannica, published in Chicago, which contains 65,000 articles by 4,000 contributors, and the online user-edited Wikipedia. The reviewers rated the Wikipedia nearly as accurate as Britannica.