It's worth reading Britannica's response to that study: https://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf https://corporate.britannica.com/britan

It's worth reading Britannica's response to that study: https://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf https://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.... Wikipedia is riddled with far more and far deeper types of errors, I do edit Wikipedia daily but am quite disillusioned with it. Even articles on major topics can include made-up paragraphs that no one notices for years, errors caused by an editor's misunderstanding of what the source is actually saying, and errors that slowly accumulate through various editors' well meaning copy-editing.