Reply to post: Re: There was always a near monopoly on encyclopedic knowledge

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John Lilburne

Re: There was always a near monopoly on encyclopedic knowledge

So, "30% more errors" is the same thing as "as accurate".

Even better, many of the articles were those that WP had originally cribbed from the 1911 version of EB. In effect the report said that the modern version of EB had less errors than it had 100 years previously, and WP hadn't been arsed to fix them.

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