The Chesney article, "An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility, " took on a subject I was curious about-- "how reliable is information that comes from Wikipedia?" and breaks it down into a scientific study with all the trimmings. To be honest, the value of the article for me was to see the details of the study itself- the controls, the variables. The actual results of the study were not exactly compelling, in that there we not any surprises, and tended to re-inforce what I might have thought about Wikipedia- it's about 80% reliable.
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