[ RadSafe ] Wikipedia survives research test

[Rogers Brent]

Just to add my own anecdotal experience, I recently Googled "Pebble Bed
Reactor", out of intellectual curiosity, and chose the Wikipedia entry for
it.  Although I can't vouch for the accuracy of the article (I was just
learning the info myself), I did find it to be very useful.  It was written
in what I consider to be that right balance of not being overly scholarly,
yet not dumbed down either.  In other word, just right if you want to gain
useful knowledge without being confronted with differential equations.  I
have, and will continue to recommend the article to people wanting to learn
more about this new reactor technology. 

Brent Rogers
Manager Radiation Operations Unit
NSW Environment Protection Authority
Department of Environment and Conservation
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* PO Box A290 Sydney South 1232



-----Original Message-----
From: Dimiter Popoff [mailto:didi at tgi-sci.com]
Sent: Friday, 16 December 2005 2:34 AM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Wikipedia survives research test


Somewhat off topic, but recently there was a thread
on that, perhaps it will be of some interest.


The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the
Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.

The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both
works of reference and found few differences in accuracy.

Wikipedia is produced by volunteers, who add entries and edit any page.

But it has been criticised for the correctness of entries, most recently
over the biography of prominent US journalist John Seigenthaler.

......

Full text at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm

Dimiter


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