Survey Finds User-Edited Wikipedia Entries Inaccurate

London -- A recent Guardian survey has found a number of errors in a
selection of entries in Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia written and
edited by users, and some of the errors were so substantial that project
founder Jimmy Wales deemed them a "horrific embarrassment". The
Guardian assembled a panel of experts to review the Wikipedia entries
on their respective fields of expertise. While entries on musician Steve
Reich and diarist Samuel Pepys were more or less accurate, experts
found them to be either incomplete or poorly written. "Broadly
speaking, it's inaccurate and unclear," said Vogue magazine editor
Alexandra Shulman, who was asked to survey the entry for 'haute
couture'. "As a very, very broad-sweep description, there are a few
correct facts included, but every value judgment it makes is wrong."
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