Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica coverage of science (via). The mass spectrometry community should be paying attention since the Wikipedia entry for mass spectrometry is one of the top hits for “mass spectrometry” on an increasing number of search engine pages (e.g. the #4 hit on Yahoo today). The entry has been edited more than 100 times since September 2005.
Update: Nature Podcast on this topic (hat tip Kristofer).
This was also in the New York Times.
The Nature podcast encourages scientists to be active on Wikipedia, making the entries on their subjects better.
Kristofer
Kristofer’s computational biology blog
Thanks. I have it on my iPod, but hadn’t gotten around to listening.
Here’s the link:
December 15 Nature Podcast (mp3)