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Does Wikipedia's open-editing approach yield better results than traditional encyclopedias?

I said YES.

I have a simple reason.

Proof of the pudding is in the eatin'.

I rarely, if ever, go to the encyclopedia that came with my computer.

I go to Wikipedia almost daily.

I am familiar with the problems with Wikipedia as far as vandalism is concerned. I used to vandalize it.

Also, the possibility of error is there but I am not going for microaccuracy most of the time.

In recent history Wikipedia has noted this problem and has taken steps to correct and rewrite where necessary. You can even look at the on going discussion.

I was surprised to see that other scored it 49% YES, 35% NO, and 16% THE SAME.