I am just writing about algorithms and came across a relevant quote that I found a while ago. The quote itself doesn't matter at the moment, but the website that it is from is called scholarpedia.org.uk. I decided to Google the website just to see if it had any connection to wikipedia and the actual description for scholarpedia is:
"Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia -- the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program -- MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.
However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:
Each article is written by an expert (elected by the public or invited by Scholarpedia editors).
Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.
Each article has a curator -- typically its author -- who is responsible for its content.
Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, approved version."
This implies that scholarpedia is a more accurate and reliable version of wikipedia. For future references, I will be using scholarpedia rather than wikipedia to look up things.
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