Wikipedia: balanced information thanks to open editing?

Wikipedia is the world's most important online encyclopaedia. The authors of individual articles therefore wield considerable influence. Now what had long been suspected has been confirmed: secret services like the CIA, businesses, political parties, religious sects and even the Vatican have edited certain entries. Tomáš Bella sees this as no great cause for concern: "Critics see this as one of Wikipedia's shortcomings, but in reality it's the online lexicon's greatest advantage because for example verbal confrontations between FBI agents and civic action groups frequently produce more balanced texts. A study conducted by the Nature magazine according to which Wikipedia contained no more mistaken information than the Encyclopaedia Brittanica confirms this."

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