This just seems like healthy competition. I thought we were talking about a situation where Wikipedia’s use of other encyclopedias is an instrument of their demise.
> Maybe there's a little bias there
Paradoxically, I suspect you’d be pleasantly surprised about how tough this article is on itself. A lot of attention is given to bias in this case.
> Would Wikipedia accept Wikipedia's analysis of its own reliability as a valid source?
First, it is not Wikipedia’s own analysis. Editors should not present their own conclusions from research, just what each paper says. See [[WP:SYNTH]]. Second, generally Wikipedia discourages anyone citing it as it is not a stable source of information. Much better is to use the sources the article itself conveniently cites inline. As a general policy citing any encyclopedia is discouraged.
> having no knowledge of the accuracy of any particular article, it's not worth very much to me.
Wikipedia does have internal metrics grading the quality of an article. [[WP:ASSESS]]. In general though, even entirely discounting the Wikipedia component of the británica comparison, based on británicas own failures it seems wise to verify each and every claim in an encyclopedia, which Wikipedia does an excellent job of helping you do.
> They don't with you, but many people obviously use them that way. Also, reputation does not correlate strongly with reality
OpenAIs own benchmarks show much higher hallucination rates than any study on Wikipedia. Wikipedia itself is quite close to a ban on LLMs for reliability issues. If you ask literally any layman “has ChatGPT ever been wrong for you” they will say yes, either in that moment or after only a little prompting. It is much harder to elicit such a response regarding Wikipedia in my experience
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f372...
You're sincerely claiming that people can't think of times they've seen vandalism on Wikipedia?
> This just seems like healthy competition. I thought we were talking about a situation where Wikipedia’s use of other encyclopedias is an instrument of their demise.
Somewhere above, someone complained that LLMs were harming Wikipedia, a source of its information. My point is that Wikipedia did the same to others.
> Just as a start, other sources of reference, including encylopedias, dictionaries, websites, etc. For example, I'm sure it impacts McGraw-Hill's AccessScience, which likely you've never heard of.
Your “for example” in response to a question about what businesses Wikipedia put out of business is a business that is...still in business?
Just as a start, other sources of reference, including encylopedias, dictionaries, websites, etc. For example, I'm sure it impacts McGraw-Hill's AccessScience, which likely you've never heard of.
> This is documented on Wikipedia itself
Maybe there's a little bias there? Would Wikipedia accept Wikipedia's analysis of its own reliability as a valid source?
I've heard that claim, but having no knowledge of the accuracy of any particular article, it's not worth very much to me.
> LLMs… do not have this same reputation.
They don't with you, but many people obviously use them that way. Also, reputation does not correlate strongly with reality.