Wikimedia also pointed to its article standards.
Wikipedia editors offered generally neutral or favorable views of the study in theirdiscussion of the study.
One study participantsought feedback on the contributed articles.
In the study, law students wrote more than 150 new Wikipedia articles about Irish Supreme Court decisions.
Half of them, randomly selected, were added to Wikipedia.
That’s a statistically significant increase, MIT said.
The effect was particularly strong for cases that supported the judge’s decision.
The connection was weaker for higher courts, though.
The researchers see a role for professional societies to keep Wikipedia useful and free of errors.