There are three things _any_ encyclopedia must be:
* free—as in the sense of freedom, not necessarily in the sense of beer; * reliable—in other words, accurate, coherent, and neutral; and * global—that is, multilingual and written by a diverse, broad group of people.
Britannica might be reliable, and it might become slightly global, but it is not yet multilingual and it isn't free.
—Thomas Larsen