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2008/6/3 David Goodman :
Quote from it worth some attention
We update the database at the rate of about 30-35 percent per year. A third of the database is completely revised on a yearly basis thanks to the input of our contributors. That's something that is probably much more speedy than Wikipedia. Obviously Wikipedia cannot do that because they are several times as large as we are
What an odd thing to claim. Wikipedia must have many hundreds the number of contributors that Britannica has. Most of the articles I come across have been edited in the last 6 months. I'm not sure how "update the database" is defined here, but if we take it to mean an article being edited, the majority of Wikipedia's database must be updated every year. I would guess that over 75% of Wikipedia articles have been edited in the last year. Are there any statistics on this?
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