On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read
had been
protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the
entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was
'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I
suppose this is all missing the point of the question...
It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access
to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?
- d.