2009/3/31 Peter Coombe thewub.wiki@googlemail.com:
I think the challenge now is for Wikipedia to try and fill the gap it has made.
Wikipedia for schools is the best effort in that area. Wikipedia has never been very good at internally selecting subsections of wikipedia for best ofs and the like.
Despite Encarta's disadvantages (cost, slow to update) it had excellent multimedia - something Wikipedia is sadly lacking in.
I'm pretty sure we have more video and sound than Encarta ever did.
Also its structured guides to topics were great, especially in the later versions.
Wikipedia mostly does this through nav boxes.