It might be of interest, that both the Britannica and Encarta websites still state that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone despite the US congress passing a resolution in 2001 acknowleding that it was infact invented by Antonio Meucci http://www.popular-science.net/history/meucci_congress_resolution.html - whereas of course Wikipedia was corrected some time ago.
Mintguy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia more popular than Britannica!
Toby-
Jimmy Wales wrote:
So, this is pretty interesting. According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is now more popular than Britannica.
We should probably keep in mind that Britannica is also available in
print.
In fact, that's the brand's traditional medium.
Encarta has very much harmed Britannica's print sales.....