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(a)gmx.de>
To: <wikien-l(a)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.....