Ken Arromdee wrote:
If you don't have a biography in Britannica, your Wikipedia article is probably the top source of information on the Internet about you, or close, and any problems with that article loom large and can have a huge effect. Even if he leaves politics, nobody's going to deny George Bush a job because of something they read in his Wikipedia article. But they might to Joe Blow.
This puts a constraint on Wikipedia to never be a "better" source of information about certain topics than is already readily available, which strikes me as contradicting our basic goals. And you didn't address the systemic bias problem, Wikipedia has global scope whereas Britannica is focused on Britain.