2009/1/22 Keith Old keithold@gmail.com:
G'day folks,
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and...
"In a move to take on Wikipedia, the *Encyclopedia Britannica* is inviting the hoi polloi to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version.
New features enabling the inclusion of this user-generated content will be rolled out on the encyclopedia's website over the next 24 hours, * Britannica's* president, Jorge Cauz, said in an interview today." (More in story)
Also fom the article: "He said the encyclopedia had set a benchmark of a 20-minute turnaround to update the site with user-submitted edits to existing articles"
That'll probably be faster than us once flagged revisions is switched on (compare with the German expeiment, where backlogs are up to 3 weeks) which should make for an interesting role reversal. (I don't want to derail this thread into arguing about flaggedrevs, just thought it was amusing)
the wub