And who then is going to publish an actual peer-reviewed encyclopedia
for the purposes where this is the appropriate source? Citizendium.
That's whom they should merge with. It is much closer to their
authorship model.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/14/08, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Britannica may be theoretically higher quality,
but is not right there
on everyone's desktop - it fails on practical availability. Most of
Wikipedia's readers - the people who make it #8 or #9 site in the
world - wouldn't have opened a paper encyclopedia since high school.
Lately I've been buying a couple of oldish specialist encyclopaedias
from op shops, thinking I could add the information to Wikipedia.
Instead, it seems like often Wikipedia, the ultimate generalist
encyclopaedia, has greater depth than even the specialist
encyclopaedias...
I think it'd be a bad thing for Britannica
and Brockhaus to go bust.
I'm not sure how to save their business though.
Release all the content under CC-SA. Merge with Wikipedia. Reinvent as
a publisher of existing encyclopaedic content, not a content provider.
Publish beautiful leather bound "Britannica Wikipedias".
Steve
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