on 9/1/03 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske at magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
As we are slowly wading through the usual swamp that is consensus ;-) towards Mordor, eh, wikipedia release 1.0, I was wondering: Is there any (more or less) organized effort
- to find the gape wikipedia has, compared to *other* encyclopediae, and
- to fill them
Is there a (machine-readable?) list of all entries in Britannica, Encarta, or any other major encyclopedia?
I remember putting lots of possible encyclopedia topics on the 'pedia, but wer'de probably past that stage anyway (had a little more than 100.000 entries, IIRC).
Magnus
There are a number of indispensible but mundane topics which because they are not that interesting to research remain undone, or incompletely done.
Fred