on 9/1/03 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske at magnus.manske(a)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