Wikipedia is in the process of becoming a household name.

I am confident that in a year’s time it will be a name that is as well known as or better than Britannica and Encarta.

I think it would be too bad if we cause confusion by introducing a new name for a printed edition.

Image Britannica had called their online version “Amerannica”, what a waste PR wise.

In my view people will be less confused when online and printed Wikipedia differ in content under the same name.

Online Brittanica is also different from printed edition, because of regular updates of the online version.

Erik Zachte

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