[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 02:22:57 UTC 2006


On 3/27/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day David,
>
> > Nothing to do with the fact that Britannica Online has about 100,000
> >  articles and the English Wikipedia (Britannica's direct competitor)
> > has over a million?
>
> Wikipedia is Britannica's direct competitor?  Where does that leave
> /World Book/ and /Encarta/?  And why can't I think of more than four
> encyclopaedias at the moment?  Gah.
>
Because Encarta drove most of the others into bancrupcy?
--
geni



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