[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au
Mon Mar 27 02:25:38 UTC 2006


G'day Geni,
> 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?

They did?  I wonder what their pornography-to-article ratio is.


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Mark Gallagher
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- Danger Mouse


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