[WikiEN-l] Britannica attempts to become Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

2008/6/3 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:

> We update the database at the rate of about 30-35 percent per year. A
> third of the database is completely revised on a yearly basis thanks
> to the input of our contributors. That's something that is probably
> much more speedy than Wikipedia. Obviously Wikipedia cannot do that
> because they are several times as large as we are


And if they were half as big again, they could update twice as fast!


- d.