[WikiEN-l] Britannica attempts to become Wikipedia

[Oldak Quill]

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2008/6/3 David Goodman :
> Quote from it worth some attention
>
> 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

What an odd thing to claim. Wikipedia must have many hundreds the
number of contributors that Britannica has. Most of the articles I
come across have been edited in the last 6 months. I'm not sure how
"update the database" is defined here, but if we take it to mean an
article being edited, the majority of Wikipedia's database must be
updated every year. I would guess that over 75% of Wikipedia articles
have been edited in the last year. Are there any statistics on this?

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