[WikiEN-l] Britannica attempts to become Wikipedia

[Kwan Ting Chan]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:51 -0400, Chris Howie wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > we have tons of articles that literally haven't been
> > updated since 1849 (not to mention 1911).
> 
> Wow, I didn't know Wikipedia was *that* old!

Wikipedia isn't, but articles originated from the 11th edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica may well not have been updated since 1911. ;-)

KTC

p.s. Still trying to work out which work the 1849 was referring to.

-- 
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
  - Heinrich Heine
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