[WikiEN-l] Britannica attempts to become Wikipedia

[Florence Devouard]

Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
> 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

I thought most of 1911 content had been scraped by now...

A thought... there are numerous people who love "peeping" in (really) 
old encyclopedias, if only to "get the feeling" of what was common 
knowledge or beliefs at that time. I wonder if for our 10th 
annniversary, or for 2010, we could not isolate part of Wikipedia 
content to get a sort of official shot of knowledge in year 2010 and 
preserve this version nicely for the future. We might scrap really minor 
articles, or stubs, but keep the rest of it. The idea not being "dump of 
2010" but more a sort of historical tool, to be really cool to dig in by 
2020 or 2030 (or later).

Ant