[WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

Thomas Larsen larsen.thomas.h at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 05:16:58 UTC 2009


There are three things _any_ encyclopedia must be:

* free—as in the sense of freedom, not necessarily in the sense of beer;
* reliable—in other words, accurate, coherent, and neutral; and
* global—that is, multilingual and written by a diverse, broad group of people.

Britannica might be reliable, and it might become slightly global, but
it is not yet multilingual and it isn't free.

—Thomas Larsen



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