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

[Ray Saintonge]

the wub wrote:
> Also fom the article:
> "He said the encyclopedia had set a benchmark of a 20-minute
> turnaround to update the site with user-submitted edits to existing
> articles"
>
> That'll probably be faster than us once flagged revisions is switched
> on (compare with the German expeiment, where backlogs are up to 3
> weeks) which should make for an interesting role reversal.
>   
So what if it takes 3 weeks? So what if there are backlogs? Even 
accepting the premise that EB can maintain such a breakneck speed, 
whoever defined this as a race to do things more quickly?

Ec