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

[Ian Woollard]

On 29/01/2009, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 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?

Well, they have less users than us. They have less scope than us, and
they're probably growing more slowly than us, and they're not much
more reliable than us, and they require people paying them money to be
able to edit the articles as well as to read the articles.

I'd say that there's a defacto race there, even if nobody has defined
it as such; they're trying to compete with a free, larger competitor
before going broke.

> Ec

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