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

[geni]

2009/1/29 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> 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?

Our readers and our content writers. Speed of updates is a feature
much liked by readers (and back when people where doing WPvsEB was
often used as a point in wikipedia's favor).

For our content writers the instant results are a significant part of
their reward for contributing.



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geni