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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Jan 30 23:51:31 UTC 2009


Durova wrote:
> Their main advantage in the current market is that their content is vetted.
> Question is whether they can afford the staff to keep up with submissions,
> and whether that value added is worth the price they charge for it.  The
> market seems to be saying no.  And if they walk away from that strategy what
> other working model is there?
Imagine: If each active Wikipedian chose to submit a single perfectly 
legitimate change to the EB website their system could quickly be 
overwhelmed.

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