[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia in popular culture

[Ian Woollard]

That's probably an unusually accurate answer ;-) It's quite a hard question.

A lot of people have a fairly intuitive feel for it, but they cannot
tell you why.

I actually looked around in the literature to try to find a workable
definition for what an encyclopedia is, and the best answer I found
that, for a significant number (although certainly not the majority)
of articles, the Wikipedia goes outside it.

On 30/01/2010, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://twitter.com/alisonclement/status/8421314259
>
> "Yesterday I asked one of my students if she knew what an encyclopedia
> is, and she said, Is it something like Wikipedia?"
>
>
> - d.
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>


-- 
-Ian Woollard