[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia v. Britannica

[Lars Aronsson]

Richard Grevers wrote:
> But aren't a third of those 1500-byte+ articles the machine-generated ones
> on US small towns?

You must stop feeling guilty for this.  Those are good articles, a lot
better than many initial Wikipedia articles.  Just assume that any
commercial encyclopedia contains machine-generated articles too.

The real difference is that they don't contain so detailed information
on every little place-name.  They are more focused on "relevant"
topics (how ever you define that) and have left out the irrelevant.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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