[Wikipedia-l] Other encyclopedias taking notice?

[sgilbert at nbnet.nb.ca]

Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems that some of the 
traditional encyclopedias are taking notice of Wikipedia. For 
example, Encyclopedia.com (which uses the Columbia Concise 
Encyclopedia) now has a "Today in History" front page. Births, 
deaths and events listed with links to appropriate articles. They 
also list "Top Searches", which wasn't there before.

The Encyclopaedia Brittanica has as its HTML title: "the online 
encyclopedia you can trust." Is that a reference to that nasty wiki 
encyclopedia where anyone can add content?

As Wikipedia becomes more well known in the mainstream, the 
established players may stop ignoring us and go on a direct 
offensive. That should be interesting.

- Stephen Gilbert 
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