[Wikipedia-l] Other encyclopedias taking notice?

[Ray Saintonge]

sgilbert at nbnet.nb.ca wrote:

>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.
>
Yeah, especially when it comes to protecting copyrights :-)

Ec