[Wikipedia-l] Re: National Public Radio (US): "Wikipedia's Growth Comes with Concerns"

Henry Tan-Tenn share2002nov at lomaji.com
Wed Feb 23 15:08:44 UTC 2005


Daniel Mayer ti 2005/2/20 EP 02:33 sia-kong:

> The new Britannica FUD was interesting: Their new take is that Wikipedia is too
> detailed and one of the things that makes EB great is that they make careful
> decisions on what is most important to include. 
> 
> So that looks to me like they are giving up and declaring their much smaller
> size and long time between updates to be 'features.' :) 

EB will do well sticking to its real strengths, most notably (as far as 
I can tell) its _uniformly_ good if not excellent English and a general 
consistency in style, matched if not exceeded by a subset in en:, ie the 
featured articles.




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