[Yr11 Information Technology] U1O3 issues - Britannica goes Wiki

Mark Kelly kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
Tue Jun 10 09:03:40 EST 2008


An interesting issue...

"In a bid to wed the comprehensive, grassroots information factory of 
Wikipedia with the authority of the traditional encyclopedia, 
Encyclopaedia Britannica is opening the floodgates for online user 
submissions into its 240-year-old publication -- a move it long resisted 
and sniffed was akin to intellectual pollution."

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/ency.html

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