Britannica, Wikipedia and General Reference
I’ve been a contributor to open source projects, an employee of Encyclopædia Britannica, and an observer (and occasional contributor) to Wikipedia for several years now. Over the years, I’ve noticed a number of misconceptions that Wikipedians have about Britannica, that Britannicians have about Wikipedia, and that the public at large seems to have about both and Wikipedia and Britannica, and general reference sources as a category.
Over the coming weeks, I’m going to attempt to address some of these misconceptions in a series of blog posts. As I do, I’ll update this post with links the subsequent entries, so that this post can serve as a sort of index of related entries.
- Wikipedia is not open source - 11 October 2005
- On Vandalism - 24 October 2005