That's probably an unusually accurate answer ;-) It's quite a hard question.
A lot of people have a fairly intuitive feel for it, but they cannot
tell you why.
I actually looked around in the literature to try to find a workable
definition for what an encyclopedia is, and the best answer I found
that, for a significant number (although certainly not the majority)
of articles, the Wikipedia goes outside it.
On 30/01/2010, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://twitter.com/alisonclement/status/8421314259
"Yesterday I asked one of my students if she knew what an encyclopedia
is, and she said, Is it something like Wikipedia?"
- d.
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