2009/1/22 Keith Old <keithold(a)gmail.com>om>:
G'day folks,
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-an…
"In a move to take on Wikipedia, the *Encyclopedia Britannica* is inviting
the hoi polloi to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version.
New features enabling the inclusion of this user-generated content will be
rolled out on the encyclopedia's website over the next 24 hours, *
Britannica's* president, Jorge Cauz, said in an interview today." (More in
story)
Also fom the article:
"He said the encyclopedia had set a benchmark of a 20-minute
turnaround to update the site with user-submitted edits to existing
articles"
That'll probably be faster than us once flagged revisions is switched
on (compare with the German expeiment, where backlogs are up to 3
weeks) which should make for an interesting role reversal.
(I don't want to derail this thread into arguing about flaggedrevs,
just thought it was amusing)
the wub