[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia more popular than Britannica!

Thu Jul 10 22:00:22 UTC 2003

It might be of interest, that both the Britannica and Encarta websites still
state that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone despite the US
congress passing a resolution in 2001 acknowleding that it was infact
invented by Antonio Meucci
http://www.popular-science.net/history/meucci_congress_resolution.html -
whereas of course Wikipedia was corrected some time ago.

Mintguy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller at gmx.de>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia more popular than Britannica!

> Toby-
> > Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> >> So, this is pretty interesting.  According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is
> >> now more popular than Britannica.
>
> > We should probably keep in mind that Britannica is also available in
print.
> > In fact, that's the brand's traditional medium.
>
> Encarta has very much harmed Britannica's print sales.....