Snowspinner wrote:
Does Britannica also have separate articles on
Encyclopedia
Britannica, Brokhaus Encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia,
Encyclopedia Judaica, Etymologiae, Bibliotheke, Cyclopaedia, or
Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Encyclopedie, Pseudodoxia
Epidemica, Lexicon technicum, or, for that matter, Wikipedia?
Because I bet if you count all of those (And probably a few more),
we've got more than EB on the subject, just broken into multiple
articles.
Which may well be a flaw on our part.
I would say not in the least, because we're primarily writing for the
Web. 32 kilobytes (which used to be a hard technical limit but I still
think is a very good *stylistic* limit) is 6000 words, which is a LOT
of text to read on a screen. It's really quite a lot even if you print
it (about ten or so pages). Anything longer than 32k really needs some
attention to what can possibly be spun out.
- d.