[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

Tue Dec 23 13:05:22 UTC 2008

David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
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>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
>>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
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>> Thanks! It works well :)
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> They called the function "upsell"? *facepalm* Wikipedia doesn't need
> to do anything to compete with Britannica, just leave them to collapse
> under the weight of their own ineptitude.
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> We should probably run a large public "Save Britannica!" campaign -
> how to save a great historical encyclopedia, second only to the OED as
> one of the great works of Anglophone non-fiction, from its own
> business stupidity. I'm halfway serious. What could we do with a "Save
> Britannica" campaign?
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> (There are many ways in which it sucks, but it still manages
> *consistent* quality better than en:wp. Better writing, too. A lot of
> us wouldn't be doing this Wikipedia thing if we weren't encyclopedia
> fans in the first place, and that includes Britannica.)
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> - d.
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I don't think you can be more clear than:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/bparchive?year=2006&post=2006-03-24,3

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen