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Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica
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Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica
Elizabeth, Maria & Ben
What is Better?
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Wikipedia
- "Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia that is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia."
- "Wikipedia is in some respects a novelty in the history of encyclopedias. Measured by text, pictures, or sound, it is the biggest encyclopedia in human history, something it achieved by taking advantage of the Web’s technology and myriad users."
Encyclopedia Britannica
Democracy
- "Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or indirectly through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws."
What do people have to say about Encyclopedia Britannica?
What do people have to say about Wikipedia?
- "... North American academics complained that too much of the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica had been written by people whom they saw as non-specialists."
- "Occasionally, specialization was disregard in multiply authored encyclopedias... he originally assigned them to different alphabetical sections assigned rather than on basis of intellectual specialties."
- Encyclopedia is expensive
- Even if you go to the library each book has a section and not the entire information
- "The greatest value of a Wikipedia article could be its links to relevant sources outside of Wikipedia, something many traditional Encyclopedia lack" (Snyder, 2013, p. 156).
"The Britannica is the oldest English-language encyclopedia still being produced. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland as three volumes. The encyclopedia grew in size: the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810) it had expanded to 20 volumes."
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