Encyclopedia Britannica to Take User Contributions 82
Barence writes "Britannica has long been a vocal critic of Wikipedia's user-generated content, and has repeatedly attacked the accuracy of its articles. Surprisingly, then, it is rolling out a new system allowing readers to potentially contribute to articles, Wiki-style. But Britannica is keen to stress that its new website will not be following the Wiki-model, describing it 'as a collaborative process but not a democratic one.' You can try out the new Britannica beta site."
Re:Britannica is still around? (Score:1, Informative)
At uni we're specifically told NOT to research using Wikipedia, mostly because a lot of students don't know how to check what's been changed recently and what 'facts' are actually crap. Wikipedia's come a long way but it still has psuedoscience on a lot of articles.
The other thing is that EB provides entry level info in articles, Wikipedia's articles tend to cover beginner to advanced stuff and it's not always the best way to learn about something if you're a newbie.
I think this is more an education flaw (not teaching students how to research, check resources etc) than a failing on Wikipedia's behalf but at the moment, EB still carries more weight in the academic world.
Re:Kafka said it (Score:2, Informative)