Given the discussions of the Wikipedia in terms of its accuracy, I found that this was an interesting development on the encyclopedia front. George Lessard is the moderator of the MediaMentor discussion group on Yahoo Groups and a very frequent poster to Net-Gold.
Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> ============================================ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:10:37 -0700 From: George Lessard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: L mediamentor <[email protected]> Subject: [MediaMentor] * Boy brings encyclopaedia to book * * Boy brings encyclopaedia to book * A schoolboy has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition Encyclopaedia Britannica . Full story: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/4209575.stm> "... Lucian George, 12, from north London, found five errors on two of his favourite subjects - central Europe and wildlife - and wrote to complain. The book's editor wrote back thanking him for "pointing out several errors and misleading statements". ..." "... One evening, he discovered a reference stating that the town of Chotyn, in which two battles between the Poles and the Ottoman Empire were fought, lies in Moldova. Lucian, whose mother is Polish, disagreed, saying it was in Ukraine. He was right. His father, Gabriel George, told BBC News: "Lucian told me he had found a mistake. Then, a few days later, he found another. Then there was another. "By the time he had found five, I said to him that he should write to the editors to complain about it." The subjects covered in Lucian's complaint were beyond the comprehension of most 12-year-olds. 'Major revision' He disputed the whereabouts of the Polish part of the Belovezhskaya Forest. According to the encyclopaedia, it lies in the Bialystok, Suwalki and Lomza provinces. But Suwalki and Lomza provinces have not existed since 1998. And, even when they did, the whole Polish section of the forest - which extends into Belarus - was in Bialystok. ..." "... He argued successfully that it encompassed parts of Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Belarus - not just Poland. After Lucian had written to the encyclopaedia with his complaints, senior editor Anita Wolff, based in the US, revealed that a geography specialist was working on a "major revision" of its Polish coverage. ..." _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
