Wikipedia only lives of donations and has no ads. Britannica lives of selling huge volumes and has its page full of ads...
-- Alvaro On 04-02-2009, at 20:44, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Keith Old <[email protected]> wrote: >> G'day folks, >> >> From the Sydney Morning Herald: >> >> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and-google/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 >> >> >> "In a move to take on Wikipedia, the *Encyclopedia Britannica* is >> inviting >> the hoi polloi to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version. > > I am a big fan of Britannica and hope they stay in business. With that > in mind, I actually sat down to try this out today. > > I encountered several problems: > * I can't tell if you have to pay for access to *edit* the articles > behind a subscription wall, as well as view them > * The site doesn't load properly in Firefox > * No style guide provided that I found; one has to be familiar with > Britannica house style, presumably > * I can't figure out where to enter "my real name and address" > * I found an article I know something about and made a few changes; > after hitting "submit", however, the flash-based window just hung, > spinning its wheels. Perhaps that is because I don't have the newest > version of flash here at work, which is the only place I have IE. > * all the ads everywhere, even in search results and as hotlinked > keywords in articles, is very unappealing > > It's unfortunate that they still seem beset upon by technical > difficulties, because this would be an interesting experiment for > them. > > -- phoebe > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
