That's probably an unusually accurate answer ;-) It's quite a hard question.
A lot of people have a fairly intuitive feel for it, but they cannot tell you why. I actually looked around in the literature to try to find a workable definition for what an encyclopedia is, and the best answer I found that, for a significant number (although certainly not the majority) of articles, the Wikipedia goes outside it. On 30/01/2010, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://twitter.com/alisonclement/status/8421314259 > > "Yesterday I asked one of my students if she knew what an encyclopedia > is, and she said, Is it something like Wikipedia?" > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
