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Wikipedia Vs Britanica Encyclopaedia Madness
By Yasir Ikram, Wed Dec 7th
When the information highway evolves into a planet of sharedknowledge, there has to be a method to the madness. Toward thisend, wikis are revolutionising the way we handle information. WIKIPEDIA: is a web-based, free content encyclopardiathat is a collaborative effort involving several volunteers.wikipedia currently contains 1.5 million articles, more than570,000 if which are in its english language edition, whilegerman edition boasts 200,000 articles. The Japanese and Frencheditions house approximately 100,000 articles each. Thesearticles are constantly edited and
added to by volunteersprimarily following a "neutral point of view" guideline. BRITANNICA: By comparison, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has only80,000 articles hence the enormity of alone is a clearmeasure of its success. has more than 512 million wordas of May 2005. Even taking every single revision of wikipediainto account, its entire database stands at only 35 gigabytes -they don`t even make hard drives that small anymore.
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