February 18, 2005

Open source encyclopedia? Users maintain Wikipedia

There?s a tremendous amount of information online, as we all know. But there?s still a need for encyclopedias. The benefit of an encyclopedia is ?organization.? While you can find the answer to just about anything by searching in Google, you won?t necessarily find it all nicely organized ? you?ll find a little bit here and a little bit there.

There?s another advantage to encyclopedias: authority. Again, you can find any answer online through a search engine, but how do you know the information is right? An encyclopedia, such as the ?daddy of them all,? Encyclopedia Britannica, has qualified editors who…

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