13 Nov
2004
13 Nov
'04
2:42 p.m.
Brad Collins wrote:
Wikipedia still has a ways to go (perhaps not in quantity but in quality) but the writing is on the wall.
Renowned German computer magazine c't (issue 2004/21 pg. 132ff) tested following German encyclopaedias: - MS Encarta 2005 Professional (DVD) - Brockhaus 2005 Premium (DVD) - Wikipedia (internet) Wikipedia got the best score (3.6) for in the "contents" category. (Brockhaus: 3.3, Encarta 3.1) The "contents" test consisted in having domain specialists review 66 articles in 22 different subjects. This is only the German version of Wikipedia with 136,000 articles at the time of testing. English Wikipedia has now approx 400,000 articles. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org