Internet encyclopaedias go head to head, Nature, Dec. 14, 2005. Also see Comparing Wikipedia and Britannica and the growing number of comments (Nature's blog Nascent) and the Wikipedia section on this Nature article. While you are thinking about wiki's you may want to browse All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books, by Ben Crowell, about using wikibooks as textbooks.
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For Britannica's response see http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2006/03/britannicas_res.html
Posted by: Ruth | March 22, 2006 at 05:05 PM