The Rise Of Britannica 2.0 – Should Wikipedia Worry?
New features enabling the inclusion of this user-generated content will be rolled out on the encyclopedia’s website according to Britannica’s president, Jorge Cauz. Looks like the best way to beat Wikipedia would be to emulate it.
However, any changes or additions to the Britannica entries, would have to be vetted by one of the company’s staff or freelance editors before the changes were reflected on the live site. For this, the encyclopedia had set a benchmark of a 20-minute turnaround to update the site with user-submitted edits to existing articles, which are written by the encyclopedia’s paid expert contributors.
Wikipedia on the other hand, sees more than 150,000 legitimate edits per day, with the most active Wikipedia user contributing over 230,000 edits. This is a highly unscalable model to humanly moderate.
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