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The journal found just eight serious errors, such as general misunderstandings of vital concepts: four from each site. It also discovered many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 in Wikipedia and 123 in Britannica, an average of 3.86 mistakes per article for Wikipedia and 2.92 for Britannica. [125] [127]
The Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition (1797) is an 18-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopedia's earliest period as a two-man operation initiated by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Most of the editing was done by Macfarquhar, and all the ...
Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [2] [3] Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974. The newly titled Britannica 3 was composed of a ten-volume Micropædia, a 19-volume Macropædia and a one-volume guide to the encyclopædia's use, called Propædia.
Editors of traditional reference works such as the Encyclopædia Britannica have questioned the project's utility and status as an encyclopedia. [159] Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has claimed that Wikipedia has largely avoided the problem of "fake news" because the Wikipedia community regularly debates the quality of sources in articles. [160]
Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia, using wiki software, released under the GFDL: Defunct Free, copyleft: Unknown None None Encyclopædia Universalis: French: General interest encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica: Active Subscription Unknown None None Everything2: English General interest, users can submit articles on the topic of ...
An encyclopedia [a] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. [1] [2] Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name [3] or by thematic categories, or else are hyperlinked and searchable. [4]
10 Eventful Years is the title of the 1947 Encyclopædia Britannica compilation, spanning ten years, 1937 through 1946. The books were commissioned and edited by Walter Yust, the editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and were partly based on the Encyclopedia's annual Year Book.
Britannica's Outline of Knowledge was created for the 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, prior to the rest of the encyclopedia, as a plan from which to base topic coverage on – to shape it before it was built. It served initially to ensure quality, and once the encyclopedia was completed, as a topical guide.