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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]
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In 2020, Encyclopædia Britannica released the Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics. The encyclopedia was widely praised for bringing back the print format. It was Britannica's first encyclopedia for children since 1984.
Free Encyclopedia of Appalachia: English Dedicated to the region, people, culture, history, and geography of Appalachia. Defunct Encyclopedia of Arkansas: English Project of the Central Arkansas Library System and is the only U.S. state encyclopedia sponsored by a public library Free Encyclopedia of Chicago: English Free Encyclopedia Virginia ...
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.
Encyclopædia Britannica, a printed encyclopedia, and Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. An encyclopedia [a] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline.
Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite; Encyclopædia Metropolitana; Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England; The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound; The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; English Cyclopaedia; English Encyclopaedia; Everybody's Enquire Within; Everyman's Encyclopaedia
Wikipedia (along with its sister projects) has become one of the largest websites in the world using a model of love and co-operation that is still almost completely unknown to the wider world. But it is becoming known, for both its principles and achievements – because it is the principles that make the achievements possible.