Posts Tagged ‘Wikipedia’
Wikipedia on trial #1
Posted at 9:31 am | Filed Under Viewpoint
Compare and contrast Wikipedia’s biographies of famous people with those done by professionals.
Today’s biography: Campaigning journalist Paul Foot, as written up in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Foot, Paul Mackintosh (1937–2004), journalist, was born on 8 November 1937 in Haifa, Palestine, the son of Hugh Mackintosh Foot (1907–1990), later Baron Caradon, governor of [...]
Why Wikipedia will never beat Britannica
Posted at 4:29 am | Filed Under Viewpoint, Wikipedia
I received this in the mailbox from Encyclopedia Britannica
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A Sample of Encyclopædia Britannica’s Distinguished Contributors
Sigmund Freud
The term psychoanalysis does not appear (or at least is not indexed) in the Encyclopædia Britannica until well into the 20th century. The first treatment of psychoanalysis as a subject unto itself appeared in the Thirteenth Edition, written by leading [...]