{"id":1606,"date":"2009-11-23T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T03:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2009-11-23T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T03:29:54","slug":"on-wikipedia-and-traditional-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/23\/on-wikipedia-and-traditional-britannica","title":{"rendered":"On Wikipedia and traditional Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching for information about an animal that is common in South-East Asia, and for once, Google not only had the Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chevrotain\">link<\/a>, but also the Encyclopaedia Britannica <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/109901\/chevrotain#\">link<\/a>. I thought I&#8217;d amuse myself and click it, considering I used to read dead-tree encyclopaedia&#8217;s from the 60&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/4130034950\/\" title=\"chevrotain (mammal) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia by byte, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2659\/4130034950_5c1251f457.jpg?resize=500%2C230\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" alt=\"chevrotain (mammal) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I can understand the need to monetise content, and to be fair, paying USD$69.95\/year is cheap as chips (since you save $1,325.05 off the print version it seems!), but I think I learned more from the Wikipedia article, than I did the one at Encyclopaedia Britannica. <\/p>\n<p>Do you feel the same way? 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I thought I&#8217;d amuse myself and click it, considering I used to read dead-tree encyclopaedia&#8217;s from the 60&#8217;s. I can understand the need to monetise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20On%20Wikipedia%20and%20traditional%20Britannica&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F11%2F23%2Fon-wikipedia-and-traditional-britannica&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I was pretty excited since it was based on the open content Wikitravel, it was printed on demand, and it was updated on a regular basis. Imagine getting accurate travel guides when you were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2662,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/03\/04\/crowdsourced-wikipedia-google-results","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":1},"title":"Crowdsourced Wikipedia &#038; Google results","date":"4\/3\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In times of \"war\", Wikipedia can be used to sway Google results. Read: In Lahad Datu conflict, Google bombs & Wiki-wars. That's pretty much what I tweeted yesterday. Just check out the revision history for Sabah. Wikipedia tells an interesting tale. Even since 2005, you can see from the Talk\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":541,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/01\/photograph-of-melanie-c-in-wikipedia","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":2},"title":"Photograph of Melanie C in Wikipedia","date":"1\/5\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day, I got interesting Flickr mail. It was from a Wikipedia writer, who wanted to use a Flickr image of mine for an article. Whoote! I was pretty excited. One thing I found odd, was that the licensing should only be Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. You can't have the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1565,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/28\/what-wikipedia-looks-like-when-their-database-goes-away","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":3},"title":"What Wikipedia looks like when their database goes away","date":"28\/7\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"An unknown error connecting to MySQL on 10.0.6.28? Oh dear me... It came back up within 2 minutes though from the time I got the screenshot.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"This wiki has a problem","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3592\/3764893976_faaf817735.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":502,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/29\/web-logs-are-a-part-of-the-daily-media-now","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":4},"title":"Web logs are a part of the daily media now","date":"29\/3\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Thats right, web logs are clearly gaining popularity in old media. I was reading the newspaper, and watching some television earlier, and to my shock, have just been bombarded with information about websites and the logs that people keep.Of interest would be related to the Moorabbin police murders, that happened\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1174,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/24\/qurans-costing-rm13-million-wisest-use-of-tax-payer-money","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":5},"title":"Quran&#8217;s costing RM1.3 million &#8211; wisest use of tax payer money?","date":"24\/11\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This was in the news recently: Quran in hotel rooms soon. Excerpts: A copy of the Quran and its intepretation will be made available in most hotel rooms in the country to allow both Muslims and non-Muslims to have \u201caccess\u201d to the Holy book. 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