{"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":"https:\/\/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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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\" \/><\/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? Wikipedia is going through a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Support_Wikipedia2\">fundraising drive<\/a>, and I think it would be wise to make a donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 link, but also the Encyclopaedia Britannica link. 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1024,1025,872],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-encyclopaedia","tag-encyclopaedia-britannica","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-pU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}