Wikipedia vs Britannica

Do you remember printed encyclopedia? The thick book taught us everything from aardvark to zoology.

The Britannica encyclopedia has undergone considerable change over time, and President Jorge Cautz detailed his attractive history at this month's HBR IdeaCast podcast. When stopping production of the encyclopedias for 244 years old last year, the company adapted to the turmoil of technology and wrote a headline. As Cauz explained, this decision was relatively simple, with sales reaching peaks in 1990 and 2012, prints sales in 1990 declined to 25%. After explaining the transition to Britannica's digital media, Cauz becomes a "learning company". We will announce products such as 'Britannica School' which includes contents related to the course and supplementary materials.

Wikipedia was born in 2001, and this adolescent "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" has 24 million articles, over 1 million English, and 285 languages. If fundraising power is a popular measure, Wikipedia is growing. Executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (a part of Wikipedia), Sue Gardner announced that it raised $ 2.7 million a day on the market this year. It increased from the previous year's 430,000 dollars. Ironically, you can create your own printed books using PediaPress from Wikipedia content.

As a real consumer, we have two major online encyclopedia: Wikipedia and encyclopedia Britannica, each offering a unique value proposition. There may be some market turmoil between them. I searched online to see if there was a printed encyclopedia Britannica. Of course, in the Amazon, people can buy a 2010 case for $ 5,000. As an example of a funny or legitimate market turmoil, customers say: "I am really pleased to have an offline version of Wikipedia, I think that $ 5000 is a bit steepier than free," I have a good 4G connection, I need a backup. "

In the future, the UK president suggested that the market is confident that it will move on to the next step. "By the way, we dislike traditional educational institutions, we do not necessarily hate participants in three major courses, a place to break, we want a more agile learning solution to appear there."

Britannica is part of a free / paid online encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. It is the property of the Swiss banking giant Jacqui Safra. Established in 1768, it was initially printed and then adapted to online versions such as Wikipedia. In 2012, Britannica Encyclopedia announced that after 244 years, dozens of versions and more than 7 million sets were sold. They also said the new version will not be set to paper version. I found that 32 volumes in 2010 are the last volume.

Everipedia is the world's largest online English encyclopedia. Some are purchasing all articles on Wikipedia (according to Dr. Sanger, this article is from Britannica). Making the world accessible to all of this knowledge may alter the researchers, scholars, and citizens of the country of concern who ban and inhibit information for political or religious reasons. If knowledge is power, Everipedia is trying to become a steroid wikipedia for billions of people. The token system that it is about to start can stimulate millions of people to participate in collective efforts beyond the current encyclopedia and Wikipedia's work.

In 2008, President Hamlet Isakhanli, founder of Hazard University, compared the articles of EncyclopædiaBritannica and English Wikipedia with the topics related to Azerbaijan. According to his survey, Wikipedia covers this topic more broadly, more accurately, and in more detail. And despite some imbalance, Wikipedia is the best information source for the first approximation. Some academic journals refer to Wikipedia articles, but they are not upgraded to the same level as conventional references. For example, articles in Wikipedia are cited in "Enhanced Perspectives" that is provided online by Science magazine. The first viewpoint to provide Wikipedia hyperlinks is "white-collar protein-aware Blu-ray", and since then dozens of enhanced perspectives have provided such links.