Fitting words for an epitaph.
The Wall Street Journal asked Mr. Wales--the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia--and Mr. Hoiberg--the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, stodgy old-fashioned thing with pages and covers--to have a talk.
Mr. Hoiberg: No, we don't publish rough drafts. We want our articles to be correct before they are published. We stand behind our process, based on trained editors and fact-checkers, more than 4,000 experts, and sound writing. Our model works well. Wikipedia is very different, but nothing in their model suggests we should change what we do.Which would you rather have: A book that's obsolete the second it's published or an online resource that renews itself every day? Oh yeah... and one of them is free.
Mr. Wales: Fitting words for an epitaph…
2 comments:
I think you have the names reversed in either your summary or your quote...
Damn! You're right! Luckily, I'm using a web-based forum in which corrections can easily be made, as opposed to a published book which can't be changed after it's printed.
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