both the old and the new adapting to change
Interesting to see in the news feeds today stories on Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia both facing challenges to improve their accuracy. This article from Techtree reports on Britannica inviting online collaboration from both their expert contributors and the public to keep its reference material updated. More detail can be found at Britannica's blog. At the same time Wikipedia is facing challenges of its own and as this article from Times Online suggests, is considering 'pre-approval of changes' on biographies of living persons following recent problems. The potential for inefficiencies and delays is causing some concern however Wikipedia to ensure it meets its obligations to avoid gossip, defamatory material etc.
