EB's novel user choice will include enrollment of experts in a reward scheme and invitation of selected readers to contribute. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, 'Cauz is promising a 20-minute turnover on these edits, but that number could go up dramatically if the company cannot anticipate a large influx of edits at once.'īritannica, however, explained that it would not allow a Wikipedia form of editing which allows a wide range of users to make contributions.

The new website features will be available on the site within the next twenty-four hours. In expanding and maintaining entries online, users whose editorial suggestions are accepted and published entirely or in part will be credited by name in the section of the article that lists contributors. This move is meant to let readers help keep the reference work up-to-date by collaboration. Starting next week, readers, visitors and contributing experts to EB's free, online version,, will be allowed to submit proposed changes and contributions to Britannica editors, who will then review the edits and make the necessary alterations. Title page of the New American edition of the Encylopædia Britannica (1899)Įncyclopædia Britannica (EB), the authoritative reference book first published in 1768, is planning to let readers edit its entries, Jorge Cauz, its president said Friday, as it battles to keep pace with online Internet encyclopedia projects like Wikipedia. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it.

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