From The Chronicle, can Wikipedia shut down universities? Wikipedia wants academics to write content, and students to fact-check articles for academic credit. Somedays Wikipedia looks like the most extravagant love letter to the humanist project, other days like the biggest ragbag of unsorted intellectual capital. Why not use this vast, untapped ocean of advertising capital to make Wikipedia a reliable, definitive, an everlastingly free resource? Wikipedia didn’t kill Encyclopedia Britannica — Windows did. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the end of Britannica's print version. Former Britannica editor Robert McHenry on the move that's been in the works for over two decades. Britannica is experiencing a "sales boom" after the announcement that they would cease publication of their printed editions. Representing a peak of colonial optimism before the slaughter of war, the 1910/11 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica has acquired an almost mythic quality among collectors. Why we should celebrate the end of the Britannica’s print edition. David Bell on what we’ve lost with the demise of print encyclopedias. Joseph Bottum on the end of reference. Britannica embraces new strategy with an iPhone and iPad app.
