Encyclopaedia Brittanica is adopting some of the open management approach of Wikipedia to improve its product. Readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online. I don’t suppose it will have the vibrancy of Wikipedia, but it is testament to the power of open systems.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia is proposing a system of flagged revisions, which would mean any changes made by a new or unknown user would have to be approved by one of the site’s editors, before the changes were published. This discussion has been ongoing for some time. And might be more appropriate now than when Wikipedia was nascent because of its depth and breadth of coverage and authors.
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