Wiki-tannica

Wiki editor

If ever the Apocalypse was in sight, it’s now. That most scholarly of encyclopedias, The Encyclopedia Britannica, is going wiki. But the editors have taken a lot of the fun and adventure out of the wiki experience by only allowing readers to suggest revisions, not make them themselves. So you merry pranksters may not change Winston Churchill’s middle name to Bassingbourne or make Inigo Jones the love-child of Elizabeth I and the Sir Walter Raleigh.

If you’re in the Mudd you can search the Encyclopedia Britannica and even suggest changes.

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