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1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
Jan 20, 2015 · By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries.
Feb 17, 2020 · Today, Wikipedia is the eighth-most-visited site in the world. The English-language version recently surpassed 6 million articles and 3.5 billion words; edits materialize at a rate of 1.8 per ...
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= Which arises from the following template: {{1911}} The statement alone is fine enough when the entire content of the article comes from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for clearly, 100% is attributable.
Compton's Encyclopedia. Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index is a home and school encyclopedia first published in 1922 as Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia. The word "Pictured" was removed from the title with the 1968 edition. [1] The encyclopedia is now advertised as Compton's by Britannica .
Well, Wikipedia is an online platform and Britannica is a printed encyclopedia. Both have a change in the medium of communication. Where Wikipedia provides access to the online pages, Britannica has editions in the form of printed books to gather information. Secondly, Wikipedia does not charge a penny to its readers to access the information.
Dec 9, 2015 · Long before Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica there was Pliny the Elder: a first-century Roman soldier, a statesman, and a voracious scholar. His assistants read to him while he ate dinner ...
