Weekly Weigh-in #1: Wikipedia vs. Britannica

Every week we’ll be having our “Weekly Weigh-in”, a discussion about any topic that is currently being debated around the office.

As our first installment of the Weekly Weigh-in, we’ll focus on the digital age-old debate of Wikipedia, with its unmoderated socially-generated user content versus legacy print encyclopedias like Encyclopaedia Britannica.

We’d like to have you weigh-in on this topic:

• Do you consider Wikipedia the epitome of open-source collaboration or do you see it as fundamentally flawed?
• Although Wikipedia is a more up-to-date resource, does it have as much legitimacy as print sources?
• In what cases would/should one turn to Wikipedia as a resource?

-Owen