REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: French Publishing Group Sets up Rival to Wikipedia
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French Publishing Group Sets up Rival to Wikipedia
By Emily Murphy in Paris
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 The Independent
Europe <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/
french-publishing-group-sets-up-rival-to-wikipedia-827705.html>
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France has long battled against the Anglophone cultural invasion and now
it has
thrown down a virtual gauntlet. Larousse, the French encyclopaedia created
more
than 150 years ago, is launching its own it would say improved version of
Wikipedia.
Its first, free-access, online encyclopaedia will have the same contributor
function but, to try to surmount the inherent problem of unreliability of
articles, which can be modified by anyone at any time, Larousse has
introduced
some constraints.
<snip>
Alongside the user-written pieces, Larousse will be making available 150,000
articles from its universal encyclopaedia, plus 10,000 images. Larousse is
promising more in the future, along with the inclusion later this year of
hundreds of video clips from channels such as National Geographic.
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