> > > > It is socially and historically interesting to compare very old edition of > Brittanica to a newer edition. For example: an entry on battleships would > evolve from a discussion of wooden ships powered by sail that enforced > seapower of an empire to sidewheelers, to iron ships fired by coal to the > current thinking that battleships are too expensive. In an online > encyclopedia it is possible to include all these articles side by side into > a section on the evolution of battleships.
Well, I'm glad to see someone's reading those articles :-) Chris (the main author of the English Wikipedia articles on Battleship, Ironclad warship, Pre-Dreadnought, and Dreadnought....) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
