| ▲ | keiferski an hour ago | |
No, that is not the point of an encyclopedia. The point is to condense an entry as much as possible while being thorough enough to cover most relevant information. | ||
| ▲ | pixl97 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
In some ways that was the limitation of physical paper and weight of the set. A digital encyclopedia has different constraints, and the hard part was always trying to figure out what to leave out. Also in encyclopedias, you get what you get from the one or two people that worked on that particular article. If they had biases it would shape what everyone in the world saw. In an online article it can become a battle on what people want to see. It is a difficult problem. | ||