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Wikipedia is the world's free and open encyclopedia. Anyone can go and read its articles, and, likewise, anyone can edit and write them. It contains content written in 253 different languages, including French, in which, at current count, there are 654,000 (plus) articles (compared to the 2.3 million articles in English). But more than a half million entries is not enough for French publishing group Larousse, which has announced that it is launching its own free online encyclopedia that it hopes will compete against, and best, its American-founded competitor. The Larousse project will get a jump-start injection of 150,000 articles from the company's own print encyclopedia, which it will enable people to expand upon and augment with other articles. Like Wikipedia, anyone will be invited to contribute. Unlike the generally anonymous Wikipedia, however, any contribution in Larousse's Wiki-esque encyclopedia will be marked with the name of the contributor. Similarly, articles that have been posted cannot be freely edited, though it remains to be seen just who will have the ability to change them, and how.
The free Larousse online encyclopedia will be made available sometime later this year. We think competition is good, but until Larousse takes its concept international (and to dozens of languages), it won't give supporters of Wikipedia too much reason to worry. [Source: The Independent]
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Subscribe to commentsranduloMay 17th 2008 3:31AM
"Sometime later this year" was yesterday. As soon as the announcement hit the media, the larousse.fr web site was down, first with an apology page and then the "Service Unavailable" error message. The site came back online and was available for both access and contributor signups on May 16th.
The search results are presented in a multiple-pane display with Larousse entries on the left (articles, chronologies, quotes, statistics, media, etc. each in a small pane with links) and user-contributed articles on the right.
In my tests, a search for "Obama" brought up only a member-contributed article, "The Chicago Prodigy" while Kennedy brings up numerous links in all the panes.