| Abstract |
In March 2012, one year after the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that no more print editions of the venerable encyclopedia will be made, marking the end of a print run that span more than two hundred and forty years. Building on this period of disruption of the encyclopedic form, this study offers an understanding of Wikipedia distilled through the heritage of Western encyclopedic tradition.
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