{"id":9577,"date":"2009-03-30T23:47:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2009-03-30T23:47:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:47:16","slug":"vittime-di-wikipedia-encarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/vittime-di-wikipedia-encarta\/","title":{"rendered":"Vittime di Wikipedia: Encarta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft will discontinue both its MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software, which have both been surpassed by rising competitors, like Wikipedia. In a message<\/a> posted on the MSN Encarta Web site, Microsoft says, \u201cEncarta has been a popular product around the world for many years. However, the category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed. People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Online, Microsoft offered a limited selection of professionally edited content for free and a larger selection for a subscription. But the offerings paled when compared to those at sites that could use the work of thousands of contributors. Wikipedia, for instance, offers 2.7 million articles in English. Google\u2019s Knol, which like Wikipedia depends on user-generated content, has more than 100,000. Encarta has 42,000 entries. Encarta did try to adapt, inviting<\/a> users to submit suggestions for changes to articles, but those suggestions first had to be checked by a member of the Encarta staff. And Encarta did not allow users to submit new entries. The decision to cut Encarta also comes as Microsoft looks to cut costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Paidcontent.org Microsoft will discontinue both its MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software, which have both been surpassed by rising competitors, like Wikipedia. In a message posted on the MSN Encarta Web site, Microsoft says, \u201cEncarta has been a popular product around the world for many years. However, the category … Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[229,369],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-microsoft","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9579,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}