As A Practice
Since the creation of the first wikis, encyclopedism has been largely divided between the limited resources of academic, print-based encyclopedias and the less-limited resources of wikis on the World Wide Web. Print-based encyclopedias are still printed for library and personal usage, and are usually published as alphabetically grouped portions of each year's iteration. They are also more likely to be authored or edited by academicians, and are far less likely to be updated with newer information for every iteration.
Wikis, on the other hand, are more likely to be edited by knowledgeable or investigative users who are not academically accredited. They are also more likely to be updated with references to recent journalistic articles.
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“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)