14 DAY TRIAL // Although it has happened many times to read a definition or an explanation of a phenomenon and to realize that the information is not correct, few of us have thought of actually doing something about it.
Encarta Encyclopedia could become the first solution which allows users to add or to correct the content of the initial articles. Users can suggest the editing of the existing text or can complete it, and the changes are operated only after the information has been verified and approved by a team of editors assigned by Microsoft.
Although Encarta won't request the identity of the information supplier, but revealing the sources of it is compulsory. In this way, editors will be able to compare information and to establish if the modification or adding of the encyclopedia content is legitimate or not.
Wikipedia Encyclopedia has a more permissive character regarding the adding of articles and every Internet surfer is allowed to operate changes to the published articles or to insert their own information and ideas in new article, without an editor verifying the data.
Wikipedia users can even delete an entire article without proving first that he has any knowledge of the subject dealt within the article.
Encarta has already assigned personnel to filter and verify the information, so that functioning and updating of the encyclopedia will not be blocked when the changes will start being made.
Currently, Encarta contains 42,000 articles and approximately 60 million words, and by using this strategy it is hoped that the content will increase.