How the Oxford English Dictionary started out like Wikipedia
Resource Origin: Wired
"It's the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of tens of thousands of volunteers. Operating in Oxford, England, he receives hundreds of thousands of slips of paper over the course of several decades, each containing the definition of a particular English word. To Murray, these contributors are strangers -- unpaid, but working together as one to collate the definitions and origins of every word in the English language.
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Resource Origin: Wired
"It's the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of tens of thousands of volunteers. Operating in Oxford, England, he receives hundreds of thousands of slips of paper over the course of several decades, each containing the definition of a particular English word. To Murray, these contributors are strangers -- unpaid, but working together as one to collate the definitions and origins of every word in the English language.