Unit home task. Present the information which are the most popular websites

7 HOME TASK. Wikipedia vs Britannica: A Comparison Between Both Encyclopedia.

Wikipedia is a multilingual, free, online encyclopedia. It is written and supported by volunteers on an open source basis. It was founded on January 15, 2001 by Nupedia for professionals and is now run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia has become the largest and most viewed source of information to date. [1] This free encyclopedia currently contains more than 20 million articles in 283 languages. Wikipedia's largest English language section has 6,425,790 articles. For comparison, the Encyclopædia Britannica, the largest paper-based encyclopedia, has about 130,000 articles. In addition, Wikipedia has become very popular with its companions, such as Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikibooks, and Wikisource.

The Encyclopedia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopedia") is a general English-language encyclopedia that is currently published only as an online encyclopedia. Ilgari and Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. and published by other publishers (for previous editions). It has been written by nearly 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 authors. The 2010 edition of the 15th edition, which included 32 volumes [1] and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition.