653) proceeds directly from Wihtred, King of Kent to the German philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Nor is Wikipedia described in the 2007 Micropedia volume 12 (p. Surprisingly, the 2007 Macropedia article for "Encyclopedias and Dictionaries" does not mention Wikipedia. More generally, the Macropedia seems unusually fond of biographies, geography, Western philosophies, law, mathematics, physiology, taxonomy and, perhaps not surprisingly, information science. The Macropedia also tends to describe only the Western branch of a field, e.g., History of Western architecture, History of Western literature, History of Western mathematics, History of Western music, History of Western painting, History of Western philosophy, History of Western political philosophy, History of Western sculpture, History of Western theatre, Evolution of modern Western legal systems, Western philosophical schools and doctrines, and Western dance. For example, the whole of Buddhism and most other religions is covered in a single Macropedia article by contrast, Christianity has fourteen (Biblical literature, Jesus, Christianity, the Apostle Paul, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Calvin and Calvinism, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Thomism, Joan of Arc, Crusades, Luther and Theology), nearly half of all the Macropedia religion articles. Presumably, this bias reflects the interests and tastes of the principal readership to which the EB is marketed. The list is heavily weighted toward topics in the English-speaking world (The United Kingdom, the United States, and the British Commonwealth) and Western Europe, and heavily weighted against Asia and the Global South. Interestingly, the Britannica itself seems to suffer from systemic bias, judging from the distribution of topics it chooses for Macropedia articles.
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Please feel free to add comments under each article about its status! It would be a worthy goal to bring all of the articles below to the highest ranking, Featured Article status. Please place the symbol before the article title, and please note that A-class articles are superior to Good articles.
6 Start class: Provides a significant amount of information, but serious gaps remain to be filled.5 C-class: The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material.4 B-class: Useful for most readers, but needs expanded coverage.3 Good article: Well-written, nearly complete coverage of pertinent topics.2 A-class: Essentially complete a few omissions may be detected by a subject expert.1 Featured article: One of Wikipedia's best articles.The articles are being assessed using the ranking described in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment, in the following order: The few red links are those articles for which there is no equivalent Wikipedia article.
Reaching this goal is not impossible on the contrary, it may be inevitable, with enough time and well-meaning editors. If Wikipedia could produce articles on these topics of comparable or better quality than those of the EB, there could be no doubt about Wikipedia's scope and stature as an encyclopedia. The following list comprises the 699 Macropædia articles of the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica, the flagship articles upon which Britannica's reputation rests.
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