Encyclopaedia Britannica is getting ready to release a new interactive site that will allow "participation by both...expert contributors and readers." The site will "become the hub of a new online community." The plan sounds interesting. It sounds like readers will be able to contribute to the site, even if that contributed content will be separate from the "core content" of Britannica:

Encyclopaedia Britannica will continue to form the core base of knowledge and information on the site, though the material created by contributors and the user community, which each member will control and be credited for, will be published alongside the encyclopedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica itself will continue to be edited according to the most rigorous standards and will bear the imprimatur “Britannica Checked” to distinguish it from material on the site for which Britannica editors are not responsible.

And then there's this: