Wikipedia started out as a copy of a public domain edition of EB. Since then, lots of folks have edited and contributed content. It was a pretty open secret t

Wikipedia started out as a copy of a public domain edition of EB. Since then, lots of folks have edited and contributed content. It was a pretty open secret that when Funk & Wagnalls (where Encarta got its content) was first starting that they would pay college students to write articles, the college students would crib from EB or some other similar source, and then submit that.