I looked up Harry Potter in Wikipedia and Britannica. Looking up Harry Potter in Wikipedia led to several pages of information that had been edited over 500 times since September 2009 and had first been started in October 2001. When I looked up Harry Potter on Britannica there was only a line in Britannica that J.K. Rowling "created the critically acclaimed series about a young sorcerer in training." Additionally there were some links to external resources for additional information.
The convenience of the Wikipedia article is that all of the information is in one location. It takes one search to come to a plethora of information. If I want to explore more, there are links to "further information" to expand on specific portions of the volumes of information available. The Britannica article was less user-friendly because I would have to go through and click on links to external sources in order to gather information beyond the initial sentence available.
This situation could be partially due to the fact that I am looking at pop culture/fiction rather than a non-fiction, factual article. Possibly Britannica would have more information about about an academic feature than something pop culture related.
As far as changes go, I added Mr. Ollivander to the list of other characters to the Simple English Wikipedia page, I also added Lord Voldemort's name (Tom Marvolo Riddle) prior to becoming infamous to the Simple English Wikipedia page, and I added Rita Skeeter to the list of other characters on the Simple English Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia also keeps a record of all of the changes made to their pages.
Overall, it was really easy to make the changes once I decided what I wanted to add.
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