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The idea to build a free encyclopedia using the Internet can be traced at least to the 1993 Interpedia proposal; it was planned as an encyclopedia on the Internet to which everyone could contribute materials. The project never left the planning stage and it was overtaken by the explosion of the World Wide Web, the emergence of high-quality search engines, and the conversion of existing material. Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia, also (rarely) encyclopædia,[1] is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The Interpedia was the name given to the first proposals for an Internet encyclopedia which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalog of all Interpedia pages. ...
WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a global, read-write information space. ...
A search engine or search service is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. ...
Digitization of old content A key branch of this activity is the digitization of old printed encyclopedias. In January 1995, Project Gutenberg started to publish the ASCII text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition (1911), but disagreement about the methods halted the work after the first volume. For trademark reasons this has been published as the Gutenberg Encyclopedia. In 2002, ASCII text of all 28 volumes was published on http://1911encyclopedia.org/ by another source; a copyright claim was added to the materials, but it probably has no legal validity. Project Gutenberg has restarted work on digitising and proofreading this encyclopedia; as of June 2005 it had not yet been published. Meanwhile, in the face of competition from rivals such as Encarta, the latest Britannica was digitized by its publishers, and sold first as a CD-ROM and later as an online service. Other digitization projects have made progress on other titles. One example is Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) digitized by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Probably the most important and successful digitization of an encyclopedia was the Bartleby Project's online adaptation of the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2000, which was put online at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ in early 2000 and is updated periodically. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Project Gutenberg (often abbreviated as PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works. ...
For other uses, see ASCII (disambiguation). ...
1913 advertisement for the 11th edition, with the slogan When in doubt — look it up in the Encyclopædia Britannica The Encyclopædia Britannica (properly spelled with æ, the ae-ligature) was first published in 1768–1771 as The Britannica was an important early English-language general encyclopedia and is still...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published and updated frequently by Microsoft Corporation. ...
Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...
Creation of new content Another related branch of activity is the creation of new, free contents on a volunteer basis. In 1991, the participants of the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.douglas-adams [1] started a project to produce a real version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional encyclopedia used in the works of Douglas Adams. It became known as Project Galactic Guide. Although it originally aimed to contain only real, factual articles, policy was changed to allow and encourage semi-real and unreal articles as well. Project Galactic Guide contains over 1700 articles, but no new articles have been added since 2000; this is probably partly due to the founding of h2g2, a more official project along similar lines. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician and author, most notably of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series (HHGG or H2G2). ...
Project Galactic Guide (PGG) is a collaborative project inspired by The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the fictional encyclopedia in books by Douglas Adams. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
h2g2 is an online community engaged in the construction of a guide to life, the universe, and everything. ...
History and Philosophy of encyclopedism As a part of the German Enlightenment, philosopher G.W.v.Leibniz envisaged an encyclopedia that might contain the whole of human knowledge. He associated this with his other projects of a Characteristica universalis and Calculus ratiocinator. That is, the need for a universal language by which any person could make a contribution to a truly universal encyclopedia. Recently philosophers like Pombo have made a link between Leibniz's ideas and the internet encyclopedia project. This view seems to reveal a remarkable continuity in the history and implementation of ideas over the last 400 years. Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (July 1, 1646 in Leipzig - November 14, 1716 in Hannover) was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, librarian, and lawyer of Sorb descent. ...
Characteristica Universalis from Latin is commonly interpreted as Universal Character in English. ...
The Calculus Ratiocinator is a concept appearing in the writings of Gottfried Leibniz, usually paired with his characteristica universalis, which he mentioned much more frequently. ...
The idea of a universal language is at least as old as the Biblical story of Babel. ...
Encyclopedias that are no longer online - Interpedia
- Nupedia, a slow-moving project to produce a free peer reviewed encyclopedia. Nupedia shut down on September 26, 2003, and much of its content has since been assimilated by Wikipedia.
- GNUpedia, an initiative which did not come to fruition but had some interesting philosophy.
The Interpedia was the name given to the first proposals for an Internet encyclopedia which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalog of all Interpedia pages. ...
Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. ...
GNUPedia (later renamed GNE) was a project to create a free content encyclopedia (licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License) under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation that has been discontinued. ...
Currently online encyclopedias - Bulbapedia is a Pokémon encyclopedia, founded by the Pokémon fansite and forum, Bulbagarden.
- Enciclopedia Libre: project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the GFDL.
- Ekşi Sözlük -- an older Turkish variant with the same concept as h2g2.
- Everything2 has a wider range and does not exclusively focus on building an encyclopedia; its contents are not available under a copyleft license.
- EvoWiki is "a Wiki about evolution and origins. The focus is on evolution education, particularly addressing the arguments of Creationism and Intelligent Design from the perspective of mainstream science. It is inspired by webpages such as talkorigins.org and talkdesign.org, and the goal of EvoWiki is to complement rather than duplicate these online resources".
- h2g2, a collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on an idea from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Articles are not freely redistributable.
- KolWiki is an encyclopedia for the free online game Kingdom of Loathing.
- NeoDex is a Neopets encyclopedia, founded by the Neopets fansite, Pink Poogle Toy.
- Project Galactic Guide -- an older project inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- Rehber Ansiklopedisi Online version of the Turkish Encyclopedia "Yeni Reber Ansiklopedisi" which means "New Guide Encyclopedia", commonly used in Turkish Wikipedia as a reference source. http://kitap.hakikatkitabevi.com/cgi-bin/cgi.exe/rehber?
- SourceWatch (formerly called Disinfopedia), a project to expose propaganda and paid spin doctors.
- Turkcebilgi -- A new project like Wikipedia in Turkish.
- Wikipedia
- Wikitravel, a free travel guide started in July 2003.
- Yellowikis aims to be to Yellow pages; what Wikipedia is to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Several online encyclopedias focus on mathematics: Pokémon , IPA //, although frequently, and even intentionally mispronounced //), is a media franchise[1] controlled by video game giant Nintendo. ...
The Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language WikiWiki encyclopedia, released under the GFDL. It uses the MediaWiki software. ...
A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey>[1]) is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most available content, sometimes without the need for registration. ...
GNU logo (similar in appearance to a gnu) The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. ...
Ekşi Sözlük is a collaborative hypertext dictionary that follows almost the same concept as Everything2 or H2G2. ...
Everything2, or E2 for short, is a large collaborative Internet community, currently at www. ...
The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ...
EvoWiki, short for Evolution Education Wiki, is a wiki website dedicated to building a textbook and encyclopedia of Evolution and related sciences, to providing responses to claims by creationist and intelligent design followers, and to hosting general essays and comment about these subjects. ...
h2g2 is an online community engaged in the construction of a guide to life, the universe, and everything. ...
Kingdom of Loathing (KoL) is a satirical browser game created by Asymmetric Publications (Zach Jick Johnson and Josh Mr. ...
Screenshot of the Neopets homepage viewed with Internet Explorer Neopets is an online virtual pet simulation game. ...
Project Galactic Guide (PGG) is a collaborative project inspired by The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the fictional encyclopedia in books by Douglas Adams. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
SourceWatchs logo features a magnifying glass through which its name can be seen. ...
SourceWatchs former logo features a magnifying glass through which its previous name, somewhat distorted, can be seen. ...
U.S. propaganda poster from WWII depicting a Nazi stabbing a Bible. ...
Turkcebilgi is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers. ...
Wikipedia (IPA: , or , else ) is a Web-based free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. ...
Wikitravel is a project to create an open content, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Launched in January 2005, Yellowikis uses the MediaWiki software to collect basic business information. ...
In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. ...
Wikipedia (IPA: , or , else ) is a Web-based free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. ...
1913 advertisement for the 11th edition, with the slogan When in doubt — look it up in the Encyclopædia Britannica The Encyclopædia Britannica (properly spelled with æ, the ae-ligature) was first published in 1768–1771 as The Britannica was an important early English-language general encyclopedia and is still...
- MathWorld, a proprietary system hosted at Wolfram Research.
- PlanetMath is a free Wiki-style mathematical encyclopedia which was originally built to replace MathWorld, a proprietary system hosted at Wolfram Research which was down for some time due to legal difficulties. Since MathWorld has returned, PlanetMath has still thrived.
- The QED Project is building a "distributed, computerized repository that rigorously represents all important, established mathematical knowledge."
MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, sponsored by Wolfram Research Inc. ...
PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. ...
MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, sponsored by Wolfram Research Inc. ...
The QED project was a proposal for a computer-based encyclopedia and database of all mathematical knowledge, strictly formalized and with all proofs having been checked automatically. ...
See also A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. ...
This article contains a list of encyclopedias, including projects to create new works. ...
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