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## Notable/Nice Encyclopedias
Here is a list of notable encyclopedias, focused on general knowledge English language ones.
Here is a list of notable encyclopedias, focused on general knowledge English language ones that are preferrably publicly available (or easy to get).
{ See also https://wikiindex.org/. ~drummyfish }
| name | year | legal status | format | ~articles | comment |
| ------------------------------ | ----- | ---------------- | ----------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Britannica 11th edition | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K | legendary enc., digitized (gutenberg), uncensored facts on race etc. |
| Britannica 11th edition | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K | legendary enc., part of "Big Three", digitized (gutenberg), uncensored facts on race etc. |
| Britannica online |...now | proprietary | online | 130K | bloated, high quality articles, ads |
| [Citizendium](citizendium.md) |2006...|proprietary? (NC) | online | 18K | Wikipedia alternative, censored, faggots have unclear license |
|[Conservaedia](conservapedia.md)|2006...| proprietary | online | 52K | American fascist wiki, has basic factual errors |
| Desk Reference Encyclopedia | 1995 | proprietary | 1 vol. 800p | 200K? | by James Hughes, nice illustrations, quality articles { I bought this, it's nice. ~drummyfish } |
| Encyclopedia Americana | 1903 | PD (old) | 16 vol. | | longer articles, part of "Big Three", scanned on archive.org |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica |2004...| PD (CC0) | online | 15K | informal/fun/"offensive" but valuable info (on society, tech, ...), basically no censorship, no propaganda |
| Illustrated Family Encyclopedia| 1997 | proprietary | 2 vol. 920p | 5K | kid-friendly, nice pictures, USA bias, piratable |
|[Infogalactic](infogalactic.md) |2016...| CC BY-SA | online | 2M | Wikipedia fork, no SJW censorship, FOR PROFIT (you can buy article control lol), can't make accounts |