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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. The most notable ones are in bold.
{ See also https://wikiindex.org/. ~drummyfish }
| name | year | legal status | format | ~articles | comment |
| ------------------------------ | ----- | ---------------- | ----------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Britannica 11th edition | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K | legendary enc., part of "Big Three", digitized (gutenberg, txt), uncensored facts on race etc. |
| Britannica 9th edition | 1889 | PD (old) | 25 vol. | |legendary enc., major edition, one of "Big Three", partly digitized (archive.org, wikisource, ...) |
| **Britannica 11th edition** | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K |legendary enc., major edition, one of "Big Three", mostly digitized (both scan and txt), PC incorrect :) |
| Britannica Concise Encyclopedia| 2002 | proprietary | 1 vol. 2000p| 28K | nice, short descriptions, condensed from the main multivol. Brit., piratable pdf |
| Britannica online |...now | proprietary | online | 130K | bloated, high quality articles, unpaid is limited and with ads |
| **Britannica online** |...now | proprietary | online | 130K | bloated, high quality articles, unpaid is limited and with ads |
| [Citizendium](citizendium.md) |2006...|proprietary? (NC) | online | 18K | Wikipedia alternative, censored, faggots have unclear license |
| Collier's New Encyclopedia | 1921 | PD (old) | 10 vol. | | NOT TO BE CONFUSED with Collier's Encyclopedia (different one), digitized on Wikisource (txt) |
| Columbia Encyclopedia |1935...| proprietary | 1 vol. ~3Kp | ~50K | high quality, lots of information { Read the 1993 edition, it's super nice. ~drummyfish } |
|[Conservaedia](conservapedia.md)|2006...| proprietary | online | 52K | American fascist wiki, has basic factual errors |
| Larousse Desk Reference Enc. | 1995 | proprietary | 1 vol. 800p | 200K? | by James Hughes, nice, quality general overviews, topic-ordered { I bought this, it's nice. ~drummyfish } |
| Domestic Encyclopaedia | 1802 | PD (old) | 4 vol. | | shorter articles, partially digitized on Wikisource |
| Encyclopedia Americana |1820...| PD (old) | ~30 vol. | | longer articles, part of "Big Three", several editions (1906, 1920) partially digitized on Wikisource |
| Encyclopedia Americana |1820...| PD (old) | ~30 vol. | | longer articles, one of "Big Three", several editions (1906, 1920) partly digitized on wikisource |
| Encyclopedia Dramatica |2004...| PD (CC0) | online | 15K | informal/fun/"offensive" but valuable info (on society, tech, ...), basically no censorship, no propaganda |
| Everybodywiki |2017...| CC BY-SA | online | ~300K | alternative to Wikipedia allowing articles on non notable things and people |
| Google Knol | ~2010 | proprietary | online | | failed online enc. by Google, archived on archive.org |
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| The Nuttall Encyclopaedia | 1907 | PD (old) | 1 vol. | 16K | short articles, oldschool, digitized (gutenberg) |
| [Vikidia](vikidia.md) |2006...| CC BY-SA | online | 4K | "Wikipedia for kids", probably as censored as Wikipedia |
|Webster's Unabridged Dictionary |1864 | PD (old) | paper | 476K | short descriptions, digitized (gutenberg) |
| [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) |2001...| CC BY-SA | online | 6M | largest and most famous, EXTREME PSEUDOLEFTIST CENSORSHIP AND POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, free culture |
| **[Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)** |2001...| CC BY-SA | online | 6M | largest and most famous, EXTREME PSEUDOLEFTIST CENSORSHIP AND POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, free culture |
| Old Wikipedia | 2001 | GFDL | online | 19K | archived old Wikipedia, less censorship, https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org |
| Pears' Cyclopedia | 1897 | PD (old) | 1 vol. 740p | | contains dictionary, general knowl. maps, reference etc., scanned on archive.org |
| World Almanac and Book of Facts|1868...| some PD (old) | 1 vol. | | interesting and useful information, data and facts from old to new age, US-centered |
| The World Book |1917...| proprietary | 22 vol. | 17K | best selling print enc., large, probably high quality |
| **The World Book** |1917...| proprietary | 22 vol. | 17K | best selling print enc., large, probably high quality |
| The World Book 1917 |1917 | PD (old) | 8 vol. | 3K | nicely readable |
| Uncyclopedia |2005...| proprietary (NC) | online | 37K | parody, [fun](fun.md) enc., "more normie friendly dramatica" |