# Encyclopedia

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## Notable/Nice Encyclopedias

Here is a list of notable encyclopedias, focused on general knowledge English language ones.

{ 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)                                                                      |
| 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. ~drummyfish }                       |
| 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) |       | CC BY-SA         | online      | 2M        | Wikipedia fork, no SJW censorship, FOR PROFIT (you can buy article control lol), can't make accounts       |
| [LRS wiki](lrs_wiki.md)        |2021...| PD (CC0)         | online/elec.| 500       | best encyclopedia, focused on tech/society, no censorship                                                  | 
| [Metapedia](metapedia.md)      |       | GFDL             | online      | 7K        | Wikipedia fork, online, no SJW censorship, ATM limited account creation, "pro-European" fascism            |
|Microsoft [Encarta](encarta.md) |...2009| proprietary      | electronic  | 62K       | Micro$oft enc., low quality articles (errors), MS propaganda (no free software etc. lol), is on archive.org|
| Simple English Wikipedia       |2001...| CC BY-SA         | online      | 200K      | Wikipedia with simpler language and simpler explanations, censored                                         |
| The Nuttall Encyclopaedia      | 1907  | PD (old)         | 1 vol.      | 16K       | short articles, oldschool, 16K articles, digitized (gutenberg)                                             |
| [Vikidia](vikidia.md)          |       | 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           |
| 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                           |
| 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                                                                                            |