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  2. Encarta - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also available online via annual subscription, although later articles could also be viewed for free online with advertisements. [1]

  3. Encarta Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Slightly larger than a college dictionary, it is similar in appearance and scope to the American Heritage Dictionary , which Soukhanov previously edited.

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-02-07/Encarta - Wikipedia

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    Some Encarta tools, such as homework help and some maps, will remain limited to subscribers. Although Microsoft plugged the incorporation of Encarta content into its search engine as an innovation, it follows several others that have already used encyclopedia content from Wikipedia to enhance their search results.

  5. Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia

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    Encarta was the top-selling multimedia encyclopaedia, based on total US retail sales from January 2000 to February 2006. [93] Both occupied the same price range, with the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate CD or DVD costing US$40–50 [94] [95] and the Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 DVD costing US$45. [96]

  6. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Random House dictionaries are now called Random House Webster's, and Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary is now Encarta Webster's Dictionary. The dictionary now called Webster's New Universal no longer even uses the text of the original Webster's New Universal dictionary, but rather is a newly commissioned version of the Random House ...

  7. Online encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors, known as Wikipedians, through a model of open collaboration. It is the largest and most-read reference work in history. [10] Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia. [11]

  8. Wikipedia : Wikipedia Signpost/2005-04-18/Encarta elaborates

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    Interestingly, Jimbo Wales reported to the Wikipedia mailing list that Microsoft had invited him to give a talk at Redmond, Washington.Wales said that he would try to also give a talk at the University of Washington Information School, from which Encarta has employed graduate students to work as fact-checkers, to find out what their experience of the new system was.

  9. Wikipedia : Wikipedia Signpost/2020-01-27/Special report

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    Wikipedia was able to surpass projects like Microsoft Encarta and the Encyclopedia Britannica because it brushed aside the gatekeepers in favor of flexibility and innovation. Over the last two decades, however, Wikipedia's institutional culture has exchanged flexibility for bureaucracy and established volunteers have set themselves up as the ...