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Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1914; public domain since 2004) St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India (1973,82,2010) Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992) Orthodox Encyclopedia (Serbe) Encyclopaedia of Islam; Hastings, James: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (1908–1926) Unitarian-Universalist Encyclopedia [9]
It was not until Nupedia and later Wikipedia that a stable free encyclopedia project was able to be established on the Internet. [citation needed] Wikipedia is one of the first "user generated content" encyclopedias. The English Wikipedia, which was started in 2001, became the world's largest encyclopedia in 2004 at the 300,000 article stage. [24]
Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement. Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics. Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.
Riegrův slovník naučný – first Czech encyclopedia published in 1860–1874 with 11 volumes, supplement vol. in 1890, online); Otto's encyclopedia – largest Czech-language encyclopedia published between 1888 and 1908 (28 vols) and 1930–1943 (12 vols, incomplete).
Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Scribner's, 1980. [23] Schapsmeier, Edward L. and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History. Greenwood, 1975. [34] Shavit, David. The United States in the Middle East: A historical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1988. ISBN 0-313 ...
Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.
The word encyclopedia is a Latinization of the Greek enkýklios paideía, which means all-around education. [2] The encyclopedia is "one of the few generalizing influences in a world of overspecialization. It serves to recall that knowledge has unity," according to Louis Shores, editor of Collier's Encyclopedia.
The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908, mainly self-published) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870) Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–1899), by Inglis Palgrave; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904) Cyclopedia of Universal History (1880–1884), world history; Ridpath's Universal History (1895), world history