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Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).
Throughout history, the Britannica has had two aims: to be an excellent reference book, and to provide educational material. [11] In 1974, the 15th edition adopted a third goal: to systematize all human knowledge. [12] The history of the Britannica can be divided into five eras, punctuated by changes in management, or reorganization of the ...
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]
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia. The company also owns the American dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster .
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell , in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition (1797) is an 18-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopedia's earliest period as a two-man operation initiated by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Most of the editing was done by Macfarquhar, and all the ...
Domestic Encyclopedia (1803–1804), first American edition, expanded to 5 volumes (4 in the British); second American edition 1821; Low's Encyclopaedia (1805–1811), the first true American encyclopedia; Encyclopaedia Americana (1829–1833), 13 volumes, editor Francis Lieber.
The name was suggested by Sanger on 11 January 2001 as a portmanteau of the words wiki (Hawaiian for "quick") and encyclopedia. [73] The wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org domain names were registered on 12 [74] and 13 January, [75] respectively, with wikipedia.org being brought online on the same day. [76]