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Q455
general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia, first published in Scotland in 1768
Uncyclopedia
Uncyclopedia is the name of several forks of satirical online encyclopedias that parody Wikipedia. Its logo, a hollow "puzzle potato", parodies Wikipedia's globe puzzle logo, and it styles itself as "the content-free encyclopedia", parodying Wikipedia's slogan of "the free encyclopedia" and likely as a play on the fact that Wikipedia is described as a "free-content" encyclopedia. Founded in 2005 as an English-language wiki, the project spans more than 75 languages as well as several subprojects parodying other wikis. Uncyclopedia's name is a portmanteau of the prefix un- and the word encyclope
Q82486
collaborative project intended to create an encyclopedia documenting all living species known to science
Q14005
MusicBrainz is a project by the MetaBrainz Foundation that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded due to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals beyond serving as a CD metadata repository, evolving into a structured online database for music information, including details about artists, performers, and songwriters.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
peer-reviewed website (1995-)
Knol
Knol was a Google project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The lower-case term knol, which Google defined as a "unit of knowledge", referred to an article in the project. Knol was often viewed as a rival to Wikipedia.
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
online database of integer sequences
The Catholic Encyclopedia
English-language encyclopedia
Encarta
Microsoft Encarta was a 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. By 2008, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools.
MathWorld
MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, created and largely written by Eric W. Weisstein. It is sponsored by and licensed to Wolfram Research, Inc. and was partially funded by the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library grant to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
The Jewish Encyclopedia
1901-1906 work edited by Singer
Wookieepedia
'Wookieepedia: The Star Wars Wiki' is an online encyclopedia about the Star Wars universe, including information on all films, books, television series, the Star Wars Expanded Universe, any upcoming Star Wars material, and more. It is a wiki, with some articles reaching up to 60,000 words, and is written almost entirely from an in-universe perspective. The name is a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia, and its logo portrays the incomplete second Death Star, as a visual pun on Wikipedia's incomplete "jigsaw logo".
Scholarpedia
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
online encyclopaedia (1995-)
Know Your Meme
website for documenting Internet memes
Interpedia
Interpedia was one of the first-proposed online encyclopedias which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalogue of all Interpedia pages.
Columbia Encyclopedia
American online encyclopedia
Everipedia
Everipedia (), renamed IQ.wiki in 2022, is a blockchain-based online encyclopedia, originally designed as a general purpose reference but has pivoted to focus on the cryptocurrency space. Everipedia was founded in 2014 and was officially launched in 2015, as a fork of Wikipedia. Larry Sanger (who co-founded Wikipedia) joined the company in 2017, and resigned in 2019.
Memory Alpha
wiki about Star Trek
Jewish Virtual Library
website
Everything2
Everything2 (styled Everything2 or E2 for short) is a collaborative online community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter. Writing on E2 covers a wide range of topics and genres, including encyclopedic articles, diary entries (known as "daylogs"), poetry, humor, and fiction.
LyricWiki
LyricWiki (also known as Lyrically or LyricWikia) was an online wiki-based lyrics database and encyclopedia. In March 2013, it was the seventh largest MediaWiki installation with over 2,000,000 pages including 1.5 million songs. Prior to its shutdown, users on the site could view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which were also available for purchase from links on the site. Users were told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, and copyright violations were removed upon request. All the lyrics on LyricWiki were licensed through LyricFind.
Emojipedia
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia or emoji dictionary, Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes and usage trends. It has been owned by Zedge since 2021.
World Book Encyclopedia
American encyclopedia
Lostpedia
Lostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005, by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information. The site's content is under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-nd), which means that it is available free to the public, but cannot be used for commercial purposes and should not be modified by people who are not part of the community of the website. As of April 2019, the site contains an estimated 7,380 articles. On December 18, 2008, the site became a part
Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is an American nonprofit and nonpartisan online political encyclopedia that covers federal, state, and local politics, elections, and public policy in the United States. The website was founded in 2007. Ballotpedia is sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Middleton, Wisconsin. Originally a collaboratively edited wiki, Ballotpedia is now written and edited entirely by a paid professional staff. Ballotpedia reported an editorial staff of over 50 in 2021.
Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com is an online encyclopedia. It aggregates information, images, and videos from other published dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works.
TheFreeDictionary.com
free online dictionary and encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of Earth
electronic reference about the Earth
WoWWiki
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glbtq.com
encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture
The Simpsons Archive
The Simpsons fan site
De Imperatoribus Romanis
online peer-reviewed encyclopedia about Byzantine and Roman Emperors
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
encyclopedia (2005-)
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
encyclopedia dedicated to Eastern European Jewish history
Grolier
Grolier is one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of a CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003).