Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Free encyclopedias

The abstraction of a fresh chargeless album began with the Interpedia angle on Usenet in 1993, which categorical an Internet-based online album to which anyone could abide agreeable and that would be advisedly accessible. Early projects in this attitude included Everything2 and Open Site. In 1999, Richard Stallman proposed the GNUPedia, an online album which, agnate to the GNU operating system, would be a "generic" resource. The abstraction was actual agnate to Interpedia, but added in band with Stallman's GNU philosophy.

It was not until Nupedia and after Wikipedia that a abiding chargeless album activity was able to be accustomed on the Internet. The English Wikipedia became the world's better album in 2004 at the 300,000 commodity stage26 and by backward 2005, Wikipedia had produced over two actor accessories in added than 80 languages with agreeable accountant beneath the copyleft GNU Chargeless Documentation License. As of August 2009, Wikipedia had over 3 actor accessories in English and able-bodied over 10 actor accumulated in over 250 languages. Wikipedia currently has 3,816,431 accessories in English. Since 2003, added chargeless encyclopedias like the Chinese-language Baidu Baike and Hudong, as able-bodied as English accent encyclopedias like Citizendium and Knol accept appeared.

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