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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_encyclopediasHistory of encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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   The earliest encyclopedic work to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD. He compiled a work of 37 chapters covering natural history, architecture, medicine, geography, geology, and all aspects of the world around him.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_WikipediaHistory of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   Who created Wikipedia?

   • Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.

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   Who created the Nupedia wiki?

   • "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Archived from the original on 23 December 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2007. Wales and Sanger created the first Nupedia wiki on 10 January 2001. The initial purpose was to get the public to add entries that would then be "fed into the Nupedia process" of authorization.

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   Who invented the Encyclopedia?

   • The idea of using automated machinery beyond the printing press to build a more useful encyclopedia can be traced to Paul Otlet 's 1934 book Traité de Documentation. Otlet also founded the Mundaneum, an institution dedicated to indexing the world's knowledge, in 1910.

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   Who wrote the first encyclopedia in vernacular languages?

   • The first encyclopedias in vernacular languages were translations or abridgements of works in Latin. Among them, the most famous is Li livre dou Trésor, written in French by the Florentine Brunetto Latini. It is mainly based on the Speculum Majus. The works by the Flemish Jacob van Maerlant, as a whole, are regarded as an encyclopedia.

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4. sloanreview.mit.edu › article › the-unconventionalThe Unconventional Innovator Who Created Wikipedia

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   Jan 12, 2021 · The Unconventional Innovator Who Created Wikipedia. A series of detours and reversals, and an openness to unconventional thinking, culminated in Jimmy Wales’s best-known invention. Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade January 12, 2021 Reading Time: 8 min. Subscribe Share. iStock.com/zmeel.

5. www.theatlantic.com › technology › archiveEncyclopedias Are Time Capsules - The Atlantic

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   Dec 9, 2015 · All of this was research for what was to be his final work, Historia Naturalis (Natural History), published in 77 A.D. and considered earth’s oldest surviving encyclopedia. There are 2,500 ...

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   Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia English 6,796,000+ articles

8. www.britannica.com › topic › encyclopaediaEncyclopaedia - History of encyclopaedias | Britannica

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   Early development. The first fragments of an encyclopaedia to have survived are the work of Speusippus (died 339/338 bce ), a nephew of Plato’s. Speusippus conveyed his uncle’s ideas in a series of writings on natural history, mathematics, philosophy, and so forth.