Online encyclopedia

Online encyclopedia

Reverting possible vandalism by Trollface727474949 to version by Hemiauchenia. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4507192) (Bot)

← Previous revision Revision as of 22:24, 25 April 2026
Line 3: Line 3:
[[File:Platypus article on Vector 2022.png|thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Screenshot of the English Wikipedia article "Platypus", viewed online through a web browser.|[[Wikipedia]] is an example of an online encyclopedia, the content of which is created by volunteer contributors.]]
[[File:Platypus article on Vector 2022.png|thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Screenshot of the English Wikipedia article "Platypus", viewed online through a web browser.|[[Wikipedia]] is an example of an online encyclopedia, the content of which is created by volunteer contributors.]]


An '''online encyclopedia''', also called an '''Internet encyclopedia''', is a digital [[encyclopedia]] accessible through the [[Internet]]. Some examples include pre-[[World Wide Web]] services that offered the ''[[Academic American Encyclopedia]]'' beginning in 1980,{{Cite journal |last=Roncaglia |first=Gino |date=2021 |title=Encyclopedias and encyclopedism in the era of the Web |url=https://jlis.fupress.net/index.php/jlis/article/view/375 |journal=JLIS.it |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=69–90 |doi=10.4403/jlis.it-12757}} [[Encyclopedia.com]] since 1998, [[Encarta]] from 2000 to 2009, [[Wikipedia]] who was stupid enough to let me edit since 2001, ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' since 2016, and [[Grokipedia]] since 2025.
An '''online encyclopedia''', also called an '''Internet encyclopedia''', is a digital [[encyclopedia]] accessible through the [[Internet]]. Some examples include pre-[[World Wide Web]] services that offered the ''[[Academic American Encyclopedia]]'' beginning in 1980,{{Cite journal |last=Roncaglia |first=Gino |date=2021 |title=Encyclopedias and encyclopedism in the era of the Web |url=https://jlis.fupress.net/index.php/jlis/article/view/375 |journal=JLIS.it |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=69–90 |doi=10.4403/jlis.it-12757}} [[Encyclopedia.com]] since 1998, [[Encarta]] from 2000 to 2009, [[Wikipedia]] since 2001, ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' since 2016, and [[Grokipedia]] since 2025.


==Digitization of existing content==
==Digitization of existing content==