Draft:Outline of encyclopedias

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to encyclopedias:

What type of thing is an encyclopedia?
An encyclopedia can be described as all of the following:
 * Compendium – concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. A general encyclopedia can be referred to as a compendium of all human knowledge.
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Types of encyclopedias, by scope

 * General encyclopedia – encyclopedia that is universal in scope, covering the whole of knowledge. Examples include Wikipedia, the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the World Book Encyclopedia.
 * Specialized encyclopedia – an encyclopedia restricted to a specific area of knowledge, field, or academic discipline. An example is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Types of encyclopedias, by media employed
Encyclopedias are distributed in the form of:


 * Print encyclopedia – encyclopedia in book form, usually in multiple volumes. An example is the World Book Encyclopedia.
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 * Online encyclopedia –
 * List of online encyclopediass
 * Knowledge bases –

Specific encyclopedias

 * Bibliography of encyclopedias
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: architecture and architects
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: art and artists
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: astronomy and astronomers
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: aviation
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: biology
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: business, information and economics
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: cuisine
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: film, radio, television and mass communications
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: geography
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: history
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: literature
 * Bibliography of encyclopedias: religion
 * List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
 * List of encyclopedias by language
 * List of historical encyclopedias
 * List of online encyclopedias

History of encyclopedias
History of encyclopedias
 * List of encyclopedias by date (through 1900)
 * History of specific encyclopedias
 * History of the Encyclopedia Americana
 * History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
 * History of Wikipedia

Former encyclopedias

 * List of encyclopedias by date (through 1900)

Former online encyclopedias

 * Crnogorska Enciklopedija
 * Encarta
 * GNE
 * Interpedia
 * Enciklopedio Kalblanda
 * Nupedia – free content predecessor of Wikipedia, online from 2000 to 2003. Following a peer-review model, it only produced 25 approved articles. That has since been assimilated into Wikipedia.
 * Probert Encyclopaedia
 * Susning.nu
 * Veropedia
 * Veropedia

Former printed encyclopedias

 * Collier's Encyclopedia
 * Columbia Encyclopedia
 * Funk & Wagnalls

History of relevant technologies

 * History of books
 * History of electronic media
 * History of the Internet
 * History of wikis

Persons influential in encyclopedias
Encyclopedist – person who writes, edits, or compiles an encyclopedia. Some influential encyclopedists include:


 * Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC – 27 BC) –
 * Pliny the Elder (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD) –
 * Martianus Capella (4th and 5th centuries AD) – Latin prose writer of Late Antiquity, from Apuleius—in the Roman province of Africa.  He authored the encyclopedic work De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. The work was read, taught, and commented upon throughout the early Middle Ages and shaped European education during the early medieval period and the Carolingian renaissance.
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 * Mortimer J. Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) – director of editorial planning for the 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and designer of the Outline of Knowledge presented in its Propædia volume.
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 * Larry Sanger (July 16, 1968 – ) – co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium.
 * Jimmy Wales (August 7, 1966 – )– co-founder of and spokesman for Wikipedia.