What is your favorite encyclopedia?

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We need to bring back real encyclopedias. A physical dictionary belongs in every home as well.

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I just started thinking about a collaborative project for making one, with enough people it wouldn't be that hard to make a nice, uncensored, free public domain (CC0) one volume encyclopedia in plain HTML on some git hosting site, it could be both electronic and printed (could be easily converted to LaTeX and made into a physical book). If it was public domain and non commercial, it wouldn't have to bow to any publishers or reviewers and could stay truly uncensored and independent. Of course it wouldn't aim to compete with Wikipedia by its size, it should rather aim for a high quality oldschool style book. If anyone feels like stealing this idea, feel free :)