I just gave Wikipedia $10. From memory, it's the first time I've donated. So that's roughly 50 cents for each year I've been making regular use of it. Good deal.

In my defence, I have contributed to Wikipedia many times over the years, editing articles and even starting one one, like the fediverse article.

Just as a contrast, in 2012 Stephen J. Dubner paid $1600 for a set of the last printed encyclopaedia that Britannica produced:
https://freakonomics.com/2012/04/yes-i-just-paid-1600-for-a-set-of-encyclopaedia-britannica/

#encyclopaedia #Britannica #Wikipedia

He començat a escriure en la Viquipèdia i tinc un dubte, es pot referenciar de llibres o no?

Per qué a la Wikipedia en anglés sí que es fa i la veritat es que no entenc cap altre via per escriure un article academic aparte de citar altres enciclopedies digitalizades com Britannica o la GEC. I si la Viquipedia va a ser una transcripció d'altres enciclopèdies on-line donçs visite aquestes altres i ja està.

#viquipèdia #wikipedia #creativecommons #academia #papers #enciclopedia #encyclopaedia

29/01/1726 in #ChineseHistory: completion of Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from Antiquity to the Present #古今圖書集成, largest '#encyclopaedia' of premodern #China in 10,000 chap. printed in moveable type. #knowledgehistory #bookhistory
http://chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/gujintushujicheng.html

On January 7, 1706, German bookseller and publisher Johann Heinrich Zedler was born. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon (Great Universal Lexicon), the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century.

http://scihi.org/johann-heinrich-zedler/

#encyclopaedia #historyofscience #Germany

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60719183-all-the-knowledge-in-the-world All the #Knowledge in the #World: The Extraordinary #History of the #Encyclopaedia
by #SimonGarfield "The whole spinning world continues to revolve in those pages, pungently outmoded as they are. And to handle just one of those books is to be transported to a place of dedication and expertise, and often to obscurity, and occasionally to genius. I’m saddened that the world no longer has a use for most of them, and that this remarkable corner of history is history itself.

https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-everything-explained-that-is-explainable-on-the-creation-of-the-encyclopaedia-britannicas-celebrated-eleventh-edition-1910-1911-by-denis-boyles/ Like The #Encyclopaedia #Britannica Eleventh was created for describing the world in a human voice at the beginning of the XXth century, #Wikipedia is being created now, and the latest way of #serendipity, discovering a human #soul full of #creativity, #spirituality and #beauty is #Fediverse

I deliberately turned off Brave ad #donations to #Wikipedia long ago and refuse ever donate to that site for reasons like this.
They do not deserve to be called an '#encyclopaedia'
#defundWikipedia
https://www.rebelnews.com/elon_musk_wikipedia_has_a_non_trivial_left_wing_bias

I didn't know that Northrop Frye wrote on the encyclopaedia. Now I know and will read it.
These days I read on the encyclopaedia as form and how it orders and unifies the world. If you have any reading recommendations on the topic, be my guest.

#encyclopaedia
#knowledgeproduction

From 05 Feb: A Beginner’s Guide to Heavy Metal Nazi Hunting Online - Illustration: Angelica Alzona/GizmodoA few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Re... https://gizmodo.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-heavy-metal-nazi-hunting-online-1846196513 #black-metal #death-metal #encyclopaedia-metallum #entertainment-culture #extreme-metal #heavy-metal-genres #heavy-metal-music #heavy-metal-subculture #music #national-socialist-black-metal

Come from the release notes, stay for the Monty Python sketches

RT @llanga@twitter.com

Python 3.8.2 and 3.9.0a4 are now available. They are quite literally the best Python versions we've ever seen. Go get 'em while they are hot.

The one you want in production:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-382/

And the bleeding edge:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a4/

#python #kangaroo #encyclopaedia

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/llanga/status/1232477893210435584