2009/3/31 Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com>: > So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except > Britannica? And what about the situation in French, Italian etc., has anyone > an overview about that?
Enciclopèdia Catalana [1] is a very good free-as-in-beer online encyclopedia in the Catalan Language. Many of its articles about Catalan culture are also translated into English. (To see if an article has an English version, click the "Encyclopaedia" button.) The same company also offers at least three comprehensive dictionaries - the general monolingual Gran Diccionari (complete with full conjugations and etymologies), the excellent DIDAC for children [2], and Multilingüe - Catalan-Spanish-German-English-French [3]. I don't understand how do they do it without any advertising. Maybe the government helps it, but that is just a guess. Anyway, the fact is that it is a strong competitor against the Catalan Wikipedia and Wiktionary and it is also a strong competitor against English Wikipedia for people who seek information about Catalan culture. So the answer is No - not all major encyclopedias are dead, and that is a Good Thing. [1] www.grec.cat [2] http://www.grec.net/cgibin/esc00.pgm/ [3] http://www.grec.cat/cgibin/mlt00.pgm -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
