On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:00, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: >>> >> No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still >> being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I >> am confusing things. > > There's also World Book in English, the biggest seller of print > encyclopedias (aimed at high-school students). > And Barsa in Portuguese. > > And there are a few encyclopedias like Sarvavijnanakosam (in > Malayalam) being written from the ground up for the first time, volume > by volume... presumably they will print a copy of each volume for > completion, even as they move their work online. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvavijnanakosam > http://mal.sarva.gov.in
There is ~20 volumes Serbian Encyclopedia in progress, likely to be finished around 2050. I have no idea what would be the purpose of that paper encyclopedia at that time, but I know that it is getting significant money from Serbian authorities. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
