encyclopaedia

The word 'encyclopaedia' literally means a volume of shallow, broad-base, all-round knowledge.

Since Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and not a forum for public shaming, their full names should be removed.

Seriously, a business model where everything is vigorously fact-checked, sources cited, and reason applied Like say the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

My son asked me yesterday to read a (kids) encyclopaedia of science with him because he wanted to learn.

What if the first result for your name is a derogatory page on Encyclopaedia Dramatica?

If someone had 100 children, I don't think it would be worth listing them all in an encyclopaedia article.

I used to beg my parents to order me various forms of an encyclopaedia, I used to devour bookshelves.

It exists in the conceptual space between the sum of all newspapers and scientific journals, traditional encyclopaedia and the whole World Wide Web.

Edit: I've still got a copy of MS DOS encyclopaedia sitting on my bookshelf actually.

That's a relatively new phenomenon, to read an encyclopaedia that way.

Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a DIY medical textbook.

That's like 12 copies of the encyclopaedia Britannica.

None the less, an encyclopaedia article about a person might quite reasonably say "She married Joe Blow in 1973.

I also qouted printed encyclopedia "Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia" and "Encyclopaedia Iranica."

The blog post wasn't relevant to me (i'm not a wikipedia editor) and the "open letter" concept was a bit of a stretch (tagging locations!= editing an encyclopaedia), but I hadn't heard of flook and am i'm interested in location services.