Encyclopaedias have been around for thousands of years, latterly made of mounds of paper, now electronic and assembled by learned scholars on various topics. Perhaps the most bottom-up, democratic approach has been that of Wikipedia, launched in 2001. Type anything into a search engine - one of the top retrieved sources will likely be a Wikipedia entry…
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