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==== Free encyclopedias ====
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[[File:Otros enciclopedias libres from EL.png|thumb|List of other free encyclopedias, from Enciclopedia Libre.]]
The concept of a free encyclopedia began with the [[Interpedia]] proposal on [[Usenet]] in 1993, which outlined an Internet-based [[online encyclopedia]] to which anyone could submit content that would be freely accessible. Early projects in this vein included [[Everything2]] and [[Open Site]]. In 1999, [[Richard Stallman]] proposed the [[GNUPedia]], an online encyclopedia which, similar to the [[GNU operating system]], would be a "generic" resource. The concept was very similar to Interpedia, but more in line with Stallman's [[GNU]] philosophy.

It was not until [[Nupedia]] and later [[Wikipedia]] that a stable free encyclopedia project could be established on the Internet.

The [[English Wikipedia]], which was started in 2001, became the world's largest encyclopedia in 2004 at the 300,000 article stage.<ref>[http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004/07/07_3000k/ "Wikipedia Passes 300,000 Articles making it the worlds largest encyclopedia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210350/http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004/07/07_3000k/ |date=September 27, 2007}}, ''Linux Reviews'', 2004 Julich y 7.</ref> By late 2005, Wikipedia had produced over two million articles in more than 80 languages with content licensed under the [[copyleft]] [[GNU Free Documentation License]]. {{As of|August 2009|post=,}} Wikipedia had over 3 million articles in English and well over 10 million combined articles in over 250 languages. Today, Wikipedia has [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English, over 60 million combined articles in over 300 languages, and over 250 million combined pages including project and discussion pages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Wikipedias - Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |access-date=August 20, 2023 |website=meta.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref>

Since 2002, other free encyclopedias appeared, including [[Hudong]] (2005–) and [[Baidu Baike]] (2006–) in Chinese, and Google's [[Knol]] (2008–2012) in English. Some MediaWiki-based encyclopedias have appeared, usually under a license compatible with Wikipedia, including [[Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español|Enciclopedia Libre]] (2002–2021) in Spanish and [[Conservapedia]] (2006–), [[Scholarpedia]] (2006–), and [[Citizendium]] (2007–) in English, the latter of which had become inactive by 2014.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herring |first=Mark Youngblood |title=Are libraries obsolete? an argument for relevance in the digital age |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-7356-4 |location=Jefferson, N.C}}</ref>