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The '''Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Source''' is an idea for a project, proposed by [[Richard M. Stallman]].
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The '''Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Source''' is a project by [[Richard M. Stallman]].
  
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In his essay and announcement[http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html], Stallman exposes the principles of the project:
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In his essay and announcement[http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html], Stallman describes its principles:
 
* the encyclopedia will not have a central publisher ''"An encyclopedia located everywhere"''
 
* the encyclopedia will not have a central publisher ''"An encyclopedia located everywhere"''
 
* teachers and students are to be involved in the project
 
* teachers and students are to be involved in the project

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The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Source is a project by Richard M. Stallman.

In his essay and announcement[1], Stallman describes its principles:

  • the encyclopedia will not have a central publisher "An encyclopedia located everywhere"
  • teachers and students are to be involved in the project
  • the encyclopedia will include specialistic topics
  • the contents of the encyclopedia will be free, protected by copyleft licenses
  • there will be no central control
  • peer reviews and endorsements of contents will be encouraged
  • catalogation of the contents of the encyclopedia will be a secondary objective (the primary objective being the writing and distribution of the contents)
  • links to non free material that should rather be in the encyclopedia will be discouraged

Free encyclopedias

There are a number of collaborative projects claiming to be free encyclopedias. Collectively, they could be regarded as an approximation of the original idea by Stallman.

  • Wikipedia: a large, collaboratively edited encyclopedia. Currently a privately controlled project, with an hierachical social structure.
  • Anarchopedia: a project with similar goals to Wikipedia, but without a central control or authority.
  • Demopedia
  • ...
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