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Help build "the largest, most comprehensive human-edited
directory of the Web" in the dmoz Open
Directory Project.
dmoz also maintains collections of links to other knowledge bases:
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ongoing: over 4 million sites; 64,739 editors; 590,000 categories |
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Zeal is a similar project
to dmoz, and is hosted by looksmart.
Zeal is a completely non-commercial directory built by a community of
volunteer editors.
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ongoing | N/A | |
The WWW Virtual Library is
"the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of
HTML and the web itself." It is compiled by volunteers who make lists
of links for areas in which they are expert.
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ongoing | N/A | |
Contribute knowledge to
oomind, the Open Education Community. oomind organizes information about
any subject into "Courselets," small articles which are submitted by
contributors and scored or graded by other contributors. You can submit
new Courselets, grade others' Courselets, or study Courselets and earn credit
for taking quizzes about them.
As of April 22, 2003 (and probably earlier), version 1.0 of the project is not running due to server problems. Version 2.0 of the project will be available soon. This project is built on three basic principles:
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on hold: 91 Courselets in 15 categories |
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Contribute to Nupedia, the open content
encyclopedia, the world's largest international, peer-reviewed
encyclopedia. The project needs writers, editors and peer reviewers, copy
editors, programmers, translators, graphic and audio artists, and casual
participants.
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ongoing | N/A | |
Contribute to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, "a collaborative project to produce a
complete encyclopedia from scratch." In January, 2003, the project reached
its first goal of making over 100,000 encyclopedia articles. On February 2,
2004, the project reached 200,000 articles. On July 7, 2004, the project
reached 300,000 articles. On September 21, 2004, the project
reached 1 million articles. Everyone is welcome to
contribute to the project. The encyclopedia is available in many
non-English
languages.
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ongoing:
412,112 legitimate articles |
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Contribute to
Wiktionary, "a collaborative project to produce a free and complete
multilingual dictionary and thesaurus in every language. Wiktionary is the
lexical companion to the open content encyclopaedia
Wikipedia."
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ongoing:
50,689 legitimate pages |
N/A | |
 Contribute to Wikinews, "a free content news source" which will "collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view." Everyone is welcome to contribute to the project. Wikinews is also available in German  .
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ongoing: 110 articles |
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Contribute music CD or MP3 meta data to
MusicBrainz, an "an open music
encyclopedia" which "contains numerous facts, specifically about artists,
their albums, and tracks." The meta data can be used freely by any
individual or company, and is owned by no one.
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ongoing: 2,601,907 tracks, 210,221 albums catalogued |
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FreeDB is another
database that stores meta data about music CDs. It is a free, public
database equivalent to the proprietary CDDB
database. You can access FreeDB through a web interface or through
FreeDB-aware software over the Internet. You can also contribute information
about new CDs to the database through FreeDB-aware software.
See the project's discussion forum. |
ongoing: 1,559,832 CDs catalogued |
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
is an online, web-based, free database with all the
information you could ever want about movies and anything related to movies.
It is available on servers in the U.S. and
the U.K., and is available in
Italian and
German. You can contribute new
information via a web interface or email. Disclaimer: this database
is owned by amazon.com and its knowledge is
not in the public domain.
See the project's message boards. |
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Everything2
is [quoting from the website] "a very complex
online community with a focus to write, publish and edit a quality database of
information, insight and humor. When you make an account here you join not
only a team of dedicated writers but an entire micro-society and community
with its own pop culture, politics, beauty and blunders. It's not perfect.
In fact, it can be pretty messy. It's cool as hell, though..."
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ongoing | N/A | |
JoeAnt.com is a
search engine of hand-picked links and is maintained by a volunteer online
community. Join the project and help build the database.
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ongoing | N/A | |
 Logos is a "multilingual e-translation portal." It offers:
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ongoing | N/A | |
| Contribute to Open Site, the open encyclopedia project, a collection of knowledge contributed and edited by volunteers. The site is something between a dictionary and an encylopedia. All information in the project is freely available to anyone under an open contract. | ongoing | N/A | |
 Contribute your favorite book excerpts to Project Excerpt. The project is creating "a large collection of excerpts from various books and authors. This collection [is] open to the public and [will] continually grow over time with user contributions." |
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