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by j_lev 3975 days ago
Did Wikipedia upload all the entries of Encyclopedia Britannica? I wasn't aware.
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cariaso 3975 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclop...

Yes. The 1911 Britannica was used to populate many wikipedia articles.

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rue 3974 days ago
Public domain (if it isn’t obvious from the year), which is a far cry from content that has been just produced or aggregated.
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