The Jewish Encyclopedia has just gone on-line... for free. The Encyclopedia is outdated, having been published between 1901-1906. However, they say:
We are considering inviting the Internet community to help us update the encyclopedia -- if you are interested in volunteering (as a writer, editor, etc.) please join our Mailing List.
Could this be the beginning of a Jewish Wikipedia?
(Via Michael Eisenberg)
unfortunately unlikely since the original 'jewish' encyclopedia, was so heavily slanted against traditional jewish beliefs that for a modern day reader it almost seemed like the underlying dogma was blind faith in the falshehood of any jewish tradition.
it would require a very great effort by a very large number of people to make it resemble the open-nes and neutrality of the original wiki
but if it does it would be wonderfull.
Posted by: Avremel | March 16, 2006 at 06:26 PM
The excellent JE has been fully online for a couple of years now. Thanks for alerting the blogvelt about this new project.
Posted by: S. | March 20, 2006 at 05:03 PM
Very interesting project and idea to do a Jewkipedia...should be interesting to see how things develop.
Posted by: Esther Kustanowitz | March 22, 2006 at 07:27 PM