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'''Glottopedia''' is a comprehensive web-based free-content encyclopedia of linguistics that any linguist can contribute to. It is modeled on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite Wikipedia], a general-knowledge encyclopedia for nonspecialist readers. Each registered user may create new articles or modify existing ones. But there are three important differences:
 
'''Glottopedia''' is a comprehensive web-based free-content encyclopedia of linguistics that any linguist can contribute to. It is modeled on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite Wikipedia], a general-knowledge encyclopedia for nonspecialist readers. Each registered user may create new articles or modify existing ones. But there are three important differences:
 
* Authors of Glottopedia articles should be trained '''linguists''' or students with a profound linguistic background.
 
* Authors of Glottopedia articles should be trained '''linguists''' or students with a profound linguistic background.
* For this reason, authors have to '''[[Glottopedia:Creating an account|create an account]] with their real names and log in''' before working on an article.
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* For this reason, authors have to '''[[Glottopedia:Creating an account|create an account]] with their real names and log in''' before working on an article; in contrast to Wikipedia, anonymous editing is not allowed (in this regard, Glottopedia works like [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page Citizendium]).
* Articles in Glottopedia don't have to be '''intelligible to all'''. Some of them will refer to highly specialized phenomena and concepts, which will be relevant for only a small number of specialists.
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* Articles in Glottopedia '''don't have to be intelligible to all'''. Some of them will refer to highly specialized phenomena and concepts, which will be relevant for only a small number of specialists.
  
===Six kinds of articles===
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==Six kinds of articles==
 
*[[Glottopedia:Dictionary articles]] (which define, explain, comment on and discuss all kinds of linguistic concepts)
 
*[[Glottopedia:Dictionary articles]] (which define, explain, comment on and discuss all kinds of linguistic concepts)
 
*[[Glottopedia:Survey articles]] (which offer a comprehensive discussion of linguistic concepts and methods)
 
*[[Glottopedia:Survey articles]] (which offer a comprehensive discussion of linguistic concepts and methods)
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*[[Glottopedia:Linguists]] (articles consisting of links to pages about living linguists)
 
*[[Glottopedia:Linguists]] (articles consisting of links to pages about living linguists)
  
=Copyright and Licence Information=
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==Copyright and Licence Information==
  
 
Glottopedia content is licenced under the  [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] licence. This means that users are free:
 
Glottopedia content is licenced under the  [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] licence. This means that users are free:
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For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.  
 
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.  
  
<div style="border:1px solid #8888AA;background-color:#EEEEEE;padding:10px;">'''Glottopedia exclusively aims at facilitating scientific exchange and has no commercial interests. If you notice any copyright violation in the articles, please alert us immediately by [mailto:naumsven@uni-trier.de Email] so that we can act right away. Do not copy entire passages, images or other copyrighted material into a Glottopedia article. If information is taken from copyrighted works, an indication of the source in the article is required. Please be aware that a violation of these rules can put the entire project in danger.</div>
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<div style="border:1px solid #8888AA;background-color:#EEEEEE;padding:10px;">'''Glottopedia exclusively aims at facilitating scientific exchange and has no commercial interests. If you notice any copyright violation in the articles, please alert us immediately by [mailto:glottopedia@uni-trier.de Email] so that we can act right away. Do not copy entire passages, images or other copyrighted material into a Glottopedia article. If information is taken from copyrighted works, an indication of the source in the article is required. Please be aware that a violation of these rules can put the entire project in danger.</div>
  
===History of Glottopedia===
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Fore more information on copyright issues in Glottopedia, see [[Glottopedia:Copyright]].
  
Glottopedia was started on 27 May 2007. It arose as a merger of two earlier projects with very similar goals, [http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/ldv/ldv_wiki/index.php/Hauptseite WikiLingua] at the University of Trier (created in 2005), and [https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/linguipedia/index.php/Main_Page Linguipedia] at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (created in 2006). Now that Glottopedia has been officially launched, these two earlier projects are no longer alive.
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==History of Glottopedia==
  
===Other Languages===
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Glottopedia was started on 27 May 2007. It arose as a merger of two earlier projects with very similar goals, [http://www-alt.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/ldv/ldv_wiki/index.php/Hauptseite WikiLingua] at the University of Trier (created in 2005), and [https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/linguipedia/index.php/Main_Page Linguipedia] at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (created in 2006). Now that Glottopedia has been officially launched, these two earlier projects are no longer alive.
German [[Glottopedia:Über Glottopedia|Über Glottopedia]]
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==Contributing projects==
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The following online dictionaries of linguistic terminology will soon be copied into Glottopedia, as part of an agreement with the authors:
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*[http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~schoenke/tlgl/tlgl.html Textlinguistik-Glossar, Gesprächslinguistik-Glossar]  (Bremen, Eva Schoenke)
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Large parts of the following dictionaries have already been integrated, as part of an agreement with the authors:
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*[http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/linguistik/institut/syntax/onlinelexikon/lexikon.htm Online-Lexikon Linguistik] (Norbert Fries, HU Berlin)
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*[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/ Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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==Other Languages==
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* Chinese [[Glottopedia:关于Glottopedia|关于Glottopedia]]
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* German [[Glottopedia:Über Glottopedia|Über Glottopedia]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:08, 6 February 2020

Glottopedia is a comprehensive web-based free-content encyclopedia of linguistics that any linguist can contribute to. It is modeled on Wikipedia, a general-knowledge encyclopedia for nonspecialist readers. Each registered user may create new articles or modify existing ones. But there are three important differences:

  • Authors of Glottopedia articles should be trained linguists or students with a profound linguistic background.
  • For this reason, authors have to create an account with their real names and log in before working on an article; in contrast to Wikipedia, anonymous editing is not allowed (in this regard, Glottopedia works like Citizendium).
  • Articles in Glottopedia don't have to be intelligible to all. Some of them will refer to highly specialized phenomena and concepts, which will be relevant for only a small number of specialists.

Six kinds of articles

Copyright and Licence Information

Glottopedia content is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence. This means that users are free:

  • to Share -- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
  • to Remix -- to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
  • Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

Glottopedia exclusively aims at facilitating scientific exchange and has no commercial interests. If you notice any copyright violation in the articles, please alert us immediately by Email so that we can act right away. Do not copy entire passages, images or other copyrighted material into a Glottopedia article. If information is taken from copyrighted works, an indication of the source in the article is required. Please be aware that a violation of these rules can put the entire project in danger.

Fore more information on copyright issues in Glottopedia, see Glottopedia:Copyright.

History of Glottopedia

Glottopedia was started on 27 May 2007. It arose as a merger of two earlier projects with very similar goals, WikiLingua at the University of Trier (created in 2005), and Linguipedia at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (created in 2006). Now that Glottopedia has been officially launched, these two earlier projects are no longer alive.

Contributing projects

The following online dictionaries of linguistic terminology will soon be copied into Glottopedia, as part of an agreement with the authors:

Large parts of the following dictionaries have already been integrated, as part of an agreement with the authors:

Other Languages