Thoemmes Press, a British publisher of dictionaries and works on philosophy (on paper and online), just posted this surprise in their newsletter, to which I subscribe. It might be interesting for wikipedians to check out.
Yes, they are commercial. I have no affiliation with them. It is not my intent to spam the wikipedia list. I honestly think this would be interesting to many of you. And I do think it is related to Wikipedia.
Free - Online Encyclopedia
An online bibliographic data source containing entries on both minor and major philosophical figures from the 16th century to the present day, which we are delighted to offer FREE to all our users.
November's new entries include:
AMES, William (Latin name Guilielmus Amesius: 1576-1633) ANNET, Peter (1693-1769) BINNING, Hugh (1627-53) BROWNE, Peter (1664/5-1735) BURKE, Edmund (1729-97) CUDWORTH, Ralph (1617-88) HOOKER, Richard (1554-1600) KAMES, Henry Home, Lord (1696-1782) SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745) WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (later Godwin: 1759-97)
To subscribe to this service, please visit http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclo.htm
OK, it requires registration, it is not copyright-free, the user interface stinks, it isn't hypertext, and you cannot contribute, but the few articles that are in there actually aren't too bad. And the URLs to individual articles are clean and nice:
http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/ames.htm http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/burke.htm http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/home.htm