[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Michael Peel<email at mikepeel.net> wrote:

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> * The article describes Britannica as "the oldest English language
> encyclopedia". In fact, it is the oldest continuously published
> English language encyclopedia.
>
> Interesting. What was the oldest English language encyclopaedia, then?

According to the encyclopedia article, this one in 1728:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopaedia,_or_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences

"The Cyclopaedia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be
produced in English."

Another candidate is this one from 1704:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon_Technicum

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