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Wikipedia announced a few days ago that it’ll be going dark and blacking out to protest against SOPA/PIPA. Wikipedia has kept its word and the image below is what Wikipedia looks like right now.

So we’ve gone around the web to bring you 11 alternatives to Wikipedia

1. CIA World FactBook

The CIA’s world factbook contains statistics on every country in the world based on information obtained by the CIA.

2. Wikia

Wikia is also community edited like Wikipedia itself but runs on smaller communities. Each post has its own mini-community where Users can edit entries and engage in discussions. Wikia is great for Movie, TV and Music fans.

3.Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Encyclopedia Britannica Online is the web version of Britannica, one of the world’s largest collection of knowledge in books.

4. Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers is a community developed knowledge site. Users ask questions and answers are provided by other users. Answers can then be ranked by voting the most appropriate answer.

5.Google Baraza

For a lot of Africans, Google’s Baraza question and answer site is it. Users here also post questions and vote the appropriate answers. Answers are then ranked based on the number of thumb-ups they get. Baraza is great for African content

6. eHow

eHow features how-to articles,videos and audio on a wide range of topics. You can trust eHow articles because they are written by professionals and only contracted writers are allowed to edit them.

7. About.com

The New York Times’ About.com contains a great amount of content split into categories and topics. The site also contains how-to-guides if you’re searching for tutorials. About.com’s writers are hired by the New York Times so you can trust this one.

8. Wolfram Libray Archive

Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha also has a library archive where thousands of resources can be downloaded from Wolfram research

9. Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Containing everything the Smithsonian Museum has to offer, this definitive collection has over 2 million images, video and audio files from the Smithsonian’s archives.

10. Open Library

Open Library is a project of Internet Archive and its aim is to compile a page for every book ever published. They have over 20 million records of books for you to access freely. Book freaks will love this

11. IMDB

The Internet Movie Database is a great place to find information on media. From information on movies, TV Shows, Actors, Crew personnel, Video Games and Music.

Oh. You can get Wikipedia to work if you press the Esc button on your keyboard before the SOPA page loads

Binjo

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