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Table of contents 1 Art and Culture 2 General Reference 3 Government and Politics 4 History 5 Mathematics 6 Music 7 Science and Technology 8 Travel 9 Unclassified

Art and Culture

• WebMuseum, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ : a large art resource. Their license agreement (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/about/license) explicitly allows (under point 7) copying of their articles under the GNU FDL. The photos of the artwork is a little more complicated; see the license for more details.

General Reference

• Nupedia, http://www.nupedia.com : Read about Nupedia and Wikipedia.

Government and Politics

• The Anarchist FAQ, http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ : Contains much information on anarchism, but be careful as it is advocating a particular viewpoint.
• The Encyclopedia of Marxism and other resources at marxists.org (http://www.marxists.org/)
• Disinfopedia, containing information about organisations influencing public opinion, at disinfopedia.org (http://www.disinfopedia.org/) (Note: many of these articles are biased!, special care is needed when copying to Wikipedia from this resource)

History

• Japanese History Documentation Project at http://www.openhistory.org/jhdp/

Mathematics

• PlanetMath, http://planetmath.org/ : A collaborately developed math encyclopedia

Music

• FreeDB, http://freedb.org : a database of compact disc track listings.

Science and Technology

• Dorando game emulator database, http://dorando.emuverse.com/ : website and information are covered by GFDL.
• Free Online Dictionary of Computing, http://www.foldoc.org/ : has been relicensed under the GFDL at our request. A copy of the e-mail granting permission can be found here.
• Introduction to Computer Programming, http://www.isd197.org/sibley/cs/icp/
• Linux Systems Administrators Guide, http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/sag/
• Stephen J. Ramsay's dissertation, "Algorithmic Criticism" at http://busa.village.virginia.edu/algocrit/diss/diss
• Simple Science Wiki (http://www.renaissoft.com/april/cgi-bin/wiki.pl): created to produce a science hypertext book for secondary education.
• Trinity Atomic Web Site, http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/index : historical information on nuclear weapons.

Travel

• "Sun, Surf and Sandstone; A Rockclimber's Guide to Sydney" at http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/

Unclassified

• The Association for Progressive Communications' "Participating With Safety; A series of briefings on information security and online safety for civil society organisations" at http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/ .