Talk:Encyclopedia of Alabama

For comparison's sake

Bhamwiki is an online encyclopedic resource founded privately and hosted at my personal expense. It was launched in March 2006 with an initial scope of 1 article drawn from online newspaper archives. As of January 2012 the encyclopedia has 8,514 articles on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to the Birmingham District.

Bhamwiki is staffed solely by volunteer editors and has an annual budget of about $125. Special features of Bhamwiki include images and some content-specific indexes.

It has been praised as among "Birmingham's Hottest Sites" by Wade Kwon and was named a "Weekly Pick" in March 2007 by Birmingham Weekly. The site was developed on the free Mediawiki platform. Most content is shared under a Creative Commons license.