Internet Encyclopedia - Current Online Encyclopedias

Current Online Encyclopedias

• Baidu Baike – a Chinese collaborative online encyclopedia hosted by the major Chinese search engine Baidu
• Citizendium – a project opened in March 2007 by Larry Sanger
• Conservapedia – a project to create an encyclopedia written from a viewpoint supportive of Conservative Christianity and Young Earth creationism
• Enciclopedia Libre – a Spanish fork of the Spanish Wikipedia, using wiki software, released under the GFDL.
• Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology - a resource covering much of the area of photonics
• Everything2 – has a wider range and does not exclusively focus on building an encyclopedia; its contents are not available under a copyleft license
• h2g2 – a collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on an idea from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Articles are not freely redistributable.
• Hudong – remains to be the largest single-language encyclopedia in the world As of June 2009 with 3,142,395 articles. Uses its own HDWiki software.
• Cathopedia / Kathpedia – a Catholic Wiki which relies on the Bible as the guiding principle; German and Italian.
• Metapedia – a white nationalist encyclopedia; multiple languages
• New World Encyclopedia, sponsored by the Unification Church
• OrthodoxWiki – a wiki for Orthodox Christianity; multiple languages
• Project Galactic Guide – inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was one of the first Internet encyclopedia projects
• Scholarpedia – an English-language encyclopedia written by academics
• Te Ara – the online encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Theopedia – an encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity; English and Spanish
• Wikipedia – the largest encyclopedia (in overall number of articles written in different languages), and the largest in English
• WikiPilipinas – a take on the Wikipedia model from the Philippine point-of-view