Look it up

Due to the popularity of Wikipedia there is some blurring in lines between wikis and online encyclopedias. The difference is that a wiki is a shared site, so a group of people who are Valiant enthusiasts, whether that's ute or car (or, in this case, comic book), will contribute information. Online encyclopedias are much like their bound predecessors, also containing information but in a strict format and either staffed contributors or - and here's the overlap - fellow enthusiasts or scholars.

We're fortunate that I had the presence of mind to note down the remaining site types in our top 100 before they removed the bottom 50 so we can still do that. Encyclopedias, meanwhile, were touched upon in our preamble to site rankings where we noted in September that Wikipedia was the fifth most popular site on the planet.
What follows are a sample, removing those we mentioned in the last post about wikis and, in the case of dodgy ones like Conservapedia (goes with the territory dare I say), worst directories. And so forth.

Online Encyclopedias

• Animal Diversity Web
• APpedia
• ARKive
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Baidu Baike
• Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Christian Cyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
• Cyclopedia of Political Science
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
• Dictionary of Irish Architects
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 
• Dictionary of Sydney
• Digital Universe
• dKosopedia
• Don Markstein's Toonopedia 
• Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Encarta
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• Encyclopedia Biblica
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
• Encyclopedia of Marxism
•  Encyclopedia Metallum
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Encyclopedia of Science
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers
• Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential 
• Engineering and Technology History Wiki
• EqWorld 
• Erowid
• Everipedia
• Everything2
• FishBase
• Flora Europaea
• Ganfyd
• Gapminder
• glbtq.org 
• Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
• GNE
• Grove Music Online
• Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities 
• The History of Nordic Women's Literature
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Interpedia
• Javapedia
• Jewish Encyclopedia
• Jewish Virtual Library 
• King Abdullah Abdul Aziz Health Encyclopedia
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• Looklex Encyclopedia 
• MathWorld
• Nupedia
• Omniglot
• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Open Site
• OurWorldInData
• Oxford Art Online
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Palaeos
• The Plant List
• Probert Encyclopedia
• Punjabipedia 
• Radiopaedia
• The Rocklopedia Fakebandica 
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• ScienceWorld
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Winkler Prins
• World Book Encyclopedia 
• ZipcodeZoo