I can't believe the Civilopedia would have to wait until the SDK came out, but if that's the way it's done then, we just have to wait. I think somebody with a bit of database experience and who has walked through the relevant sections of the Python scripting should be able to produce something nice in just a few days. They could even update it with feedback from this forum.
I'm sitting here thinking that I would have already gotten all of put into a project and my local version control system, and been able to atleast explore the possibilities of what I'm babbling about. Yet I'm still waiting (for whatever reason) for the game to come into the stores.