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| Type of site | Satire/Wiki |
|---|---|
| Owner | Wikia |
| Created by | Jonathan Huang and Stillwaters/Euniana |
| URL | http://uncyclopedia.org/ |
Uncyclopedia, the content-💕, is a satirical parody of Misplaced Pages. The website is a wiki that provides humor- and satire-themed articles. The site was launched on January 5, 2005 by Jonathan Huang, aka Chronarion, and an unnamed counterpart. The Uncyclopedia logo is a hollowed potato, a spoof of Misplaced Pages's globe logo.
In other languages
Uncyclopedia has additional projects in over three dozen other languages. The French-language version is known as Désencyclopédie — a "disencyclopedia" that purports to have been written by an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters. The site's logo is a die, a pun on the French word for "die" (dé).
The Spanish-language version, Inciclopedia, was founded in February 2006. It was set up after a sudden increase in the number of incoming articles in Spanish at the central uncyclopedia, following the closure of the Spanish humor wiki Frikipedia due to legal issues with SGAE, a Spanish organization for the rights of authors, who were angered by Frikipedia's entry on them.
Uncyclopedia has two separate Chinese versions, for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese respectively. The Chinese Uncyclopedias are called Wěijī Bǎikē (Trad: 偽基百科, Simp: 伪基百科), a play on the Chinese name of Misplaced Pages, "維基百科" Wéijī Bǎikē, where the first character is substituted with the character for "fake".
The Japanese-language version, founded in May 2006, uses the name Ansaikuropedia (アンサイクロペディア, the katakana transliteration of Uncyclopedia) alongside the alternate name Bakajiten ('baka' meaning fool, a pun on the Japanese word for encyclopedia, hyakkajiten).
The Hebrew איןציקלופדיה (eintsyclopedia) puns on אין (ein), a term of negation.
The Thai version, founded in January 2006, has a name in Thai as ไร้สาระนุกรม.
Other languages include Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, and even Latin.
Criticism
Uncyclopedia was described in the New Zealand Herald in May 2006, where it was stated to be a "cyber bullying menace." Uncyclopedia has also been criticised in by its editors with the essay "Uncyclopedia is the Worst".
One Epsom Girls' Grammar School student's name and cellular phone number was posted to Uncyclopedia without her knowledge, along with degrading language, although she stated that students commonly added full names and photographs to their own pages. The concern over the use of Uncyclopedia, as well as the Bebo website, was also present at several other schools, including King's College, Auckland Grammar School, St. Edward's School, and Diocesan School for Girls.
Since then, Uncyclopedia has adopted a policy against Misplaced Pages.
References
- Cite error: The named reference
NYTimeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Sankar, Anand (2006-11-06). "Surely, you must be joking!". Retrieved 2007-02-11.
- Arteaga, A. (2006-04-30). "Las enciclopedias wiki se extienden por la red". Diario La Rioja. Retrieved 2007-02-13.
- Taken from Yahoo's cache after Frikipedia's closure. "Inciclopedia's entry on SGAE".
- Woulfe, Catherine ? (2006-05-28). "Schools face new cyber bullying menace". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2006-07-20.
