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As of February 2013, the Wikia-hosted '''Uncyclopedia''' contained over 29,000 articles, making it the third largest Wikia [[wiki]]. | As of February 2013, the Wikia-hosted '''Uncyclopedia''' contained over 29,000 articles, making it the third largest Wikia [[wiki]]. | ||
Uncyclopedia was transferred to Wikia on 26 May 2005; Uncyclopedia co-founder Jonathan Huang (Chronarion) sold the ''uncyclopedia.org'' domain out from under the project to Wikia in a 2006 backroom deal and Wikia moved the content to ''uncyclopedia. | Uncyclopedia was transferred to Wikia on 26 May 2005; Uncyclopedia co-founder Jonathan Huang (Chronarion) sold the ''uncyclopedia.org'' domain out from under the project to Wikia in a 2006 backroom deal and Wikia moved the content to ''uncyclopedia.wikia.com'' over the objections of the community on 23 October 2008. Further problems occurred in 2012, as Wikia censored images and placed disclaimers on the site; these were major factors in the decision of the majority of users to leave and establish an independently-hosted site in 2013. The issues continued long after the split, with Wikia taking away Uncyclopedia's independent userlist (to replace it with a unified login scheme) and censoring content in various manners. | ||
The wiki, however, did not use the standard, ad-heavy [[:Category:Oasis|Oasis]] skin until 2018 as it needs to look like Wikipedia, an encyclopaedia parody. This reskin caused many additional Uncyclopedia-related projects (such as [[Nonciclopedia]] and [[Nonsensopedia]]) to fork in 2018 and caused click-bait image links to be auto-generated and displayed for many inapproprate titles, such as "masturbation", "blow job" or "child porn". These intrusive links only worsened the conflicts with Wikia over content, which ended with Wikia/Fandom forcing the entire Uncyclopedia project off its servers in March 2019, eventually leaving not a permanent explanation of what happened to the project (or where the content could be found off-Wikia) but merely "This wiki is closed", breaking hundreds of thousands of inbound links. The content was salvaged and is now on ''uncyclopedia.ca'' | The wiki, however, did not use the standard, ad-heavy [[:Category:Oasis|Oasis]] skin until 2018 as it needs to look like Wikipedia, an encyclopaedia parody. This reskin caused many additional Uncyclopedia-related projects (such as [[Nonciclopedia]] and [[Nonsensopedia]]) to fork in 2018 and caused click-bait image links to be auto-generated and displayed for many inapproprate titles, such as "masturbation", "blow job" or "child porn". These intrusive links only worsened the conflicts with Wikia over content, which ended with Wikia/Fandom forcing the entire Uncyclopedia project off its servers in March 2019, eventually leaving not a permanent explanation of what happened to the project (or where the content could be found off-Wikia) but merely "This wiki is closed", breaking hundreds of thousands of inbound links. The content was salvaged and is now on ''uncyclopedia.ca'' | ||