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Founded by: Stillwaters and Chronarion
Status: Vibrant
Language: English
Edit mode: OpenEdit
Wiki engine: MediaWiki
Wiki license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Main topic: Humor
Not to be confused with Uncyclopedia.de, Unciklopédia or Unsaiklopedia.

Uncyclopedia (or Uncyclopædia), "the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," is a parody of Wikipedia, though Uncyclopedia claims the reverse (and correctly claims that Wikipedia claims the reverse, and vice versa, ad infinitum . . . ).

The goal of this project is to provide misinformation in a satirical and humourous way. Entries tended to be short and random in its infancy. The current partially successful trend at Uncyclopedia is to make all entries very developed and polished. This includes pictures, and even sound bites. Random humor is also on the wane, with preferred articles containing a novel or subtle blurring of the truth.

Wiki size: 35,331 article pages see stats

(As of: 2019-07-28)

History

Uncyclopedia was created on January 5, 2005 by Chronarion and Stillwaters. It was transferred to Wikia on May 26, 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 October 23, 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 Wikia and establish an independently-hosted site at Uncyclomedia on January 3, 2013.

Wikia forced the previous wiki to remain live, as the Wikia-hosted "Uncyclowikia" contained over 29,000 articles, making it the third largest Wikia wiki at the time. The few users that stayed behind continued to maintain their version of the site as a direct competitor until 2019, when Wikia (now Fandom) forced the remaining Uncyclopedia projects off its servers in March due to its problematic unmoderated content: articles such as "masturbation", "blow job" and "child porn". The Wikia userbase voted to move back with the original userbase at Uncyclomedia, which was completed at uncyclopedia.co in May.

The community at Absurdopedia, the Russian-language Uncyclopedia, also moved from Wikia in October 2010.

Canadian mirror

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Founded by: Llwy-ar-lawr (originally Stillwaters and Chronarion)
Status: Active
Language: English
Edit mode: OpenEdit
Wiki engine: MediaWiki
Wiki license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Main topic: Humor

After the closure of the Wikia-hosted "Uncyclowikia" in May 2019, several users from the site were unhappy at the decision to move to Uncyclomedia. This move was complicated in April, when administrators from uncyclopedia.co discovered during the transfer that Uncyclowikia's administration had been almost completely overrun by a sockmaster named Alden Loveshade, who had allegedly used Uncyclowikia to sexually groom underage users as young as 12 in the years after the initial split, and he was responsible for such articles as the "child porn" page referenced above. Alden Loveshade's history on Uncyclowikia was reported to the authorities and his accounts were blocked on Uncyclopedia accordingly, but the fallout from this resulted in the user Llwy-ar-lawr and several other Uncyclomedia holdouts founding their own wiki, the Canadian Uncyclopedia mirror.

This wiki contains a mostly complete archive of unfiltered articles from Uncyclowikia created before the move, such as the purged Alden Loveshade articles, as well as newly-written articles from users opposed to or banned from editing uncyclopedia.co. As such, Uncyclopedia and the Canadian mirror are quick to distance themselves from each other.

Wiki size: 32,274 article pages see stats

(As of: 2019-07-28)

Uncyclopedia blocking policy

One of Wikipedia's stated policies is "assume good faith"; Uncyclopedia parodies this as "assume bad faith" - although it's difficult to tell at times whether this is in jest or actively taken to heart by administrators.

A wide range of offences can lead to a block, frequently with a humiliating reason given. Administrator Mordillo stated that their policy is, "We have the 'piss off the admins and they ban you rule'" [1]. It's sometimes hard to tell when Uncyclopedians are serious and when they are joking. They used to block users (as recently as April-May 2008) with the comment, "Your penis is too small." or "Your penis is too small. Come back when you reach puberty." It's impossible to tell if blocks are reasonable as the content that leads to a block is frequently deleted. They also have a funny and humiliating ban message.

Uncyclopedia – potatoes anyone?

Uncyclopedia – or Uncyclopaedia, or if you are really posh, Uncyclopædia – the content-free encyclopedia — is a serious font of encyclopaedic knowledge crazy, bonkers, humourous parody of Wikipedia, 'that anyone can edit'; though Uncyclopedia claims the reverse (noun) (and correctly claims that Wikipedia claims the reverse, and vice versa, ad infinitum, digitus rectus insertum, et cetera, et cetera . . . ).

Founded as an English language wiki site on 5 January 2005 by Jonathan Huang (also known as Chronarion) and 'Stillwaters', and initially independently hosted, Uncyclopedia has expanded to over eighty (80) different language versions. After the the original wiki sites outgrew their independent hosting, on 26 May 2005, Angela Beesley, Vice President of Wikia, Inc., announced that Wikia would host Uncyclopedia, and that the site's license and domain name would remain unchanged; on 10 July 2006, Huang transferred the Uncyclopedia.org domain rights to Wikia, Inc. Many other language versions also moved to Wikia, however, this subsequently proved to be a mistake, as Wikia, Inc. totally failed to respect (verb) the terms of the specific Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license (by generating revenue from the adverts that were displayed on the Wikia-hosted Uncyclopaedia wiki sites). As more language versions were subsequently added to the Uncyclopedia fold, many wisely chose to avoid Wikia, and used an independent host. Relations between Uncyclopedia wiki sites and Wikia, Inc. continued to worsen over time (as did many other wiki sites hosted on Wikia), and the end result was that all Uncyclopedia wikis were forced off Wikia (then rebranded to Fandom) in late 2019, which Wikia / Fandom conveniently 'claimed' was due to censorship!

Today, no Uncyclopedia wiki sites survive on Wikia / Fandom; many of the different language versions are now 'officially' hosted by (or directly affiliated with) the Uncyclomedia Foundation (at *.Uncyclomedia.org, and its unofficial but closely related *.Uncyclopedia.co). Other Uncyclopedia wiki sites have chosen an alternative wiki farm as their host (including Miraheze), and a small number have chosen a totally independent host.

Uncyclopedia / Uncyclomedia domains (primary)
  • *.pedia.ws (various sub-domains, typically formed from first part of wiki site)
  • Uncyc.org
  • Uncyclomedia.co
  • Uncyclomedia.org
  • Uncyclopedia.ca (auto-redirects to Uncyclopedia.com)
  • Uncyclopedia.co
  • Uncyclopedia.com
  • Uncyclopedia.info
  • Uncyclopedia.tw
All Uncyclopedia wiki sites in these languages (view / edit / talk) — Uncyclopaedia project WikiNodes: UnMeta / English / Spanish / German / Galician

100,000+: UnCommons (Commons.Uncyclomedia.org, f. 2000) • Uncyclomedia Commons (Commons.Uncyclomedia.co, f. 2012)
10,000+: Stupidedia (bar) • Uncyclopedia (English) (en) • Uncyclopedia (British English) (en-gb) • Inciclopedia (es) • Désencyclopédie (fr) • Tolololpedia (id) • Nonciclopedia (it) • Ansaikuropedia (ja) • Kamelopedia (nds) • Nonsensopedia (pl) • Desciclopédia (pt)
1,000+: Beidipedia / بيضيپيديا (ar) • Necyklopedie (cs) • Spademanns Leksikon (da) • Uncyclopedia.de (de) • Frikipaideia / Φρικηπαίδεια (el) • Neciklopedio (eo) (eo) • Hikipedia (fi) • Desgalipedia (gl) • Eincyclopedia (he) • Unciklopédia (hu) • 백괴사전 (ko) • Oncyclopedia (nl) • Ikkepedia (no) • Absurdopedia.net / Абсурдопедия (ru) • Absurdopedia.wiki / Абсурдопедия (ru) • Necyklopédia (sk) • Psyklopedin (sv) • ไร้สาระนุกรม (th) • Yansiklopedi (tr) • Інциклопедія (uk) • Pseudo-encyclopaedia (zh) • 偽基百科 (zh-tw)
100+: UnMeta-Wiki (meta) • Оксипедия (bg) • Valenciclopèdia (ca) • Ebatsüklopeedia (et) • اونسایکلوپدیا (fa) • Neciklopedija (hr) (hr) • Anciklopedia (ka) • Uncapædia (la) • Juokopedija (lt) • Neciklopēdija (lv) • Нециклопедий (mk) • Анциклопедиа (mn) • Bodohpedia (ms) • Çciclopédia (mwl) • Ikkjepedia (nn) • Neciclopedie (ro) • Simple English Uncyclopedia (simple) • Нециклопедија (sr) • Pekepedia (tl)
10+: Nunyepedia (ast) • Paudurapedyja (be) • আনসাইক্লোপিডিয়া (bn) • Neciklopedija (bs) (bs) • Celwyddoniadur (cy) • Frithchiclipéid (ga) • Unsaiklopedia (got) • Angragitaran (hy) • Neciklopedio (io) (io) • Ndhablek (jv) • Kengencyclopedia (lb) • Kwatsjpedia (li) • Hatsiklopedia (mg) • Uichipedia (mo) • Oisquipedia (oc) • Butalopedija (sl) • ghItlh'a'pedia (tlh) • Keinziklopedie / קיינציקלאפעדיע (yi) • 粵語偽基百科 (Pseudokipedia) (yue) • Zombiepedia (zombie)
0+: Uncyclomedia Foundation (uncyclomedia.co) • UnData (data) • Niesiklopedia (af) • Dalmata Nečiklopedija (dlm) • Kakapedia (grc) • Uncyclopedia (km) (km) • Uncyclopedia (lo) (lo) • Scotypedia (sco) • Goblogpedia (su)

Sista projects:

German / Deutsch (de): UnNews, UnBooks, Undictionary
English (en): BJAODN, Complaint Wiki, Encyclopaedia Daemonica, UnNews[2], UnBooks[3], UnDictionary[4], UnSource[5], UnSpecies[6], Unquotable[7], Uncycloversity[8], Zombiepedia
Spanish / español (es): Incinoticias, Incitables, Incilibros
Finnish / suomi (fi): Hikinews, Hiktionary, Hikikirjasto, Hikisitaatit
French / français (fr): dÉsinformation
Galician / galego (gl): Desgalinews, Desgalizionario, Desgalilibros, Desgalicitas, Desgaliespecies
Hebrew / עברית (he): איןציקלופדיה, שא, איןציקלופדיה:איןלדעת
Hungarian / Magyar (hu): UncikloNews
Italian / italiano (it): Nondizionario, NonNews, NonCitazioni, Manuali di istruzioni, Horroscopo
Japanese / 日本語 (ja): UnNews
Korean / 한국어 (ko): 백괴게임, 백괴뉴스, 백괴낱말사전
Latin / Latina (la): Nenuntii
Dutch / Nederlands (nl): Onwoordenboek, OnNieuws, OnBoeken
Norwegian / norsk bokmål (no): Ikkenytt
Polish / polski (pl): NonNews, Noncytaty, Nonźródła
Portuguese / português (pt & pt-br): Crapedia, Desnotícias[9], Descionário[10], Deslivros[11], Desentrevistas[12], Wikimerda, Wikinet
Swedish / svenska (sv): PsykNyheter, Psyktionary, PsykCitat, PsykBöcker
Thai / ไทย (th): ไร้ข่าว
Chinese / 中文 (zh): 伪基新闻, 伪基辞典
Taiwanese / ‪中文(台灣) (zh-tw): 偽基新聞, 偽基辭典, 偽基遊戲

Please add if you know any more. Any red links above need the {{Wiki}} infobox template, their Uncyclopædia / Uncyclomedia URLs, the {{add}} and / or {{Uncyclomedia-stub}} template(s) (if necessary), and this {{Uncyclopedia}} navigation template added.
See also

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