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Uncyclopedia, ''the content-free encyclopedia'', is a Satirical Parody of Wikipedia . 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.1 The Uncyclopedia logo is a hollowed Potato , a Spoof of Wikipedia's globe logo. HISTORY Uncyclopedia was founded on January 5 , 2005 , and quickly outgrew its original Webhost .2 On May 26 , 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.3 Huang transferred ownership of the uncyclopedia.org domain to Wikia, Inc. on July 10 , 2006 .4 Uncyclopedia's content is Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.5 As with other Wikia sites, the full article database is freely available for online download.http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Database_download As of April 2007, the English-language Uncyclopedia contained over 23,000 articles, making it one of the largest Wikia-hosted wikis.6 CONTENT Uncyclopedia has many people who appear on many pages either in the form of quotes, or references to them in other ways. Some of these people have gained an almost cult status with a reference to them on almost every page. A recurring Joke is that of misquoting Oscar Wilde , whose "wisdom touches on nearly every conceivable topic, often without consent...", either with a well-known, but slightly edited, genuine quote designed to parody the overuse of quotes, or with a phrase completely different from his style. There is an entire lexicon of fictitious Oscar Wilde quotes.7 Most of the articles are either completely fictional, or parodied to such an extent that little or no original factual accuracy remains. PRESS COVERAGE Uncyclopedia has been mentioned in several well-known news publications from around the world, in addition to numerous local and regional newspapers and periodicals. In 2005, the was mentioned in a '' New York Times '' column reporting the spread of so-called " Pastafarianism ".8 The column was then reprinted in several other newspapers, including the '' Taipei Times ''.9 Several other articles have been centered on specific entries on Uncyclopedia - most notably the article on the '' Arizona Daily Star '', which focused on the Tucson, Arizona parody.10 In addition to articles about specific entries on the wiki, several papers speak of the website in general - usually in a section devoted to Technology or "the web." This was the case when Uncyclopedia was referenced in the '' Boston Herald ''11 and '' The Guardian ''.12 While most articles mentioning Uncyclopedia are specific to the site, there are other articles about Wikia or Wikipedia that just mention its name briefly. These include the editorial in '' The Register '' discussing the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia Biography Controversy , in which Uncyclopedia was named only once.13 Other articles featuring Uncyclopedia have come from the '' Hindustan Times ''14 and Taiwan's '' Apple Daily ''.15 IN OTHER LANGUAGES 's main page (below).]] 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''). |
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