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17 Facts About Uncyclopedia

1.

Uncyclopedia's name is a portmanteau of the prefix "un-" and the word "encyclopedia".

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Many Uncyclopedia articles contain graphics with a link to the corresponding Wikipedia article.

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3.

Uncyclopedia is built on the same MediaWiki software that Wikipedia uses.

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4.

In May 2018, Fandom dropped support for the Monobook skin that its Uncyclopedia site had used to mimic Wikipedia, claiming this was necessary to achieve GDPR compliance, and warned that local work-arounds could not be extended to new visitors and editors by default.

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Uncyclopedia's content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.

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6.

Uncyclopedia encourages satire that is close to or resembles the truth.

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For example, Uncyclopedia's article about Wikipedia claims that Wikipedia is a parody of Uncyclopedia, not the reverse.

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Much like Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia has policies concerning vanity articles, which are articles written by an individual associated with the subject of the page.

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Each year, Uncyclopedia moderators create a list of 100worst reflections of that year, marking website milestones or simply news.

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10.

Uncyclopedia has been referenced in several well-known news publications from around the world, in addition to numerous local and regional newspapers and periodicals.

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11.

In 2005, the Flying Spaghetti Monster entry from Uncyclopedia was mentioned in a New York Times column reporting the spread of "Pastafarianism", the religion that worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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12.

At various times, articles on Uncyclopedia have been subject to criticism from King's College the North-West Evening Mail, Northern Irish politician James McCarry, civic leaders of Telford, Shropshire, UK, the Sioux City Journal, Hawke's Bay Today, and Lochaber News.

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13.

In November 2012, the page "HowTo:Commit suicide" on the Russian-language Uncyclopedia: Absurdopedia; was legally prohibited by the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare .

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14.

Uncyclopedia concept has been adapted to wikis in more than fifty other languages.

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In 2010 it joined the Uncyclopedia family, becoming one of the site's German language wikis.

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16.

Nonsensopedia is a Polish project that was initially just a Polish version of Uncyclopedia, but has since diverged from other projects in the family.

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17.

Russian language Uncyclopedia, Absurdopedia, was originally hosted by Wikia at absurdopedia.

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