Uncyclopedia

Uncyclopedia is a wiki that parodies Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias. Its logo, a hollow "puzzle potato", parodies Wikipedia's puzzle globe logo, and it styles itself as "the content-free encyclopedia", parodying Wikipedia's slogan of "the free encyclopedia" and likely as a play on the fact that Wikipedia is described as a "free-content" encyclopedia. Uncyclopedia's name is a portmanteau of the prefix un- and the word encyclopedia. Founded in 2005 as an English-language wiki, the website was acquired by Wikia in 2006 but abandoned in 2019. Today the project exists as two distinct forks with different domains, whereas the original domain is now defunct. Uncyclopedia is associated with the "Uncyclomedia Foundation" (a pun on the Wikimedia Foundation), a project which spans several wikis like Uncyclopedia in more than 75 languages, as well as a wiki for hosting images called UnCommons (a reference to Wikimedia Commons) and an off-shoot wiki by the name of "Illogicopedia". Various styles of humor are used as vehicles for parody, from pointed satire to light sarcasm, along with structured in-jokes and frequent non sequiturs. The site has attracted media attention for its articles on controversial subjects including religion, prominent people, places, politics, and pseudoscience. Many Uncyclopedia articles contain graphics with a link to the corresponding Wikipedia article; Uncyclopedia often denotes the corresponding Wikipedia article to its content as being listed "for those without comedic tastes", and Wikipedia's article written by "so-called experts".