Type of site | Satirical wiki |
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Owner | David Sowka |
Created by | David Sowka |
Revenue | Advertisements |
URL | http://www.stupidedia.org |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | December 17, 2004 |
Current status | Active |
Stupidedia (from Stupid and encyclopedia) is a German-language wiki featuring satirically themed and humorous articles. [1] [2] Stupidedia is the largest German-language wiki of this kind, with over 23,942 articles as of January 2018 [update]. It uses MediaWiki software, like many other wikis. Some articles of celebrities which are considered overly offensive, such as their article on Heino or Bushido, have been blocked. [3] The site was launched in 2004, a year prior to its English counterpart, Uncyclopedia, which has since surpassed the website in popularity due to its closure to new users since 31 January 2018.[ citation needed]
So-called hammer articles were introduced in 2006. They were suggested by users, then voted on and finally awarded with a hammer. Starting in August 2012 it was also possible to award articles as gelungene Artikel (English: well written article). [4] Stupidedia's dictators were entitled to award some hammer articles as Goldpokalartikel (English literally: gold trophy article) [5] via an internal vote amongst the websites dictators. Any article that was recognized as outstanding by the community and had been added to the hall of fame [6] was then featured on the homepage.
The community regularly hosted various contests : the stupid contest., [7] the Stupid Art Contest, [8] the Stub des Monats (English literally: stub of the month). [9] and so on.
Stupidedia also attracted attention by parodying certain events from world affairs in a large project consisting of several articles. For example, the Iraq war was portrayed in the category named Spiegelwelten (English: Mirror worlds) as an “Oceania conflict”. [10] The most comprehensive large-scale project of this kind was the parody of the 2008 European Football Championship, which was parodied in the Stupidedia as the 2008 The Football Championship of the Universe. [11] This was organized and published - from fictional states and their teams - down to the smallest detail by the individual authors. A second edition under the title The Football Championship of the Universe 2010 [12] took place in parallel to the 2010 FIFA World Cup and a third championship was held parallel to the 2012 European Championship. [13]
Starting in 2014, there was a project named Stupidedia hilft! (English: Stupidedia helps!), where users can ask all kinds of questions and have experts from Stupidedia answer them in a satirical manner. [14]
Type of site | Satirical wiki |
---|---|
Owner | David Sowka |
Created by | David Sowka |
Revenue | Advertisements |
URL | http://www.stupidedia.org |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | December 17, 2004 |
Current status | Active |
Stupidedia (from Stupid and encyclopedia) is a German-language wiki featuring satirically themed and humorous articles. [1] [2] Stupidedia is the largest German-language wiki of this kind, with over 23,942 articles as of January 2018 [update]. It uses MediaWiki software, like many other wikis. Some articles of celebrities which are considered overly offensive, such as their article on Heino or Bushido, have been blocked. [3] The site was launched in 2004, a year prior to its English counterpart, Uncyclopedia, which has since surpassed the website in popularity due to its closure to new users since 31 January 2018.[ citation needed]
So-called hammer articles were introduced in 2006. They were suggested by users, then voted on and finally awarded with a hammer. Starting in August 2012 it was also possible to award articles as gelungene Artikel (English: well written article). [4] Stupidedia's dictators were entitled to award some hammer articles as Goldpokalartikel (English literally: gold trophy article) [5] via an internal vote amongst the websites dictators. Any article that was recognized as outstanding by the community and had been added to the hall of fame [6] was then featured on the homepage.
The community regularly hosted various contests : the stupid contest., [7] the Stupid Art Contest, [8] the Stub des Monats (English literally: stub of the month). [9] and so on.
Stupidedia also attracted attention by parodying certain events from world affairs in a large project consisting of several articles. For example, the Iraq war was portrayed in the category named Spiegelwelten (English: Mirror worlds) as an “Oceania conflict”. [10] The most comprehensive large-scale project of this kind was the parody of the 2008 European Football Championship, which was parodied in the Stupidedia as the 2008 The Football Championship of the Universe. [11] This was organized and published - from fictional states and their teams - down to the smallest detail by the individual authors. A second edition under the title The Football Championship of the Universe 2010 [12] took place in parallel to the 2010 FIFA World Cup and a third championship was held parallel to the 2012 European Championship. [13]
Starting in 2014, there was a project named Stupidedia hilft! (English: Stupidedia helps!), where users can ask all kinds of questions and have experts from Stupidedia answer them in a satirical manner. [14]