[Flag] Re: [WikiEN-l] [Fwd: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse]

Tue Jan 24 07:20:50 UTC 2006

Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
>> Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is:
>> it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important
>> were deleted by VfD.
> 
> 
> ED and Uncyclopedia are two forks which benefit Wikipedia in two ways -
> they provide a place to blow off steam from Wikipedia and they provide a
> place for all the random Internet shite and bloggerel which may in some
> way be interesting to someone but is in no way particularly encyclopedic.
> 

Uncyclopedia is not a fork, it's a parody, and a damn funny one.

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