Now, insert your text here, and adjust the width and height of your DIV Wikipedia ("the free encyclopedia") is a website that parodies Uncyclopedia. It was founded in 2001, when it began its noble goal of spreading the world's misinformation in the most inconspicuous way possible. Originally written exclusively in a dialect called Swahili, the project currently spans all the known languages of history.[1] The English version has over twelve million pages, most of them capitalization redirects. Only one vehicle for article humor is employed at Wikipedia: actual information. However, much of the behind-the-scenes aspects of Uncyclopedia are also parodied, from the abundance of maintenance templates to the system for rating articles. Like Uncyclopedia, Wikipedia has guidelines regarding what is and is not acceptable content, and these guidelines have become exceedingly long and complex as a parody of Uncyclopedia's comparatively simple rules. The site has gained media attention due to its articles on places, people, and painfully obscure pop culture.

Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for stealing content from other websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning 'thief') and encyclopedia.[2] Its logo is a spherical magical puzzle globe, named Merlin after the loyal wizard of King Arthur's court, which serves as a spoof of Uncyclopedia's hollow potato logo.

In recent years, Wikipedia has become an increasingly strict place. Wikipedians are often taken off the streets by Wikipedia secret police called "administrators" to be brought before courts made of other "administrators" and charged with being "vandals." According to Wikipedia, a vandal is a person with an amazingly funny sense of humor. "Administrators," being too busy being unfunny, are jealous of "vandals" and want to make the lives of "vandals" miserable.

The whole of Wikipedia is written by three men and their dog. These few authors between them control a staggering number of user accounts, somewhat over six billion at latest count, in order to give the impression that the site is one of the most popular on the net. But Jimbo Wales made a new rule that in future Wikipedia will have to be hand-written, and any two users who turn out to have the same handwriting will be summarily executed. This is hoped to thin out the user community to just the more reliable editors (i.e. the dog).