Stupidedia

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Type of site
 Satirical wiki
OwnerDavid Sowka
Created byDavid Sowka
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URL http://www.stupidedia.org
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LaunchedDecember 17, 2004
Current statusActive
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Article "Summa cum laude" [With Highest Praise] is tagged with the "Disaster Alert" template and put up for deletion.

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. 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 ]

Contents

Competitions and projects

Hammer articles

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.

Contests

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.

Miscellaneous

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Lachen mit "Stupidedia": Wissen, das die Welt nicht braucht". Bild.de. 2008-06-19. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  2. ↑ "Internetfundstück: Das Lexikon zum Schmunzeln". Rp-online.de. Archived from the original on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  3. ↑ "Volksmusikstar Heino lässt Internet-Satire auf Stupidedia.org sperren". Bild.de. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  4. ↑ "Stupidedia:Ausgezeichnete Artikel – Stupidedia". Stupidedia.org. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Kategorie:Stupidedia:Goldpokal – Stupidedia". Stupidedia.org. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Portal:Hall of Fame". Stupidedia.org.
  7. ↑ "Stupidedia:Stupid Contest". Stupidedia.org.
  8. ↑ "Stupidedia:Stupid Art Contest". Stupidedia.org.
  9. ↑ "Stupidedia:Brigade QO/Stub des Monats". Stupidedia.org.
  10. ↑ "Spiegelwelten:Ozeanienkonflikt – Stupidedia". Stupidedia.org. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "Universumsfußballmeisterschaft 2008 – Stupidedia". Stupidedia.org. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  12. ↑ "Spiegelwelten:Universumsfußballmeisterschaft 2010 – Stupidedia". Stupidedia.org. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  13. ↑ "Spiegelwelten:Universumsfußballmeisterschaft 2012 – Stupidedia". Stupidedia.org. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  14. ↑ "Stupidedia:Hilft!". Stupidedia.org.
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