The Uncylopedia
Posted on June 8, 2008 by Chris DeBrusk
I have a love-hate relationship with Wikipedia. On one hand it is a great resource just chuck full of seemingly accurate information. On the other hand it has become so prominent in Google rankings that its pages normally hold the first or second slot on any single word search. This, in my opinion runs the risk of drowning out other great sources of information as there is a certain bias towards clicking the first result returned by Google. Plus everyone automatically links to Wikipedia so it is a self fulfilling prophecy. In 10 years the web will consist of social networking sites and Wikipedia (!).
I also have an issue as some of the major pages are edited by editors/dictators who rarely let anything get added to the page and control links out like they are gold (which they are due to the PR of Wikipedia pages - but still). It is almost as if Wikipedia is becoming no better than any other Encyclopedia as for the large majority of topics it is essentially a closed system.
That is why I love sites like the Uncyclopedia. It is nice to see someone poke fun at Big Brother.
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