5 Terrifying Bastardizations of the Wikipedia Model

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The fact that Wikipedia lets anybody edit just isn’t enough for some people. Some demand their own Wiki, damn it!

What kind of people feel the need to set up an entirely separate reference? Why, that would be the ones who live on the fringes of society, who need a place where their people can go to be shielded from the whole “outside world” thing.

Reading these inbred cousins of Wikipedia is like stepping into a terrifying parallel universe. -David Wong, Cracked.com

#5 Conservapedia

Even if you’re the most conservative damned person you know, I’m betting you’ll still be plenty creeped out by Conservapedia, which bills itself as a “much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American.” ….

#4 Wikifur

To prove we’re impartial here, we swing to the other side of the political spectrum, which is where you’ll find the animal/human sex fetishists (source: Conservapedia)…

#3 Encyclopedia Dramatica

So a bunch of 4chan guys got together and wrote a Wikipedia clone. Most of you know it exists already and, yeah, it chronicles all of the Anonymous memes and raids and so on….

#2 PaganWiki

We managed to bring up Christianity in the first two entries, so to deflect the forthcoming accusations of anti-Christian bias from Conservapedia, let’s target Paganism as that seems to be the faith that files the fewest lawsuits. I don’t know much about Paganism, other than that Christianity “borrowed” from its holidays and remixed them P. Diddy-style, so I should learn something from the PaganWiki….

#1 MetaPedia

Hmmm, what’s this? Metapedia? “The Alternative Encyclopedia.” Got to be some kind of new-age hippie bullshit. Metaphysical truth or whatever. Well, let’s see what they have to say about the Fuhrer….