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 I am having a hard time finding much humor about Wikipedia. Google has been searched exhaustively looking for the jokes, with poor results. Lately I have found some at Wikipedia itself. What does it say about Wikipedians that there are so little humor about them? I have had to take what I can get. Please help, and forward your Wikipedia jokes. 
Star Wars parody where the crew first encounters the Death Star. Image from Uncylopedia
Seriously, this is the only domain name I have for sale. I was surprised it was available. Below is a reproduction of the Wikipedia article, "Misery (band)" that was deleted from Wikipedia in September 2007. I took issue with this deletion. See my comments here: Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3 Misery
Misery is an influential low, raw and mega-powerful crust punk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Career Misery was formed in 1988 at the height of the American crust punk scene. Line Up John Greenslit - Guitar / Vocals
Sid Klingeman - Guitar / Vocals
Todd Gaglione - Bass / Vocals
Gary Winger- Drums / Vocals Discography Eps "Born...Fed...Slaughtered" (1989)
"Blindead" (1989)
"Born...Fed...Slaughtered" (UK Version) (1990)
"Children of War" (1991)
"Midnight" (1997) Studio Albums "Production Through Destruction" (1991) (2005 Re-release)
"Who's The Fool...The Fool Is Silence" (1995)(2005 Re-release) Splits Misery/Hellspawn (1992)
Misery/S.D.S. (1992)
Misery/Assrash (1996) (Picture Disc)
Misery/Extinction of Mankind (2004)
Misery/Toxic Narcotic (2004)
Misery/Path of Destruction (2005) Compilations "Misery: The Early Years" (2001)
Videography "Misery" (1995)
"Misery" (Japan Version) (1995) This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Please improve it or discuss changes on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. Here's a little idea of what Ayn Rand was about? Her most influential fictional work was Atlas Shrugged, and if you knew one book of hers, this would be it. The spoiler warning is from Uncyclopedia mostly, and the article is of course, from Wikipedia (Search: Atlas Shrugged Wiki).
  Warning! The following text might contain spoilers. Read cautiously if you don't know that, Snape kills Dumbledore, Murtagh is Eragon's brother, Gandalf reappears in Fangorn Forest, Old Yeller dies, Jigsaw was the corpse, Bruce Willis is a ghost, the alien scum was distracting Duke Nukem all along while their real invasion force was moving in on Earth, King Kong dies, Rosebud was a sled, the button really does have to be pushed, they find Nemo, John does NOT die at the end, Alex betrays everyone to get the Golden Sun, and Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
The theme of Atlas Shrugged is that independent, rational thought is the engine that powers the world.
The main conflict of the book occurs as the "individuals of the mind" go on strike, thus no longer contributing problem-solving analysis, new ideas, inventions, medical breakthroughs, research, or inventions of any kind to the rest of the world, allowing a near-total collapse of a society that they had not only been crucial in holding together, but a society which they had even been forced to subsidize. The previous peaceful cohesiveness of the world had required those individuals whose productive work comes from mental effort. They had always naturally created in direct disproportion to forceful interference by others. But given no alternative, they eventually start disappearing from the communities of "looters," Rand's term for others seeking a free dependency on productive people.
Like the Greek Titan Atlas, individuals rationally and circumspectly seeking their own long-term happiness hold the world on their shoulders. The novel's title is an allusion to this god, discussing what might happen if those supporting the world suddenly decided to stop doing so. In the novel, the allusion comes during a conversation between two protagonists, Francisco d'Anconia and Hank Rearden, near the end of chapter three, part two, where Fransisco suggests to Rearden that if he could suggest Atlas one thing, it would be to shrug.
JokeCat notes: At times, Rand didn't pull her punches. For instance her use of the word looters. I think she felt some, the producers, are forced to subsidize others. One of the appealing things about Rand is her being off on the edge of the political spectrum where things are black and white. It's them or us. It makes things simple. Being on the extreme is not necessarily bad. Truth is an extreme. There is only True or False. Rand picked one and did a lot with it. This is not to say she got it right, she may have been, but she certainly did make a choice, rather than straddle the fence like so many do these days. Wikipedia Ten commandments
And the Wikipedia spake all these words, saying:
"Thou shalt have no other wikis before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any incompatible forks, or any copyvio of any thing that is on the internet above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not take the dump of the Wikipedia without displaying a GFDL notice, for the Wikimedia Foundation will not hold him (or her) guiltless that does not comply.
Remember the wikibreak, keep it holy; other days shall thou labour, and do all thy edits; but the wikibreak is important to the Wikipedia: in it thou shalt not do any edits, on thy home computer, nor thy work computer, nor thy laptop or PDA, nor by thy IP account, nor by any of thy sockpuppets, for on those other days the other editors made heaven and earth, the sea, and Allpages, and rested on their wikibreaks.
Honour thy admins and thy bureaucrats, that thy days may be long upon the wiki.
Thou shalt not vandalise.
Thou shalt not commit NPOV violations.
Thou shalt not leave thy comments on talk pages unsigned.
Thou shalt use the dispute resolution process with thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's editcount.
Thou shalt ignore all my commandments."
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_commandments" "A Wikipediholic is characterized by having a web browser window constantly open to the Recent Changes section of Wikipedia, and pressing the "Reload" or "Refresh" button with a high frequency. It can lead to a serious decrease in productivity in all other areas of the victim's life, like any other addiction."
"This is a recent phenomenon—having been made possible by the creation of Wikipedia in January, 2001—and affects primarily computer programmers, academics, graduate students, gameshow contestants and, in general, people with multiple interests." -from Wikipedia YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN EDITING ON WIKIPEDIA FOR TOO LONG IF...
You put brackets around the most important words of a sentence.
You refer to your mailbox as your "talk page."
Your mom tells you to get off the computer, and she's been dead for 20 years.
You run out of ideas for new articles, so you write one about your dog.
Suddenly, your MySpace account just seems so childish.
You draw userboxes when people ask you to describe your personality.
You call your boss, "Jimbo."
You try to be NPOV about EVERYTHING.
You put "wiki-" in front of common words.
When you see graffiti on a wall, you immediately look for a "revert" button.
Whenever you try to throw something out, you bring it up for deletion with your family.
You call your enemies "Willy on Wheels."
Whenever someone says a corny pun, you respond "That was a really bad joke and other deleted nonsense."
Everything you know about HTML you learned from here.
You don't know what your score is on the Are You a Wikipedholic? test because the computer can't count that high.
You start a subpage letting people know when they've been editing for too long.
You don't believe in god because you believe in Wikipedia.
- From Wikipedia, by User: D-Day 
From the Horse's Mouth - The Jimmy Wales Blog
Free knowledge for free minds
Let Wikipedia Write Your Next Term Paper
According to News.com, Esquire writer AJ Jacobs put a badly written and error ridden article on Wikipedia and let the Wikipedian community have at it. Within days, the article had received hundreds of edits, was cleaned up, proof read and fact checked. If it worked for Jacobs, shouldn't it work for you? - Lifehacker The goal of Wikipedia (and the core goal of the Wikimedia Foundation) is to create and provide a freely licensed and high quality encyclopedia to every single person on the planet in his or her own language. For more of Wikipedia's Mission Statement, click twice on the button below.
Intentionally Blank Page - Wikipedia Unusual Article #3
"Who would have thought there would be 15 paragraphs written about an “intentionally blank page,” yet here we are:
An intentionally blank page is a page that is devoid of content, and may be unexpected. Such pages may serve purposes ranging from place-holding to space-filling and content separation. Sometimes, these pages carry a notice such as, “This page is intentionally left blank.” The phrase is a self-refuting meta-reference, in that it falsifies itself by its very existence on the page in question.
Who would have though existentialism would manifest itself so curiously." - Andrew Lih WikiFreak Searches websites critical of Wikipedia:
"Wikizine is a weekly news letter. It attempts to bring the most important news from the global Wikimedia family for everybody involved with Wikimedia."
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Socket Puppet - Someone who gets banned from editing Wikipedia, usually for vandalism, and then tries to assume a new identity in order to continue doing what got them banned in the first place. Wikipedia uses your IP address when you don't have a Wikipedia account or haven't logged on to one you do have. JokeCat does not endorse vandalism, it's wrong. Are they still teaching right and wrong in the schools?
Quotes from Uncyclopedia about Wikipedia:
"We make the internet ... suck." ~ Jimbo Wales on Wikipedia
"Much stupidity in this one I sense." ~ Yoda on Wikipedia
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." ~ Obi-wan Kenobi on Wikipedia
"50 million nerds doing your homework for free." ~ Ambrose Bierce on Wikipedia
"I give money to Wikipedia and they call me a saint. I ask why Wikipedia needs the money and they ban my ass." ~ Chinese Communist on Wikipedia
"Wikipedia is a disease, a cancer of this planet. It is a plague, and Uncyclopedia is the cure." ~ Agent Smith on Wikipedia
"I saw it on Wikipedia." ~ George W. Bush on where he got the idea that Iraq has W.M.D. 
Jimbo Wales with Wiki staff. Help JokeCat identify these two Bomis Babes, so that their place in Wikipedia's history will be known. Edit User Jimbo Wales page right this minute
Really you can, because Jimbo trusts you, he says so. The one qualification is, his page is watched by lots of Wikipedians who will be on your edit like white on rice. So rather than edit his page, just add it on your watchlist, and watch other notable Wikipedians pages as well. It can be amusing and it's cheap entertainment. 
Wikipedian Admin
How many Wiki users does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but anyone can change it back.
How many Wiki users does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Six, one to screw it in, one to unscrew it again and demand community consent first, and four to start an edit war over it.
(An edit war is where one Wiki changes a page, a second Wiki changes it back, and then the cycle keeps repeating. For example: "Is too!" "Is not!" "Is too!" "Is not!" The Wiki Prayer
Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.  JokeCat is a site with Norwegian, Minnesotan, Libertarian, RuneScape, Accountant and WarCraft Jokes and Humor, and a little WarCraft III strategy. JokeCat thinks it's important to laugh at oneself once in awhile.
Mound Westonka is a site about the City of Mound, Minnesota and the surrounding area. It has many pictures, photos and features the: Mound Westonka Blog. Wikipedia drop-outs
"The following people have left the project. The purpose of this page is to try to understand what can make people leave..." See the complete page from: meta.wikimedia
User: PMA. "Grew tired of the sh*t thrown at me by POV pushers and vandals so i resigned as an Admin and declared my innings closed"
User: JHK still lurking around, but only because she'd really like to discuss some of the issues that make her want to permanently leave/boycott the 'pedia in favor of Nu. See regular wiki page. Generally worn down by several trolls, but idealistic enough to hope that the 'pedia will win, eventually. Happy that some of you have been especially encouraging (although this is the basic cause for aforementioned lurking...)
User: Corvus13 "Fine. I give up. Delete everything I've ever written. There appears to be some personal thing here where if you're not part of the clique, you're not welcome. Goodbye."
User: Graham Chapman "OK, I'm out of here, too many f*ckwits and their egos to be bothered with"
User: The Cunctator Sharply curtailed editing, and will soon cease all together, due to treatment by LMS and the institution of what The Cunctator perceives as autocratic policies on Wikipedia. 
According to Wikipedia, one of the attributes of it is a, "low environmental cost (no paper or distribution impact on the environment)." Well duh. |
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