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Uncyclopedia, "the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," is a satirical parody of Wikipedia.[1] The site was launched in January 2005 by Jonathan Huang and an unnamed counterpart.[2] The Uncyclopedia logo is a hollow potato named Sophia, a parody of Wikipedia's globe logo.[2]
Uncyclopedia was founded in January 2005, and quickly outgrew its original webhost. On May 26, 2005, Angela Beesley, vice president of Wikia, Inc., announced that Wikia would host Uncyclopedia and that the site's license and domain name would remain unchanged.[3] Huang transferred ownership of the uncyclopedia.org domain to Wikia, Inc. on July 10, 2006.[4]
Uncyclopedia's content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license[5]. As with other Wikia sites, the full article database is freely available for online download [1]. As of January 2007, the English-language Uncyclopedia contains over 20,000 articles, making it one of the largest......

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