Wookieepedia?
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Posted on: March 21, 2007 11:20 AM, by PZ Myers
Nooooooo!! The proliferation of special purpose wiki encyclopedias has gone too far!
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Nowhere near as good as the Muppet Wiki.
Posted by: Stanton | March 21, 2007 11:24 AM
I find this latest "Wookie" most refreshing. At least it doesn't pretend to be true, unlike Conservapedia...
Posted by: Kimpatsu | March 21, 2007 11:31 AM
Or wikipedia
Posted by: Kristjan Wager | March 21, 2007 11:48 AM
Would you rather have multiple page articles on Nute Gunray on Wikipedia itself? I think it's a good thing to sequester the prodigious fanwankery away from everything else...
Posted by: lazybratsche | March 21, 2007 11:53 AM
Wookipedia has been around forever in internet terms -since 2005-, as has Memory Alpha (a wiki for Star Trek running since 2003- http://www.memory-alpha.org). At least their only hidden agendas involve exposing the depths of sci-fi geekery to the world.
Posted by: Corvus | March 21, 2007 11:56 AM
And how about GodTube and IslamTube!
Posted by: Guillermo Alcántara | March 21, 2007 12:03 PM
PZ, when are you going to start Cephelopedia?
Posted by: Karen | March 21, 2007 12:13 PM
You have to admit, though, that the name was just begging to be used. Internet geeks being what they are, the site would have been created whether or not it had the "pedia" suffix.
As a True Nerd, I personally really like Wookiepedia.
-Rob
Posted by: Rob Knop | March 21, 2007 12:17 PM
Considering the state of coverage in the actual Wikipedia, isn't this a bit redundant?
Posted by: Zombie | March 21, 2007 1:02 PM
Yes, we will soon need a wiki to keep track of them all.
Which reminds me of a scifi short story, where a galactic civilization dies because of a small misindexation, involving how to fix the index with the real data behind the index to the index to... to the index to the data. One misindexation leads to another. And the physical position of the raw data was of course in the index to the index to ...
Thank Google that won't happen to us...
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson | March 21, 2007 1:08 PM
I think they should make a Shyriiwook language Wikipedia. They already have Klingon.
Posted by: Bob ryuu | March 21, 2007 1:10 PM
On the plus side, for your class next year you could have the students make a wiki, and then have Pharyngulites keep it updated. No work on your part, and a good EvoDevo wiki online!
Posted by: Stuart Coleman | March 21, 2007 1:16 PM
Hey PZ,
You heard of the Iron Chariots wiki yet?
http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
It is a counter-apologetics site, and they need help with content providers if anyone is interested.
Posted by: Andrew | March 21, 2007 1:20 PM
Guys, please remember, WookiEEpedia, two E's. You could permanently lose your nerd cards for such an infraction!!
Posted by: tikistitch | March 21, 2007 1:22 PM
Finally! Jeez, what took them so long.
Farewell, Pharyngula! I have found a new love.
Posted by: CalGeorge | March 21, 2007 1:22 PM
Yes we've know about iron chariots, islamtub and jewtube and conservapedia...
Posted by: Steve_C | March 21, 2007 1:30 PM
any thoughts on EvoWiki?
Posted by: dorid | March 21, 2007 2:00 PM
I don't have a problem with ultra-specialized wikis -- I find them extremely helpful in supporting my gaming habits.
Warcraft wiki
Kingdom of Loathing wiki
Puzzle Pirates wiki
Posted by: Kazim | March 21, 2007 2:05 PM
Isn't wikipedia's primary function already to act as a repository for geek-minutiae? Why do we need a Wookieepedia or a BattlestarWiki or a StarTrek-Klingon-Language-TechManualWiki?
Posted by: stogoe | March 21, 2007 2:52 PM
I think it would be better named "Wikisquidia," even if it does include articles on additional cephalopods.
Anyway, with Wookieepedia I at least have a chance of beating my kid at Trivial Pursuit Star Wars Edition. I'm not going to tell him about this one.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich | March 21, 2007 2:54 PM
That's great, but I think Wookiepedia has too much liberal bias. BBY dating doesn't acknowledge the birth of Jesus. Someone should really make a conservative Wookiepedia for all us Star Wars creationist freaks who think the Wookie baramin were transported across the galaxies in Noah's Corellian freighter.
Posted by: JRS | March 21, 2007 3:54 PM
Upon seeing the name, I thought it would be an encyclopedia of Orac's essays on woo.
Posted by: Keanus | March 21, 2007 5:06 PM
Nice to have a wiki that isn't called wiki-whatever.
Posted by: chuko | March 21, 2007 5:51 PM
What the world really needs. . .
. . . is a Klingon-language Wookieepedia!
Posted by: Blake Stacey, OM | March 21, 2007 6:13 PM
Star Wars leaves me cold, but Wookieepedia makes me happy for one simple reason: it has ten times as many articles as Conservapedia.
Posted by: Geoffrey | March 21, 2007 7:28 PM
Geoffrey:
Please, it's spelled Conservapaedia.
Posted by: Blake Stacey, OM | March 21, 2007 7:35 PM
I was CERTAIN that clicking that like would give us a translation of Wikipedia into Wookie:
Rrrrawwrrarar
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Rawrr rawar rarar rrrr aaaaawr grrrr raaw, grr oooooowrar....
Posted by: DrNathaniel | March 21, 2007 8:03 PM
Blake: I save that spelling for when they're around to be annoyed ;-)
Posted by: Geoffrey | March 21, 2007 8:35 PM
I think you all have a case of Conservapaediaphilia.
Read it aloud. Sound it out.
Posted by: stogoe | March 22, 2007 12:10 PM