Inciclopedia

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Inciclopedia is a parody of the encyclopedia, and the Spanish language version of Uncyclopedia, it was founded on February 24, 2006 to serve as a continuation of Frikipedia, a parody site closed by SGAE. Inciclopedia was formed initially using recovered Frikipedia article texts, which were retrieved from the Google and search engine caches and re-posted to the Spanish section of Uncyclopedia.

The Inciclopedia is hosted by Wikia using Mediawiki software. As of 2008, it contains more than 4000 articles. Of the fifty independent Uncyclopedias in various languages, Inciclopedia is the eighth-largest by number of articles, after the versions in English, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, French and Finnish. In number of active users and edits made, Inciclopedia is the third-busiest Uncyclopedia-related Wikia after English and Italian.

Like in Uncyclopedia, Inciclopedia users insist that is a humorous parody of Inciclopedia and that is a NGO intent on world domination.

Recurring themes
Like in the Uncyclopedia, the concepts expressed in Inciclopedia are ingenious or silly things, often with little or no similarity to reality. Some often-recurring topics and themes are:

* "Those who cannot be named". Pseudonym of SGAE, to which they attribute all type of abuses, such as attempts to appropriate for itself the rights of works of dead or imaginary authors. This subject has expanded in Inciclopedia, mainly as a result of the closure of Frikipedia after legal problems that it had with SGAE.
* Chuck Norris. An inherited tradition from Frikipedia. One long series of crazy facts is attributed to him, related generally to the "roundhouse kick". For example, with this kick he caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Chuck requested a Big Mac in a Burger King and they became it.
* Flying Spaghetti Monster. Also inherited from Frikipedia, He is "the official" divinity of Inciclopedia. All articles that attack His name and the religion of Pastafarianism represent heresy (including the article on the Catholic Church). In Inciclopedia, He also bears the name of Monesvol (Monstruo de Espagueti Volador), the one that made his fortune on the Internet.
* Miguel de Cervantes. Usually one attributes invented citations to him. These appear throughout various articles, much like Uncyclopedia's citation of Oscar Wilde. A large percentage of articles have at least one quotation attributed to Miguel de Cervantes.
* "The Thief". A name which is used to refer to , on the presumption that all content, ideas and projects are original to Inciclopedia and had been copied there or plagiarized in some manner.
* Ulterior Tuvalu is a non-existent country located hypothetically in Oceania. It serves as a satire of small nations with few inhabitants.
* Tio1.jpg, the uncle. A person of strange appearance that appears on numerous pages. Originally his likeness was used in a template to indicate articles that lacked photos, but soon grew in popularity and transformed himself into an independent recurring joke that appears in multiple articles that indeed have other photos. InciNoticias, the news section, announced his death on October 29 2007, after falling victim to an attack with rolled newspapers at the hands of an anti-cliché organization in the fictitious nation of Ulterior Tuvalu.
* George W. Bush: Aside from disparate phrases, Bush appears commonly in invented quotations where he confuses the subject at issue with another one, saying for example that France has too many forests and that their capital is Toronto.

Since some subjects, like Tio and Chuck Norris, were being used compulsively, Inciclopedia makes editorial decisions based on originality. The appearance of clichés of this type in an article are taken into account when considering pages for deletion, as they are sometimes abused to create article text without originality nor humour.

Tio, the uncle of Inciclopedia

Tio became a popular image meme after he appeared in many Inciclopedian articles. Created from an image of Jimbo Wales, he is also often mentioned in the Portuguese-language Desciclopédia as being "the uncle of the Spanish-language Inciclopedia".

One running Brazilian joke is to ask that users "sign wiki posts with four uncles—"; this play on words is based on « Tios » being a word both for tildes (~) and for "uncles".

Projects

Like , Inciclopedia includes various other projects like Incinoticias, Incitables and Incilibros. These parody Wikinews (Wikinoticias), Wikiquote (Wikicitas) and Wikibooks (Wikilibros) respectively. Incinoticias deals humorously with news and current events. In this project horoscopes are included, and purport to be written by an expert futurologist. Simultaneously, important breaking news and headlines normally are given coverage. Incinoticias articles do not have to be based on real facts. These are categorised according to the described subjects and ordered according to the month of their creation.

Incitables is a compilation of quotations, out-of-context or invented. They claim to be from prominent individuals like Albert Einstein or Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, or from fictitious personalities like Tio, Anonymous or Office Assistant. In these pages a brief description of the person is offered to provide context and some images are included to add humour. On the project's main page is a random phrase, links to the created pages and various help links.

Incilibros was established February 25, 2007, but some of the texts pre-date its creation. Incilibros is governed by the same rules as all other articles and is divided into categories or subjects. These include instruction manuals, scientific books on scientific, encyclopaedic knowledge or absurdities. Manuals on absurd topics ("How to kill with a roll of toilet paper"), the obvious ("How to breathe"), tourism guides ("Chile Knows") and others are very common.

On April 26 of the same year, Incionario was created as a parody of Wiktionary (Wikcionario). It contains short definitions that, due to their small size, would be erased immediately if they were submitted as encyclopaedia articles.

Policies
Contributors to Inciclopedia (who are called Inciclopedistas) follow rules which are stricter than the ones in Frikipedia. Among these:

* The content cannot violate copyrights. The articles must be free: taken from some free source or one that allows republication.
* The articles must be of suitable length. The administrators of the Inciclopedia eliminate any article that has less than 5 lines of text.
* Vandalism is not allowed. When this happens, the user responsible for this attack is banned by administrators.
* The contributions must be humorous. For the cases of local humour to a specific country, they have individual workgroups. This prevents creation of articles with inside jokes which only very few understand. Example: It is not allowed to make an article referring to a professor of an institute in some city of Spain, because that article will be only understood by very few.

Applying these rules and a little common sense, the administrators eliminate:

* Articles of very few lines (stubs).
* Articles that promote hatred.
* Articles without humour.
* Pages with no correspondence to reality or which merely repeat one idea in various different articles.
* Serious and/or very realistic articles.
* Copied articles from .
* Articles brought from Frikipedia, if written after its closure and re-creation.
* Incomplete articles that fulfil certain requirements.
* Articles that have been voted for deletion (VPB is a discussion forum where Inciclopedia users discuss proposed article deletions).

Notability
According to Alexa.com inciclopedia is the third most visited page on the wikia.com domain, with an 8% of wikia.com's total traffic. That makes Inciclopedia one of the most popular website hosted by Jimbo Wales company Wikia-Inc. Inciclopedia has been widely covered in both printed and online press in several Spanish speaking countries. On September 2006, Chilean newspaper Las Últimas Noticias, published an article on Inciclopedia's mockery of the chilean flag and other national simbols. Folk singer Monteaguilino and Senator Pedro Muñoz expresed their discomptent for the site . Inciclopedia was also mentioned on the Noche Hache TV show, as one of the supporters for Eva Hache's joke candidacy to the presidence of Spain .

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