In March 2006, independent publishers The Friday Project launched a venture to publish a collection of "sick jokes" gathered from B3ta contributors. A public wiki site called Sickipedia was established to collect user-submitted humour for the book. Its name is a portmanteau of "sick" (in reference to the nature of the humour) and "Wikipedia". The site encourages submission of jokes which may be considered to be bad taste or taboo, and entries are organised under a categorisation system of topic which include racism, jokes about celebrities, current affairs and sexual humour. Similarly to the main B3ta site, Sickipedia site functionality offers an electronic voting system to subject user submissions to a form of peer review. Popular jokes are then included in lists of the "best of the day", "best of the week" etc.
The book, entitled The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes was published on 20 October 2006 and was made available from both online and real-world bookshops, and claims to offer an "antidote" to political correctness. The book is now published by HarperCollins.
Mobile app versions of Sickipedia for Android and an iPhone app are distributed via the Android Market and Apple's App Store with age restriction warnings.
A joke about stricken Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba on the evening of his cardiac arrest on the pitch at White Hart Lane caused outrage on Twitter.
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