Uncyclopedia - Uncyclopedia in Other Languages

Uncyclopedia in Other Languages

The Uncyclopedia concept has been adapted to wikis in more than fifty other languages. The UnNews project has similarly been replicated, under various localised names, in eighteen other languages. The websites also invoke various parody languages such as "Portuñol" and "English But Louder". The first Uncyclopedias in languages other than English were created in June 2005, beginning with a French language version. On February 20, 2008, the 50th language, Welsh, was added to the Uncyclopedia series.

Each language wiki is free to establish its own unique community identity, but most of the logos and names in use retain some semblance to those of the English-language version. For instance, as an "un-" encyclopedia, the encyclopedia is named "Uncyclopedia" in both English and German. In some other languages it is:

• Arabic: "بيضيبيديا" (beidipedia), where "beid" is the Arabic word for egg.
• Chinese: "偽基百科" (wěijībǎikē, literally "fake-(Wiki)pedia"), which is derived from "維基百科" (wéijībǎikē, Wikipedia) by changing the first character to "伪", meaning "fake".
• Danish: "Spademanns Leksikon" does not include the English word "encyclopedia" in its name; Spademanns Leksikon is a parody of Lademanns Leksikon, a respected Danish encyclopedia, combining its name with the word "spade" (slang for "retard").
• Dutch: an exact translation: "Oncyclopedia Neerlandica", only they include the name of their language in the name, "Neerlandica" is a dignified name for "Nederlands", which is the Dutch word for Dutch. This is also a reference to Encyclopædia Britannica. "Oncy" is derived from the Dutch word "onzin", which means "nonsense".
• Finnish: "Hikipedia" would literally translate to "Sweat-pedia", but "hiki" is more expressive when used as a prefix in spoken language and could mean for example "barely-pedia", "lousy-pedia" or even "hard work -pedia", while obviously being a pun on "Wikipedia".
• French: "dÉsencyclopédie" in French: means "dis-encyclopedia". "Dés" also means dice.
• Greek: "Φρικηπαίδεια" in Greek: means "horror-pedia" or "freak-out-pedia".
• Hebrew: "איןציקלופדיה" (Eincylopedia), consisting of "אין" (ein), which means literally "there isn't", so together means "Nocyclopedia".
• Indonesian: Tololpedia (spelled as "Tolololpedia" in Indonesian), from the word tolol "idiot".
• Italian: "Nonciclopedia" is constructed from the negation "non-" and the word "enciclopedia".
• Malaysian: Bodohpedia, from the word bodoh, which means "stupid" in the Malay language.
• Korean: "백괴사전" (Baekgoesajeon; 백괴事典). The name is derived from the Korean word "백과사전" (baekgwasajeon; 百科事典), a translation of 'encyclopedia', by changing the character 과 (gwa; 科) into 괴 (goe), which means "strange". Therefore, "백괴사전" means "the dictionary of all strange knowledge".
• Norwegian: "Ikkepedia" (Not-pedia).
• Persian: "نانشنامه" (Naneshnameh, literally "Uncyclopedia"), which is derived from "دانشنامه" (Daneshnameh, literally "Encyclopedia") by changing two first characters to نا (Na) which has the same meaning of Un.
• Polish: "Nonsensopedia".
• Portuguese: "Desciclopédia": means "dis-encyclopedia".
• Russian: "Absurdopedia" (Абсурдопедия) from the word "absurd" and "encyclopedia".
• Spanish: "Inciclopedia" applies the negation "in-" to "encyclopedia" (Spanish: enciclopedia).
• Swedish: "Psyklopedin" (Psychlopedia).
• Tagalog: "Pekepedia," which is based on the word for "fake" (peke).
• Thai: ไร้สาระนุกรม (rai sa:ra nukrom), is a play on the word for encyclopedia, สารานุกรม (sa:ra:nukrom), and means 'nonsense-opedia'.
• Turkish: "Yansiklopedi" from the words "Yan" meaning "awry" in Turkish, and "Ansiklopedi" meaning encyclopedia in Turkish.
• Ukrainian: "Інциклопедія" applies the negation "in-" to "encyclopedia" Ukrainian: Енциклопедія.
• Welsh: "Celwyddoniadur" is derived from the words "celwydd" (meaning "lie" ("untruth")) and "wyddoniadur" (meaning "encyclopedia").

Some of the largest Uncyclopedias available in other languages are listed below.