- There is no cabal! I mean what lousy website doesn’t have a cabal?
- The Wikipedia’s like Britannica… but for Commies.
- The Wikipedia isn’t controlled by a group of fat Westerners
- It’s controlled by only one: Jimbo Wales!
- Your history lecturer doesn’t like it
- A neutral point of view is boring
- It tries to hide the biggest cover up in human history: the librarians are hiding something!
- It’s free (gratis). The Britannica costs infinitely more and therefore must be better!
- Daniel Brandt doesn’t like it
- But Daniel Brandt isn’t notable enough to have his own Wikipedia article! Oh, and he also thinks that Google and Yahoo! are evil too!
- Who can take a Klingon encyclopaedia seriously?
- Even the English Wikipedia isn’t in English!
- They don’t let you violate copyright!
- You’re not supposed to vandalise it. What’s the point in a wiki you can’t vandalise?!
- The Star Wars article is longer than the Star Trek one (56.3KiB vs 38.4KiB!)!
- It isn’t very secure… you can edit pages
- Treason!
- Wikipedians actually find this funny
- The article for ‘42′ is for the year and not the meaning of life!
- Since when is Tony Blair (Right) Honourable?
- Consensus is a horrible thing! To think that more than one opinion has to be listened to! How democratic! How appalling!
- The Wikipedia has lots of systematic bias unlike that ‘other’ wonderful encyclopaedia.
- Since when should encyclopaedia be spelt encyclopedia?
- The Uncyclopedia is much more factual
- And the Encyclopedia Dramatica is much more… umm… dramatic!
- There are no adverts. I want something to brighten up reading about the Disputation of Tortosa!
- It keeps asking for a donation. Just like a beggar. Why doesn’t it go and get itself a job?!
- They’re greedy with their PageRank sticking nofollow to links where credit’s due!
- There are more atheist Wikipedians than Lutheran ones and the population of elephants has tripled in the last 10 years
- Wikipedians dominate all the protocols: BitTorrent, email, IRC, USENET and even the HyperText Transfer Protocol!
- The Wikipedia obviously prefers chavs to nerds, with the chav article being many kilobytes longer!
- One word: wikiality!
- In the fine words of Larry Groznic 2 years ago: “How can you justify a “Weird Al” biography of only a paltry 850 words?”
- It’s a hivemind… just like the Borg. Is Jimbo Wales the Borg Queen in disguise?!
- Jimbo’s cheating on Google
- The co-founder defected to form another project.
- A website’s too popular when it is mentioned in The Simpsons Comics
- In Communist China, you don’t read the Wikipedia, it’s blocked
- The Wikipedia is not a social network, crystal ball or anything else besides an encyclopaedia but it is quite possibly V’ger
- The Wikipedia is the World’s largest encyclopaedia… for trivia!
- What respected publication doesn’t use an all rights reserved copyright?!
- That white background uses a lot of electricity!
- The site is bigger than many countries with nearly 5,000,000 registered users on the English Wikipedia alone! Too much influence…
- My government edits it
- The German government pays people to edit it
- The US government vandalise it!!!
- The Wikipedia thinks that it is a certain Abrahamic religion.
- Most of the 1.9 million articles are about Pokemon!
- The Wikipedia is so arrogant that it has a page that says “I invented the Internet“!
- I’m sorry, but who really cares about an uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides or an islet in the middle of the Atlantic?
- The Wikipedia says that America is the third biggest country in the World… Britannica disagrees!
- Why do you think the article on acne is over twice the size as the article on love?
- Not feeding the trolls is cruel!
- Open formats are boring… I mean really who reading this actually knows how to play an OGG video?
- The Wikipedia is one big massive multiplayer online roleplaying game… not an encyclopaedia!
I am actually a Wikipedian and this article is meant to be humourous and not offensive to anyone (including Wikipedians and Jimbo Wales!).
Tags: wikipedia, humour, humor
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lmfao … i did wonder for a second from the headline.
Joe Anderson stated for the record: “I am actually a Wikipedian and this article is meant to be humourous…”
And now I know why the “humour” on Wikipedia is not funny…
Brilliant – kill the wiki nazis! lulz
Is this a joke ?
I certainly hope so didi!
Great post, Joe. Pity you added that disclaimer; no need to, was there really? Your research is commendable, brilliant and at times hilariously pithy. Loved it.
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