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 | This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia is not mean and nasty and evil. It just smells funny and is run by a project namespace full of lunatics. Which is fine. |
As a whole, Wikipedia is not funny. This is fine. Wikipedia is not trying to be funny. It is, in fact, trying to be unfunny, and as unfunny as is possible unless there happen to be reliable sources backing it up. This is fine, however, because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that is what encyclopedias are like: boring. And not funny. And reliably sourced.
But Wikipedia is more than a supposedly reliably-sourced encyclopedia, just as Uncyclopedia is more than a compilation of really bad jokes that only seemed funny at the time, and possibly not even then. Behind each, there is a community of people, some who don't interact much with anyone else and some who almost exclusively frequent discussion pages, especially those where all the nice squishy drama takes place, as well as a great many more who actually make the projects what they are, not just editing and not just discussing, but collaborating toward some greater ideal of the project that nobody can quite agree upon just what it is.
At the end of the day, Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia boil down to effectively the same thing - collaborative projects comprised of people, with all their fine strengths and niggling issues.