Mickopedia
| File:Mickopedia.png This page as seen on Mickopedia. Note that due to the nature of the script each time the page is accessed it is displayed differently. | |
Type of site | Humour wiki |
|---|---|
| Created by | Edward Melvin Oliver Mooney James Kelleher |
| Revenue | Non-profit |
| Website | http://www.mickopedia.org/ |
| Registration | Accounts cannot be created |
| Launched | Unknown |
| Current status | Active |
Mickopedia, styled MickO‘Pedia, is a humorous translation of the English Wikipedia into a faux Hiberno-English dialect, a process described by the website as "mickifying".[1] The name is derived from the ethnic slur for Irish people, "Mick", and the common prefix to Irish surnames, "O'", which replaces the second "i" in Wikipedia. Mickopedia calls itself "The Irish Encyclopedia".
Currently the website is owned and operated by three people: Edward Melvin, Oliver Mooney and James Kelleher.
History
Mickopedia (MickO'Pedia) celebrates its foundation every 15 January. As of 2009, it claimed to have 2.7m articles.[2]
In a blog post of May 2012, the site's founder, Edward Melvin, has explained the circumstances behind the founding of the website:[3][4]
| “ | It was a pub idea cooked up between me and two friends; Oliver Mooney & James Kelleher, about 3 years back.
We did not sit down and manually rewrite Wikipedia’s 4 million entries. That would have taken at least a week, even going hard. To clarify, the site uses a script which grabs the wikipedia entry for your search and modifies it ‘on the fly’, making the rewrites and insertions. Costs were a few pints, domain registration / hosting and a couple of days of our time. It was fun to do. |
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Style examples
As the script recreates each page loaded into the reader's browser on the fly, the "translation" is different with each reloading, thus no page ever reads the same from minute to minute.
On May 23, 2012, the main page, during one loading, translated the sentence describing the language the English Wikipedia is written in as "This Mickopedia is written in English. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. Started in 2001, it currently contains 3,960,486 articles. Soft oul' day. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the bleedin' largest are listed below. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph."
The site's title is spelled "Mick O'Pedia", as in "Mick O'Pedia: Bejaysis, ye can look up all kinds o' shite now".
Software
Mickopedia uses a Python script to convert articles (taken from the English Wikipedia) into Irish (Hiberno) English. The link structure and content of Mickopedia is the same as that of the English Wikipedia. Only the wording is changed to reflect Irish Hiberno-English words instead of more common standard English words.
See also
References
- ↑ The mickopedia.org website
- ↑ "Day - Mickopedia, the free encyclopedia". Mickopedia. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
- ↑ "broadsheet.com". Broadsheet.ie. 2012-05-06. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
- ↑ "broadsheet.com". Broadsheet.ie. 2012-05-06. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
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