Kamelopedia is a parody of Wikipedia, which started from a private MediaWiki installation and gained popularity in 2004. Like Wikipedia, Kamelopedia is also a Wiki-style collection of web pages. It is currently available in German, its original language. As of 16 May2006, there are over 9200 articles. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ... MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey>[1]) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
There are no guidelines in Kamelopedia, however, predominant types of humour include:
Fake homonyms. A familiar word is orthographically rewritten and re-interpreted through the meaning phonetically similar words. E.g. Europawahl ("European elections") becomes Europawal (without "h") in Kamelopedia. Wal means "whale", which opens the door to jokes on the contradiction between size and importance.
Connections to camels. Kamelopedia users ("Kamelopedians") sometimes refer to themselves as Kamele ("camels"), and try to relate everyday words to the world of camels by rewriting them to include "Kamel". Examples are Kameleon or Kamelasagne, or "Hasta la camela, baby", "a famous one-liner by Arnold Schwarzenhöcker ('Arnold Black-Hump'), governor of Kamelfornien". Related references are those to the (assumed) world of camels, that is, Egypt, pyramids and palm trees.
Explaining familiar words and names in a deliberately nonsensensical way, preferably with parallels to the real meaning (for example, the career of Arnold Schwarzenhöcker).
A homonym is one of a group of two or more words that have the same phonetic form (i. ... A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Species Camelus bactrianus Camelus dromedarius A camel is either of the two species of large even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus, the Dromedary (single hump) and the Bactrian Camel (double hump). ...
Uncyclopedias logo, which is made from a potato named Sophia to parody Wikipedias globe logo. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
External links
German Kamelopedia
Link to Arnold Schwarzenhöcker's biography in Kamelopedia (German)
Kamelopedia wird durch die PISA-Studie gezielt gefördert und dient als Lektüre für den Deutschunterricht an Berliner Hauptschulen.
Dabei kamen sie auf eine verrückte Idee: Sie wollten die Weltherrschaft an sich reißen, indem sie die Menschen mit langweiligen "parodisierten" Artikeln, in denen jedes zweite Wort "Kamel" ist, zu Tode langweilen.
Aber er ist nur einer von vielen, die sich für ein Kamel halten, was die Seite auch zu einer Art Selbsthilfegruppe für verstörte Höckerträger werden liess.
A familiar word is orthographically rewritten and re-interpreted through the meaning phonetically similar words.
Wal means "whale", which opens the door to jokes on the contradiction between size and importance.
Kamelopedia users ("Kamelopedians") sometimes refer to themselves as Kamele ("camels"), and try to relate everyday words to the world of camels by rewriting them to include "Kamel".
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