Wackopedia

• Whackopedia

Blend of wacko +‎ Wikipedia.

Wackopedia

1. (slang, derogatory) Wikipedia.
   • 2003 July 7, Bill Cleere, “Dig it, daddy-o”, in alt.pouting.sandwich‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     > http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
     Wackopedia!

   • 2006 July 27, Cuz, “Is your firewall spying on you?”, in austin.general‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     What a source, 'Wackopedia'

   • 2006 August 4, Daedalus, “Hey, does this give anyone any ideas?? :)”, in alt.music.michael-jackson‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     >> Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site […]
     Didn't we have some fun on "Wackopedia" last year? I remember it really pissed the f'loons off good.

   • 2007 March 6, MajorOz, “Short Heinlein bio...”, in alt.fan.heinlein‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     > Conservative Christian bias. Rather severe. Their list of "Bias in
     > Wikipedia" starts off showing their bias pretty clearly, and just keeps
     > going. […]
     Wackopedia ?

   • 2008 January 11, Horvath, “No separtion^[sic] of church and state: John McCain dangerous war policy”, in alt.war.vietnam‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     >According to Wikipedia:
     Nobody cares about Wackopedia.

   • 2013 October 8, Kym Horsell, “Who Fabricated the Global Warming "Pause"?”, in alt.global-warming‎^[6] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes. -- Wackopedia

   • 2019 August 17, NUR, “Baha’is of Wackopedia: The Online Cult Spreading Ignorance”, in talk.religion.bahai‎^[7] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     In this one hour podcast academic Philosopher of Mind, Keyvān Yaḥyāʾī, and Waḥīd Azal discuss the manipulation of Wikipedia and its entries by the ad hoc Wikipedia taskforce of the Baha’i Internet Agency ([…]).

   • 2021 June 24, Eram semper recta, “The utter bullshit of set theory.”, in sci.math‎^[8] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 October 2025:

     > According to the first woman to win the Abel Prize (Karen Uhlenbeck), she warns against Wackopedia (her own words!).
     […] Uhlenbeck is unaware that Wackopedia is run by her colleagues in mainstream universities. "...and let me tell you, don't trust Wackopedia. The university web sites are far more reliable."