User:Spike
“My object in living is to cross my vocation and avocation as my two eyes cross when I see a woman with awesome chest monkeys.”
“Three things from which we all benefit but which we ought not watch being made, are sausages, laws, and Special:RecentChanges.”
Admin Spike
since 3-Feb-13
(was SPIKE
from 3-Oct-09 to 17-Jun-15)
(was SpikeFromNH
from 30-Jul-09)
(edited anonymously from 2-Jul-09)
102,507 edits, 127 wins, 153 saves
Signature: Spıke 🎙️
Location: New Hampshire (UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer)
Userspace
Writer of the Year 2014 (tie)
Uncyclopedian of the Year 2013 (tie)
Writer of the Month December 2010 and November 2012
Uncyclopedian of the Month October 2010
Also, Gobshite of the Month April 2015
Heraldic rank:
Order of Uncyclopedia since 3-Feb-13
K.C. Grand Cross since 1-Jan-11
Knight Commander since 3-Apr-10
Commander since 1-Mar-10
Officer rank:
Brig. General since 27-Oct-15
Major since 3-Feb-13
Lieutenant since 11-May-10
SSgt since 6-Mar-10
Super powers:
Bureaucrat since 27-Oct-15
Sysop since 3-Feb-13
Autopatrolled since its inception
Rename/rollback since 25-Oct-10
Major works
Solicited editing
I've performed gut-and-paste jobs requested by a tag in the article, on:
- Brexit[1] Featured 9-Jul-16 (½ credit)
- Breyer, Stephen, NEW Featured 15-Apr-22
- Buckley, William F.[2]
- Clip-on tie
- El Humidor
- Equestria Girls[3] Featured 8-Sep-22
- Fantastic Four (
listen)
- Fiorina, Carly NEW[4] Featured 4-Feb-16
- First-past-the-post voting NEW Featured 7-Aug-15
- Floppy disk
- FORTRAN
- Horace[5] Best "vital article" — '15 TAWFeatured 15-Apr-15
- Ironman Triathlon[2]
- Islam
- Kentucky Featured 30-Dec-21
- Levin, Mark[2]
- NBC[2] Best "requested article" — '15 TAWFeatured 28-Mar-15
- Netflix[6] Featured 1-Sep-14
- New Jersey
- Northeastern United States
- Pie
- Pimp
- Political capital[2]
- Polk, James K.
- the Rescuers (
listen)[7]
- Sheep with Bizzeebeever Featured 28-Dec-12
- State of the Union address
- Stockbroker Featured 31-Dec-15
- Tortilla
- Universe Featured 20-Oct-12 (½ credit)
- Venezuela
- Well-endowed Disambiguation
- ↑ Solicited by users from Inciclopedia.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Solicited at UN:REQ.
- ↑ The solicitation was made by an anonymous user.
- ↑ Solicited by numerous red-links placed in articles concerning the 2016 campaign, mostly by me
- ↑ Solicited at UN:VITAL.
- ↑ The solicitation was made by an {{ICU}} tag, and I put it there.
- ↑ The solicitation was made by one of Uncyclopedia's perennial problem children, and while he was banned from the site.
- ↑ Suggested (now on the talk page) as an alternative to editing a Featured Article. My only time in this namespace.
Unsolicited editing
- Accident Replacement; with EStop
- Advertising Replacement Featured 6-Jun-19
- African American (
listen)
Featured 3-Mar-14 - Akaa, Finland NEW; with Tavekile
- Alumni NEW
- Amarillo, Texas NEW Featured 7-Feb-17
- American cuisine NEW Featured 16-Apr-13
- Antimony NEW
- Arthur, Chester A.
- Assembly language
- Atheist Hell
- Atlas Shrugged (film) NEW
- Audiophile Featured 11-Jun-15
- Autism Featured 4-Jun-16
- Availability NEW
- Aviation safety
- Ayotte, Kelly NEW
- Baha'i NEW
- Banh Shop NEW
- Bankman-Fried, Sam NEW Featured 3-Jan-23
- Barrett, Amy Coney NEW
- Battery
- Beany and Cecil NEW
- Beer
- Benzene NEW Featured 26-Jun-14
- Biden, Jill NEW
- Bitcoin NEW Featured 14-Dec-12
- Boebert, Lauren NEW
- Boehner, John
- Bognor Regis Featured 15-Jul-22
- Brady, Tom
- Brown, Scott NEW
- Bruford, Bill NEW
- Buchanan, Pat NEW
- Bush, Jeb Featured 18-Mar-15
- Cap'n Crunch NEW — with ScottPat Featured 23-Jul-13
- Charlie Hebdo NEW
- Chat Roulette (
listen)
- ChatGPT NEW Featured 1-Apr-23
- Cheka with Anton199 Featured 12-Feb-14
- Chekov, Pavel NEW
- Chickpea NEW
- Chile NEW Featured 24-Feb-14
- Christie, Chris NEW
- CHU NEW
- Citizens Band Featured 10-Mar-20
- Clinton, Hillary Featured 26-Jul-15
- Community NEW — with EStop Featured 29-Apr-16
- Convention of States
- Corn Pop NEW
- Costa Rica
- Cotswold Olimpick Games NEW — with ScottPat Featured 15-Jun-13
- Covfefe NEW
- Cracker Jack NEW Featured 22-Mar-14
- Crudites NEW Featured 18-Oct-22
- Cruise control NEW
- Cullen, Bill NEW
- Cuties
- Danton, Georges Featured 2-Dec-16
- DEFCON Featured 7-Feb-23
- Denier NEW
- DNA
- Dog Replacement; with EStop Featured 16-Apr-17
- Dog whistle NEW
- Dogs of the Dow NEW Featured 4-Dec-20
- Dog n Suds NEW
- Dole, Bob NEW
- Dominica NEW
- Donner Pass NEW
- D'Souza, Dinesh NEW
- El Producto NEW
- El Salvador (El Humidor)
- Emperors
- Constans II NEW
- Constantine III and Heraklonas NEW
- Constantine VII
- Heraclius NEW
- Hypatia NEW
- Irene NEW
- Justinian II NEW
- Nikephoros I NEW
- Phocas NEW
- End Time concept by Uncycloperson
- Ersatz Disambiguation
- Estoppel NEW
- Fashion
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Flag Burning Amendment
- Freedom, Enes Kanter NEW
- Fulano NEW
- Game Dev Tycoon
- Ghana
- Kumasi NEW
- Passion Air NEW
- Tamale NEW
- Global warming
- Globalization NEW
- Gorsuch, Neil NEW
- Grand Moff Tarkin Featured 6-Aug-17
- Greeley, Horace NEW Featured 15-May-15
- Green New Deal NEW
- Gretna Green NEW Featured 19-Jul-15
- Guyana Featured 14-Nov-12
- Harris, Kamala with Romartus Featured 23-Oct-20
- Hayes, Rutherford B. NEW
- Henry Disambiguation
- Hmor with Romartus Featured 21-Oct-12
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hotline with EStop
- Huntsman, Jon NEW
- Immaculate Conception NEW
- Impeachment
- Impotence NEW
- India
- Chandigarh Featured 4-Aug-22
- Godse, Nathuram
- Hanuman NEW
- Havyaka Brahmins
- Hindi
- Kashmir Featured 16-Jun-22
- Kerala Featured 25-Dec-12
- Kovind, Ram NEW
- Mizoram
- Modi, Narendra with Inix
- Mughal Road Featured 8-Jun-20
- Yousafzai, Malala NEW
- Chandigarh
- International Alphabet Magnet Day with Avronyx Featured 3-Oct-21
- Introduction joke with WiiKend Featured 9-Dec-13
- Iron law
- Isle of Man
- Johnson, Mike with Romartus Featured 19-Jul-24
- Kagan, Elena NEW
- Kelly, Megyn NEW
- Kepner-Tregoe NEW
- Keynesianism
- Kilogram NEW — with EStop Featured 17-Mar-16
- Kings of Leon NEW
- Kissinger, Henry Featured 4-Jun-24
- Knights of Columbus NEW
- Koch Brothers NEW Featured 23-Dec-12
- Kwanzaa/Classic
- Labatt NEW
- Lactose NEW Featured 2-Feb-22
- Lava lamp NEW Featured 16-Jan-15
- Le Pew, Pepé NEW Featured 7-Jun-21
- Libertarian Party Featured 28-Jun-13
- Loosie NEW
- Lynch mob NEW
- McConnell, Mitch NEW
- Magical girl
- Maine Featured 22-Jun-12
- Mar-a-Lago (MAGA-Lago) NEW
- Massachusetts
- Masshole Redone
- Maurice NEW
- Mecca NEW
- Mensa NEW Featured 16-Nov-12
- Metadata NEW Featured 17-Nov-16
- Mexico
- Chihuahua
- Niños Héroes (
listen) NEW
Featured 21-Dec-19 - Quintana Roo NEW
- Michigan
- Ann Arbor
- Cadillac NEW Featured 31-Jan-13
- Flint see Saves off VFD
- Grand Rapids Featured 5-Jan-13
- Hillsdale College NEW Featured 3-Oct-15
- Kalamazoo
- Michigan Tech
- Millan, Cesar
- Minor League Baseball with HauntedUndies Featured 4-May-12
- Miranda warning Featured 24-Mar-16
- Mr. Natural
- Monotheism
- Most overused 100 Star Trek episode plots
- Multrum, Clivus NEW
- Navelism NEW
- Neu! with WeatherUnderground
- New Hampshire Featured 1-Feb-15
- Manchester Featured 21-Aug-16
- Nashua
- Manchester
- New Year's Day Rescued from FFW-2011
- Noem, Kristi NEW
- Nooney, Ann
- Nuclear football NEW
- Nutella NEW Featured 29-Jan-13
- Obama, Barack
- Obama's birth NEW
- Oxymoron
- Paraguay Featured 6-Feb-14
- Ped Xing NEW Featured 20-Oct-17
- Pence, Mike with Romartus Featured 3-Dec-23
- Perry, Rick NEW Featured 4-Apr-17
- Peru
- Pez NEW
- Ph.D. Featured 27-May-13
- Pink slime NEW
- Polish language
- Poptropica
- Pornography
- Possum Trot NEW Featured 26-Aug-21
- Powell, Sidney NEW Featured 14-Dec-20
- Powers that be, the NEW
- Prime Directive NEW Featured 20-Jul-12
- Prince Albert NEW
- Push present
- Québec with Mattsnow
- Question Authority concept by Zariak Featured 17-Mar-13
- Reaganomics
- Red Hot Pawn with PuppyOnTheRadio
- Roberts, John
- Roller derby NEW Featured 16-Aug-19
- Rubio, Marco
- Rules of baseball Best noob article, 2009 PLSFeatured 31-Jan-17
- Saladin with Romartus
- Satchel
- Scarlet fever
- Scratch disk NEW
- Second Council of Nicaea NEW
- Selfie NEW
- Selfie stick NEW
- Serenity (film) NEW
- Sharpie with HolUp Featured 13-Nov-20
- She Blinded Me with Science
- Shoegaze with Avronyx Featured 29-Jan-21
- Sloanes
- Slut shaming with Anton199 Featured 2-Apr-15
- Sodium NEW
- Soup
- Souter, David NEW
- Spanish
- Speed Racer
- SQL
- Squire, Chris NEW
- Stewart, Potter NEW
- Stirner, Max
- Super-delegate Featured 25-Jun-16
- Talk radio NEW Featured 9-Nov-12
- Cunningham, Billy NEW
- Harvey, Paul NEW
- Kudlow, Larry NEW
- Limbaugh, Rush Featured 1-Sep-20
- Taylor, Chuck Featured 24-Nov-16
- Tea Party movement NEW
- Tebow, Tim Featured 3-Nov-13
- Teleology NEW Featured 19-Sep-15
- Temporal paradox
- Tennessine NEW
- Teutonic Knights NEW Featured 10-Feb-14
- That was easy!
- Throwball
- Tetragrammaton Featured 30-Jun-12
- There Isn't Any (
listen) NEW
Featured 2-Aug-12 - Threat NEW
- Thunberg, Greta with Michael9422
- Thunderbirds with Romartus Featured 12-Jun-17
- Togo NEW
- Top things we learn from the movies NEW
- Town meeting NEW Featured 22-Sep-14
- Travesty
- Trump Tower NEW Featured 12-Jan-17
- Truth or Consequences
- Tunisia Replacement
- Turban Featured 14-Jul-13
- Twelve Tables NEW
- Victory lap NEW
- Volleyball NEW Featured 9-Aug-12
- Vulcan (
listen)
- Warren, Elizabeth NEW
- We NEW
- West, Delonte NEW
- Whey NEW Featured 18-Aug-22
- White people
- Windsor Castle NEW Featured 15-Apr-23
- Work Featured 23-Jan-10
- Worst bumper stickers NEW Featured 13-Mar-15
- Yes, we can!
- Yiff
- Uncyclopedia:Drama
Saves off VFD
I loiter at the Votes For Deletion (VFD) water-cooler, where bad articles go to die, looking for articles to save. It's more social than picking requests off a list, and it carries the satisfaction that every good job displaces one of Uncyclopedia's worst. It's like being the local Simon Cowell (though I'm probably also the object of one unsatisfied customer's reference to "Uncyclopedia's Hitler Youth"). I've thus taken custody of the following articles:
- /
- Absurdity
- Accordion
- Accountant Featured 15-Apr-14
- Addams Family, the Featured 5-Apr-24
- Aldi with EStop
- Alphabet
- Ammo
- Angry Asian Kid
- Anus
- Argumentum ad
Wikipediam - Aurora (
listen)
- B
- Babar
- Baby catapult
- Barcode Replacement
- Barf Re-listed on VFD and saved againFeatured 9-Aug-21
- Barnstars
- Basement Dweller
- Bass guitar Featured 5-Dec-15
- Batroc (
listen)
- Beanie Baby
- Beast
- Ben Folds Five
- Black tights
- Boulez, Pierre
- Brave New World
- Brick Best rewrite, 2014 PLS
- Brinker, Hans with Flyingbird Featured 6-Aug-14
- Brown, John Featured 27-May-17
- California Featured 27-Nov-15
- Captain Selfish
- Cattle prod
- Chagas disease
- Chemical bonding
- Chicken McNuggets
- Coin with EStop Featured 12-Dec-16
- College kid with His Highness Probably Somebody IX, OBE Featured 18-Dec-15
- Coming soon
- Constitution (gaming)
- Corn Featured 3-Nov-12
- Cruel and unusual punishment Featured 23-Apr-15
- Cul-de-sac
- Cutter
- Dark matter
- Death slot
- DHL
- Dildus (
listen)
- Doctor of the Church
- Dramamine
to replace Dramamine Pathway - Dummy
- Dystopia to replace Destopius
- Eclipse
- Eris (mythology) NEW, replaces Eris Discordia
- Fantasy sports (
listen)
- Faroe Islands
- Flamethrower
- Flash, the
- Flint, Michigan Featured 8-Nov-21
- Gabon
- Ganesha
- Gaza War with ScottPat Featured 2-Jun-14
- Geldof, Peaches
- Glasses
- Goldberg, Whoopi
- Golspie, Scotland
- Gondola
- Gorder, Genevieve
- Great Library of Alexandria
with Aleister in ChainsFeatured 18-Feb-13 - Guthrie, Jebediah
- Heroin NEW
- Howard the Duck (film) Featured 17-May-17
- Ifrit
- Inland Northwest
- Jam Jesus with Romartus
- James, LeBron
- Khmer Rouge
- Korea (disambiguation)
- Lebanon
- Liberal media REPLACEMENT with EStop Featured 13-Mar-15
- Liger
- Lipocram (
listen)
- London congestion charge
- McNamara, Robert
- Maldives
- Mariology
- Mauritius
- Miniaturization
- Miss America
- MS-DOS NEW
- Mustaches of Legend
- myki concept by Gavelrash Featured 25-Aug-13
- NASDAQ
- NaziPod
- New Panama Canal NEW Featured 21-May-21
- Newton's fourth law
- el Niño
- Nobel Peace Prize with Anton199
- Norbit
- North Dakota
- Nuclear weapon
- Objectivity Featured 1-Sep-12
- Paneveggio
- Paradox
- Paramedic Featured 5-Jun-14
- Pearl Harbor
- Pencil (
listen)
- Peter Pan
- Pink Panther Party
- Plectrum Featured 18-Feb-15
- Port
- Proton
- the Quaker Oats guy
Redirected from William Penn - RC-135
- Reimu Hakurei
- Repossession
- Rice burner
- Rule of Thumb
- St. Clairsville, Ohio (
listen)
with Aleister in Chains - St. Columbo (
listen)
- San Andreas Fault
- Saskatchewan Featured 17-Dec-10
- 7
- Sexual physics
- Shit Creek
- Shiva
- Silicon
- Skin
- Slot car to replace Slot cars
- Smelly Cat
- Sony Featured 25-Sep-13
- Southern United States
- Space Shuttle Challenger Featured 27-Oct-14
- Speedy Gonzalez (
listen)
- Stapler
- Steganography
- Stokes, Doris
- Mr. Sulu
- Sunny D
- Survival of the Fittest
to replace Survival of the Sickest - Syria
- System of a Down
- Tax[1] Featured 9-Jan-16
- Tefillin
- Telugu language
- Testiclēs
- Things that don't exist
- Time signature
- Tower of Babel
- Traffic warden
- Trigonometry Featured 5-Dec-14
- Uncyclopedia, Inc. Alt. version of Uncyclopedia
- Vector calculus
- White van
- WikiHeaven
- Wind
- the Wish Fish
- Worst reasons to become a Christian
- Worst songs to play at a funeral with Simsilikesims Featured 9-Nov-13
- Xylophone
- ↑ I deleted the nomination for deletion, as the nominator was a sockpuppet of a banned user.
And I provided clerical help, but disclaim responsibility, for several articles that were rescued from VFD when I instigated but didn't exactly volunteer. I would take myself out of the article history, if I could; and am doing the reader a huge favor at great possible personal risk by making links out of the following:
- 12 Fundamental Cheeses
- 24 Hour Breakfast War
- 3D animation was History of 3d Animation
- Challengers of the Fantastic
- the Creating Philosophers
- DarkSector
- Drunken neighbour
- Fat People are Harder to Kidnap
- Frink, Professor
- Greggs
- the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Kurdish Military Industries Featured 29-Mar-10
- Laptop
- Mars Climate Orbiter
- Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil
- Squid
- Talking animals in the Bible
- Thomas, Dave
A save off VFH
Amid repairing Uncyclopedia's worst articles, I once exercised the presumption of repairing an article claimed to be Uncyclopedia's best. This strategy proved to be the fast track for featuring.
- Hairy ball theorem Featured 7-Nov-12
Placement Is Treatment
So said The Fat Man in the novel The House of God. That is, a workable (I mean billable) alternative to delivering treatment is to hand off the patient to the right specialist. My involvement on VFD and elsewhere has induced other, more knowledgeable users to go for the Save on the following:
- Anastasia to Aleister in Chains
- B.J. Thomas to Maniac1075
- the Great Teletubby War to Romartus
- History of Great Britain to Romartus
- Linux Incorporated to Romartus
- Musicology to LisaKachold
- Terrell Owens to Woodburninator
And sometimes, I am the one without a chair when the music ends:
- Caliphate from Romartus Featured 31-Oct-14
- Constitution of the United States from Romartus
- Green ink from Romartus Featured 19-Dec-12
- Kerry, John from Romartus Featured 28-Oct-13
- Knights Templar from Romartus
- Powell, Sidney from Romartus Featured 14-Dec-20
- Ryan, Paul from Romartus
- Trump, Donald from Romartus Featured 27-Nov-12
UnNews and UnNews Audio
In February 2010, the pickings became slim on VFD of salvageable articles. I parlayed an interest in current events into submissions to UnNews, usually closely based on actual but already-mostly-absurd emissions of the AP wire. My work on UnNews is listed on a separate page, which you should visit if you have feedback or suggestions for new items.
My style
I'm here because I enjoy using MediaWiki, enjoy writing precisely, and like to make people laugh. I once wrote about how this hobby is better than all the previous ones.
I tried for a long time to avoid the politics of the site, and generally don't vote on individual or article honors, except that I vote on Votes for deletion, by way of paying admission to that salvage yard; and I used to welcome being given the Goldstein Award month after month.
My sense of humor is one of the drier ones here--the best examples are the virtually jokeless There Isn't Any and Objectivity. I avoid goofy flights of fancy unless they have a double meaning or otherwise relate to reality. Most everything I write has the seeds of truth, but the stems and leaves are total crap, developed with the low standards of research appropriate to this site. I'll engage in flights of fancy when I can weave it back to the theme or turn it into a conundrum, as in Dianalysis. I dislike toilet humor, as I write to amuse and not offend--unless the droppings are buried in comedy, as when I called the simian Hindu god Hanuman the Patron Saint of throwing feces, or digress in a passage on eating Cap'n Crunch to mention also sucking off Tony the Tiger.
I plan humor with seriousness and think the parts of this web site that direct the user, such as page titles and categories, should not crack wise. Some say I state opinions in a tone more fit for divine mandates. I write concisely in a style that resembles spoken American, overuse commas to indicate pauses in speech, and am happy to end sentences with prepositions.
Fun facts
- Spike is not morbidly obese (though perhaps that's only knowable in retrospect) nor orally fixated, as these animations might suggest.
- Spike often cooks at home, following his First Law of Home Economics: If the sauce is curry or Szechuan, nothing has to be fresh. Cultural realism is not a criterion either, resulting in works like Hamburger Tikka Masala.
- Spike is a late adopter of technology. Every Windows system is a 2850-song jukebox spanning decades, one-eighth of the songs recut and recombined. Except for that and web surfing, everything would be DOS.
- Spike brings a netbook to the baseball stadium and works on articles during the frequent lapses in live action. With a single keystroke, he can claim to be "checking out-of-town scores."
2011 sabbatical
I got banned for a week in April 2011. I was offered a nice short leash but instead rode out the week and felt nothing but liberation, the second of four UnNews Editors-in-Chief to burn out in short order. My next outlet was an online newspaper comment section. I became notorious enough to win multiple guest appearances on a radio program in a small city upstate. My Congressional delegation didn't know my name but the greeters at their public meetings did. But the newspaper website was even less moderated against trolling, and in May 2012, it shut down reader comments and I returned to Uncyclopedia. New UnNews Audio features followed, and joined the radio stints and announcing at Division III sporting events as a third form of public address lacking only any measurable public.
From zero to hero
I kept my distance from the trolls who used to run the place, but in January 2013, chanting anti-corporation slogans, they stampeded a large number of Uncyclopedians to a separate website owned and controlled by them, over issues ranging from the political tone-deafness of our web-host personnel to the unsurprising fact that any Creative Department always works with other departments filled with the non-creative. They expect a Sugar Daddy to subsidize the work that we all have been providing for free for years, or hope for financial viability despite being too swell to coexist with advertisers. They don't realize that pay-to-play is coming to a website near them.
Now I was suddenly the leading candidate for Admin, based mostly on the compelling fact that nearly everyone else had left (and my most ardent backers would do likewise a couple weeks after the vote). This also happened to me once in the statewide organization of a small political party. I have gone from walking on eggshells to being The Law during some early-morning stretches. I checked Uncyclopedia frequently throughout the day — except if there was a ball game.
Nevertheless, Wikia persisted (second hiatus, 2017-19)
In August 2015, a hacker evidently injected JavaScript onto Wikia websites and captured users' passwords. I do not know, but I know it did not happen on Uncyclopedia.
But this became the excuse for a host-wide crackdown. Suddenly, no one could code in JavaScript without prior restraint from Wikia, an Admin could not delete from a message-of-the-day text that the same Admin added to it months earlier, and protests via Special:Contact
elicited deliberately unresponsive promises to "study" the situation (then robot requests to rate the quality of the customer service). (The only benefit of this evolution is that every Wikia activist stuck in San Francisco is two hours away from the state capital in Sacramento.)
In November 2016, the website was "rebranded" Fandom. (Yay! Bronies!) This, plus the unification of our user names with other Wikia websites (we had debated it, but when push came to shove, we were not consulted) flooded Uncyclopedia with pre-teen users from non-English-speaking countries and induced more good editors to find paying jobs. Site-wide drives to pick one's favorite option for Wikia "Community action" (such as "Income inequality" — which, if they cared, they'd start paying Admins) were another affront to people arriving here merely to write funny stuff. I never claimed Wikia was nice, but only that the case for leaving Wikia and setting up an impostor site was totally phony.
Wikia ceases to persist
In July 2017, Wikia's esteemed engineers moved to TLS 2.0, as it is vital that packet-sniffing hackers in my neighborhood not be able to determine that I am making public edits to a public wiki. It ensured that site security was robust, though Fandom's version of MediaWiki was famously not. This final straw in elevating Wikia engineers over Wikia customers wrecked my antiquated kitchen-table setup and I left to ply my trade for no one at all at TheMirror.miraheze.org
. Miraheze also eventually went to TLS 2.0, which I hear is very very trendy.
In March 2019, Wikia shifted from dictating to us, to discarding us, the staff assigned to delete the last smutty photo not justified by our minuscule audience. A vote was called (as usual, with same-day registration and no Voter ID), and the majority accepted an offer to co-locate on the same server as the Forkers, an arrangement that ensured that the Forkers could snuff out this website merely by not lifting a finger, which is exactly what happened.
A backup set up at uncyclopedia.ca
became the only usable copy of the classic Uncyclopedia. But its existence solved all the above problems, so I returned as a contributor. In 2021, it moved again to the more lucrative uncyclopedia.com
and re-recording the outro to a couple UnNews Audio contributions was a small price to pay.