World Cup-winning South Africa scrum-half, Faf de Klerk, hit the news on Sunday evening after greeting Prince Harry in the victors' dressing-room clad only in his underpants, but the tiny Springbok has made headlines again today, as his Wikipedia pag…
You can hear them baying and howling. They want to rip to pieces anyone who dares to engage in "self-promotion." The Wikipedia police do not want an author to list his books anywhere. If they could burn the author at the stake, they would. The best they can do is strike the title of any book listed by its author. Lest we pretend innocence, let's say we have added a reference to one of our bo...
Although not as expensive to produce and not usually considered as "good" as motion pictures, television (TV) shows are still, by everyone's standards except, perhaps, those of Bill Gates, costly and, therefore, even their goofs, flubs, fuckups, boners, and bloopers, as mistakes by cast and crew are called (except when they're called outtakes or, in England, "a comedy of errors"), are often preser...
Horace Mann of suburban Newberg has completed his purchase of all 26 volumes of Wikipedia including unlimited addenda and a promised Wikipedia Annual to be sent to him each year for the next five years on the anniversary of the purchase date. Mr.
The Spoof's readers have been taking part in a protest against the US's new SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation which is currently passing through the Senate. Other websites, such as Wikipedia, have taken themselves down for the day in order to...
The UK Freeview channel, Dave, is to go dark in support of Wikipedia, by broadcasting nothing but information on the anti-piracy bills currently under debate in the American Senate. "I know American laws shouldn't affect us," said channel co-ordin...
Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their support for anti-piracy laws, after "blackout" protests on thousands of internet porn sites. Two of the bill's co-sponsors, Mario Mario from Florida and Billy Blunt from Missouri, are among those backing awa...
Libraries at UK universities struggled to keep up with demand yesterday as students turned to traditional methods of research. Young academics found they had to read books for information as online resource, Wikipedia, shut down for the day in pro...
Popular artificial news site The Spoof will be supporting WikiPedia's stance on the US copyright laws by going dark for twenty-four hours. "Under new US legislation," said editor Mark Lowton, "much of the content of The Spoof would be illegal and...
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is celebrating being ten years old. Wikipedia is the online reference source that is written on a collaborative basis by ten year old volunteers and is free to use. It can be edited by anyone who is ten years old.
Peter Salt, a student at Carshalton Technical college, who has been making up his science homework for the past two years, has finally been caught out when his homework described an anti-gravity device. "Generally his homework always made sense,"...
Not that he didn't completely deserve it, but Philadelphia Eagles' Quarterback Kevin Kolb's Wikipedia entry was defaced last sunday. Kolb's name Kevin Benjamin Kolb, was changed to Kevin 'Bobby Hoying II' Kolb, a popular nickname in the Philadelph...
WASHINGTON D.C. - United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Department of Justice will be shutting down the Wikipedia website to stem the illegal dissemination of SECRET US Intelligence documents. Holder said that he was...
Wikipedia has been accused of being a secret "cess-pit" for kiddies-porno lovers and other related sites are now enjoying the publicity. In fact the images of kiddies in "naughty" poses on Wikipedia is so popular that they have decided to re-launc...
Clumsy reporter Roy Turse has admitted to accidentally damaging the Twitter website only a few days after he crashed Wikipedia. In a follow up to his joke article about Ashton Kutcher a few months ago, Roy attempted to connect to all of Mr Kutcher's...
The world's most successful on-line encyclopaedia was in turmoil earlier today when it was broken by a simple enquiry made by a Spoof writer. By looking up 'Wikipedia' the writer created an endless loop which locked up all the Wikipedia servers worl...
Cyberspace - (Daily Ass Mess): Online information resource Wikipedia has been relegated to also-ran status after billions of canny net surfers turned to cutting edge website The Spoof! following recent controversy over obituaries of two well known US...
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