I find great amusement in this site: Uncyclopedia. It is basically an encyclopedia of humorous articles. The self-acclaimed "content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" has over 23,352 articles in English.
One of the greater features that this site offers is a little box in article pages that provides a link to the wikipedia article of the same/similar topic. ("For the religious among us who choose to believe lies, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Free content.")
More than that, I also see it as a site where the potential vandals can be allowed to make their spoof articles and entries. It allows for people to utilize articles to sound legitimate, yet throw inside jokes and sarcasm in.
Of course, there will be people who want to work on the main wikipedia site to spread their own propagands, but this site is basically a "grafitti" site that allows for humor and personal biases, and in fact encourages them.
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I think its amazing that even though the entire site is a joke, they still have like 50 versions in 50 languages.
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