Talk:Malaysian government warns citizens about Uncyclopedia
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Media: Kwong Wah e-Newspaper Date: 2008/01/15 Topic: Malaysia Internal Security Department Warns Its People on Anti-Malaysia Websites / 侮辱大马网站 内安部冀关注 URL: http://www.kwongwah.com.my/news/2008/01/15/6.html
The Internal Security Department of Malaysia has identified Uncyclopedia as a dangerous website which has messages and information insulting Malaysia and warns its people not to use the website today.
In the warning notice it mentioned that Uncyclopedia is created in January 5, 2005 and is running by Wikia Inc. The famous Wikipedia website also belongs to this company. But the website is spreading wrong information on Malaysia and is been used widely in the world, especially by the press from the United States.
It also mentioned that the website covers many aspects of Malaysia including history, culture, the political leaders, the government, the national song and the name / symptoms of the national flag. However, those information actually are not correct.
The ISD warning says this is insulting Malaysia and the website is spreading unresponsible news to twist the fact that Malaysia now is a peaceful nation and the website tend to make a political separation in Malaysia and cause a bad image of Malaysia in the world.
Through the warning notice the ISD of Malaysia wishes to ask the public not to download, spread the contents of those websites so they won't be effected by the information.
Chinese paper
This is from a Chinese-language paper, not Malay. Do we have details on their circulation or market? And - perhaps more to the point - does Uncyclopedia have any material in Chinese or Malay? --Brian McNeil / talk 16:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- It is a Malaysian newspaper written in Chinese. Wikipedia has this entry Kwong Wah Yit Poh which does not have anything about circulation. --SVTCobra 17:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- Yes to your second question, Chinese and Malay. -- Zanimum 18:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- I guess there are two url's for Chinese Uncyclopedia. Is that really what Malay looks like in the Latin alphabet? --SVTCobra 19:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- There are two versions of Uncyclopedia in Chinese, one each for regular-script/traditional and simplified. The Taiwanese version is the more active of the pair, as the Great Firewall of China has been blocking various Uncyclopedia sites with Chinese/Asia-Pacific content for the better part of a year now. They also have the number of languages badly wrong, http://encyclopedi.as lists forty-seven individual wikis, some Wikia, some not. Perhaps the Prince of the United States [1] would be willing to intervene if this becomes a major international incident? --66.102.80.212 01:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Mistakes
Tolopedia is Bahasa Indonesia, not Bahasa Melayu as claimed here. The section on the number of language editions is ridiculous. You seem to be using Uncyclopedia as a source! The listing of language versions as "Oscar Wilde, Newspeak, N00b, White Supremacist, and Re: PharmaccgRy" is a joke - please do not quote that here as if it were serious. The actual language versions of Uncyclopedia are listed on CentralWikia:Uncyclopedia. Angela 08:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- In the Uncyclopedia article, I listed Tolololpedia as it was the closest available to Malaysian. Indonesian and Malaysian are both minor variants on Malay, and despite both being called "languages" are almost completely mutually-intelligible dialects (indeed, there's been serious debate on foundation-l about whether they should have separate Wikipedias). So in the Uncyclopedia article I used "language group" - David Gerard 08:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- And looking at w:Malay language, I see they've started calling Malaysian just "Malay." But Indonesian and Malay are still pretty close. Further apart than British and American English, as close or closer than Brazilian and Portuguese Portuguese. But anyway. I'm quite proud to see my Uncyclopedia piece has made Wikinews ;-) There's UnNews forum discussion at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Forum:Urgent_Public_Safety_Warning that may be relevant to the article as well - David Gerard 10:29, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- Malay and Indonesian are practically the same; there are some minor differences, but the only reason we consider them separate languages is for political reasons. (Nationalistic pride - and apparently a lot of Malaysians and Indonesians hate each other's guts as well.) I'd say they're about as different as Australian English is from American English. Johnleemk 16:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- Angela, using CentralWikia:Uncyclopedia as a list of the actual language versions of Uncyclopedia would be even more of a joke than the "Re: PharmaccgRy" nonsense - that list, being Wikia-specific, is missing enough Uncyclopedias to fill a dedicated co-located server or two. Key non-Wikia serving Uncyclopedia content to the Asia-Pacific region would be uncyclopedia.tw (Taiwan), ansaikuropedia.org (Japan) as well as Korean and Thai versions.
- Certainly [2] is filled with errors: 34 languages of Uncyclopedia? (should be 47) Polish as second-largest? (should be Japan, then Brazil, then Poland...). And no, the Taiwanese edition is not under the jurisdiction of "the Prince of the United States" last I checked. --66.102.80.212 18:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Rediculous is
Cracking the story rather than contributing to it, the biggest quacker, Angela. -Edbrown05 21:14, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
No thank you for coming into some crumby little story that you have a problem with and ripping some of its guts out, bye bitch. -Edbrown05 21:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)