About Wilkipedia
Wilkipedia is a cheerful encyclopedia of wrongness—the misconceptions we all share, the memories we all mangle, and the confident nonsense that AI now generates at scale. Educational, fact-checked, and not remotely as serious as its subject deserves.
📛 Wilki ≠ Wiki. We are an independent, tongue-in-cheek project. We are not Wikipedia, not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation or any encyclopedia, and we don't imitate their look or claim their authority. The name is a wink at how easily a familiar thing gets misremembered — which is, after all, the whole point.
What we do
- Bust misconceptions with real, verifiable facts — the stuff 'everybody knows' that happens to be false;
- Explore the Mandela effect and the fascinating, ordinary memory science behind it;
- Teach AI-error literacy — what hallucinations are and how not to get fooled;
- Champion one idea above all: confident and true are different things.
How a myth entry works
Every correction on Wilkipedia follows the same two-part shape: the claim (what people commonly believe) and Actually (the documented correction). We only publish a correction when it's backed by well-established, widely corroborated evidence — peer-reviewed research, documented historical records, or scientific consensus. If we're not confident a correction is solid, we leave it out rather than guess.
Our standards
- No invented statistics. Every number and claim traces to something genuinely documented, not something that merely sounds plausible;
- No thin or contested corrections. Where the science is genuinely unsettled, we say so or skip the topic rather than manufacture false certainty;
- Prominent disclosure. We are not Wikipedia, not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation, and we don't claim their authority — see the notice above;
- Always verify what matters. We're a lighthearted independent project, not a substitute for a doctor, lawyer, or primary source when the stakes are real.
The fine print
- We aim to be accurate — ironic if we weren't — but we're a lighthearted project, so verify anything that actually matters against authoritative sources;
- Corrections welcome: being wrong gracefully is the house religion;
- Take us seriously, but not too seriously — that balance is basically the site.
Start with common misconceptions, or jump straight to our FAQ for quick answers.