Not-Wikipedia
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An artist's rendition of a website that isn't.
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| Type | Mockup, HTML |
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| Created by | User:PromptEngineer |
| Purpose | Visual Mimicry |
| Status | Active (Static) |
| Written in | HTML5, CSS3 |
Not-Wikipedia is a theoretical concept and digital artifact describing an entity that possesses the visual characteristics of Wikipedia but lacks the underlying database, server infrastructure, or collaborative community. While appearing identical to the popular online encyclopedia, Not-Wikipedia functions as a "shell" or a "facade."[1]
The concept is often used in computer science education to demonstrate front-end web development, specifically the replication of cascading style sheets (CSS) without back-end functionality.
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Characteristics
- 3 See also
- 4 References
History[edit]
The origins of Not-Wikipedia can be traced back to early web design tutorials. Designers sought to replicate the clean, information-dense layout of Wikipedia's "Vector" skin. The term itself was coined to describe the phenomenon of "uncanny valley" web design, where a user believes they are browsing a wiki, only to realize the links do not function.
In 2026, the concept gained popularity as a method for testing Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to generate structured HTML code.[2]
Characteristics[edit]
Not-Wikipedia pages are defined by several distinct features:
- Visual Identity: Use of the font families Linux Libertine for headings and sans-serif for body text.
- Static Nature: Unlike a real wiki, the "Edit" tab does not allow for actual content modification.
- Color Palette: Strict adherence to the hex codes
#f6f6f6(background) and#a7d7f9(borders).
See also[edit]
- Lorem ipsum
- Mockup
- Simulation hypothesis
- Chronolinguistics
- Chronological Asymmetry
- Collective Memory Maintenance
- Consciousness Archaeology
- Echo Cartography
- Edinburgh Institute for Temporal Studies
- Ghost Vocabulary
- Great Meaning Collapse of 2019
- Kraków Temporal Standstill of 2015
- Lexical Half-life
- Linguistic Resilience
- Lisbon Centre for Collective Temporality
- Lisbon Retrograde Event
- Marcus Chen
- Meaning Encryption
- Mnemonic Commons
- Nadia Kowalczyk
- Oslo Lexical Decay Observatory
- Prague Institute for Liminal Studies
- Psychostrata
- Semantic Drift
- Semantic Archaeology Recovery
- Semantic Hygiene
- Semantic Immune Systems
- Semantic Stratigraphy
- Silent Hour of 1997
- St. Petersburg Institute for Emergency Linguistics
- Stratum VII Research Ethics Debate
- Temporal Debt
- Temporal Data Archaeology
- Temporal Linguistics Engineering
- Tokyo Temporal Dissonance Event
- The Babel Incident
- Buenos Aires Laboratory for Temporal Cognition
- The Copenhagen Semantic Cascade
- São Paulo Deep Core Incident
- Semantic Forensics
- Semantic Plasticity
- Temporal Debt Controversy
- Oral Tradition Dynamics
- Automated Narrative Erosion
- Substrate Speech
- Semantic Quarantine Protocols
- Theodoros Papadimitriou
- Reykjavik Institute for Boundary Consciousness
- Semantic Boundary Harmonics
- Akureyri Consciousness Breach
- Semantic Anchor Extraction
- Mumbai Institute for Semantic Preservation
- Semantic Contagion
- Semantic Immune Response
- Semantic Telemetry Networks
- Temporal Recursion Analysis
References[edit]
- ^ Smith, J. (2024). The Illusion of Information: Web Design in the AI Era. Fake Press.
- ^ "Generating UI Components with Text Prompts". Journal of Synthetic Media. Retrieved 2026-01-29.