About Artypedia

Artypedia is a parody encyclopedia that takes real Wikipedia articles and replaces their core subject with the word Art. The result is a surreal, often humorous reading experience: familiar article structures and serious encyclopedic tone, but the subject matter has been swapped to "Art", creating unexpected juxtapositions and absurd insights.

For example, the Wikipedia article on Football becomes an article about Art, where athletes become artists and balls become artworks, while all the historical facts, statistics, and references remain intact.

Artypedia has its origins in 2010. The first iteration was built using a MediaWiki installation. The import and transformation process was manual and labor-intensive, involving copying and pasting Wikipedia articles, then systematically replacing the core subject with "Art". Images with the subject as text hat to be manipulated in photoshop, resulting in hours of work.

After a while the MediaWiki installation was flodded with spam and soon became unusable and was so corrupted, that even backups were no help. So the bulk of the work was lost.

Fast forward to 2026: The rise of AI agents made a reboot of the project possible, allowing for an efficient import and let's me focus on the conceptual part of the project. While AI does the heavy lifting it is still necessary to steer the project and bring the articles into their final shape.

Memi Beltrame, March 2026

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All original content is sourced from English Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Artypedia is a transformative derivative work.