“If I told you I had a bucket and showed you the bucket, would you ask for a newspaper article to prove I had a bucket?”
—-210.9.136.63 (talk) 12:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
“Yes. Yes, we would. That’s the way it works on Wikipedia.”
—FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 12:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in which participants play editors of a hypothetical online encyclopedia. The goal is to try to insert misinformation that is randomly assigned at signup, while preventing any contrary information from being entered by others. Players with similar misinformation will generally form “guilds” in order to aid one another.
Wikipedia players gain more authority as they progress, with “Administrator” and “Double-O Licensed” rankings granting them access to game processes not available to others.

If it weren’t so true, it wouldn’t be so funny.