Welcome to Not Wikipedia

A small, deliberately unofficial encyclopedia — currently 4 entries.

Not Wikipedia is a reference-styled record of ideas that circulate by word of mouth or were coined by a specific person, but that do not (yet) meet Wikipedia's bar for an article. The layout copies Wikipedia's on purpose. The content does not pretend to be Wikipedia.

Why this exists

Wikipedia only keeps articles on topics that are notable — roughly, topics that have received significant coverage in reliable, independent, published sources.1 It also does not publish original research or things made up one day.23 The ideas collected here — a hockey scorekeeping notation, a coined word for a kind of sports fan, a homemade memory-and-habit trick — are protologisms and folk practices.4 They are real, they are used, and they have an oral history, but nobody independent has written about them.

So this page serves a specific purpose: it is dated, citable evidence that each idea existed and was in use at a given time. If one of them later gets written up in a newspaper, a journal, a book, or anywhere else that counts, this record can support the creation of a proper Wikipedia article — and the date here marks how far back the concept goes.

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This is not a Wikipedia site and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. "Wikipedia" is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. The visual style here is an homage and a parody; all article text is written by its authors and is not drawn from Wikipedia.

Entries

Contents (A–Z)
Canadian Numerals
A sign-value notation for keeping score in pickup hockey using stacked and turned pucks. Attributed to the Sunday skate at Goggin Ice Center, Oxford, Ohio, c. 2024.
Fanbedextrous
Adjective, coined by Andy Bomholt: describing a sports follower who supports several teams situationally rather than one team fanatically. A blend of ambidextrous and fan.
Nerdgency
Noun, coined by Michael Bomholt: the acute, uncharacteristic urgency of a hobbyist rushing a narrow window of access — first observed at the Gen Con exhibit hall on day one.
Rock System
An ad-hoc physical method, devised by Peter Jamieson, that uses a grid of rocks as tangible reminders for habits to perform and ideas to remember.

More entries may be added as other ideas come up that are worth putting on the record.

References

  1. "Wikipedia:Notability". Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
  2. "Wikipedia:No original research". Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
  3. "Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not". Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
  4. "Neologism". Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism

Not Wikipedia is a project of Peter Jamieson. Text on this site is released under CC BY-SA 4.0, the same license Wikipedia uses. This page was last edited on 29 August 2026.