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''Bigipedia'' is a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 that first aired between 23 July and 13 August 2009. A second series of four episodes began on 12 July 2011. The show's storyline revolves around "Bigipedia", a fictional website broadcast on radio and parody of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. The series mocks Wikipedia and other aspects of the Internet. The BBC Press Office described the show as, "a unique experiment in 'broadwebcasting' ".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview With Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Network Radio BBC Week 29: Thursday 23 July 2009 )〕 The series was created by co-star Nick Doody, who also co-writes the show with Matt Kirshen and a wider team of writers. It is produced by Pozzitive Productions. Critics have given ''Bigipedia'' positive reviews. The series was marketed by the BBC as "''The Sunday Format'' for the online age",〔 and critics have given ''Bigipedia'' favourable comparisons with its predecessor.〔 The quality of the writing has also been praised.〔 However, a few critics have expressed reservations about the way the show is presented. The first series of ''Bigipedia'' was made available to purchase as a download from Audible.co.uk from 1 December 2009. The second series was made available to purchase as a download from AudioGo from 5 December 2011. ==Plot== ''Bigipedia'' is a website broadcast on the radio. Like Wikipedia, it contains articles and discussion pages about a range of different subjects, which can be edited by anyone. Among the similarities are articles, discussion pages, disambiguation pages, featured articles, a news section and a "Did you know?" section for new articles. The articles cover a range of fictional celebrities, bands, films, television series, products and a running gag series of articles on anthropomorphic animal characters from Uruguayan safety campaigns. ''Bigipedia'' differs from Wikipedia in some ways. For example, ''Bigipedia'' includes puzzles and competitions, sells its own software,〔〔 has a range of screensavers, and a section for children called ''Bigikids'', which has had different names in the past which have all had to be changed for different reasons. For example, the name changed from ''Kidipedia'' "due to a misunderstanding",〔〔 ''Hanging at the School Gates'' "for reasons you may have seen in the news"〔 and ''Underage Fun'' "due to a copyright infringement".〔 Also, while Wikipedia does not have advertising, ''Bigipedia'' does and is also sponsored by a fictional wine-like drink called "Chianto" which is referred to as "this horrific drink".〔 The ''Bigipedia'' article on Chianto says: "Over the years it has been sold as a hair remover, self-defence spray, hair restorer, and to farmers as a humane way of killing chickens – by putting it into the pig's feed and leaving the gate open. By morning not only were the chickens killed, but often plucked, too."〔 The first series ended with ''Bigipedia'' attempting to take over the world, having crushed a rebellion in the Philippines and feeding nanobots into the heads of anyone listening to the programme. At the start of the second series, ''Bigipedia'' acknowledges that the original ''Bigipedia'', dubbed ''Bigipedia 1.0'' suffered from "security and sentient omniscience issues" and apologises for, "the temporary cyber enslavement of 88% of mankind and the forming of a ''BigiHuman'' hybrid hivemind centred in the Philippines", in an incident they refer to as "The Glitch". The site has been updated and is now known as ''Bigipedia 2.0''. The second series begins with reports of a gigantic Chianto slick in the Gulf of Mexico, a parody of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. At the end of the series, a mix of white and red Chianto in the slick result in the creation of a Chianto "ovum", which hatches at the bottom of the sea as a monstrous party-animal being called the Chianto Leviathan, which makes its way to the ''Bigipedia'' servers in Mexico. The Leviathan attempts to gain all the world's knowledge by accessing the system. The programme ends with ''Bigipedia'' playing "prerecorded programmes" while they attempt to stop the Leviathan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bigipedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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