Explain/The Wiki Camp 2
If you have somehow stumbled across this wiki from an outside source, you probably have many questions, such as: Where am I? What is happening? Am I in hell? Not to worry, there is a method to our madness...somewhat. Welcome to The Wiki Camp 2!
First off, some basic terminology: An object camp is a sort of online gameshow, usually held over Discord or deviantArt, inspired by the web animation genre known as the object show. Object shows traditionally have casts that consist primarily of inanimate objects anthropomorphized in a very simplistic manner, simply drawing a face and limbs onto them. The subject matter of an object show typically involves an elimination-based competition, ala Total Drama Island, but this is certainly not a requirement and modern examples of the genre have deviated from it more and more. Object camps follow a similar formula: The host of the contest submits a prompt that must be followed by the contestants, who typically respond by drawing or animating how their character would complete the challenge (often jokey or otherwise weird in nature). The entries are then ranked and the lowest-scoring contestants are put up for voting; you must avoid being voted out in order to win the camp, but of course the REAL goal is to make weird stuff and have fun doing it.
Now, then! The Wiki Camp 2 is an object camp-styled game hosted by Satomi where contestants do challenges by editing a wiki. It is a sequel to the first Wiki Camp, which was hosted on Fandom and as a result is kind of unusable but OH WELL. One of the camp's most attractive features is that pages do NOT have to be related to challenges in the slightest. As long as it abides by the wiki's Rules, ANYTHING can be written about. This has resulted in a unique sort of culture and loose "canon" sprouting up around the pages of the wiki, which has only been facilitated by Satomi's addition of a plugin that allows for CSS. Just take a look at the main page!
I say "canon" but really, there isn't any. Only what is written in pages related to challenges can be described as canon by any measures; the rest is often nonsensical but impressive regardless. For some examples of what the community can do, check out the category for pages that don't even remotely resemble Wikipedia articles. Our sense of humor tends to be very.. strange. If something has a page featured here on Explain, then it's most likely part of an injoke, but otherwise it's wholly from the editor's brain.
Anyone is welcome to edit, even though the camp is in progress. We have a very active Discord server, but joining it is not required. We also have a Twitter page where the best or strangest edits are collected (no longer posting due to Twitter shutting down the bot it ran on). Feel free to join us!