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[Gnaborretni]

It's a satire upon wikipedia.

I like it.

[OnewingedDragon]

That makes sense. Now it's just funny.

[Mike Caron]

Now, to be fair, you couldn't get that far on Wikipedia, as you are not allowed to write in a narrative format.

[Halfling Daniel]

It's not quite a satire, actually, since I'd have to have a complain or a criticism about Wikipedia to soapbox about behind my writing. Heck, I like Wikipedia while being cynic about it and not relying on it too much. I always read at least an article in Wikipedia a day, I've registered in Wikipedia, editted Wikipedia and even used Wikipedia to hook up once, (even though it seems like Facebook would have been a better medium) and wikislapped people more than once over IRC.
So if I like Wikipedia so much, how do we label what I've written? Well, I'd call it either an affectionate parody, an experimentation in intertextuality or "garbage".

[Halfling Daniel]

This story is about a selfless man who has changed the fate of the world and done great things to help others while maintining his integrity and mental health. This man has done great things daily, before this story was started. As a matter of fact, this great man is now ably walking through a street towards a magnificent place.
That magnificent place should have been a palace, beffiting one of the most important persons of the millenium, yet this clever man decided to not stand out and chose to live in a seemingly ordinary house. He has smoothly stopped his perfectly coordinated shuffle towards his residence, walks through the deceptively unkept garden and greacefully enters the seemingly ordinary house artfully, as if he wasn't trying to impress any audience that might know about his actions in the future.
This great man, after depositing his briefcase in the floor with awesome abandon, proceeds to greatly storm to his deceptively simple fridge. This man is very clever, he has even kept his masquerade to his private residence, taking no chances to be discovered by the enemies he'd later gain on life.
But we digress. Currently, he has opened his fridge, quickly extracted some refreshing orange juice to stay healthy and... left the door open? We guess that gesture means he is unconcerned by material wealth due to his extreme greatness. Yes, that must be it. Anyway, the great man has skilfully picked up his briefcase, gone to his bedroom in a coordinated gait and thrown himself into his deceptively small bed with calculated abandon. While he rests, no doubt preparing his mind and body for the great adventures that await him, we'll inform you of this man's identity thanks to him considerately leaving his handy briefcase open, with his current identification on sight. The perfectly irregular identification lets us know that this great man's name is... Daniel Márquez?
Who is Daniel Márquez? This story is supposed to be about Richard Smith, the great hero. We've never heard of any Daniel Márquez that did anything important.
Sorry, we've been following the wrong person with our narration. The next chapter will deal with the great Richard Smith.

[OnewingedDragon]

Ok.That might be the funniest thing I've read in months if not years.