Talk:Liberapedia (Wikia)

move to article page when agreed upon

Its creator stated that it was created to parody Conservapedia and advises that: "most articles should take stereotypical liberal views and distort them to the extreme.” Liberapedia includes serious articles as well as parodies, and there is sometimes no clear distinction between the two. Although its stated goal is to be a parody encyclopaedia, the serious content contradicts this.

The creator of Liberapedia, WillH left the site leaving no active bureaucrats. The remaining sysops struggled to handle the incoming spam, and later moved to a site hosted at Wikia where the new “founder” is Ajuk.

Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of Old Liberapedia and the domain name now hosts a parking lot.

I've deleted the category Liberapedia. There used to be a second wiki in the category, Liberapediapedia. Liberapediapedia perished with ScribbleWiki. There's no point in a category with only one wiki. Proxima Centauri 15:17, 21 November 2008 (EST)

Protection

What was so horrible about my contributions that a sysop (who btw is an administrator at Liberapedia, and therefore has a conflict of interest) had to lock this article FOR A MONTH? I admit that the Cyberbullying section was pointy, but the rest was merely copyediting, and removing redundant and confusing info about the whole domain name thing. Oh, and you reverted a spelling correction

You removed content from the page and that can be a blockable offense at at wikis. Proxima Centauri 02:04, 8 July 2009 (EDT)

The only "content" I removed was the minutiae of your DNS problems, specifically the search engine rankings, and I replaced it with a single generic sentence. I'm not censoring anything, I'm merely trying to improve the article.

And if we're dishing out threats now: You used your protection powers (in a grossly inappropriate way) and threatened to use your blocking powers in a content dispute. That can lead to you losing your sysop powers at wikis.

Iv feel you're here just to troll and cause me trouble and I expect the bureaucrats here to take that into account. Proxima Centauri 05:14, 8 July 2009 (EDT)

Oh, ok, let's call the opponent a troll and we've magically won the argument. Hurray. Oh wait, that didn't work so well last time...

Oh, and there's still a spelling mistake in the article

Protection again

This article has been protected for a month again (by Liberapedia bureaucrat Proxima Centauri).

I have tried to make the second paragraph understandable to human beings, but apparently it is forbidden to touch anything Proxima writes, no matter how bad it is. So allow me to explain my edit:

wikia where the new “founder” is -> the Wikia Wiki farm, under the leadership of a new "founder"

nothing controversial here, merged the Wikia wiki farm thing from the last paragraph

Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of Old Liberapedia and the domain name now hosts a placeholder site with Spam.

That is not spam. It's called advertisements, and it's standard procedure for domain hosts to put up advertisements on expired domains. They have every right to do so.

This could matter because on March 7th 2009 Google put that site on top when users look for Liberapedia. A forum was set up to discuss it. As of March 8th 2009 this has stopped at least in the UK but the future is uncertain and as of June 30th Yahoo still give the spammed wiki URL just below the link to New Liberapedia. We cannot guess what would have happened if Liberapedia users had overlooked the spam going on top of Google's answers.

Horribly written, contains irrelevant and probably outdated details

Suggested action if other wikis get comparable problems.

I followed the link and had no idea what that post was about (google ads apparently, what has that got to do with google rankings?). Also this article isn't the place to put helpful tips about running the site. PROTIP: Don't change the domain name.

What I replaced it with:

Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of Old Liberapedia. For a while, search engines ranked the old site higher than the new one, leading to confusion and possible loss of traffic and users. The old domain name now hosts a placeholder site with advertisements. This situation is gradually improving as search engines rank the placeholder lower than new Liberapedia.

I don't know why I didn't include the external link to the discussion on LP, but I'd include it now. I'm talking about this: http://liberapedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Old_Liberapedia_cyber_squaters&t=20090308075834. That's about the only thing that could be considered objectionable about my edit, but it was not on purpose. Other than that and except the "useful" suggestion and the details, there's no loss of information here.

I also removed the last paragraph:

Liberapedia now is yet another Wiki from the fertile Wiki farm of Wikia.

since that was also mentioned in the first paragraph.

Nx 16:09, 26 August 2009 (EDT)