Talk:Liberapedia (Wikia)

Move to article page when agreed upon by 3 Sysops and 3 people involved in the conflict

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 original creator of Liberapedia 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)

Move to article page - vote

As the statement at the top says: Move to article page when agreed upon by 3 Sysops and 3 people involved I propose that we do just that.--Bob M 08:13, 10 September 2009 (EDT)

Great Bob, I think that agreeing on an article is not like voting. I think this is Wiki and we can do things that are better than voting. My perspective on this comes from Meatball:VotingIsEvil. Best, MarkDilley

Vote for re-insertion

--Bob M 08:13, 10 September 2009 (EDT)

--Lumenos 14:56, 13 September 2009 (EDT) Vote to unlock the article page (not an endorsement of any version of the article).

-- I don't see anything controversial with the contents of this article. Whether it is accurate or not is a different matter, and should be solved by other means. Voting to reinstate. Felix Pleşoianu | talk 02:01, 14 September 2009 (EDT)

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a Storehouse of Knowledge	here									here	here
Anarchopedia		here		here									here	here
Andrew Schlafly	here			here					here	here	here				here
Citizendium	here			here					here	here			here		here	here	here
Conservapedia	here	here	here	here		here	here	here	here	here	here	here	here	here	here	here	here
Encyclopedia Dramatica	here	here		here						here		here			here	here	here
Encyclopedia of Stupid										here			here
Fred Bauder													here
Jimbo Wales	here		here	here					here				here	here	here	here	here
Julian Assange			here	here											here	here	here
Larry Sanger	here		here	here									here	here	here	here	here
Liberapedia	here									here
Libertapedia				(Ltn Wiki)				here		here			here
Philip j. Raymant										here
RationalWiki	here							here	here	here	here	here			(RD-talk)
RationalWikiWiki											here
Schlafly	here			here						here						here
Uncyclopedia	here		here							here	here		here	here	here	here	here
Wikiindex				here				here		here			here
Wikinfo				here				here				here	here	here	(RD-talk)
Wikinfo (criticism)		here
Wikipedia	here		here	here		here		here	here	here		here			here	here	here
Wikipedia (SE)			here	here
Wikipedia (Sp)			here
Wikitruth				(WT founder)								here
Wikileaks		here	here	here						here		here	here		here	here	here

• RW satire on Andrew Schlafly
• RW satire on Jimbo Wales
• The Great Citizendium Conundrum
• About RationalWikiWikiWiki
• Wikinfo on Simple English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia in Scots English Wikipedia

I've put this in the following talk pages:

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Talk:A Storehouse of Knowledge, Talk:Citizendium, Talk:Conservapedia, Talk:Encyclopædia Dramatica, Encyclopedia Of Stupid, Talk:Libertapedia, Talk:RationalWiki, Talk:RationalWikiWiki, Talk:English Wikipedia, Talk:Español Wikipedia, Talk:Simple English Wikipedia, Talk:Scots Wikipædia, Talk:WikInfo, Talk:Wikitruth, and Talk:WikiLeaks.206.130.173.53 13:12, 21 January 2011 (PST)