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| An encyclopedia with a politically "conservative" viewpoint, friendly to creationism and Christianity, and massively hostile to Liberals, homosexuals, and people who support or teach the theory of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_evolution evolution]. The site was started in November 2006 by Andrew Schlafly and a group of homeschooled children to provide an alternative to the perceived anti-Christian, anti-anti-Evolution, anti-American and anti-conservative bias of Wikipedia. The main purpose of the site is to provide a family-friendly resource for homeschooled children from fundamentalist Christian homes. However, some more adult topics such as homosexuality are also treated in depth, to explain all the myriad ways in which they are considered abhorrent. | | An encyclopedia written with a conservative viewpoint; specifically, Conservapedia's articles are politically conservative, friendly to young Earth creationism and conservative Christianity, and USA-centric. Conservapedia is in general hostile to liberals, homosexuals, and people who support or teach the theory of evolution. |
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| As of 31 July 2008, Conservapedia has 22,091 registered users, of which 30 (or 0.14%) have Administrators rights. Of these registered users 11,086 were blocked (8691 for an infinite period). Roughly half the users are currently blocked and over a third are permanently blocked. It is unclear what proportion of unblocked registered users regularly use the site.
| | The site was started in November 2006 by Andrew Schlafly and a group of homeschooled people to provide an alternative to the perceived anti-Christian, pro-Evolution, anti-American and anti-conservative bias of Wikipedia. The main purpose of the site is to provide a family-friendly resource for homeschooled children from fundamentalist Christian homes. However, some more adult topics such as [http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality homosexuality] are also treated in depth. |
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| ==Criticisms==
| | The website has been the subject of strong criticism by liberals and moderates for its extreme viewpoints and attacks on president-elect [http://www.conservapedia.com/Barack_Obama Barack Obama] which are claimed to be false. |
| Conservapedia is widely criticised. Liberals dislike intensely the blatant Conservative bias and borderline-slander of Moderates, Liberals, and insufficiently-reactionary Conservatives in Conservapedia. Other Conservatives correctly fear that Conservapedia is giving their cause a bad name. For a more detailed discussion see [[The Conservapedia RationalWiki war]].
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| ==The RationalWiki / Conservapedia War==
| | Conservapedia cannot be edited during the American night except by "trusted users", this is to prevent vandals to strike when all or most of the administrators are asleep. |
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| There is an enormous project at [[RationalWiki]] to discredit, mock, and ridicule Conservapedia. They gleefully point out, on the [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Conservapedia:What_is_going_on_at_CP%3F "WIGO"] page, instances of foolish behavior such as outlined above. This ridicule is perhaps the most popular part of RationalWiki.
| | As of 31 July 2008, Conservapedia had 11,005 valid registered users (not counting 11,086 blocked accounts), of which 30 (or 0.27%) have Administrators rights. |
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| See [[The Conservapedia RationalWiki war]]
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| The great strength of the Wiki format is allowing anyone to edit. This causes major problems for the management of Conservapedia, who are forced to spend much of their time scrutinizing every edit for deviation from their ideology. The site is sometimes characterized as "Andy's blog" because of his pervasive control over its content. A major consequence of making it a wiki instead of the usual (closed) blog is that it has the problems noted above.
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