Conservapedia: Difference between revisions

Conservapedia (edit)

Revision as of 17:37, 19 November 2008

421 bytes removed , 19 November 2008

no edit summary

Eros of Fire

50

edits

@@ Line 17: / Line 17: @@
 }}
-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 with a politically christian conservative viewpoint, friendly to creationism and Christianity, while rejecting what they perceive as socialliberal, homosexual and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_evolution darwinist] agendas. 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, darwinist, 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.
 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.
 ==Criticisms==
-Conservapedia is widely criticised. Liberals dislike intensely the blatant Conservative bias and and outright slander against all Liberals, Moderates, and Insufficiently Frothing 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]].
+NOTE: THE FOLLOWING SECTION MAY NOT NOT NEUTRAL. NOTE THAT NO OTHER WIKIINDEX ARTICLE HAS A CRITICISM SECTION
+Conservapedia is widely criticised. Liberals dislike intensely the blatant Conservative bias and outright slander against all Liberals and Moderate Conservatives in Conservapedia.  Other Conservatives fear that Conservapedia is giving their cause a bad name. For a more detailed discussion see [[The Conservapedia RationalWiki war]].
 ===A few examples===
@@ Line 48: / Line 50: @@
 See [[The Conservapedia RationalWiki war]]
-==Evaluation==
-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.
 [[Category:Political]]