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 ==RationalWiki today==
-While [[Conservapedia]] continues to be a major focus of RationalWiki, they have branched out into many areas of skepticism.  Many articles focus on unfounded medical claims, pseudoscience and Biblical literalism. Despite a seemingly anti-religious stance, some editors are practicing Christians or Jews, tending towards the more liberal aspects of their religion rather than fundamentalism.
+While [[Conservapedia]] continues to be a major source of traffic to RationalWiki (Mainly, [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Conservapedia:What_is_going_on_at_CP%3F RationalWiki: What is going on at Conservapedia?]), they have branched out into many areas of skepticism.  Many articles focus on unfounded medical claims, pseudoscience, and Biblical literalism. Despite a seemingly anti-religious stance, some editors are practicing Christians, Jews, Muslims, or Odinists (among others) tending towards the more liberal aspects of their religion rather than fundamentalism.
-The site works to refute a range of faith based ideas and superstitions. They have critical material on Scientology, Creationism, {{tag|Astrology}}, "New Age" philosophy, and many others.  It also comments critically on other Christian creationist wikis notably [[A Storehouse of Knowledge]], see [[RationalWiki:A_Storehouse_of_Knowledge| RationalWiki: A Storehouse of Knowledge]].
+The site works to refute a range of faith-based ideas and superstitions. They have critical material on Scientology, Creationism, {{tag|Astrology}}, "New Age" philosophy, and many others.  It also comments critically on other Christian creationist wikis notably [[A Storehouse of Knowledge]], see [[RationalWiki:A_Storehouse_of_Knowledge| RationalWiki: A Storehouse of Knowledge]].
-Despite this branching into other areas, most of their traffic is to the page [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Conservapedia:What_is_going_on_at_CP%3F RationalWiki: What is going on at Conservapedia?].
 The website has a rather idiosyncratic sense of humour, which includes widespread intentional misspellings and other peculiar phrases.  There are many "inside jokes", particularly in the material relating to [[Conservapedia]], and the writing often has the tone of a close-knit social group.