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-'''RationalWiki''' was an open wiki that claimed to take a critical look at the pseudoscience movement and extremist politics, through the use of side-by-side examinations and humor. It failed.
+'''RationalWiki''' is an open wiki taking a critical look at the pseudoscience movement and extremist politics, through the use of side-by-side examinations and humor.
-The site was created to attack [[Conservapedia]] and although several attempts were made, it never moved beyond this original goal.
+Stated goals are:
+* Analyzing and refuting the anti-science movement, ideas and people.
+* Analyzing and refuting the full range of crank ideas.
+* Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism.
+* Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.
-Articles were to be written for readers with a very low level of comprehension, but tended to descend into total incomprehensibility and self-contradiction after a few paragraphs.
+RationalWiki has about 4,723 registered accounts, of which 565 (or 12%) have [[Sysop]]s rights, which are awarded very liberally by the [[bureaucrat]]s.
+RationalWiki runs a large collection of specially customized extensions allowing a wide range of features such as: up-down voting, slider voting, a site wide intercom system, and easy Bible quotations.
+RationalWiki also has a namespace dedicated to [[Conservapedia]].
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