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Many of those critical of RationalWiki refer to the website as "RatWiki" or "IrrationalWiki". Although [[Liberapedia]] is mostly supportive of the wiki, it is critical of its perceived conservative bias.{{fact}} One of the more famous essays on this topic, linked by hundreds of pages and probably more by broken external links to the defunct RationalWikiWiki page, is "I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki".[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:I_thought_this_was_supposed_to_be_RATIONALWiki] One of the more thorough critiques of RationalWiki's claims to rationality is [[Maratrean]]'s "Is RationalWiki really rational?"[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Is_RationalWiki_really_rational%3F] Customarily, one is entitled or encouraged or required to imbibe whenever someone complains that RationalWiki users' thinking or behavior is irrational and that this is contrary to the ideals implied by the site's name. | Many of those critical of RationalWiki refer to the website as "RatWiki" or "IrrationalWiki". Although [[Liberapedia]] is mostly supportive of the wiki, it is critical of its perceived conservative bias.{{fact}} One of the more famous essays on this topic, linked by hundreds of pages and probably more by broken external links to the defunct RationalWikiWiki page, is "I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki".[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:I_thought_this_was_supposed_to_be_RATIONALWiki] One of the more thorough critiques of RationalWiki's claims to rationality is [[Maratrean]]'s "Is RationalWiki really rational?"[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Is_RationalWiki_really_rational%3F] Customarily, one is entitled or encouraged or required to imbibe whenever someone complains that RationalWiki users' thinking or behavior is irrational and that this is contrary to the ideals implied by the site's name. | ||
Among the wikis that have articles positively or negatively critiquing RationalWiki are [[ChildWiki]],[http://childwiki.net/wiki/RationalWiki] [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]],[https://encyclopediadramatica.es/RationalWiki] [[Liberapedia]],[http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/RationalWiki] [[Libertapedia]],[http://libertapedia.org/wiki/RationalWiki] [[PolyWiki]],[http://polywiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki] [[SuicideWiki]],[http://suicidewiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki] and [[TV Tropes]].[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wiki/RationalWiki?from=Main.RationalWiki] Wikipedia has a brief description of RationalWiki in its Conservapedia article. Conservapedia seems to prefer to pretend that RationalWiki doesn't exist and to treat it as an [[wikipedia:unperson|unwiki]] (in the Orwellian sense). Three RationalWiki articles have been hurled down the Conservapedia memory hole, and presently it is protected from being re-created.[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=RationalWiki] | Among the wikis that have articles positively or negatively critiquing RationalWiki are [[ChildWiki]],[http://childwiki.net/wiki/RationalWiki] [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]],[https://encyclopediadramatica.es/RationalWiki] [[Liberapedia]],[http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/RationalWiki] [[Libertapedia]],[http://libertapedia.org/wiki/RationalWiki] [[PolyWiki]],[http://polywiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki] [[SuicideWiki]],[http://suicidewiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki] and [[TV Tropes]].[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wiki/RationalWiki?from=Main.RationalWiki] Wikipedia has a brief description of RationalWiki in its Conservapedia article. Conservapedia seems to prefer to pretend that RationalWiki doesn't exist and to treat it as an [[wikipedia:unperson|unwiki]] (in the Orwellian sense). Three RationalWiki articles have been hurled down the Conservapedia memory hole, and presently it is protected from being re-created.[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=RationalWiki] This has been mocked at [[New Conservapedia]], whose RationalWiki article states, "We do not include a link. Pseudoscience must be censored beyond all coasts."[http://conservapaedia.referata.com/wiki/IrrationalWiki] | ||
==Satire== | ==Satire== | ||
Satirical articles on RationalWiki appear [[Uncyclopedia:RationalWiki|here]] in [[Uncyclopedia]] and [http://encyclopediadramatica.es/RationalWiki here] in [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. | Satirical and satiricritical articles, respectively, on RationalWiki appear [[Uncyclopedia:RationalWiki|here]] in [[Uncyclopedia]] and [http://encyclopediadramatica.es/RationalWiki here] in [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. Uncyclopedia has a [[Uncyclopedia:HowTo:Play RationalTroll|page encouraging readers to vandalize the wiki]]. | ||
==RationalWiki Foundation== | ==RationalWiki Foundation== | ||