Talk:Liberapedia (Wikia): Difference between revisions

It was created to parody [[Conservapedia]] and advises that: "most articles should take stereotypical [[:Category:Liberal|liberal]] views and distort them to the extreme".  Liberapedia includes serious articles as well as parodies, and there is sometimes no clear distinction between the two. Although its stated goal is to be a parody encyclopaedia, the serious content contradicts this.

The original creator of Liberapedia left the site leaving no active bureaucrats. The remaining sysops struggled to handle the incoming spam, and later moved to a site hosted at [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] where the new “founder” is [[Liberapedia:User:Ajuk|Ajuk]].

I've deleted the category Liberapedia.  There used to be a second wiki in the category, Liberapediapedia.  Liberapediapedia perished with [[ScribbleWiki]].  There's no point in a category with only one wiki. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] 15:17, 21 November 2008 (EST)

What was so horrible about my contributions that a [[sysop]] (who btw is an administrator at Liberapedia, and therefore has a conflict of interest) had to lock this article '''FOR A MONTH'''? I admit that the Cyberbullying section was [[wp:WP:POINT|pointy]], but the rest was merely copyediting, and removing redundant and confusing info about the whole domain name thing. Oh, and '''you reverted a spelling correction'''

:Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of [[Old Liberapedia]] and the domain name now hosts a placeholder site with [http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Spam].

:This could matter because on March 7th 2009 Google put that site on top when users look for Liberapedia. [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Old_Liberapedia_cyber_squaters&t=20090308075834 A forum] was set up to discuss it. As of March 8th 2009 this has stopped at least in the UK but the future is uncertain and as of June 30th Yahoo still give the spammed wiki URL just below the link to New Liberapedia. We cannot guess what would have happened if Liberapedia users had overlooked the spam going on top of Google's answers.  

:Unfortunately no one bought up the URL of [[Old Liberapedia]]. For a while, search engines ranked the old site higher than the new one, leading to confusion and possible loss of traffic and users. The old domain name now hosts a placeholder site with [http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page advertisements]. This situation is gradually improving as search engines rank the placeholder lower than new Liberapedia.

I don't know why I didn't include the external link to the discussion on LP, but I'd include it now. I'm talking about this: http://liberapedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Old_Liberapedia_cyber_squaters&t=20090308075834. That's about the only thing that could be considered objectionable about my edit, but it was not on purpose. Other than that and except the "useful" suggestion and the details, there's no loss of information here.