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'''Liberapedia''' is a website that was created in response to [[Conservapedia]]. It modestly claims to be "Saving The World From Neoconservative Fascist Hatemongering Racists". | '''Liberapedia''' is a website that was created in response to [[Conservapedia]]. It modestly claims to be "Saving The World From Neoconservative Fascist Hatemongering Racists". | ||
However [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Liberal-WillH its creator] stated that it was created to parody Conservapedia and advises that: "most articles should take stereotypical {{tag|liberal}} views and distort them to the extreme" The creator of Liberapedia, WillH has left the site leaving no active bureaucrats. The remaining sysops struggled to handle the incoming spam, and later moved to a new site hosted at [[wikia]] where the new “founder” is [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Ajuk Ajuk]. See [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Liberapedia Old liberapedia] for more information. | However [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Liberal-WillH its creator] stated that it was created to parody Conservapedia and advises that: "most articles should take stereotypical {{tag|liberal}} views and distort them to the extreme" The creator of Liberapedia, WillH has left the site leaving no active bureaucrats. The remaining sysops struggled to handle the incoming spam, and later moved to a new site hosted at [[wikia]] where the new “founder” is [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Ajuk Ajuk]. See [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Liberapedia Old liberapedia] for more information. | ||
There are 3703703 page views of Liberapedia daily and that is more than 6 times the number who view the more intellectual pages at [[RationalWiki]] [http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.rationalwiki.com]; it looks like people prefer to be entertained rather than be educated. | |||
Liberapedia is estimated to be worth $8.11 Million USD to those who advertise there. [http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.liberapedia.wikia.com] | |||
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. [http://www.palaeos.org/Special:RecentChanges?title=User_talk:Proxima_Centauri&curid=8287&diff=20855&oldid=19869 Suggested action] if other wikis get comparable problems. | |||
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