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Undid revision 70356 by Lumenos (talk) Don't get your nickers in a twist, it will be back up in two days.
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RationalWiki is currently suffering a temporary loss of service and will return to normal service as early as the 6th of September, no later than the 8th.[http://rationalwiki.blogspot.com/2009/08/when-will-we-be-back.html] | |||
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Example of RationalWiki’s perspective:- | Example of RationalWiki’s perspective:- | ||
<Blockquote>''As a site we have a point of view, and that point of view is that the scientific method and the information gained from its application is better than almost anything else humanity has come up with. We believe that the support of, profiting from and creation of pseudosciences is dangerous and wrong. [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/RationalWiki:Project_Whitewash/What_is_a_RationalWiki_article]''</Blockquote> | <Blockquote>''As a site we have a point of view, and that point of view is that the scientific method and the information gained from its application is better than almost anything else humanity has come up with. We believe that the support of, profiting from and creation of pseudosciences is dangerous and wrong. [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/RationalWiki:Project_Whitewash/What_is_a_RationalWiki_article]''</Blockquote> | ||
==Tempory service outage== | |||
On Aug 19th, RationalWiki (and related sites such as [[RationalWikiWiki]] and the RationalWiki forums) became inaccessible.[http://rationalwiki.blogspot.com/2009/08/pretty-much-worse-case-scenario.html] The stated reason is that a problem has occurred with the server, most likely due to a MySQL connection error. RationalWiki is hosted on its own private server at Tmtoulouse's domicile, who is on a trip out of town and is unable to attend to the problem. Although RationalWiki has nightly backups stored on a separate server, it is hoped they will not be needed. | |||
During the "crisis", RationalWikians have found a temporary home to discuss their drinking habits and love of the goat at [[Teflpedia]], where roughly 30-40 RationalWikians have signed up to endure the inaccessibility of their home wiki. A more complete list of places to find RationalWikians can be found [http://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=RW_contact_points here]. | |||
==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||