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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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