Liberapedia
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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" and to be "saying what everybody else is just thinking".
Its original creator (Known only as "WillH") stated that it was created to parody Conservapedia and advised that: "most articles should take stereotypical liberal views and distort them to the extreme"
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[edit] Abandonment
By early 2008 it became clear that the founder "WillH" had abandoned the original site. The two remaining sysops could not contact him or find out about when the site's domain/hosting contract will end. At any time Liberapedians could have tried to log in and found that the site had vanished. To solve this the site was transferred to Wikia in June 2008, where its future should be secure. The address Liberapedia.org has also been purchased.
[edit] Wikia
In May 2008 after a particularly bad spam attack WillH was presumed dead and the remaining users decided to move to Wikia. Wikia gives much better protection against vandals and spam. One serious drawback is Wikia puts advertisements onto the site that go against Liberapedia’s principles.
To complicate the issue however the old site was not closed down - presumably it can't be without the keys from the original owner. This results in the existence of not one Liberapedia - but two. Although the "old" one claims to be an archive version it continues to attract the interest of posters, and vandals. Sysops and others work to revert vandalism and give a good impression. Constructive editors are advised about the move. Click to compare the old and new pages.
[edit] Typical content
The website is steadily more active though far less active than RationalWiki boring. Liberapedia is very biased in favor of liberals and the site is meant as a parody of conservapedia, which is very biased in favor of conservatives. It is actually more truthful than Conservapedia or CreationWiki.[1]
The site suffers from being deadly serious, but also has what they consider to be highly satirical articles that they apparently think are worthwhile.[2] There is also some complete nonsense on the site, but this is normally shown with a template stating that the content is nonsense. To put it simply: Liberapedia is not "humour" as such, but more about parody and satire. In this effort, it sadly fails.
On the "about" page they claim their "aim is to create an wiki that is both relatively factual and funny at the same time". Again, they fail on both counts. Well, they tried.
[edit] What they say about other Wikis
[edit] RationalWiki
It has a short article on RationalWiki [3] which includes the statement: Rational Wiki has a conservative bias. (Get the joke?) Though it is somewhat less pronounced than that of many other wikis it is still very prominent.
On the other hand it does have a very good spoof of our logo - which may even be better than the original. This logo has been "borrowed" by RationalWikiWiki.[4]
[edit] The rest
Liberapedia has a brutal article on on Conservapedia,[5] and on Ridiculous Quotes from Conservapedia [6].
It also has a small article on EvoWiki [7]
[edit] References and notes
- ↑ We know this because their site says so!
- ↑ Quite possibly the deadly serious articles are deep satire too cool for us. Or not.
- ↑ http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=RationalWiki
- ↑ Note, under the GFDL, which both Liberapedia and RationalWikiWiki use, content may be re-used for derivative works. There is no restriction or other requirements listed at Liberapedia for this image, although that might be due to their host transfer process.
- ↑ http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=Conservapedia
- ↑ http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=Ridiculous_quotes_from_Conservapedia
- ↑ http://www.liberapedia.com/index.php?title=EvoWiki
[edit] External links
- Liberapedia
- Liberapediapedia, which is much like Rationalwikiwiki, only about Liberapedia.
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