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Several wikis and wiki farms ostensibly promote a "neutral point of view" in their encyclopedias. The Wikimedia Foundation operates [[Wikipedia]], the largest wiki in the world, and many smaller wikis (e.g. Wiktionary, Wikiquote, etc.) Citizendium was launched by Larry Sanger in an attempt to compete with Wikipedia.<ref>http://en.citizendium.org/</ref> Wikinfo, operated by Fred Bauder, supplements Wikipedia. It adheres to a "sympathetic point of view" except with regard to "manifestly evil concepts, people, or events".<ref>http://www.wikinfo.org/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view</ref> | Several wikis and wiki farms ostensibly promote a "neutral point of view" in their encyclopedias. The Wikimedia Foundation operates [[Wikipedia]], the largest wiki in the world, and many smaller wikis (e.g. Wiktionary, Wikiquote, etc.) Citizendium was launched by Larry Sanger in an attempt to compete with Wikipedia.<ref>http://en.citizendium.org/</ref> Wikinfo, operated by Fred Bauder, supplements Wikipedia. It adheres to a "sympathetic point of view" except with regard to "manifestly evil concepts, people, or events".<ref>http://www.wikinfo.org/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view</ref> Many wikis openly adhere to a particular philosophical or religious point of view. Examples include Conservapedia, Liberapedia, Libertapedia, Metapedia, and [[Mises Wiki]]. | ||
RationalWiki is a site whose stated purpose consists of analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement; documenting the full range of crank ideas; explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism; and analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media. RationalWiki invites users to engage in "constructive dialog."<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Constructive_dialogue</ref> In practice, "users, by bickering, shouting, unilateral actions, complaints about unilateral actions, and ad hoc voting eventually reach a mass consensus" in a mobocratic process.<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mobocracy | ====RationalWiki==== | ||
RationalWiki is a site whose stated purpose consists of analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement; documenting the full range of crank ideas; explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism; and analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media. RationalWiki invites users to engage in "constructive dialog."<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Constructive_dialogue</ref> In practice, "users, by bickering, shouting, unilateral actions, complaints about unilateral actions, and ad hoc voting eventually reach a mass consensus" in a mobocratic process.<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mobocracy</ref> | |||
Editors frequently resort to fallacies such as ''argumentum ad populum'' and ''ad hominem'' attacks, and articles and talk page discussions typically (and often summarily) dismiss adherents to minority viewpoints as cranks and pseudoscientists. A prime example would be the RationalWiki article on the [[Austrian school]], which refers to Austrians as "a small group of cranks funded by even richer cranks through the von Mises Institute looking for self-serving rationalizations couched in the form of economic theory."<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Austrian_school&oldid=1064303</ref> The site's unwillingness to adopt unpopular positions that are supported by facts and logic could be accurately described as pseudoskeptical. | |||
A great deal of joking and pranking occurs, and the site adheres to a "snarky point of view" policy.<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:SPOV</ref> It is difficult to say whether RationalWiki is primarily a joke wiki with some serious content or vice versa. RationalWikiWiki was created on 27 December 2007 to critique, and often mock, the many missteps made by the RationalWiki community.<ref>http://rationalwikiwiki.org/</ref> | |||
===Other purposes=== | ===Other purposes=== | ||
Revision as of 18:27, 10 August 2012
The wikisphere is made up of all wikis and their interconnections.
Wikis and wiki farms
The following is a small selection of the wikis in the wikisphere:
| Wiki | Owner | Point of view | Date founded | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservapedia | Andy Schlafly | Conservative | 21 November 2006 | http://www.conservapedia.com/ |
| Liberapedia | WillH | Leftist | 16 May 2008 | http://liberapedia.wikia.com/ |
| Libertapedia | Nathan Larson | Libertarian | 28 February 2004 | http://libertapedia.org/ |
| Metapedia | Anders Lagerström | European racialist | 28 April 2007 | (Blocked by spam filter) |
| Mises Wiki | Ludwig von Mises Institute | Austrian school | 3 July 2008 | http://wiki.mises.org/ |
| RationalWiki | RationalWiki Foundation | Snarky | 22 May 2007 | http://rationalwiki.org/ |
| Wikipedia | Wikimedia Foundation | Neutral | 15 January 2001 | http://en.wikipedia.org/ |
Points of view
Several wikis and wiki farms ostensibly promote a "neutral point of view" in their encyclopedias. The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, the largest wiki in the world, and many smaller wikis (e.g. Wiktionary, Wikiquote, etc.) Citizendium was launched by Larry Sanger in an attempt to compete with Wikipedia.[1] Wikinfo, operated by Fred Bauder, supplements Wikipedia. It adheres to a "sympathetic point of view" except with regard to "manifestly evil concepts, people, or events".[2] Many wikis openly adhere to a particular philosophical or religious point of view. Examples include Conservapedia, Liberapedia, Libertapedia, Metapedia, and Mises Wiki.
RationalWiki
RationalWiki is a site whose stated purpose consists of analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement; documenting the full range of crank ideas; explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism; and analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media. RationalWiki invites users to engage in "constructive dialog."[3] In practice, "users, by bickering, shouting, unilateral actions, complaints about unilateral actions, and ad hoc voting eventually reach a mass consensus" in a mobocratic process.[4]
Editors frequently resort to fallacies such as argumentum ad populum and ad hominem attacks, and articles and talk page discussions typically (and often summarily) dismiss adherents to minority viewpoints as cranks and pseudoscientists. A prime example would be the RationalWiki article on the Austrian school, which refers to Austrians as "a small group of cranks funded by even richer cranks through the von Mises Institute looking for self-serving rationalizations couched in the form of economic theory."[5] The site's unwillingness to adopt unpopular positions that are supported by facts and logic could be accurately described as pseudoskeptical.
A great deal of joking and pranking occurs, and the site adheres to a "snarky point of view" policy.[6] It is difficult to say whether RationalWiki is primarily a joke wiki with some serious content or vice versa. RationalWikiWiki was created on 27 December 2007 to critique, and often mock, the many missteps made by the RationalWiki community.[7]
Other purposes
Joke wikis include Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica. Wikis can serve a number of different purposes other than hosting encyclopedias; for example, wiki software can be used as a content management system for a blog. Such blogs are called "blikis."
References
- ↑ http://en.citizendium.org/
- ↑ http://www.wikinfo.org/English/index.php/Wikinfo:Sympathetic_point_of_view
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Constructive_dialogue
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mobocracy
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Austrian_school&oldid=1064303
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:SPOV
- ↑ http://rationalwikiwiki.org/
External links
- WikiIndex — A wiki about wikis.