RationalWiki
From RationalWikiWiki
RationalWiki is a website where people complain about Conservapedia and bitch at each other. It is also the inspiration for this fine site, which is over 9000 times betterer. RationalWiki is frequently disrupted by trolls because of their tolerance of the troll's idiocy, and their apparent inability to tell friend from foe.
Contents |
[edit] Foundation
The foundation of RationalWiki 1.0 remains controversial. According to the LA times it was founded by one Doktor Liptus (or perhaps Rictus) , while others maintain that a shadowy figure known only as "Collin" was responsible. ("Collin" is presently believed to be being held at Guantanamo Bay where he was taken by the FBI immediately after the founding of RW2.)
In any event, all the original cabal members were current or ex-Conservapedia editors trained in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations who turned their talents against CP, by alternating bouts of liberal mockery on RW, and horrific felonious internet wandalism sockpuppeteering on CP.
Shortly after its inception, RW1, as it subsequently came to be called, was discovered by the sinister Special Discussion Group at Conservapedia. They infiltrated its loose security and began counter-operations (basically by banning all RW users from CP), resulting in the elimination of the original chaotic wiki, and its re-creation as the open, and slightly less dysfunctional, RW2.
[edit] Foundation and Empire
The better-known RW2 was launched in the wee hours between May 21 and 22, 2007. The new wiki claims its objectives 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.
Many suspect however that not all ties have been cut between the two wikis, and that editors from both RW and CP continue to edit each others' wikis. Notwithstanding this, a number of RW editors have expressed a desire to have no further part of CP and simply to follow their own agenda.
[edit] Second Foundation
Following server problems, RW2.1 was created, which was simply RW2 running on a better hosting service.
[edit] Seconder Foundation
A few months later, RW 2.2 was created, which included a better MediaWiki, although it borked the choose function.
[edit] Forward the Foundation
On November 14th 2010, RW switched to a commercial hosting, and RW 3.0 was born.
[edit] Language
It is mostly written in English though it has a small, but rapidly growing, language section, which includes Spanish, French, Hungarian, and Russian which was recently forked to a new site, rationalwiki.ru. One article written entirely in lolcat was thankfully diverted to Funspace.
[edit] Build Me Up, Buttercup[1]
Main article: RationalWiki Foundation.
[edit] Patron saint
Since the dawn of time, RW's patron saint has been the goat, personified by the Scandinavian mythological goat Heidrun. In December 2007 there was a brief War of the Memes between the established goat and the painfully cute long-eared jerboa[2], though it wasn't particularly memorable and has been largely forgotten.
