Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-11 Thread Ian Woollard
Although, to be fair, the Wikipedia article on Kangaroos does fail to note the Aboriginal beliefs on where kangaroos come from, as well as the idea that they floated there from Mount Ararat on a log (and also fails to mention why the whole idea of arriving on logs is bloody stupid). On

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread fridaesdoom
I think that the 404 might be the blocks Sarah was talking about. -James. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 April 2011 13:00, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2011 12:53, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Interestingly only Liberapedia and one of the conservative sites, http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Main_Page are actually open for editing.

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
But Europeans might contaminate Conservapedia with *gasp* things that don't test your faith! That site's a mess. Better that the world /doesn't/ see it, really. They might start thinking conservative Christians (like myself) are all that ignorant. And according to the article on dinosaurs, I'm

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Ancient Apparition
Conservapedia seeks to rewrite history, it makes Convservative Christians look like uninformed idiots, most Christians ALREADY KNOW that man did land on the moon, the earth isn't flat, dinosaurs did exist, the earth CAN'T possibly be 6000 years old and that the earth revolves around the sun. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread MuZemike
Not to be supporting Conservapedia (more like playing Devil's Advocate), but isn't rewriting history different from reinterpreting history? It's like interpreting The Bible; that is, there are different interpretations of the entire book that span the entire one-dimensional political spectrum.

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Ancient Apparition
Sorry, good point MuZemike, that's what I meant. The world would benefit more if the kind folks at Conservapedia tore down the site. Andrew Schlafly is full of bull... Colbert's interview with him is... interesting, tch, yeah Wikipedia is biased Dream on Schlafly! -- -Ancient Apparition

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-09 Thread WereSpielChequers
There is a difference between hosting a site and running a site. Jimmy's company wikia hosts a number of sites including Liberapedia - http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page None of the various conservative sites seem to use wikia, unless that is Wikia allows sites to use their own domain

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2011 12:53, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Interestingly only Liberapedia and one of the conservative sites, http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Main_Page are actually open for editing. Conservapedia  http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page currently comes

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-09 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Sad indeed. I am not entirely convinced Conservapedia is even maintained by conservatives. Most of the stuff I've seen on there looks as though it was designed to poke fun at conservatives, rather than to represent us accurately. I've not heard of Liberapedia; I might check it out in a bit to

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2011 18:23, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote: Sad indeed. I am not entirely convinced Conservapedia is even maintained by conservatives. Most of the stuff I've seen on there looks as though it was designed to poke fun at conservatives, rather than to represent us

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
Sad indeed. I am not entirely convinced Conservapedia is even maintained by conservatives. Most of the stuff I've seen on there looks as though it was designed to poke fun at conservatives, rather than to represent us accurately. And Glen Beck is a Stalinist intent on discrediting resistance