Thursday, March 08, 2007

Conservapedia


I love this from Media Guardian. If this doesn't sum up the right wing numpties of middle America I don't know what does.

It has been attacked many times in its short life, most notably by a former aide to Robert F Kennedy and the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica. But now the online reference site Wikipedia has a new foe: evangelical Christians.
A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they claim is "liberal bias" on Wikipedia, the open encyclopaedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders of Conservapedia.com say their site offers a "much-needed alternative" to Wikipedia, which they say is "increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American".

Although entries on Wikipedia are open for anyone to edit, conservative campaigners say they are unable to make changes to articles on the site because of "inherent bias" by its global team of volunteer editors. Instead they have chosen to build a clone which they hope will promote Christian values.

"I've tried editing Wikipedia, and found that the biased editors who dominate it censor or change facts to suit their views," Andy Schlafly, the founder of Conservapedia, told the Guardian. "In one case my factual edits were removed within 60 seconds"

Looking at some of the early Conservapedia entries you can see why other 'more liberal' users amended them......

Dinosaurs

Wikipedia"Vertebrate animals that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 160m years, first appearing approximately 230m years ago."

Conservapedia "They are mentioned in numerous places throughout the Good Book. For example, the behemoth in Job and the leviathan in Isaiah are almost certainly references to dinosaurs."

US Democratic party - (now unfortunately amended)

Wikipedia "The party advocates civil liberties, social freedoms, equal rights, equal opportunity, fiscal responsibility, and a free enterprise system tempered by government intervention."

Conservapedia "The Democrat voting record reveals a true agenda of cowering to terrorism, treasonous anti-Americanism, and contempt for America's founding principles."

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

3 comments:

Marcus Brown said...

Hello, my name is Marcus, and I have been told to come here. By Doug, or Graeme or whatever his bloody name is. I will come often and damn you if the blog isn't any good.

Thank you.

Doug said...

you heard the man Greg

Greg said...

I'll do my best boys.