RationalWiki
Type of site | Wiki |
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| Available in | English and 16 other languages |
| Owner | RationalMedia Foundation |
| Created by | Volunteer contributors |
| Key people | Trent Toulouse (operations manager) |
| URL | rationalwiki.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
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| Launched | May 22, 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Written in | MediaWiki software |
RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, document crank ideas, explore conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subjects are handled in the media." It was created in 2007 as a counterpoint to Conservapedia, a Christian fundamentalist website, after an incident in which some editors of Conservapedia were banned. RationalWiki has been described as liberal in contrast to Conservapedia.