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

[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 see how 
awful it is.

Bob

On 4/9/2011 7:00 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 9 April 2011 12:53, WereSpielChequers<werespielchequers at 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 up as a 404 and
>> http://conservapedia.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page allows you to create an
>> account, but not to edit, not even to edit your own talkpage....
>
> 404 or 403? Conservapedia user TK (TK-CP on Wikipedia) had a programme
> of doing huge rangeblocks on entire countries, keeping them from even
> *viewing* the site. He passed away in December and since then it's
> been unlocked slightly, but I believe most or all of the UK is still
> under a rangeblock ...
>
> (Wiki failure mode: being so paranoid you block perceived enemies from
> *looking* at your site.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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