On 9 April 2011 12:53, WereSpielChequers<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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.

On 9 April 2011 12:53, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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 ...

On 10/04/2011, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, it's such a shame that us heathens in Europe are denied the great knowledge of how the kangaroos managed to cling to logs after the great flood, as with all of the other marsupials, individually, so that they ended up only in Australia, and also how they managed to develop sufficient genetic diversity in such a short time to be a viable population. Instead, we have to put up with the drivel in the Wikipedia, based on *mere* observation, genetic analysis, fossils, biology, geology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Something MUST be done to unblock this goldmine! I *would* suggest that the WMF mirror the Conservapedia, but, alas, after checking the Conservapedia license to use the work, unlike the more restrictive license the Wikipedia uses, it appears to be revokable at will(!)

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 wonder what would have happened if scientists from the Middle Ages onwards were allowed to develop their theories, we MIGHT have solved most of the world's problems, or ended it early. Either way, it was the church's failure to accept change that held back the development of "superior Western culture", the early Europeans were largely responsible for delaying the advancement of technology. The early Europeans did the "will of God", was doing the will of God forcibly delaying technological advances and forcing your religious beliefs on another person? I'm fairly certain the New Testament is different to the Old Testament in that it doesn't encourage violence as the means for conversion... The "assimilate or die" behaviour was dismissed in the Old Testament. Instead Jesus preached love if I'm correct. Sure the NT says "atheists and heathens" will rot in eternal damnation, but it doesn't hold the "assimilate or die" belief.'' _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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 <http://enwp.org/User:Ancient_Apparition>** *English Wikipedia Abuse Response and Account Creations team member* _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l