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{{Short description|Wiki criticizing religion and pseudoscience}} | {{Short description|Wiki criticizing religion and pseudoscience}} | ||
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| caption = RationalWiki Main Page {{ | | caption = RationalWiki Main Page {{as of|2019|3|11|lc=y|df=US}} | ||
| url = {{Official website|name=rationalwiki.org}} | | url = {{Official website|name=rationalwiki.org}} | ||
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| content_license = [[CC BY-SA]] 3.0<ref>{{cite web |title=RationalWiki:Copyrights |url=https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Copyrights |publisher=RationalWiki |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105231933/https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Copyrights |archive-date=November 5, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> | | content_license = [[CC BY-SA]] 3.0<ref>{{cite web |title=RationalWiki:Copyrights |url=https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Copyrights |publisher=RationalWiki |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105231933/https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Copyrights |archive-date=November 5, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
| programming_language = [[MediaWiki]] software | | programming_language = [[MediaWiki]] software | ||
| users = >314 active users{{notetag|To be considered [[Special:ActiveUsers|active]], a user must make at least one edit or other action in a given month.}}<br/>>107,655 registered users{{ | | users = >314 active users{{notetag|To be considered [[Special:ActiveUsers|active]], a user must make at least one edit or other action in a given month.}}<br/>>107,655 registered users{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} | ||
| launch_date = {{Start date and age | | launch_date = {{Start date and age|2007|5|22}}<ref name="RationalWiki:Timeline">{{cite web |url=https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Timeline |title=RationalWiki:Timeline |publisher=RationalWiki |access-date=August 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810092526/https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Timeline |archive-date=August 10, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
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== Content == | == Content == | ||
[[File:RationalWiki article lede.png|thumb|upright 2|Partial screenshot of their "Alt-right glossary" article,<ref>"[Alt-right glossary https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Alt-right_glossary&oldid=2676671]", ''RationalWiki''. Retrieved 15.09.24</ref> a comprehensive collection of purported [[hate symbols]]]][[File:RationalWiki Goat article screenshot.jpg|thumb|right|Screenshot of RationalWiki's article on [[ | [[File:RationalWiki article lede.png|thumb|upright 2|Partial screenshot of their "Alt-right glossary" article,<ref>"[Alt-right glossary https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Alt-right_glossary&oldid=2676671]", ''RationalWiki''. Retrieved 15.09.24</ref> a comprehensive collection of purported [[hate symbols]]]][[File:RationalWiki Goat article screenshot.jpg|thumb|right|Screenshot of RationalWiki's article on [[goat]]s. The humor in the article is a [[running gag]] in the wiki and is not the result of [[Wiki Vandalism|vandalism]].]] | ||
RationalWiki aims to provide information about [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] theories<ref name="IntelSys2014">{{cite book |title=Intelligent Systems'2014: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference Intelligent Systems IS'2014, September 24–26, 2014, Warsaw, Poland, Volume 2: Tools, Architectures, Systems, Applications. Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPuSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA532 |at=A Method of Automatic Detection of Pseudoscientific Publications, page 533 et seq.|last=Shvets|first=Alexander|display-editors=3|editor-last1=Filev|editor-first1=D.|editor-last2=Jabłkowski|editor-first2=J.|editor-last3=Kacprzyk|editor-first3=J.|editor-last4=Krawczak|editor-first4=M.|editor-last5=Popchev|editor-first5=I.|editor-last6=Rutkowski|editor-first6=L.|editor-last7=Sgurev|editor-first7=V.|editor-last8=Sotirova|editor-first8=E.|editor-last9=Szynkarczyk|editor-first9=P.|editor-last10=Zadrozny|editor-first10=S.|publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] | date=October 2, 2014|isbn=978-3-319-11310-4}}</ref> and to educate "individuals with unorthodox views".<ref>{{cite web |last=Brojakowski |first=Benjamin |url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1499383965589843&disposition=inline |title=Digital Whiteness Imperialism: Redefining Caucasian Identity Post-Boston Bombing |publisher=[[Bowling Green State University]] (dissertation) |date=August 2017 |access-date=October 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175106/https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1499383965589843&disposition=inline |archive-date=October 3, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | RationalWiki aims to provide information about [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] theories<ref name="IntelSys2014">{{cite book |title=Intelligent Systems'2014: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference Intelligent Systems IS'2014, September 24–26, 2014, Warsaw, Poland, Volume 2: Tools, Architectures, Systems, Applications. Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPuSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA532 |at=A Method of Automatic Detection of Pseudoscientific Publications, page 533 et seq.|last=Shvets|first=Alexander|display-editors=3|editor-last1=Filev|editor-first1=D.|editor-last2=Jabłkowski|editor-first2=J.|editor-last3=Kacprzyk|editor-first3=J.|editor-last4=Krawczak|editor-first4=M.|editor-last5=Popchev|editor-first5=I.|editor-last6=Rutkowski|editor-first6=L.|editor-last7=Sgurev|editor-first7=V.|editor-last8=Sotirova|editor-first8=E.|editor-last9=Szynkarczyk|editor-first9=P.|editor-last10=Zadrozny|editor-first10=S.|publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] | date=October 2, 2014|isbn=978-3-319-11310-4}}</ref> and to educate "individuals with unorthodox views".<ref>{{cite web |last=Brojakowski |first=Benjamin |url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1499383965589843&disposition=inline |title=Digital Whiteness Imperialism: Redefining Caucasian Identity Post-Boston Bombing |publisher=[[Bowling Green State University]] (dissertation) |date=August 2017 |access-date=October 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175106/https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1499383965589843&disposition=inline |archive-date=October 3, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
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Andrea Ballatore, a lecturer in [[Geographic information system|GIS]] at [[Birkbeck, University of London]], categorizes RationalWiki as similar in tone to [[Snopes]] in a 2015 study, finding it to be the third most visible website when researching [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] in terms of [[Google Search|Google]] and [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]] search results, and the most visible among those sites that made openly negative value judgments about conspiracy theories.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ballatore |first=Andrea |url=http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5597/4652 |title=Google chemtrails: A methodology to analyze topic representation in search engine results. |issue=7 |journal=First Monday |volume=20 |series=20.7 (2015) |access-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308111444/http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5597/4652 |archive-date=March 8, 2016 |url-status=live |date=June 19, 2015}}</ref> In ''Intelligent Systems 2014'', Alexander Shvets found RationalWiki to be one of the few online resources that "provide some information about pseudoscientific theories".<ref name="IntelSys2014" /> Likewise, Keeler et al. believe that sites like RationalWiki can help to "sort out the complexities" that arise when "distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people".<ref name="Crowdsourced">{{cite web |url=http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/papers/45.pdf#page=4 |title=Crowdsourced Knowledge: Peril and Promise for Complex Knowledge Systems |first1=Mary |last1=Keeler |first2=Josh |last2=Johnson |first3=Arun |last3=Majumdar |page=756 |publisher=New England Complex Systems Institute |date=2011 |access-date=January 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413184123/http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/papers/45.pdf#page=4 |archive-date=April 13, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | Andrea Ballatore, a lecturer in [[Geographic information system|GIS]] at [[Birkbeck, University of London]], categorizes RationalWiki as similar in tone to [[Snopes]] in a 2015 study, finding it to be the third most visible website when researching [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] in terms of [[Google Search|Google]] and [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]] search results, and the most visible among those sites that made openly negative value judgments about conspiracy theories.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ballatore |first=Andrea |url=http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5597/4652 |title=Google chemtrails: A methodology to analyze topic representation in search engine results. |issue=7 |journal=First Monday |volume=20 |series=20.7 (2015) |access-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308111444/http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5597/4652 |archive-date=March 8, 2016 |url-status=live |date=June 19, 2015}}</ref> In ''Intelligent Systems 2014'', Alexander Shvets found RationalWiki to be one of the few online resources that "provide some information about pseudoscientific theories".<ref name="IntelSys2014" /> Likewise, Keeler et al. believe that sites like RationalWiki can help to "sort out the complexities" that arise when "distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people".<ref name="Crowdsourced">{{cite web |url=http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/papers/45.pdf#page=4 |title=Crowdsourced Knowledge: Peril and Promise for Complex Knowledge Systems |first1=Mary |last1=Keeler |first2=Josh |last2=Johnson |first3=Arun |last3=Majumdar |page=756 |publisher=New England Complex Systems Institute |date=2011 |access-date=January 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413184123/http://necsi.edu/events/iccs2011/papers/45.pdf#page=4 |archive-date=April 13, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
A 2019 study of bias analysis based on [[word embedding]] in RationalWiki, Conservapedia, and Wikipedia by researchers from [[RWTH Aachen University]] found all had significant gender biases, reflecting classical gender stereotypes, but these biases were less pronounced in RationalWiki.<ref name=":0" /> | A 2019 study of bias analysis based on [[word embedding]] in RationalWiki, Conservapedia, and Wikipedia by researchers from [[RWTH Aachen University]] found all had significant gender biases, reflecting classical gender stereotypes, but these biases were less pronounced in RationalWiki.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
=== Usage === | === Usage === | ||
In ''Critical Thinking: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal'', Jonathan C. Smith lists RationalWiki in an exercise on finding and identifying fallacies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Jonathan C. |title=Critical Thinking: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2017|page=77 |isbn=978-1-119-02948-9}}</ref> | In ''Critical Thinking: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal'', Jonathan C. Smith lists RationalWiki in an exercise on finding and identifying fallacies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Jonathan C. |title=Critical Thinking: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2017|page=77 |isbn=978-1-119-02948-9}}</ref> | ||
Writing in ''[[The Verge]],'' Adi Robertson stated that RationalWiki provided a good explanation of [[Time Cube]], though conveying the "full impression" of the original Time Cube website was all but impossible.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247913/time-cube-is-gone |first=Adi |last=Robertson |website=The Verge |date=2015-09-02 |access-date=2022-06-17 |title=Time Cube is gone}}</ref> | Writing in ''[[The Verge]],'' Adi Robertson stated that RationalWiki provided a good explanation of [[Time Cube]], though conveying the "full impression" of the original Time Cube website was all but impossible.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247913/time-cube-is-gone |first=Adi |last=Robertson |website=The Verge |date=2015-09-02 |access-date=2022-06-17 |title=Time Cube is gone}}</ref> | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
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