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| Liberapedia logo Saving The World From Neoconservative Fascist Hatemongering Racists Because everybody else is thinking it, we are the ones saying it! | |
Type of site | Satirical Internet Encyclopedia |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | WillH (founder) |
| Created by | Voluntary collaborators |
| URL | liberapedia.wikia.com liberapedia.com (defunct) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional (required to edit) |
| Launched | February 28, 2007 |
Liberapedia is an English-language wiki launched in 2007 in response to the creation of Conservapedia. The site's articles are intentionally written with a strong liberal bias, parodying Conservapedia's depiction of conservative points of view. Liberapedia's founder, WillH, noted that "most articles should take stereotypical liberal views and distort them to the extreme"[1][2].
WillH was the only bureaucrat of the original site, albeit an infrequent contributor. Users of Liberapedia moved the site to central wikia in May 2008 and recasted themselves as bureaucrats when it was realized that WillH had become inactive. The old domain, liberapedia.com, was taken over by a cybersquatter after it had expired on January 1, 2009.
Content edit
Liberapedia contains satirical entries along with serious factual articles, although the former is present in large abundance. Liberapedia describes its mission as "...to create an wiki that is both relatively factual and funny at the same time. It is important to remember that Liberapedia is not just another joke wiki like Uncyclopedia"[3]. Discrepancies in article quality had been attributed to extensive vandalism[2][4] in Spring 2008, which left a number of pages disfigured.
References edit
- ^ "Liberapedia". Retrieved 2009-08-17.
- ^ a b "Liberapedia". Retrieved 2009-08-17.
- ^ "About Liberapedia". Retrieved 2009-08-17.
- ^ "Old Liberapedia". Retrieved 2009-08-17.
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