User:Gabldotink/Conservapedia and RationalWiki

The quoted material from these wikis does not necessarily reflect my own views.

Conservapedia and RationalWiki are two wikis that are explicitly ideologically biased by design. Conservapedia leans right, conservative, and Christian, while RationalWiki leans left, liberal/progressive, and anti-antiscience. This userspace page overviews and compares the two wikis.

Copyright
Conservapedia uses a custom public domain–equivalent license. Notably, it includes a couple conditions whereby the license can be revoked.

RationalWiki uses the standard Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-&NoBreak;SA 3.0) license.

Point of view
Conservapedia's point of view policy is to "only [accept views which are free of bias to ... liberal ideas.]" It criticizes Wikipedia's fringe theories and undue weight guidelines; while noble on paper, Conservapedia argues that in practice they serve to censor conservative ideas.

RationalWiki's point of view policy is called "SPOV," which stands for both "scientific point of view" and "snarky point of view." It also emphasizes that original research is encouraged, and that articles do not need to be encyclopedic in nature.

Relationship to each other
Conservapedia and RationalWiki are very critical of each other. Conservapedia has many pages about RationalWiki, and RationalWiki has many pages about Conservapedia.

RationalWiki was originally created in response to Conservapedia.

Comparison of pages
Conservapedia's and RationalWiki's coverage of certain topics are often very distinct. These are some examples.

Conservapedia
Donald John Trump (b. Queens, New York, on June 14, 1946), nicknamed "The Donald," served the office as the 45th President of the United States of America, as a result of winning the 2016 presidential election as the Republican Party nominee. It is widely believed by a majority of registered voters that he was cheated out of a second consecutive term by Joe Biden and the Democrats. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. A strong social and fiscal conservative, Trump achieved much during his presidency and advanced many conservative priorities. He greatly benefited the US energy sector by reducing the energy dependence of the US in the Middle East, helping gasoline prices go down, and encouraging projects such as the Keystone Pipeline. Despite this, he received more criticism than any U.S. president in history, almost all of which is purely politically motivated.

RationalWiki
Donald John "Cheeto Benito" Trump, Sr. (1946–), is an American businessman, rapist, reality TV host, four times indicted criminal, convicted felon, and conspiracy theorist who was the forty-fifth President of the United States from 2017 to 2021. He is an adjudicated liar and an adjudicated rapist: yes, he's a sadistic "sick fuck". Due to his involvement in an attempted self-coup after losing reelection, he has the infamous dishonor of being the first president in American history impeached and acquitted twice by the House of Representatives, with the most bipartisan impeachment standing in US history. As of 2024, he was courting the cannibalistic serial killer vote by praising the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. More proof of his self-described "very stable genius" comes from being the first one-term president since George H. W. Bush in 1992.

Conservapedia
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr., aka Pops, The Big Guy, Robert L. Peters, Robin Ware, J. R. B. Ware and My Chairman (born November 20, 1942) is the authoritarian kleptocrat and dictator of the United States. Biden has been described by a close confidant as an "egomaniacal autocrat" and by his own Justice Department as incompetent and unfit.

79% of Americans believe that the 2020 presidential election was unjustly manipulated by dishonest whitewashing of the Biden family's criminal activities. The official position of the Biden regime as articulated by its chief press spokesperson is that political opposition is "a threat to democracy." A poll conducted by the Daily Mail of Iowa Republicans in August 2023 after Biden's 3rd indictment of 2024 presidential frontrunner President Donald J. Trump found 57% believed America was becoming like Nazi Germany under Biden. Biden's ongoing bid to retain the presidency in 2024 is backed by Russia. According to the "left-leaning" newspaper The Economist, the USA's Democracy Index ranking decreased from 7.96 in 2019 under Trump to 7.85 in 2023 under Biden. Biden is known for his use of the term "bloodbath".

RationalWiki
Joseph Robinette "Big Fucking Deal" Biden, Jr. (also known as Amtrak Joe, Dark Brandon, and Genocide Joe) (1942–) is the forty-sixth President of the United States, a title which is much less likely to make people laugh compared to his predecessor. He has been called gaffe-prone by his critics and has even admitted that he deserves the recognition as such. Much to the amazement of his rivals, Democrats don't seem to mind that much. However, since the advent of President Trump, who has made more than thirty thousand false statements, it's not hard to see why voters couldn't care less. He is an American politician from the Democratic Party who served as a senator from Delaware and then vice president and important negotiator for Barack Obama. He retired from politics for a while after his son Joseph "Beau" Biden III died from brain cancer in 2015, but he reemerged from the ground like a zombie during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. He began as the front-runner but almost managed to fuck it up for himself by fumbling debates and losing early elections. Still, he regained his footing thanks to winning significantly in the South and then other establishment candidates withdrawing from the race to back him against Bernie Sanders. Ultimately, Joe Biden benefited from his name-recognition in connection to former President Obama as well as Sanders' tendency to overestimate his reach outside of the progressive core base. However, there was definite voter suppression from the Republican party involved in a lot of cases.