The son of conservative icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Andrew Schlafly has
set-up a conservative alternative to the “liberal-biased” Wikipedia
called “Conservapedia“.
(via MetaFilter which includes some of the funnier excerpts from the site.)
The son of conservative icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Andrew Schlafly has
set-up a conservative alternative to the “liberal-biased” Wikipedia
called “Conservapedia“.
(via MetaFilter which includes some of the funnier excerpts from the site.)
I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.
I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.
6,912 posts and 3,356 comments since 2006.
Comments 4
:O (!)
I loved Andrew's explanation of the difference between Conservapedia and Wikipedia:
“We have clear principles that we display, whereas Wikipedia pretends to be neutral and ends up biased.” (Courtesy of http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72818-0.html)
So apparently, as long as you are up front about your biases and stick to them, that's okay.
Is that the emoticon for Rush Limbaugh? 😉
(That's the only emoticon I know!)
I didn't see that story – thanks for the link. I think by framing the site as a biased (sorry, “principled”) site, they're setting themselves up for failure immediately. One half of the world will be so biased one way and the other half will go in there just to screw with the site. At least Wikipedia *tries* to be neutral. And if Wikipedia has a liberal bias, it's for the same reason that journalism and librarianship and certain other fields/areas have a liberal bias – it attracts a certain type of personality – well-educated, worldly, progressive – so that is reflected in the content. (Uhm, not that conservatives can't be well-educated and worldly. But I'm not giving them “progressive”!)