RationalWiki
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RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, document crank ideas, explore conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subjects are handled in the media." It was created in 2007 as a counterpoint to Conservapedia, an American conservative and Christian fundamentalist website, after an incident in which some editors of Conservapedia were banned. RationalWiki has been described as liberal in contrast to C
Key facts
- Website.name
- RationalWiki
- Website.logo
- RationalWiki Logo.png
- Website.logo_size
- 135px
- Website.screenshot
- RationalWiki Main Page.png
- Website.collapsible
- Yes
- Website.caption
- RationalWiki Main Page
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.type
- Wiki
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.language
- English and 16 other languages
- Website.owner
- RationalMedia Foundation
- Website.author
- Volunteer contributors
- Website.key_people
- Trent Toulouse (operations manager)
- Website.content_license
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Website.programming_language
- MediaWiki software
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Main subject
- pseudoscience
- Game engine
- Q83
- Official website
- rationalwiki.org
- Image
- RationalWiki Main Page.png
- Political ideology
- secularism
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- inception
- 2007-05-22
- Alexa rank
- 17382
- hashtag
- RationalWiki
- language of work or name
- Portuguese
- number of registered users/contributors
- 73066
- privacy policy URL
- rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Privacy_policy
- search formatter URL
- rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?search=$1
- review score
- 2.5/5 (Poor)
- API endpoint URL
- rationalwiki.org/w/api.php
- social media followers
- 12578
- described at URL
- mediabiasfactcheck.com/rationalwiki
- political alignment
- left-wing
- Commons category
- RationalWiki
- random page URL
- rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Random
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Origin
- RationalMedia Foundation
- Content
- Reception
- Analysis
- Usage
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, document crank ideas, explore conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subjects are handled in the media." It was created in 2007 as a counterpoint to Conservapedia, an American conservative and Christian fundamentalist website, after an incident in which some editors of Conservapedia were banned. RationalWiki has been described as liberal in contrast to Conservapedia.
As of March 2026, RationalWiki has 8,000+ articles and 314 active users.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RationalWiki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.