Conservapedia: Like Wikipedia without all the, you know, knowledge
Ever wish Wikipedia weren’t so damn accurate? OMG me too! Thank the internet gods for Conservapedia, the Conservative response to Wikipedia that got noticed by the New York Times today! In case you’re saying “Oh dear lord why,” Conservapedia has a list of answers. One item reads:
Wikipedia’s article on Feudalism is limited to feudalism in Europe and did not mention the feudal systems that developed independently in Japan and India until this defect was described here.
That last bit is how most of these items read, now that Conservapedia got noticed and the offending Wikipedia articles it named got fixed - which happens every time someone publicly criticizes the site, since, well, that’s how Wikipedia works.
But let’s see what the articles for “feudalism” looked like on Conservapedia and Wikipedia on the day that Conservapedia made this claim (February 2, according to Conservapedia’s logs).
Conservapedia: 251 words
Wikipedia: 3328 words, including a mention of Japan and India
Great fact-checking, dudes. Since then, the Wikipedia article has expanded to include more non-European feudalism, while the Conservapedia article…has stayed the same. If having info means being a dirty lefty, count me in.
This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Thursday, March 8th, 2007 at 2:19 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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on March 19, 2007 at 1:52 am Ankit wrote:
Good to see you back.. Nick.