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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by dns_snek on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:49PM (#45660788)
> Conservapedia

This is the first time I've heard about it. Is that meant to be a satire website? I can't tell anymore.

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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by bawolff on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:55PM (#45662219)
No, it was a fork from like a decade ago.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

It started out crazy but it only got crazier as time went on.

The biggest problem with wikipedia competitors, is the only people who tend to put in effort to make one are usually crazy.

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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by GaryBluto on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:46PM (#45663684)
I notice this with a lot of projects/communities. The only people who tend to create change are usually eccentric.
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by morshu9001 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:51AM (#45665673)
like the xorg fork
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by dns_snek on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:14AM (#45665795)
The page on the Second law of thermodynamics has a chapter on "Liberal abuse of second law of thermodynamics". I wasn't sure if I was reading an imitation of The Onion that tries to take itself too seriously.
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by int_19h on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:11AM (#45678091)
It's founded by the son of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly, so that brand of crazy is basically vintage.

That said, it is indeed so insane that trolls sometimes become contributors just to see how far they can push it. There were several known cases of trolls going far enough undetected to get various admin rights (to block etc).

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