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The data clearly indicates that [[woke]]ness has peaked in the [[United States]] and in the world and that it will eventually die (See: [[Woke]]). RationalWiki is a woke website that skews toward secular leftism. And woke and secular leftist individuals and organizations generally double down and are resistant to change (see: [[Atheism and intolerance]] and [[Atheism and groupthink]]). As can be seen via its block log, RationalWiki has a low [[Essay: Edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki|edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki]] which measures the close-mindedness/intolerance and groupthink of a wiki.
The data clearly indicates that [[woke]]ness has peaked in the [[United States]] and in the world and that it will eventually die (See: [[Woke]]). RationalWiki is a woke website that skews toward secular leftism. And woke and secular leftist individuals and organizations generally double down and are resistant to change (see: [[Atheism and intolerance]] and [[Atheism and groupthink]]). As can be seen via its block log, RationalWiki has a low [[Essay: Edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki|edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki]] which measures the close-mindedness/intolerance and groupthink of a wiki.
==History==
RationalWiki was originally created by a group of cyberstalkers dedicated to the harassment of homeschoolers and their teacher, who had created Conservapedia. This behavior was noted in an article about Conservapedia published in the ''Los Angeles Times''. The rattrolls' behavior is not simply limited to documenting and anaylizing the activities at Conservapedia as they claim, it extends to blatant harassement, as demonstrated by the abuse of Conservapedia users by RationalWikians Pysgremlin, Paul Birkholz of Austin, Texas (Keegscee), and Arthur Kerensa of the United Kingdom (Dyskliver), just to name a few. Some RationalWikians became bored with their stalking of Conservapedians and expanded to trolling and harassment on other websites, such as Wikipedia. At least two members of RationalWiki (Keegscee and Dyskliver) have been banned from all Wikimedia Foundation projects by the WMF office for their harassment of Wikipedians.
Beginning in the mid-2010s, some naive teenagers took the site's stated mission at face value and started to create serious content on the site, although a significant amount of NSFW content remains. With WIGO CP alive and well, the more serious content on the wiki could be considered a [[Front group|front]] for the criminal cyberstalking activities on the site.
In 2024, the RationalWiki Foundation was sued by Hassim Haramein, represented by Aaron Cress of [https://latenightlaw.com/ Late Night Law Firm] for defamation. The organization's board of directors publicly acknowledged that the article was problematic and accepted a proposed settlement in which Haramein's article was permanently deleted from the website. They accepted the settlement after a short period of fleecing the site's viewership of a few thousand dollars supposedly to hire an attorney (knowing full and well that would not happen). <ref>https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki_talk:RationalMedia_Foundation&oldid=2681720#RationalWiki_has_been_sued</ref>
== RationalWiki and web traffic ==
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