EvoWiki

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'''EvoWiki''' (formally known as the '''Evolution Education wiki''') was an [[evolution]]- and [[origins]]-centered [[wiki]],<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150611114624/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:About</ref><ref name=EP>http://web.archive.org/web/20141015070412/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Editorial_philosophy</ref> inspired by [[Talk Origins]],<ref name=Hist /><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150413190628/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Goals</ref> that peaked at 3,071 articles, glossary pages, essays, and book reviews<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150614002407/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page</ref> before going dormant. It was merged into [[RationalWiki]], so many of its pages can now be found here.

==Content==
EvoWiki's encyclopedic content included basic level articles giving a general introduction to a subject that led to technical articles giving more in depth coverage of the same subject.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150719232806/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Best_of_EvoWiki</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140712232724/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Featured_articles</ref> EvoWiki further, much like RationalWiki, had discussion of recent evolution and creationism-related news,<ref>hhttp://web.archive.org/web/20140712193130/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:News</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150611171714/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/In_the_news</ref> using the wiki,<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140712135546/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Help, http://web.archive.org/web/20140712140711/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:How_to_start_using_EvoWiki, http://web.archive.org/web/20140819173338/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Suggested_uses_of_EvoWiki, http://web.archive.org/web/20110909042933/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Taxonomy, http://web.archive.org/web/20140712193129/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Vandalism</ref> and general discussion.<ref>See the http://web.archive.org/web/20150611162921/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Community_portal, http://web.archive.org/web/20150719233047/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Feedback, the proposed https://web.archive.org/web/20150719234157/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Pandas_thumb_press_release for the [[Panda's Thumb]] blog, and the https://web.archive.org/web/20140712232657/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions (http://web.archive.org/web/20150719234627/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Archive, https://web.archive.org/save/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Archive2004-01-28, https://web.archive.org/web/20150719234421/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Archive2004-2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20150719234445/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Main_Page, https://web.archive.org/web/20150719234511/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Manual_of_Style and https://web.archive.org/web/20150719234548/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Style, http://web.archive.org/web/20150719234650/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Promotion, and http://web.archive.org/web/20150719234725/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Discussions/Traffic).</ref>

EvoWiki consistently opposed [[creationism]],<ref name=EP /> and its content was dominated by such opposition. Its most notable and controversial content was its staggeringly large catalog of refutations of arguments against the theory of evolution or in favor of [[Young Earth creationism|young Earth]] or [[intelligent design]] creationism.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150611144427/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/List_of_creationist_arguments (merged into [[List of creationist claims]])</ref> The list occasionally mirrors issues treated in Mark Isaak's famous Index of Creationist Claims at the [[talk.origins]] archive<ref>the talk.origins [http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/index.html Index of Creationist Claims],</ref> but provides hundreds of well researched and documented supplemental and complementary entries rather than duplicate talk.origins material.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150626131107/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Category:Creationist_claims (merged into [[:Category:Creationist claims]])</ref> 

In addition to its great volume of material focused on science education, EvoWiki had critical articles on [[Conservapedia]],<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150413190627/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia</ref> [[CreationWiki]],<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150611202726/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/CreationWiki</ref> and [[Irony|RationalWiki]] (apparently also known as "[[Essay:I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki|trashionalwiki]]").<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150413190629/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki</ref>

==Reaction==
EvoWiki's effective treatment of creationist canards earned it the ire of the angry [[biblical literalist]]s at CreationWiki, who created several articles attempting to rebut  refutations made on EvoWiki in typical creationist fashion.<ref>See http://creationwiki.org/Evowiki for a jumping off point.</ref>

==History and current status==
EvoWiki was started on August 16, 2003.<ref name=Hist>http://web.archive.org/web/20150719234825/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:History</ref> The wiki was almost entirely publicly edittable<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150719234853/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Permissions</ref> and used the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/legalcode CC-BY-NC-SA license].<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20150612162324/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Terms_of_use</ref>

EvoWiki went offline in December 2008 due to technical problems that remained unfixed for a year and a half, finally returning in June 2010. Because of this long downtime, the site was very inactive until it was eventually taken down in November 2010 due to the cost of hosting. Its final database dump can be found [http://web.archive.org/web/20150719234955/http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Database_dump here].

EvoWiki was originally relocated at the domain ''evolutionwiki.org''; however, it has since been fully integrated into RationalWiki.org. The wiki is now owned by the [[RationalWiki:RationalMedia Foundation|RationalMedia Foundation]].

A list of most of the pages that existed on EvoWiki can be found [[RationalWiki:EvoWiki|here]], including both pages that were ported to RationalWiki, and those that were not ported due to having been [[stub]]s.

==Preserved discussions==
For posterity:

{{collist|3|
*[[EvoWiki/Best of EvoWiki]]
*[[EvoWiki/Database dump]]
*[[EvoWiki/Discussions]]
*[[EvoWiki/Discussions/Archive]]
*[[EvoWiki/Discussions/Archive2004-01-28]]
*[[EvoWiki/Discussions/Archive2004-2006]]
*[[EvoWiki/Discussions/Main Page]]
*[[EvoWiki/News]]
*[[EvoWiki/Pandas thumb press release]]
*[[EvoWiki/Project]]
*[[EvoWiki/Taxonomy]]
}}

==See also==

*[[CreationWiki]], its creationist opponent
*[[talk.origins]], its ''de facto'' predecessor

==References==
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