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{{Internet}}'''EvoWiki''', formally known as the ''Evolution education wiki'', is a wiki focusing on [[evolution]]. <ref>http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/EvoWiki</ref>
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{{Internet}}'''EvoWiki''', formally known as the ''Evolution Education wiki'', is a dormant-stage wiki encyclopedia with more than 3,000 articles, glossary pages, essays, and book reviews. It focuses on [[evolution]] and origins education, as well as refuting [[Creationism|creationist]] and [[Intelligent design|intelligent design creationist]] arguments from the perspective of mainstream [[science]].<ref>http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Goals</ref>
  
It has several thousand articles. Much of its most interesting content is actually refutations of creationist claims<ref>[http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/List_of_creationist_arguments EvoWiki's impressive list of refuted creationist claims]</ref>
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EvoWiki's encyclopedic content includes basic level articles giving a general introduction to a subject that lead to technical articles giving more in depth coverage of the same subject.
EvoWiki also has an article on [[Conservapedia]]<ref>http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Conservapedia</ref> and on [[Rationalwiki]]<ref>http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/RationalWiki</ref> as well as a short article about [[CreationWiki]].<ref>http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/CreationWiki</ref>.  
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The site went offline in December 2008 because of technical problems, and went unfixed for a year and a half, finally returning in June 2010. Because of this very long downtime, the site is very inactive, averaging less than one edit per day and only a single active administrator. The original site was taken down in November 2010 due to the cost of hosting, however, the [[RWF | RationalWiki Foundation]] took over hosting and the site is available at a new domain [http://evolutionwiki.org evolutionwiki.org].   
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Its most notable and controversial content is its staggeringly large catalog of refutations of arguments against the theory of evolution or in favor of young Earth or intelligent design creationism.</ref>http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/List_of_creationist_arguments</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 complimentary entries rather than duplicate talk.origins material.<ref>See, http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Category:Creationist_claims</ref>
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EvoWiki's effective treatment of creationist canards earned it the ire of the angry biblical literalists 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>
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In addition to its great volume of material focused on science education, EvoWiki has disappointingly mediocre and unflattering articles on [[Conservapedia]],<ref>http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia</ref> [[Rationalwiki]],<ref>http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki</ref> and [[CreationWiki]].<ref>http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/CreationWiki</ref>.
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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. EvoWiki is now a project of the [[RWF | RationalWiki Foundation]] located at its new domain: [http://evolutionwiki.org evolutionwiki.org].   
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

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EvoWiki, formally known as the Evolution Education wiki, is a dormant-stage wiki encyclopedia with more than 3,000 articles, glossary pages, essays, and book reviews. It focuses on evolution and origins education, as well as refuting creationist and intelligent design creationist arguments from the perspective of mainstream science.[1]

EvoWiki's encyclopedic content includes basic level articles giving a general introduction to a subject that lead to technical articles giving more in depth coverage of the same subject.

Its most notable and controversial content is its staggeringly large catalog of refutations of arguments against the theory of evolution or in favor of young Earth or intelligent design creationism.</ref>http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/List_of_creationist_arguments</ref> The list occasionally mirrors issues treated in Mark Isaak's famous Index of Creationist Claims at the talk.origins archive[2] but provides hundreds of well researched and documented supplemental and complimentary entries rather than duplicate talk.origins material.[3]

EvoWiki's effective treatment of creationist canards earned it the ire of the angry biblical literalists at CreationWiki who created several articles attempting to rebut refutations made on EvoWiki in typical creationist fashion.[4]

In addition to its great volume of material focused on science education, EvoWiki has disappointingly mediocre and unflattering articles on Conservapedia,[5] Rationalwiki,[6] and CreationWiki.[7].

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. EvoWiki is now a project of the RationalWiki Foundation located at its new domain: evolutionwiki.org.

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Footnotes

  1. http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/EvoWiki:Goals
  2. the talk.origins Index of Creationist Claims,
  3. See, http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Category:Creationist_claims
  4. See, http://creationwiki.org/Evowiki for a jumping off point.
  5. http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia
  6. http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki
  7. http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/CreationWiki



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