Conservapedia:Timeline

This Conservapedia-related article is of largely historical interest and is no longer the focus of RationalWiki today. Conservapedia (and religious fundamentalism to an extent) was a major focal point in the early history of RationalWiki, but long ago ceased coming up with new ways to appall and amuse. Our energies are now spent debunking other, fresher examples of pseudoscientific claims, authoritarianism, and deceit. For RationalWiki's less ancient content, try the Best of RationalWiki.

Table of Contents
2006:																					November	-	December
2007:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2008:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2009:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2010:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2011:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2012:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2013:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2014:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2015:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2016:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2017:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2018:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2019:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2020:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2021:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2022:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2023:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
2024:	January	-	February	-	March	-	April	-	May	-	June	-	July	-	August	-	September	-	October	-	November	-	December
See also - Footnotes

The following is a timeline of major actions at Conservapedia; it will be updated as it unfolds, or folds up, as it may.

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November 2006

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Introduction

Newcomer's Guide What is going on?

Commentary

Best of Conservapedia Blatant plagiarism Differences with Wikipedia Hijacked articles "SDG" "TZB" "Fab Five" Sysops Timeline CP in the media

In-depth analysis

Active users Illustrated guide

Fun

Article Matrix Greatest Insights Parthian Shots v - t - e

21st - Aschlafly makes his first edit; Conservapedia begins. The front page reads :

Tired of the LIBERAL BIAS every time you search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears? Now it's time for the Conservatives to get our voice out on the internet!!

22nd - The first page to be deleted is 'Piper' by the now defunct 'Admin'.

December 2006

7th	-	First in a long line of infinite blocks, given to "Brianh18" for "Posting Spam on homepage".
13th	-	An article about Conservapedia is created at Wikipedia, but almost immediately the threat of possible deletion for non-notability hangs over it. Nevertheless, it expanded over the next few days, with contributions by some familiar names.
18th	-	The first 'article' to receive protected status is, unsurprisingly, The Theory of Evolutionimg.

January 2007

Nothing interesting happened in January.

February 2007

21st	-	User MountainDew (AKA DanH) makes his first edit.
22nd	-	AmesG joins Conservapedia, and gets banned for the first time. That was fast, huh?
	-	User Conservative makes his first editimg.
25th	-	User MountainDew (AKA DanH) is made sysop after 4 days on the site.
	-	Conservative made sysop after only three days editing, specifically to make changes to the locked Theory of Evolution article. Despite many complaints about abuse of power continues to hold Sysop position.
	-	Two days after making the first IP address block (3 days), Aschlafly makes the first infinite block on an IP address.

March 2007

1st	-	The press first notices Conservapedia, with two articles in The Guardian. This results in the biggest ever spike in Conservapedia's alexa ratings, with it reaching approximately 0.028% of the internet.
	-	The Young Earth Creationism article is locked from editingimg, and kept under tight rein ever since.
10th	-	The George W. Bush article is lockedimg from editing, and except for brief periods, has never been open for editing by non-sysops since
13th	-	User Richard is made a sysopimg.
	-	User TK makes his first editimg.
18th	-	User TK is made sysop after 5 days on site.
	-	The first site logo is finally chosen - an image of the US Constitution, designed by the user BillOReillyFan.
19th	-	User Ed Poor makes his first edit.
21st	-	User Creation Log extension is installed
22nd	-	Checkuser extension is installed
	-	In the midst of the scandal over BillOReillyFan's logo (there was graffiti inserted in the background), a previous design by David R is hastily put up in its place.
	-	It's announced that a 'panel' of Andy's homeschooled students (later known as the Conservapedia Student Panel) will be used to tackle the important decisions at CP, including choosing a new logo, and the content of the Theory of evolution article.
24th	-	User Ed Poor is made sysop after 5 days on site.
	-	User Tmtoulouse (joined the 7th of March) is made Sysop. And unmade 62 minutes later... Then he's banned for six months.
	-	The student panel chooses a shiny new Conservapedia logo, featuring a wavy US flag.
27th	-	Richard reveals he'd been having fun with Conservapedia all along. He's banned (after several failed attempts).
29th	-	The first Icewedge vandal registers.
	-	The last edit by an editor who is not a sysop to the Theory of Evolution page.

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  Beautiful logo debuts March 18, 2007 CE.

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  The "graffiti".

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  The 3/22 replacement, due to "graffiti".

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  The wavy flag logo chosen by the Student Panel.

April 2007

1st	-	Andy adds an entry to his Examples of Bias in Wikipedia page criticizing Wikipedia for disabling Special:Statistics , even though it wouldn't be accurate in WP's case due to their massive caching and distributed hosting. He asks "Why is Wikipedia hiding its data on its popular pages? Wikipedia used to be hosted by a company profiting from pornography. Is Wikipedia traffic increased by its sex-related entries? Are minors, who are heavy users of Wikipedia, attracted to those sites?" Now, for such a WP-hating individual, Andy appears to be really obsessed with WP!
c.5th	-	The amount of edits and page views levels off, and never again truly rises, according to Alexa.com.
9th	-	The Conservapedia Student Panel finally makes a decision on the Theory of Evolution article, and many hopes are dashed as they decide to keep it largely the sameimg. The user CPanel is created.

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11th	-	The Donut War. (wasn't it earlier?)
14th	-	15th The 'wavy flag' logo is changed to a static flag logo and initially proclaims Conservapedia to be "The Trusworthy Encyclopediaimg".
20th	-	Andy starts the Deceit article.
22nd	-	Andy makes his first use of what would later become his personal catchphrase Godspeed; in this early version, it was included in a full sentence: "Thanks and Godspeed to you."

May 2007

6th	-	Andy makes his first use of Godspeed in its evolved form, as a full sign-off.
9th	-	MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist is created, restricting new usernames to alpha-numeric characters only.
11th	-	'Icewedge' variants are addedimg to the username blacklist.
15th	-	Karajou discovers RationalWiki 1.0, which would later evolve transform into one of his favorite obsessions- brooding and watching over us.
16th	-	First Night of the Blunt Knives. Mass blockings of 'liberal users', many of whom are now residing here.
17th	-	Second Night of the Blunt Knives. The stragglers are blocked, and again, many of them take refuge here on RW.
22nd	-	RationalWiki 2.0 goes online.
29th	-	Image upload rights are instituted, and are limited only to trused "trusted" users.
	-	Mass image protection completed

June 2007

5th	-	Editing rights are introduced to reduce vandalism. As of June 12, there were 18 editors the Trustworthy Encyclopedia felt they could trust. Some of those also had upload and block rights. In addition there are also (as of June 12) 30 sysops or administrators, or put another way, more chiefs than indians. Registered Liberals may edit during the day if they happen to live on the conservative side of the planet.
9th	-	The flat earthers open up editing during the day - EST, of course, not realising those stuck in spheroid reality on the other side of the planet find themselves unable to edit when it best suits them. Editing is turned off overnight, except for Sysops and those with Edit rights.
12th	-	Conservapedia is open for anyone (not just registered users) to edit for about 2.5 hours .
14th	-	Site Admin rights are introduced. A Site Admin can "lock and unlock the database". Initially, 14 accounts received this right.
16th	-	Aschlafly updates the MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist page to filter out many undesirable words from new usernames (some of which, like “God”, “Rationa1”, “Godless”, “Trent”, “Liberal”, and “Reagan” are not objectionable at all- that is, unless you’re Andy).
	-	Various Special Pages are disabled
19th	-	LA Times Reporter Stephanie Simon wrote an article about Conservapedia and RationalWiki, as noted here. Despite the fact that LA Times slams Conservapedia for spelling errors, consistent shocking bias, and other problems, Andrew Schlafly puts it on the front page in big, gaudy letters. The same report calls RationalWiki cyber-vandals :-(. But we're so much more...
22nd	-	Someone named Vincent Valentine creates a parody article on Final Fantasy 7. After it is discovered to be a fake, the vandal goes on two separate hour-long attacks on consecutive evenings using over 50 Final Fantasy related accounts.
23rd	-	Andy gives Jinxmchue editing rights.
27th	-	Comedian Lewis Black lambastes Conservapedia on the Daily Show. Vandals and Trolls flock to Conservapedia after the popular television show ends.
29th	-	The Conservapedia Team Contest is officially announced. Follow the excrement excitement here!
	-	CP sysops receive Kevin Conley letter alleging TK is trying to "destroy Conservapedia" and "frame RobS for it."
30th	-	Conservapedia sysop TK is charged with the high crime of cooperating with *GASP* RationalWiki members (OH NOES!). Could it be an example of conservative deceit?! Or is it all a lie!? Details as this story develops.

July 2007

1st	-	Karajou (a.k.a., "The Great Non-Compromiser") packs his bags and leavesimg over the fallout from incidents on June 30th, 2007. The first of more?
2nd	-	the first non-Christian user to be named a sysop, Fox, receives his commission. It all went down here. Andy's affirmative action program seems to be working.
3rd	-	Karajou makes his unfortunate return. Also, fighting between RobS and TK continues at a riotous rate.
c.6th	-	Sysop namespace is created. Articles in this space are not readable by non-sysops.
9th	-	Andy discovers range blocks and promptly bans 65,536 IP addresses as a test.
10th	-	The Conservapedia Team Contest officially begins at 12:01am NY time. Analysis and excitement is here! The contest includes mass copying from public domain sites, as the conservapedian editors confuse "not illegal" with "morally correct." Andy in particular adds law stubs from a glossary without any citations, an offense which colleges call "plagiarism".
11th	-	Karajou makes the above range block permanent.
Mid	-	The Team Kontest (yawn) ends. It takes longer to score than to happen. No one cares.
31st	-	After almost a week, the stale "Today in History" section is emptied. The section stays empty for a few edits, only to finally tell us that the only noteworthy thing on August 1 was related to Rush Limbaugh. Roughly two days later, the "Today in History" section is completely scrapped for good, thus making the start of Rush Limbaugh's show the last noteworthy event in human history.

August 2007

1st	-	The super-secret "Sysop" namespace is practically abandoned... because pretty much everybody and their *insert pet of choice* was reading it. Of course, everybody who read it first-hand is a vandal and/or terrorist. Conservative later tried to revive it, but the new page only lasted a few hours.
7th	-	TK deletes the next-best Sysop namespace page, "Sysop:User blocks". This comes just minutes after the announcement that all that is important is that the material was intended to be private, ignoring the fact that information was merrily kept in quasi-public even after the breach became widely known.
28th	-	The sidebar gets several new items: "All pages"img (the page that was used to point out vandal entries that weren't properly deleted), Statistics (which show an immensely homosexual article count that greatly differs from the one Andy shows on the Main Page), and a help boximg with a new link to the Commandments (no link to the tons of written or unwritten rules that get members banned practically every day, though)
30th	-	Another incident in the ever-increasing antagonisms between the Sysops occurs when Ken calls Ed a vandal. In the waning hours of the day, TK stops just short of Michael Savage-level insanity, bitching out Ken. The thin veneer of civility cracks yet further.
31st	-	The "permanently protected" article template is born. No need to change anything about George W. Bush! Or the Republican party! I guess there's nothing new in those articles.

September 2007

Mid	-	Three courses with Andrew initiate the autumn homskollaring term: "American Government 000.5 explains why liberals are always wrong." "The Supreme Court and the activist anti-American liberal agenda." "Critical Thinking in Math for lawyers, and why liberals are always deceitful." The grading uses Andy's classic "contest" scoring method, which comes down to "write my blog for me". [The later two classes never occurred. Ed.]	Someone makes a big mistake.
14th	-	TK nukes the file Talk:Main_Page. This is where many brave RW editors took their last stand against idiocy, their accomplishments forever enshrined in Conservapedia:What is going on at CP? with history-specific links to old versions of the page... links that are now broken. Thanks to TK's deletion, many of the stories of our martyrs have vanished.
17th	-	A hideous new logo is unveiled (see right). Someone is not a graphic designer.
20th	-	A user named "Samwell" creates a tempest in two teapots by going on a (short-lived) serial blocking spree.
24th	-	TK blocks Conservative... again. Yet still, no enduring fallout.
29th	-	A new team kontest starts? In competition with the classes for points? One teamimg has an impressive, even scary, logo or masthead. By the way, the last Friday in September, on my planet, is the 28th.
	-	Jinxmchue is stripped of his night editing rights.

October 2007

?	-	Team Contest 2 Cut-and-paste-fest ends. No one cares. Government websites now have a copy of their work somewhere else.
21st	-	TK and Conservative get in a minor block fight over the editorial "thrust" of Conservapedia's "article" on Richard Dawkins.

November 2007

1st	-	Hojimachong becomes the last Cabalist to bite the ban, and joins RationalWiki full-time. Excerpts from What Is Going On? should tell the full tale. Someone brings up the FBI.	Getting ready for the party! Whoopee! Wait, where's the Kool-Aid?
5th	-	The website RationalWiki.info is partially published. Ed Poor and Karajou think that RationalWiki put up our own hate page... and that we timed it to coincide with Conservapedia's downtime (?). However, the website is traceable to both NightTrain and TK (in an e-mail dated Nov 3, 2007 1:08 PM, TK threatened to "expose" AmesG on the site, implying his control, unless Ames did something).
6th	-	Forgetting to check the volume of drivel on the hard drive leads to Conservapedia going down teh innertubes from about 2 - 9:45 AM and 10:45 AM to 12:15.
7th	-	Conservapedia's Niandra/Jallen takes a hacksaw to the "famous" article, "Theory of Evolution." God help us.
	-	The third team contest is announced[1] (yawn). It ran from Monday Nov. 12th, Noon to Nov. 19th, Noon EST.
21st	-	Happy birthday, Conservapedia!!! Signed, the Mob at TrashionalWiki.
26th	-	Horror of horrors, Sysop TK is now ex-Sysop TK. And over the next couple of days, he's blocked, and his user pages are blanked and locked downimg. Godspeed! Fallout reports continue to roll in. Expect more info as this story develops!!!!!11two1!
27th	-	the Special Discussion Group, the secret forum for discussing Conservapedia policy, is opened by TK for all the world to see. Highlights: apparently every vandal to ever grace Conservapedia is either Human, Icewedge, Trent, or Ames; the FBI thing isn't going so well for Conservapedia; Karajou wants to sue us civilly but can't seem to get it to work; and the members of the Group don't particularly like the non-member Conservapedia sysops.
29th	-	A reporter apparently observes a Conservapedia class! We can't wait to see it. Sneak peak: "creationaryianist science proves that gay marriage killed the dinosaurs."
30th	-	the Special Discussion Group is closed to non-member viewers again. However, a number of RationalWiki members are admitted to the group. Although some of the main players - TerryH/Temlakos and Karajou - have left, all that secret info remains to parse through...

December 2007

5th	-	TK's explusion is allegedly finalized.
	-	RationalWiki holds another boycott of Conservapedia.
	-	RobS takes a few days off to visit Hillary's campaign headquarters in Rochester, New Hampshire, but returns feeling fully refreshed (ed. note: lulz).
11th	-	In an effort to ease tensions, several RationalWiki users propose and debate the possibility of discussion with Conservapedia members, in a neutral forum. The proposal is rejected by the Conservapedia sysop group known, in over-romantic fashion, as "The Ten" (Andy, RobS, Karajou, Ed Poor, TerryH, Ymmotrojam, Geo.plrd, DanH, Philip J. Rayment, and Niandra).
16th	-	RobSmith's last edit, before long unexplained break.
19th	-	"CollegeRepublican" gets promoted to sysop one minute after joining. The first contrib? Editing the Front Page News...

January 2008

13th	-	The fourth Conservapedia contest begins. Will Conservapedia survive another onslaught?
14th	-	Iduan, also of this noble site, quits. His departure message can be seen here if it's deleted from The Other Place. He was persuaded to stay over the next couple of days.
16th	-	After almost two months, CPWebmaster returns to CP... and promptly changes the default style again.

February 2008

8th	-	The Guard Dog extension is introduced. It apparently monitors edit behavior and blocks users who violate unwritten rules. It's well programmed and acts like a true CP sysop: It promptly started its duty by blocking one of the most competent and productive editors - first for a day, then for five years when said editor unblocked himself to ask a question.
16th	-	21st or so (we weren't watching due to a boycott) - Cut'n'paste fest 5 went off without a hitch. Or so we have been told.
22nd	-	MexMax, Conservapedia edit/upload/block-rightsholder, blocks the entire site, unblocks a couple old-school Cabal users, and fires off a Parthian Shot before meeting his ultimate fate. Samwell Incident Redux?
28th	-	after some strange ultimatums, Andy blocks Iduan and desysops him, but Iduan gets in a commentary to lift tensions. Andy being immune to reason, Iduan is forced to issue a Parthian shot, and gets the come-uppance. Goodbye Iduan.
29th	-	If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? BOHDAN!

March 2008

4th	-	After accusing Karajou of copy/pasting a Wikipedia article... which he clearly copy/pasted... SSchultz bites the bullet. Turns out he was one of ours anyways. His long reign included the gaining and loss of edit rights, the terrorizing of Contest3, and many more songs that will be sung of his deeds.
7th	-	Conservapedia Sysop Fox starts undoing blocks. First Wikinterpreter, then old hand Palmd001 and AmesG. Wow. Either a major change is at hand, or Fox is about to get kicked out of Conservapedia.
8th	-	Karajou redoes the blocks undone by Fox.
18th	-	After growing tired of Conservapedia "articles" like liberal friendship, Fox starts mocking the "liberal" phenomenon with articles like Liberal, Kansas, a course of action which eventually results in his loss of sysop privileges.
19th	-	Freedom777 becomes a sysop. As of this date, he (1) doesn't use his real name and (2) has TWO mainspace edits (plus 549 edits to his Intelligent Design draft). Yes, only working on a single article in userspace for nine months is a definite qualifier for sysop-ship.
23th	-	TK returns to Conservapedia on "parole". Drama ensues.

April 2008

8th	-	History repeats itself: TK begins copy-pasting and promptly gets promoted to Edit status.
	-	Bohdan is no more. Out of his ashes rises HenryS - the New And Improved Bohdan!
9th	-	Apparently, there are gradations of crazy. And Philip J. Rayment is not Schlafly-crazy. Schlafly and PJR begin an exegesis-war on the "liberalism" of some Bible passages.
	-	Kettle o' fish is granted the ability to block and upload.
11th	-	Joaquin Martinez goes on a temporary sabbatical. TK blames Philip Rayment for causing it, and TK threatens to leave himself.
12th	-	April is promotion month: Learn Together becomes sysop!
	-	TK's last edit
16th	-	HelpJazz's last edit (for a while).
27th	-	Crocoite becomes DeanS, he begins his new life by blocking several people for 1 day telling them to use their first name and last initial, a policy that he made up on the fly.
28th	-	Bugler makes his appearance. He is suspected of being a parodist for picking up the lingo and kissing Andy's ass so quickly.

May 2008

6th	-	Fox is reinstated some of his powers, block, upload and edit.
25th	-	The video of the journalist visiting one of Andy's homeschool classes is finally released.
27th	-	Conservative trys to hit the big time by challenging respected biology professor PZ Myers to find flaws in his evolution article.
28th	-	Conservative deletes his "article" to PZ Myers, and his "Public awareness of the atheism article" "article" along with the Atheism article talk page, the two mainpage templates and finally the Mainpage Talk. He then restore them all (except his "articles") without the history and his stupid comments removed from archives.
29th	-	PJR restores the history so Conservative can't hide his stupidity.

June 2008

7th	-	Kektklik becomes NathanG.
10th	-	MakeTomorrow posts an interesting article on talk:Main about an experiment in evolution, few people comment.
	-	Bugler is given Sysop lite powers.
13th	-	Andy adds a Conservative-style shout out to the main page about an email he sent to Richard Lenski about his research.
	-	Two hours later Lenski replies.
17th	-	Andy issues a call to arms calling on people to help him write a second letter to Lenski asking him for the release of his data. Thus setting in motion what would become known as the Lenski affair.
18th	-	Andy sends his second letter to Lenski. After not receiving a reply that afternoon, Andy becomes sure Lenski is avoiding answering his questions and allows people free rein to slander Lenski on the talk page.
19th	-	DanH resigns from Conservapediaimg, citing the unsubstantiated claim that Obama is a Muslim. He has not edited since.
22nd	-	DeanS resigns saying that he is no longer going to participateimg, due to a disagreement with other editor about Mormons and whether they are Christian (Dean being Mormon himself). However as of yet he has not stopped editingimg. It should be noted that he pretty much took backimg his resignation, most likely because of Andy's implied promiseimg to bully anybody who thinks that Mormons are less than perfect.
23rd	-	On the anniversary of initially being given his edit rights, Jinxmchue is given editing, upload, block and siteadmin rights. The first time the ability to turn off the database is given to a non administrator.
24th	-	Lenski replies to Andy and his "acolytes". Lenski takes offense to the things on the talk page, and Andy in general, Andy becomes laughingstock of the blogosphere. Andy's response is to say that Lenski has a bad attitude.
26th	-	Lenski is addedimg to Conservapedia's list of Bad Professors amongst other minor attacks.

July 2008

2nd	-	Andy continues his habit of making everything, no matter how distant, about Lenski.
3rd	-	Andy begins his betterment of the world with the first Conservapedia challenge. The challengeimg: get Lenski to release his data so Andy can prove him wrong.
5th	-	Jpatt is given sysop lite powers.
12th	-	Andy starts compiling a listimg of perceived "flaws" in the Lenski study. Talk of submitting this list to the online letter section of the PNAS journal ensues.
22nd	-	JJacob receives block rights after 19 days on the site.
23rd	-	JJacob does a mini-MexMax, fires off a clever Parthian shot and leaves Andy pondering Poe's Paradox.
All	-	Since late June, Conservapedia experiences repeated down times.

August 2008

4th	-	Andy announces that he has sent a letter to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science asking for correction or retraction of Lenski's paper. Even we are getting bored of this one.
10th	-	Andy endorses DeanS' policy of first name last initial by making it an official block reasonimg. It still appears no where in the commandments and sysops such as, Karajou, Conservative, CollegeRepublican and Freedom777 appear to be exempt from any naming rules.
14th	-	CP was briefly hacked. All links that didn't contain "/index.php" redirected to a scam site. The hack was undone relatively quickly.
24th	-	Andy announces that the Lenski letter to the PNAS "is now under Editorial Review". Yawn.

September 2008

1st	-	Karajou picks up his ball and goes homeimg.
3rd	-	HelpJazz rears his head again.
4th	-	Karajou realises he is a very small man without his BanHamMerimg.
	-	RobSmith returnsimg. It looks like Andy is regrouping his old thugs, however he makes only a handful of edits before disappearing again.
12th	-	PNAS rejectsimg Schlafly's letter regarding Lenski, saying he misunderstands basic statistics. Snigger
15th	-	Andy begins preparations for "American History: Why every great person was a conservative and Benedict Arnold would vote Democrat" by laying down the ground rules, girls if you arm-wrestle a boy let him win.
Mid	-	American History lectures kick off with some appalling low standards.

October 2008

7th	-	Andy stuns even his biggest detractors by announcing his the mid-term American History test would contain a different number of question for boys and girls.
	-	Andy prepares for the election by adding inappropriate edit to Obama entryimg as a blockable offense.
9th	-	Jpatt becomes the second non-sysop to receive the ability to turn off the database.
14th	-	NathanG blocks himself with the cryptic message, Liberal parodist: My work here is done.

November 2008

3rd	-	NathanG blocks Andy, Foxtrot and Karajou. Andy desysops him for blocking Koward.
4th	-	Following Obama's victory, the Barack Obamaimg and John McCainimg articles are locked to stem the flood of people adding "Obama won" until after all hope was lost for McCain. They were locked until the 6th.
6th	-	Jinxmchue announces his retirementimg.
15th	-	TK returns and is greeted as the prodigal son. Shudder! After a brief "Hi" to Ed Poor he archives Andy's talk page. Strangely, Andy deletes and recreates his own talk page in a memory-holing exercise and then dismisses CPAdmin1's question about it as "clutter".
21st	-	Conservapedia Day! Andy's edits: five reverts and a "thankyou".
25th	-	RodWeathers is given only block rights, he appears to do little editing besides defending Andy's position on Obama being a secret Muslim.
	-	Fox retires citing rampant antisemitism.

December 2008

1st	-	After a week of various different rights being bestowed upon him one at a time, TK finally ends up with edit, upload, block and checkuser rights, just two weeks after his return.
	-	Professor RJ Jensen earns his sysop lite powers the hard way.
	-	Kotomi gets block, upload, and, after Andy thinks about it, edit rights, which given that she lives in Japan this is the right she needs the most.
	-	Andy appears to choose to have no coherent policy on user rights because it is "mindless conformity".
4th	-	Deborah has her rights revoked for inactivity after two weeks off. That laughing in the distance is CollegeRepublican.
25th	-	Andy decides to spend Christmas Day rewriting the bible.
30th	-	Mass user rights changes ahead of promotion announcement. Helpjazz loses all rights for inactivity and not because he is a bureaucrat here at all.
31st	-	CPAdmin1, who joined in the first week of CP's existence, resigns after handing Andy a little list of things to think about. He is renamed TimS.

January 2009

1st	-	Andy rings in the New Year by promoting 6 new sysops; AddisonDM, DuncanB, JessicaT, Jpatt, RJJensen and TK, just prior to his champagne toast. The beginning of the end.
	-	Bugler comes out as a parodist.
2nd	-	TimS is welcomed back in to the fold, sort of. He does not last long.
21st	-	After almost a year's absence, Iduan starts editing again. He is placed on parole.
26th	-	What appear to be server problems cause the website to go down for more than 24 hours, reappearing partially under the name ConservativeEncyclopedia.com (Catchy, ain't it?). The previous week's editing appears to have been lost.
27th	-	The backup site goes down as well, and Conservapedia appears all but dead to the world. There is much celebration at RationalWiki.
28th	-	Conservapedia is fully erratically back online, but with the previous week's edits are still missing, gone forever into the aether.

February 2009

10th	-	Being a member of RationalWiki a vandal/parodist site becomes an official block reasonimg.
12th	-	RodWeathers calls it a day.

March 2009

21st

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Philip J. Rayment resignsimg after two years on CP. Andy reacts by only taking away Sysop rights, leaving several others (Oversight, Checkuser, Block, etc.) in place. That afternoon he starts A Storehouse of Knowledge, his own biblical based on-line encyclopaedia project. He also details his reasons for leaving in a very interesting expose: "I was a Conservapedia Administrator".

April 2009

9th	-	TK tries to banhammer Jinx for being a member of RationalWiki. Jinx fights back... and loses all rights "pending inquiry".
15th	-	TerryH is temporarily desysopped due to a glitch in Guard dog that occurred while he was out teabagging.
30th	-	TK gets into an edit warimg with JessicaT over block reasons like "Liberal vandalism" or "Liberal multiculturalism / world view". And Jessica... loses all rights. The next day TK collects his scalp. She retires a few days later.

May 2009

Nothing interesting happened in May.

June 2009

13th	-	RobSmith makes a surprise return, and seems to have decided to stick around.
14th	-	TK gets Oversight rights. On a completely unrelated note, entire discussions start to vanish, and TK posts a warning on his userpage that people are faking wiki screenshots.
19th	-	Following the death of DeanS' wife, a bogtroll adds a nasty comment to his talkpageimg. JessicaT comes out of retirement to revert the commentimg and is met with a block from Jpattimg ending her time with Conservapedia. TK, like the charming fellow he is, adds the offensive comment to his user pageimg.
22nd	-	Andy strips 5 sysops (Philip J Rayment , BenjaminS, DanH, Learn together and HenryS) of their rightsimg, citing "inactivity".

July 2009

4th	-	With preciously little happening at Conservapedia to entertain us, RationalWiki some totally independent punters run a half-assed page bump operation pushing CPs total pageviews to 100,000,000 for Independence Day, succeeding, barely, just a few minutes before midnight in Pago Pago, which as a US dependency still counts.
28th	-	In a tremendous display of Meritocracy, Andy makes his daughter PhyllisS a sysop for her less than 250 editsimg.
29th	-	After ignoring it for 3 weeks, Andy finally acknowledges that Conservapedia has more than 100,000,000 page viewsimg.

August 2009

12th	-	Andy starts the Conservative Bible Projectimg, pumping new life into the Bible Retranslation Project he started on Christmas day, 2008.
31st	-	The last time Andy changes the page-view and page-edit count for more than six monthsimg.

September 2009

4th

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Andy makes paste addict Chippeterson a sysopimg.

October 2009

5th	-	The blogosphere notices the Conservative Bible Project - and CP promptly collapses under the traffic.
6th	-	Andy begins a series of radio interviews about the Bible Project, including Alan Colmes.
7th	-	The Bible Project is mocked by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. After suggesting he be added to the Bible as a character, 24 accounts signed up in just half an hour, before "night mode" kicked in and prevented account creation. Conservapedia consequently spikes to #5 as a search term on Google Trends.
8th	-	Following a six month inquiry, Jinx gets his banhammer back.

November 2009

4th

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Karajou debutsimg his unimaginatively named Weekly toon. Despite its name, it is replaced at seemingly random intervals.

December 2009

3rd	-	Associated Press writes an article on the The Conservative Bible Project. Several of the news service's subscribers pick up the story.
8th	-	Andy goes on The Colbert Report to discuss the Conservative Bible Project.

January 2010

Nothing interesting happened in January.

February 2010

3rd	-	What appears to be the last weekly toon goes upimg..
7th	-	RobSmith updates the "site statistics"img after noticing this edit made to August 2009.
14th	-	The Weekly Toon is replacedimg with an exclusive Andy InsightTM.
28th	-	Andy promotes suspected known parodist JacobB to sysop.

March 2010

15th

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Discussions from The Zeuglodon Blues‎, a recent sysop discussion group, are leaked onto the net, providing laughs insight into the operation of Conservapedia.

April 2010

10th

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DouglasA is made a sysop and embarks on a deletion spree the likes of which have never been witnessed before. Other sysops do nothing but watch.

May 2010

8th	-	With much machismo, Conservative launches his obsessive compulsive Richard Dawkin's Projectimg.
29th	-	With less fanfare than before Conservative launches the Anti-Socialism projectimg.

June 2010

30th

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Andy evokes the Spirit of Lenski Past and fires off a letter to Prof. Douglas Moo, the Blanchard Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, enquiring into the professor's progress into the new revision of the NIV translation , whilst extolling the virtues of the Conservative Bible project at the same time.

July 2010

25th	-	JacobB outs himself and quits.
27th	-	JacobB is allowed back by Andy, stating that it is "based on an open-minded review of evidence and on the positive recommendation of senior Sysops." JacobB claims his account had been hijacked.

August 2010

5th	-	Sysop TerryH, under the username "Temlakos" is outed as a member of the "Digg Patriots", a group that actively censored liberal postings to Digg, by voting them down, whilst at the same time promoting conservative entries.
9th	-	Physicist Brian Cox Post on Twitter, saying, "It takes comic genius to compile a list of shit as long as this one - very amusing indeed!" when referring to cp:Counterexamples to Relativity. Conservapedia suffers "Internal Server Errors" as his readers flock to join in the merriment.
11th	-	New Scientist picks up on the whole "Relativity is a liberal plot" nonsense
17th	-	Incensed by the fact that a woman might win the Fields Medal, Andy throws a hissy fitimg and declaresimg that he's going to offer the ConservaMath Medalimg as a "merit-based alternative to the Fields Medal." No mention is made of any prize money being awarded.

September 2010

Nothing interesting happened in September.

October 2010

Nothing interesting happened in October.

November 2010

1st	-	After several weeks of having account creation switched off for most of the day, it appears as if Conservapedia has finally shut down open registration. Site owner, Andrew Schlafly, posts a message to the Main Page requiring aspiring editors to "email us at conservapedia@zoho.com with your request for an account."img
c.5th	-	Conservapedia continues to flirt with closed editing, with registration never being open for more than 4 hours in a day.

December 2010

16th	-	TK, long one of Conservapedia's most divisive and disliked admins makes his final mainspace edit.img
17th	-	Unbeknownst to RW or (apparently) CP public records indicate that TK has died.
22nd	-	Entire portions of the Internet are unable to even view Conservapedia, with many visitors' entire experience of CP being a broken 403 error page. This was later revealed to be the result of a server block preventing about 2.3% of the Internet from even accessing Conservapedia.
28th	-	After a failed experiment account creation is once again enabled.img

January 2011

Nothing interesting happened in January.

February 2011

2nd	-	RationalWiki discovers the death of TK (Dec 17 2010) and discusses it on TWIGO:CP. Ever watchful, Karajou and Joaquin Martinez add two small tributesimg to TK's user page.
6th	-	Andy removes most of the TK account's rights.
9th	-	Two more sysop discussion groups are leaked: Conservapedia Group and Fab Five.
11th	-	TK faces the Final Banhammer in the Sky and becomes a nonperson on Conservapedia. Fitting end, really.

March 2011

10th	-	The first new account in over a week is created.
Late	-	Conservapedia under goes a massive wave of denial of service attacks. The number of IP address unable to access Conservapedia due to server blocking increases.

April 2011

Nothing interesting happened in April.

May 2011

Nothing remotely interesting happened in May.

June 2011

19th

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The following thread appears on /r/IAmA: IAmA former administrator of Conservapedia, AMA.

July 2011

31st

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Rob Smith and Karajou get into a block war.

August 2011

11th	-	Rob is stripped of his sysop rights and demoted to peon (pending review!) for his attempts at reforming CP.
17th	-	Karajou blocks RobS for 5 years (later extended to infinite.)

September 2011

Nothing of note happened on Conservapedia in September, thus beginning a long slog of indifferent tedium. A few vandals strike on occasion, a few parodists post long screeds, and Andy Schlafly regularly declares that they're setting new records in pageviews and that the chocolate ration has been increased. All the while, Conservative squeals and gibbers about his campaigns, burbling in the background like some sort of terrible demented dying fish. The Slog has begun, wherein nothing changes and nothing happens but the slow dying of the light.

October 2011

The Slog continues. According to Andy, conservatism is triumphing.

November 2011

The Slog continues. According to Andy, everyone in the media hates freedom.

December 2011

The Slog continues. According to Andy, only whiners complain about income disparities.

January 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy, liberals wants to destroy America.

February 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy, President Obama is a secret Kenyan Muslim gayqueer.

March 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy, Hillary Clinton is shameful for some reasons.

April 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy, the White House now burns kittens for fuel.

May 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy, arglbarglebbbbbbbbbbbbbbr.

June 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy, wibble.

July 2012

The Slog continues. According to Andy...you probably know the rest.

17th

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Next generation user Northwest begins editing Conservapedia.

August 2012

The Slog continues, which is as interesting as it sounds and it sounds like this: Wlaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh.

September 2012

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Slog, happy birthday to you!

June 2013

The Alexa ranking having slowly dropped down nearly 40,000 points since January, the Slog is still fully in action, and more than ever before. Even the coverage of the Slog has slowed.

July 2013

An analysis by our own LArron showed that July 2013 was the least active month on CP after November 2006. Keep in mind that in November 2006 there were only 10 days to edit Conservapdia, as its oldest edit is from 21 November 2006.

August 2013

Kenservapedia: in August 2013, Ken not only was responsible for more than half of all revisions (nearly 2000 out of ca. 3,500), he created more than half of the edits which are still in the database at the end of the month (nearly 1,600 out of 2,700 still accessible edits). See also: Becoming Kenservapedia.

With Conservapedia becoming a more stagnant cesspool of insert random offensive metaphor here, the link to the CP WIGO on the front page of everyone's favourite observer website (which is to say this one) is voted into oblivion.

September 2013

The slog celebrates it's second birthday

October 2013

The slog continues. Ken deletes numerous articles relating to his failed promises.

November 2013

The slog continues. Ken deletes references relating to his failed promises.

December 2013

January 2014

31st	- Ed Poor stops editing CP, only to resume on February 14, 2016.

March 2014

27th

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Next generation user TheAmericanRedoubt ("TAR") makes his first edit adding categories to cp:ObamaCare.

December 2014

30th

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On the very day that James Wesley Rawles's new book is released, TAR created a CP article about it by pasting in Amazon.com's description img Later that day, he upload a reader review to Amazon, and then adds links to his review back to CP.

January 2015

23rd

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TAR starts an unannounced/unexplained Wikibreak.

27th

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MPR has not been archived in more than 3 months; still no pages created on the all time record breaking movie American Sniper and its conservative movement action hero, Chris Kyle.

February 2015

9th	-	TAR has his long awaited conference call with Andy and charms him to the point that Andy writes on Wschact's talk page that unlike Wikipedia, CP presents all sides, so Wschact should stop removing TAR's incoherent materials. TAR then returns to revert all changes made to any of the 56 articles that were touched during his absence. He claims that Wschact has inserted a link containing "gay pornography" to TAR's cp:Nutnfancy article, permanently bans Wschact and leaves his rationale on admin's talk pages. Andy then bans TAR for two hours and revdels his talk page rants.
15th	-	After over 10 months contributing to the project and many gentle hints, Ken finally orders TAR to read CP's Manual of Style and strongly suggests that he try to improve his writing. In response, TAR orders a pair of audio books and Ken creates an exception to the Manual of Style. img

March 2015

24th

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TAR makes his last edit and leaves without comment. When Ken is later asked about TAR's departure and the many red links that TAR has left behind, Ken claims that he has contacted TAR, who plans to return in September. September comes and goes without TAR's return.

May 2015

29th

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RobS reappears after Ken begs him too. It appears he's been editing all along under the sock OscarO

October 2015

27th

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Next generation user DavidB4 begins editing Conservapedia.

January 2016

24th

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TAR reappears to promote Rawles' new book. He perfoms a few days of intensive edition on survivorism topics.

April 2016

1st

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TAR rage-quits a second time.

July 2016

24th

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Next generation user 1990'sguy begins editing Conservapedia.

November 2016

21st	-	Conservapedia turns 10.img
22nd	-	User "DavidB4" begins developing detailed instructions on how to make CP the search engine on your browser.img This was reported on What is going on at CP?.

December 2016

26th

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User "Rawles" appears to edit the American Redoubt article without first unblocking his TAR account

January 2017

3rd	-	cp:Donald Trump achievements is created and receives over 300,000 views by the end of the year. (see Conservapedia:Donald Trump achievements)
20th	-	Donald Trump becomes President, but CP makes little immediate effort to update articles to reflect new cabinet or to put Obama articles into past tense, though this is all done in the succeeding months. Andy reverts edits to put cp:Obama's Religion into the past.
23rd	-	Next generation user YortKeldher begins editing Conservapedia.

April 2017

2nd

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The following observation about Conservapedia is made: “”TerryH is only there to whore his blog. Ken is incapable of original thought. Karajou does nothing but block people and the rest are missing in action / given up / dead / in jail. Not sure which one of those applies to Ed Poor.

January 2019

13th

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Conservative surpasses 200,000 edits, making him responsible for around 13.6% of all edits on Conservapedia (1,470,640 total) at this time.

See also

• Conservapedia:In the media
• Conservapedia:2008 - A year in review
• Conservapedia:2009 - A year in review

Footnotes