Conservapedia

Conservapedia
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Homepage screenshot of the top portion on March 6, 2013
Type of site
Available inEnglish
OwnerAndrew Schlafly
Created byVolunteer contributors
URLconservapedia.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (required to edit pages)
LaunchedNovember 21, 2006 (2006-11-21)
Current statusActive
Content license
Unclear (see § Licensing of content)

Conservapedia (/kənˌsɜː(r)vəˈpdiə/; kən-SU(R)-və-PEE-di-ə) is an English-language, wiki-based, online encyclopedia written from a self-described American conservative and fundamentalist Christian point of view. The website was established in 2006 by American attorney and activist Andrew Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly, to counter what he perceived as a liberal bias on Wikipedia. It uses editorials and a wiki-based system for content generation.

Examples of Conservapedia's ideology include its accusations against and strong criticism of former US president Barack Obama—including advocacy of Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories—along with criticisms of atheism, feminism, homosexuality, the Democratic Party, and evolution. Conservapedia views Albert Einstein's theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism, claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer, praises Republican politicians, supports celebrities and artistic works it believes represent moral standards in line with Christian family values, and espouses fundamentalist Christian doctrines such as Young Earth creationism. Conservapedia's "Conservative Bible Project" is a crowd-sourced retranslation of the English-language Bible which the site says to be "free of corruption by liberal untruths."

Conservapedia has received negative reactions from the mainstream media and political figures, and has been criticized by liberal and conservative critics alike for bias and inaccuracies.

As of September 2023, Conservapedia has more than 54,000 articles.