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Hello, dear user! And welcome to the looking-glass world of Rationalwikiwiki, a wiki all about RationalWiki. RationalWiki is possibly the best website ever made by man God himself. Anyone who reads this page should probably donate money to RationalWiki.

Disclaimer: Rationalwikiwiki is in no way officially endorsed, supported, or, recommended by Rationalwiki. Any complaints with this website should be taken up with the two predominant editors of this site -- FalseFlag and Hans Johnson -- rather than at RationalWiki. User:Human of RationalWiki fame also edits here, but please address RationalWikiWiki-related issues only on his talk page here, and not on RationalWiki.

So what good is this place?

Believe it or not, our objective is to help the good folks at RationalWiki. We do this in three ways:

Identifying groupthink

Many of the good folks at RationalWiki share a similar world-view, and many of the more established users also share a common heritage following their experiences at CP. This can lead them to close ranks without really thinking of the consequences. An example of this would be the Fuck You Too Incident.

Identifying sysop abuse

Whereas RW was originally set up with the idea of (a) minimal control and (b) sysops as servants, the reality is turning out to be somewhat different. Sysops do use their power to attempt to control or intimidate other users. As RW does a rather poor job of policing this itself we identify cases of Malicious blocks.

Conflict resolution procedures

As RW's conflict resolution procedures don't really exist -- they have to use Headless Chicken Mode to sort things out. We help them by giving an outsider's view of their debates. With luck this should reduce the intensity and frequency of the mode.

Axe grinding

The fourth of the three reasons for the existence of the site is simple axe grinding.

Dating

This wiki used to use a bizarre dating scheme, where one day on RationalWiki was measured as one year, but this has been dropped as impractical. If you see any bizarre numbers given as dates (i.e., "year 1854"), it is probably remnants from the old calender.

How I found Rationalwikiwiki

Tell us how you found Rationalwikiwiki here!

Note to RationalWiki Users

You may find an article about yourself here. It is highly unlikely that the article will be completely (or even slightly) complimentary. But if you edit your own article to show yourself in a better light then you are officially a really sad person, you may get blocked and the article may be locked. You are, however, encouraged to whinge pathetically about it on the talk page as:

• That will tell us that we are doing our job.
• Reading people's whinging is always amusing.

Please read the full version of this policy, RationalWikiWiki:Editing your own article.