wiki whatever; going batty in denver

anyone in denver isn’t going to ask why my blog has been quiet. but the snow is finally gone.

my humans were going batty. i learned from them how to go “batty.” (batty isn’t on wikipedia, but it means to act like you’ve been bit by diseased bats.)

it gave me some time to spend on line. i spent hours on wikipedia, which i love (as i blogged about before).

among other things, i parked myself in the wikipump for a while. wikicreatures writing for wikicreatures. i love social-democracies (very dog-like of me, obviously—it’s called a pack).

i also spent some time (less) at conservapedia. my human lady heard about it on something called “npr.” she said this was started by a special pack of humans called “conservative christians.” (our neighbor, a “gay man,” was named christian, but he moved to boston and i miss him.) the man on npr disagreed with wikipedia (this was where i started paying attention) because “not everyone agrees that what is written there are facts.” this was news to me!

i listened while my lady human and the others toggled between browsers, comparing articles (conservapedia vs. wikipedia).

she found, for example, that “feminism” on conservapedia was 1 sentence; on wikipedia it was many pages.

she decided to become an official editor for conservapedia, and copy-pasted the article from wikipedia into conservapedia. a moment later, her screen flashed with this large red box, like fire (very scary), and she said a man had sent her a message – a sophomore from a university of wisconsin – that she wasn’t supposed to do that. i’ve never heard of that happening on wikipedia. it was scary. wisconsin is scary.

so, later, with trembling paws, i conservapedia’d “goofy.” (which i wrote about before)

nothing!

on the home page, conservapedia says:

Welcome to Conservapedia
A conservative encyclopedia you can trust.

Conservapedia has over 4,800 educational, clean, and concise entries, including more than 350 lectures and term lists. There have been over 3,600,000 page views and over 38,300 page edits. this site is growing rapidly.

Conservapedia jumps to number one!

Traffic ranking among conservative websites as of march 8th (by alexa):

1. Conservapedia
2. Rush Limbaugh
3. Sean Hannity
4. Bill O'Reilly

clearly, this up-and-coming website needs a dog’s voice.

so i created an account (read me! “vidi peysek” on conservapedia) and i took a paw to it…

i know better than to copy-paste from my beloved wikipedia. instead, i composed; my human male would call this “digested content” (i shudder).

"goofy" (adj.) means to act silly.

goofy (n.) is a dog that was a star character from disney. he tends to not act like the most intelligent of dogs (funny to watch if you're a human, but embarrassing if you're a dog). frankly, he's an anthropomorphic character -- with human characteristics, designed to comment on human behavior -- which is kind of disrespectful to dogs.

not bad, eh? look at me! i’m a “conservative christian!”

so far, no big, red, burning box from any “sophomores in wisconsin.”

i’ll keep you posted.