Andy Schlafly (son of Phyllis) explains how Conservapedia evolved. The former lawyer who works for his mother’s organization doesn’t believe home school Christian students need to be ‘exposed to anti-American, anti-Christian liberal bias’ he sees in Wikipedia.
This piece was on CBC’s The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos this week.

Schafly genuinely believes faith is eroded (not strengthened) when exposed to viewpoints other than his own. Student entries are strictly controlled.

When an MD tried to correct misinformation on Conservapedia regarding abortion and breast cancer he was banned.
The homeschoolers Conservapedia was hit with a bot in 2007, which pushed their entries on homosexuality to the top of their site, drawing world wide ridicule.

Tom Flanagan of the University of Calgary (a Stephen Harper mentor) has said:

“It looks like this outfit is far more guilty of the crime they’re attributing to Wikipedia,” says Tom Flanagan, professor of political science at the University of Calgary and both a fiscal and social conservative.

“I wouldn’t use this thing at all.”

He calls the examples of bias in Wikipedia cited by Conservapedia “quixotic and narrow.”

“So somebody has found fault with a few dozen entries out of millions. So what, really!”

It’s a tool for the religious, more so than the conservative, Flanagan argues. For instance, one of the most influential conservative thinkers, economist Frederich Hayek, is given thousands of words in Wikipedia but just a paragraph in Conservapedia. “If there was a liberal conspiracy, why a glowing article on Hayek?” Flanagan asks.

And, Flanagan points out, there isn’t an article on prominent conservative writer and pundit David Frum, or on Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

After looking at the entry on kangaroos, Flanagan laughs, “This is loony tunes stuff.”

Ah. Frum got a mention and Stephen Harper has been noticed.

Compare Flanagan’s entry in Conservapedia.

Here is the wiki entry on his mother, her organization (Eagle Forum) and Conservapedia.

Here are the Conservapedia entries for Phyllis Schlafly, the Eagle Forum and Wikipedia.

prior posts here and here. I honestly thought Conservapedia was a parody when I first found it.:^)