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EvoWiki, short for Evolution Education Wiki, is a wiki website dedicated to building a textbook and encyclopedia of Evolution and related sciences, to providing responses to claims by creationist and intelligent design followers, and to hosting general essays and comment about these subjects. The website was inspired by Wikipedia and the Talk.Origins usenet group.

The EvoWiki has over 100 registered contributors and over 2000 entries. As of June 2004 it was the 30th largest wiki on the internet.Template:Ref

The EvoWiki uses the MediaWiki wiki software.

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Comparison of CreationWiki, Evowiki, and Wikipedia

The online wiki based encyclopedias, CreationWiki, EvoWiki and Wikipedia, all present information on the topics of evolution and creationism. Wikipedia articles are strictly required to adopt a Neutral Point of View policy rather than taking sides on a controversy. CreationWiki writers allege that Wikipedia editors disregard this policy in regard to creationism. [1] However, editing CreationWiki is subject to a policy that "Non-creationists are prohibited from editing articles, except for spelling and grammar corrections." [2]

In a similar way, EvoWiki's separation from the much larger Wikipedia allows it to specialize in evolutionary theory and present its own arguments unhindered by a neutral point of view. EvoWiki allows anyone to edit its pages but cautions that "[EvoWiki] is not 'viewpoint neutral', and we do not keep pro-creationism edits, or discuss the details of such edits and why we remove them." [3]

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