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RationalWiki (RW) is a community working together to explore and provide information about a range of topics centered around science, skepticism, and critical thinking. RW is owned by the RationalMedia Foundation (RMF), an incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
RationalWiki is a large and well respected very small modestly-sized project that was originally established to address and refute the likes of CreationWiki and Conservapedia from a rationalist point of view. As well as a wiki in an encyclopedic sense (with over 8000 content articles), it also doubles as a discussion forum.
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RationalWiki articles encompass many things and many goals. These differ from other wiki-based projects. This is a guideline about what a RationalWiki article should be, and what it should not be.
Others, such as RationalWiki, are used to explore critical thinking, while Fandom is a wiki farm and a monument to obsessive fandoms of all kinds (the wiki for Star Wars is, for instance, named — of course — Wookieepedia).
Pascal's wager is an argument that asserts that one should believe in God, even if God's existence cannot be proved or disproved through reason.. Blaise Pascal's original wager was as a fairly short paragraph in Pensées amongst several other notes that could be considered "wagers". Its argument is rooted in what has subsequently become known as game theory.