Psiram
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| Realism as an opportunity | |
| Wiki with a closed circle of authors | |
| languages | German, English, French, Italian, Russian |
| operator | anonymous |
| editorial staff | anonymous |
| On-line | 2007 esowatch.com; since 2012 as psiram.com (currently active) |
| https://www.psiram.com/ | |
Psiram is a website close to the skeptics movement , which describes itself as a “ consumer protection site ” and a “ wiki of irrational belief systems” and opposes pseudoscience , esotericism and conspiracy theories . The operators and authors of the website are anonymous. The acronym Psiram is derived from Ps eudoscientific, Ir rational systems of belief, A lternative M edizin . Thematically, the four core areas of belief systems , bag tailoring , pseudosciences and pseudoscientific healing methods are viewed critically. The website has existed since 2007. Until July 2012 it was called EsoWatch .
Technical aspects and structure
The offer consists of a multilingual digital lexicon , a blog and a discussion forum . Psiram used for the lexical representation of the contributions the MediaWiki - software . As of October 2015, this includes over 3000 esoteric-critical, mostly German-language articles in the style of Wikipedia , which have been posted by 130 authorized authors. The authors write pseudonyms , the operators of the website are not publicly known. The anonymous appearance is loud Psiram the protection of authors from possible harassment. The domain esowatch.com was a company in according to their own information Hong Kong registered new authors are allowed on request.
Some domain names that sound similar or run under a different TLD are operated by Psiram opponents ( cybersquatting ).
reception
In 2010 Esowatch was presented in the computer magazine c't under the heading Websites aktuell . Accordingly, Esowatch is dedicated to the fight against superstition , charlatanry and pseudoscience, and the entries in the lexicon are extensively provided with sources and represent a "treasure trove for scientifically tenable arguments".
In 2012, shortly after the wiki was renamed Psiram, Michael Utsch from the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen turned against the lack of transparency in an “Internet war over alternative medicine”. At Psiram he saw not only the differentiated information but also violent exaggerations and polemics . In addition, Psiram opponents would deliberately mislead users with similarly named offers such as “Psiram.de”, as was the case with EsoWatch before.
Interviews
- Interview by Elke Wittich: Gossip about subtle matter , in: Jungle World , No. 43, October 25th. 2012, last accessed on December 30, 2018.
- Ralph Glander: Keeping the madness in check. ( Memento from December 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Psiram. Bayerischer Rundfunk , February 14, 2014 (archive version).
- Sebastian Bartoschek : No position is usually the wrong one. Interview with Esowatch in Skeptiker 2/2012, pp. 91–94.
- Sebastian Bartoschek: Thoughts. Interviews between science and fiction . 1st edition. JMB Verlag , Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-944342-10-8 , pp. 69-77 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Esowatch is now called Psiram , Telepolis , July 13, 2012
- ↑ Psiram main page. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Entry ( Memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.psiram.com/…/Spezial:Statistik , automatically generated page statistics from www.psiram.com.
- ↑ a b c d Michael Utsch: Eso-Watch: Internet War for Alternative Medicine In: Materialdienst der EZW , Edition 9/2012, p. 348.
- ↑ Psiram: Imprint. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Psiram: Participate. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Urs Mansmann: Wiki against charlatans . In c't 18/2010, page 186 .