Freakopedia

Freakopedia (Russian: Фрикопе́дия ) was an informal Russian-language online encyclopedia focusing on pseudoscience. As of May 12, 2023, the site is still up but cannot be edited and is closed for registration. The last edits were committed on November 21, 2016. The site  was turned into a construction-themed, however, the wiki can still be browsed at. A lot of the MediaWiki functionality is gone, for example it is impossible to search for articles or see the statistics. The owners likely preserved the wiki part for search engine optimisation purposes.

Freakopedia had around 60 articles on pseudolinguistics, not a negligible amount. Because of this, it can be considered one of Linguocrankery's predecessors. It was also similar to RationalWiki, although different in tone and more strongly focused on pseudoscience in Russia.

History
The wiki was created on April 25, 2010, by the user "FreakoSysop". The wiki creator's identity is unknown. The first mentions of the site elsewhere on the web started appearing in the same year. The domain was re-registered in June 2017, which seems to be when the project was shut down.

Freakopedia was briefly mentioned in the 2017 book "Scientists Are Hiding: 21st Century Myths" by the Russian science communicator Aleksandr Sokolov: