User:Anthony.Sebastian/Proposal to recruit academics

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It will not function on User pages.

Draft proposal begins here. Edit to improve:

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This draft proposal aims to develop, within Citizendium main space, a private space where academics, and other agreed-upon specialists, could individually or in collaborative groups of their choosing contribute individual articles or groups of related articles that would remain closed to editing by other uninvited citizens. The articles produced by those academics/specialists will appear as Main Articles in clustered format, i.e., with subpages.

The articles produced by those academics/specialists will be subject to approval status through peer-review by appropriate Editors (n=3), including non-Citizendium experts if deemed necessary.

An appropriate banner will head those articles indicating author, academic/specialist position (e.g., Jon Smit, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley. If a collabortive group writes an article, all contributors will be named with title and affiliation.

The banner will indicate that the article is closed to editing by uninvited Citizens, who otherwise may ask questions, make comments, suggestions on the Talk page. If technically feasible, a second Talk could be provided for exclusive use of the academics/specialists.

How does this mechanism offer any advantages to over our existing "Signed Articles" subpages

Existing signed articles live within an already existing article cluster, and, as a result appear as an appendage to the main article. Moreover, there may not be a main article suitable for an academic/specialist to append her/his articles to.

Academics/specialists would feel more honored if their contributions appeared as main articles. Also, as main articles, they could exploit the full potential of the subpages.

What if one more Citizens wanted to write an article on the same or similar topic?

Nothing restricts them from doing so. If the two articles had the same title, one would be named Topic (academic/specialist), Topic (wiki authors), or some such way to distinguish them.

Search would lead the user to a Disambiguation page that would inform the user of the two versions, with appropriate commentary about each article.