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== Introduction to the various contributor roles ==
;[https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-October/001079.html Thanks to our first year contributors and supporters]
:Editor-in-Chief thanks dozens of participants and partners in a mailing list posting.
;[[CZ:Community Overview|Community Overview]]
:How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, various governance bodies, etc.
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<center><div style="font-size: x-large">The ''Citizendium'' Organization</div></center>
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|<br>This is the root page for all ''Citizendium'' content policy pages"Content policy" concerns accuracy, good scholarship, formatting, and other matters.
|<br>'''Find links to information about general aspects of our organization here,''' things like our fundamental principles, our workgroups, our personnel lists, and so forthWant an introduction to our community?  Start with '''[[CZ:Community Overview|Community Overview]].''' For details of the structure of the project, read our [[CZ:Governance|Governance]] page and [[CZ:Charter|Charter]].
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|If you would like our "top policy picks," or the most important policy documents, see:
|Notice that we have specialized homepages for [[CZ:Communication|Communication]] (how we talk to each other), the [[CZ: Council|Council]] (our editorial and administrative body), and the [[CZ:Moderator Group|Constabulary]] (our project "moderators").  You might also be interested in [[CZ:Getting Started|Getting Started]] and [[CZ:Content Policy|Content Policy]] (article guidelines and more).  If you can't find what you're looking for here, try there.
#[[CZ:Approval Standards|Approval Standards]]
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#[[CZ:Article Mechanics|Article Mechanics]]
|<big>There are many important pages here:
#[[CZ:Neutrality Policy|Neutrality Policy]]
#[[CZ:About|About]]
#[[CZ:Subpages|Subpages]]
#[[CZ:FAQ|FAQ]]
#[[CZ:Naming Conventions|Naming Conventions]]
#[[CZ:Community Overview|Community Overview]]
#[[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles]]
#[[CZ:Forum|Forum]]
#[[CZ:Policies|Policies]]
#[[CZ:Governance|Governance]]
#[[CZ:Workgroups|Workgroups]]
#[[CZ:Personnel|Personnel]]
#[[CZ:Contact|Contact]]
#[[CZ:Donate|Donate]]
#[[CZ:Ready for reading|Ready for Reading]]
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;[[CZ:Approval Standards|Approval Standards]]
;[[CZ:About|About]]
:The basic qualities of a good encyclopedia article.
:An introduction to the ''Citizendium;'' our goals.
;[[CZ:Article Mechanics|Article Mechanics]]
;[[CZ:FAQ|FAQ]]
:A guide to encyclopedia article style and mechanics.
:A lengthier, question-and-answer style introduction.
;[[CZ:What Citizendium articles are not|What ''Citizendium'' articles are not]]
;[[CZ:Community Overview|Community Overview]]
:A few items that one should not confuse ''Citizendium'' encyclopedia articles with.
:How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, etc.
;[[CZ:Sage advice on writing CZ articles|Sage advice on writing CZ articles]]
;[[CZ:Governance|Governance]]
:Just a few words of wisdom.
:CZ is overseen by elected officers on two councils.
;[[CZ:We aren't Wikipedia|We aren't Wikipedia]]
:An explanation of how our project differs from Wikipedia.
;[[CZ:Privacy policy|Privacy policy]]
:What we do and won't do with your private information.
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<br><!-- Support us -->
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{| style="margin:0 auto; clear: both" width=95% align=center class="toccolours"
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!align=right| <div style="font-size: large">Support us</div>
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;[[CZ:Neutrality Policy|Neutrality Policy]]
;[[CZ:Donate|Donate]]
:Where agreement is lacking, represent all sides sympathetically.
:How and why to support the cause.
;[[CZ:Maintainability|Maintainability]]
;[[CZ:Friends of Citizendium|Friends of Citizendium]]
:If we can maintain a whole set of articles ''like that,'' have at it.
:A list of websites that link to us.
;[[CZ:Family-Friendly Policy|Family-Friendly Policy]]
:Respect the usual publishing standards for Junior.
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<br><!-- Media policy -->
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;[[CZ:Images|Images]]
;[[CZ:Personnel|Personnel]]
:How to upload and give credit for images.
:Lists of project participants and leadership.
;[[CZ:Media Assets Workgroup|Media Assets Workgroup]]
;[[CZ:Contact|Contact]]
:A proposed workgroup would help manage our media resources.
:How to get in touch with various Citizens.
;[[CZ:Fair Use Policy, Media|Fair Use Policy]]
:Guidance for fair use issues.
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<br><!-- Topic Informants and Self-Promotion -->
<br><!-- Project governance -->
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;[[CZ:Policy on Topic Informants|Policy on Topic Informants]]
;[[CZ:Workgroups|Workgroups]]
:What we do when someone with a vested interest in a topic wants to get involved.
:A list of our workgroups--the groups devoted to advancing work on different subjects within CZ.
;[[CZ:Topic Informant Workgroup|Topic Informant Workgroup]]
:Interviewers and writers volunteering to work with topic informants.
;[[CZ:Policy on Self-Promotion|Policy on Self-Promotion]]
:Thou shalt not promote thyself.
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;'''[[CZ:Subpages|Subpages]]'''
;[[CZ:Archived Pages|Archived Pages]]
:We're not just an encyclopedia. See what else.
:Pages that are no longer in use. "Historical" interest only.
;'''Default subpages'''
;[[CZ:Cold Storage|Cold Storage]]
:[[CZ:Related Articles|Related Articles]] and [[CZ:Definitions|Definitions]] | [[CZ:Bibliography|Bibliography]] | [[CZ:External Links|External Links]]
:Problematic articles removed from the main namespace are sometimes put here, simply out of respect for the author.
:Subpages that should be included in (almost) all articles.
;'''[[CZ:Subpages#Optional_subpages|Optional subpages]]'''
:Catalogs, timelines, galleries, tutorials--all different sorts of reference information.
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<br><!-- Special issues -->
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;[[CZ:Stubs|Stubs]]
;[[CZ:Charter|Charter]]
:Even "stubs," very short articles, can be high quality.  
:The ''Citizendium'' Charter.
;[[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles]]
;[[CZ:Userinfo System|Userinfo System]] and [[CZ:Group Status|Group Status]]
:If you must upload that Wikipedia article, here's how.
:A system for getting an overview of our doings and plans, both individually and in groups.
;[[CZ:Topic Choice|Topic Choice]]
;[[CZ:Proposals|Proposals System]]
:First step is to pick a topic; a few rules about that.
:A system that any Citizen may use to make a governance proposal.
;[[CZ:Naming Conventions|Naming Conventions]]
;[[CZ:Workgroups|Workgroups]]
:How to name articles.
:A list of our workgroups--the groups devoted to advancing work on different subjects within CZ.
;[[CZ:Citation style|Citation style]]
;[[CZ:Council|Citizendium Council]]
:How to cite articles and books.
:This group is directly-elected to devise editorial and managerial policy, and settle disputes.
;[[CZ:Disambiguation|Disambiguation]]
;See also [[CZ:Managing Editor|Managing Editor]] and [[CZ:Moderator Group|Constabulary]].
:"Disambiguation pages" let people choose which sense of a term they're interested in.
:These have separate homepages.
;[[CZ:Approval of CZ namespace pages|Approval of CZ namespace pages]]
:Here is how to make new "approved" versions of CZ: namespace pages (such as [[CZ:Article mechanics]]).
;[[CZ:New Workgroup Requests|New Workgroup Requests]]
:Request new workgroups here.
;[[CZ:Topic Partners|Topic Partners]]
:A proposal for how to partner with other organizations for work on specific subjects.
;[[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium]]
:Program in which ''Citizendium'' partners with university programs to create high-quality articles.
;[[CZ:International|International]]
:A list of people interested in expanding to languages other than English.
;[https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-October/001079.html Thanks to our first year contributors and supporters]
:[[User:Larry Sanger|Founding Editor-in-Chief]] thanks dozens of participants and partners in a mailing list posting.
;[[CZ:Press|Press]]
:An outward-facing landing page for the press; includes our press releases.
;[[CZ:PR|PR]]
:An inward-facing page in which we prepare various PR materials.
;[[CZ:Statistics|Statistics]]
:Our progress quantified, updated monthly.
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;[[CZ:Disclaimer|Disclaimer]]
:Essentially, unapproved articles shouldn't be relied upon.
;[[CZ:Copyrights|Copyrights]]
:CZ is free, but see this page for details about our licensing scheme.
;[[CZ:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]
:One of our licenses (used for articles that began life on Wikipedia).
;[[CZ:Reusing Media Hosted at Citizendium|Reusing Media Hosted at Citizendium]]
:How you may reuse media we host.
;[[CZ:Permissions|Permissions]]
:Contributors, it's important to document use permissions you receive.
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Latest revision as of 12:53, 26 July 2024

The Citizendium Organization

Find links to information about general aspects of our organization here, things like our fundamental principles, our workgroups, our personnel lists, and so forth. Want an introduction to our community? Start with Community Overview. For details of the structure of the project, read our Governance page and Charter.
Notice that we have specialized homepages for Communication (how we talk to each other), the Council (our editorial and administrative body), and the Constabulary (our project "moderators"). You might also be interested in Getting Started and Content Policy (article guidelines and more). If you can't find what you're looking for here, try there.
There are many important pages here:
  1. About
  2. FAQ
  3. Community Overview
  4. Forum
  5. Policies
  6. Governance
  7. Workgroups
  8. Personnel
  9. Contact
  10. Donate
  11. Ready for Reading

 

Basic organization information
About
An introduction to the Citizendium; our goals.
FAQ
A lengthier, question-and-answer style introduction.
Community Overview
How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, etc.
Governance
CZ is overseen by elected officers on two councils.
We aren't Wikipedia
An explanation of how our project differs from Wikipedia.
Privacy policy
What we do and won't do with your private information.


Support us
Donate
How and why to support the cause.
Friends of Citizendium
A list of websites that link to us.


Our people
Personnel
Lists of project participants and leadership.
Contact
How to get in touch with various Citizens.


Project governance
Workgroups
A list of our workgroups--the groups devoted to advancing work on different subjects within CZ.


Supplemental content
Archived Pages
Pages that are no longer in use. "Historical" interest only.
Cold Storage
Problematic articles removed from the main namespace are sometimes put here, simply out of respect for the author.


Out-of-date
Charter
The Citizendium Charter.
Userinfo System and Group Status
A system for getting an overview of our doings and plans, both individually and in groups.
Proposals System
A system that any Citizen may use to make a governance proposal.
Workgroups
A list of our workgroups--the groups devoted to advancing work on different subjects within CZ.
Citizendium Council
This group is directly-elected to devise editorial and managerial policy, and settle disputes.
See also Managing Editor and Constabulary.
These have separate homepages.
Approval of CZ namespace pages
Here is how to make new "approved" versions of CZ: namespace pages (such as CZ:Article mechanics).
New Workgroup Requests
Request new workgroups here.
Topic Partners
A proposal for how to partner with other organizations for work on specific subjects.
Eduzendium
Program in which Citizendium partners with university programs to create high-quality articles.
International
A list of people interested in expanding to languages other than English.
Thanks to our first year contributors and supporters
Founding Editor-in-Chief thanks dozens of participants and partners in a mailing list posting.
Press
An outward-facing landing page for the press; includes our press releases.
PR
An inward-facing page in which we prepare various PR materials.
Statistics
Our progress quantified, updated monthly.



Citizendium Organization
CZ:Home | Workgroups | Personnel | Governance | Proposals | Recruitment | Contact | Donate | FAQ | Sitemap

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