CZ:Organization

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: About FAQ Community Overview Charter Governance Workgroups Personnel Contact Eduzendium Donate

Basic organization information About An introduction to the Citizendium; our goals. FAQ A lengthier, question-and-answer style introduction. Charter The Citizendium Charter. The current "constitution" of the Citizendium community. 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. Statistics Our progress quantified, updated monthly. Privacy policy What we do and won't do with your private information. Support us Become a partner How universities, tech companies, publishers, etc., can join the effort. Donate How and why to support the cause. Friends of Citizendium A list of websites that link to us. Press & PR 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.

Our people Userinfo System and Group Status A system for getting an overview of our doings and plans, both individually and in groups. Personnel Lists of project participants and leadership. Contact How to get in touch with various Citizens. 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. Project governance 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 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. 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.

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