Archive:Project Home

This is the home page for our community of contributors. If you're an author or editor, you should find links to everything important to your job below.

Help

• Help

• How to get started with the Citizendium pilot
  • Our "live" articles
  • How to Edit an Article
  • How you can help: don't know what to do? Here are some ideas.
  • How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
• Notice Board

Project Organization

Workgroups

• Discipline Workgroups

Recruitment and Admission

• Recruitment Letter
• Mailing List Outreach
• Blog Outreach
• Professional Organization Outreach

Launch

• Launch Requirements

Initiatives

• Under way: The Big Write: a mass initiative in which editors offer to "bless" credible starts on new articles
• Planned/proposed: The Article Checklist: would track various data about articles
• Planned/proposed: The Big Cleanup: would clean up, tag, format, etc., our articles
• Virtually concluded: The Big Speedydelete: deleted cruft from our article database

Constabulary

• Constabulary Home

Discussion

• The use of talk pages
• Citizendium forums for discussion
• Community blog for news
• Mailing lists for discussion

Policy

The following should be a comprehensive set of links to Citizendium policy documents. The "home page" of Citizendium policy, and a lengthy summary of policy, can be found at CZ:Policy Outline.

• Policy Outline (under development)
• Policy questions raised by articles

About the Policy Outline

• Maintainers of the policy outline
• Statement of Fundamental Policies takes precedence
• This Policy Outline is the Citizendium's policy "home page"
• Mailing list and forum input
• Executive Committee not a forum for policy discussion

The Citizendium's Foundational Policies

• The role of the Statement of Fundamental Policies
  • Toward a new compendium of knowledge
  • Statement of Fundamental Policies
  • Draft Charter
• The purposes of articulating non-negotiable policies

Authors and Authoring Citizendium Articles

• Author Sign-Up
  • Call for applications
  • New Account Review Procedure
• Author User Pages
• Authoring Articles
  • How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
  • Naming Conventions
  • Maintainability
  • Article Standards
    • What Citizendium articles are not
    • Neutrality Policy
    • Article Mechanics
    • Original Research Policy
    • Family-Friendly Policy
    • Legal policies:
      • Copyright Violation Policy
      • Libel Policy
      • Biographies of Living Persons
    • Article Approval Standards
  • Article Deletion Policy
    • Article Deletion Policy (details)
• Author Conflict Resolution
• The Appeals Process: Notes for Authors

Policy regarding Individual Editors

• Decisionmaking and Dispute Resolution regarding Articles
• Article Approval
  • Approval Process
• Low-Level Administrative Management of Authors
  • Policy on Content-Based Bans
• Editorial Dispute Resolution: Notes for Individual Editors
• Editor Registration
  • Policy on Editorship Review
• Categories of Editorship
• Topic Informants
  • Policy on Topic Informants
• Other Notes for Editors

Editorial Workgroups and Management

• Editorial Workgroups in General
  • Policy on Shared Articles
  • Policy on Starting Subdiscipline Workgroups
• Editorial Workgroup Formation and Function
  • Policy on Project Workgroups
• Chief Subject Editors
• Editor Review
• Dispute Resolution
  • Policy on resolving editorial disputes

Constabulary Policy

• The Role and Selection of Constables
• Policies and Procedures for Constables
• Checks on Constables
• Some Rules of Behavior Enforced by Constables
• Need to add section about CZ:personnel administration.

Citizendium Pilot Reference documents

Documents relating to alternative policy options under revision or consideration

• GNU Free Documentation License