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Going to lunch...if anyone wants to "take over" by annotating these pages, organizing them into categories, and grouping them a la the "Content Policy" format below, I would be greatly appreciative! --Larry Sanger 13:14, 22 December 2007 (CST)

Links to add:

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.
Contact
How to get in touch with various Citizens.
Donate
How and why to support the cause.
Executive Committee
This group advises the Editor-in-Chief and takes the lead in various projects.
Friends of Citizendium
A list of websites that link to us.
Fundamentals
The Citizendium Statement of Fundamental Policies.
International
A list of people interested in expanding to languages other than English.
New Workgroup Requests
Request new workgroups here.
Personnel
Project leadership.
Press
A landing page for the press; includes our press releases.
Privacy policy
What we do and won't do with your private information.
Statistics
Our progress quantified, updated monthly.
Topic Partners
A proposal for how to partner with other organizations for work on specific subjects.
We aren't Wikipedia
An explanation of how our project differs from Wikipedia.
Workgroups
A list of our workgroups.
CZ YouTube page
A page where we can put CZ-related videos (e.g.,
Thanks to our first year contributors and supporters
Editor-in-Chief thanks dozens of participants and partners in a mailing list posting.
Community Overview
How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, various governance bodies, etc.





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.
Notice that we have specialized homepages for Initiatives (how we organize ourselves for special projects), Communication (how we talk to each other), the Editorial Council (our editorial legislative 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.
Key organization pages:
  1. Community Overview
  2. Statement of Fundamental Policies
  3. Workgroups
  4. Personnel
  5. Contact
  6. Donate

 

General article policy and instructions
Approval Standards
The basic qualities of a good encyclopedia article.
Article Mechanics
A guide to encyclopedia article style and mechanics.
What Citizendium articles are not
A few items that one should not confuse Citizendium encyclopedia articles with.
Sage advice on writing CZ articles
Just a few words of wisdom.


Fundamental principles
Neutrality Policy
Where agreement is lacking, represent all sides sympathetically.
Maintainability
If we can maintain a whole set of articles like that, have at it.
Family-Friendly Policy
Respect the usual publishing standards for Junior.


Media policy
Images
How to upload and give credit for images.
Media Assets Workgroup
A proposed workgroup would help manage our media resources.
Fair Use Policy
Guidance for fair use issues.


Topic Informants and Self-Promotion
Policy on Topic Informants
What we do when someone with a vested interest in a topic wants to get involved.
Topic Informant Workgroup
Interviewers and writers volunteering to work with topic informants.
Policy on Self-Promotion
Thou shalt not promote thyself.

Subpages
Subpages
We're not just an encyclopedia. See what else.
Default subpages
Related Articles and Definitions | Bibliography | External Links
Subpages that should be included in (almost) all articles.
Optional subpages
Catalogs, timelines, galleries, tutorials--all different sorts of reference information.


Special issues
Stubs
Even "stubs," very short articles, can be high quality.
How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
If you must upload that Wikipedia article, here's how.
Topic Choice
First step is to pick a topic; a few rules about that.
Naming Conventions
How to name articles.
Citation style
How to cite articles and books.
Disambiguation
"Disambiguation pages" let people choose which sense of a term they're interested in.


Legal
Disclaimer
Essentially, unapproved articles shouldn't be relied upon.
Copyrights
CZ is free, but see this page for details about our licensing scheme.
GNU Free Documentation License
One of our licenses (used for articles that began life on Wikipedia).
Reusing Media Hosted at Citizendium
How you may reuse media we host.
Permissions
Contributors, it's important to document use permissions you receive.