Archive:Why I contribute to CZ

Here is a collection of personal explanations of why we contribute to the Citizendium (CZ).

Please place testimonials alphabetical order.

Larry Sanger

I started the Citizendium partly in order to give the world a better alternative to Wikipedia, but to put it positively, because I saw an enormous and unexploited opportunity to bring everyone together to create a truly high-quality free reference resource. For more in this vein, see CZ:Why Citizendium? which is mostly my work (at present anyway).

I am continuing to lead and contribute to CZ because I believe in this project. It is continuing to grow steadily, and I still maintain that there will come a time, in the perhaps not-too-distant future, when we will reach a tipping point, and we will be flooded with a lot of new people who will make us grow much faster indeed. But the project even in its present state is worthwhile. Our articles tend to begin life at a high level of quality, and for the most part they steadily improve. Because we are strongly collaborative and are seriously committed to neutrality, we have a really excellent chance of becoming, after some more years (it is hard to say how long), the most reliable general information resource, period--outshining Wikipedia, of course, but also Britannica as well.