CZ:About

Citizendium is a growing resource of knowledge. It's goal is to provide instant and free knowledge to anyone with on-line access, world-wide, at no fee. There's certainly lots of information on the web, but so much of it is unfiltered and chaotic (not to mention inflammatory and inaccurate), that we have joined together to create something new and we very much hope, better than what's now available. Our aim is to provide entry into a Compendium of Knowledge that is clearly written, entertaining, and, as far as we can make it, true. We are glad to have you join us, and share your own knowledge with others.

Right now we have many articles in the draft stage, and a handful of approved articles that we consider to be finished editions - that is, finished for the present. You can't make changes in those few finished approved articles, although (as you'll see when you go to them) each one has a draft page where a new edition is brewing. You are welcome to add to the draft page and edit what's there- as soon as you've signed up as an author.

We hope you'll see another thing about those approved articles. You can actually read them and make sense out of them, and - if you click the "history" tab at the top of each one, you'll see the amount of careful collaboration that has gone into making them. Each has been read and approved by experts educated in the field in an honest attempt to provide you with useful information. Now, we're running on refurbished everything at the moment, so you'll have to excuse the lack of bells and whistles. That's not the nature of our quality, particularly here in the pilot.

Our dream is have a resource here which can provide an education on the spot, a reference that anybody can use and be enriched by, it's a worthwhile dream, we think. We've found ourselves enriched by our attempts to make it real. Won't you join us?

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