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'''Citizendium''' originally described itself as a "citizens' compendium of everything", an open [[wiki]] project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and ''reliable'' repository of structured knowledge.  It was founded in 2007 and has gone through two major governance models before its [[CZ:Governance|current one]].
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|<Big>Citizendium is our suggestion for the [http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=559 next draft] of a collaboratively organized knowledge repository.</Big>
The community is built on the principles of trust and respect; contributors, or "citizens", work under their own real names.  As of 2020, we are focused on creating articles that are useful and that for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia; more about our current operations is [[CZ:Introduction_to_CZ_for_Wikipedians#Why Citizendium?|here]].
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<!--{{TOC|right}}--><br><div style="font-size:1.2em">The ''Citizendium'', a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an open [[wiki]] project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and ''reliable'' encyclopedia. The project, started by [[Larry Sanger|a founder of Wikipedia]], feels that we can achieve this crucial improvement over [[Wikipedia|earlier wiki-based attempts at collecting knowledge]] through measures such as adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names. We already have over {{PAGESINCAT:CZ Live}} articles and hundreds of contributors. Currently, we are [[CZ:Charter drafting|drafting a charter]] for our project, and once this is finished, you will be able to read more details here. </div>
We are a growing community, and we'd like to invite you to join us in building Citizendium! ''Please use our {{ApplicationForm}}''.
 
==What is Citizendium trying to achieve?==
'''''Quality'''''<br> 
Our goal is to capture the full range of humanity's various understandings and knowledge of reality, and thereby to paint a maximally broad and detailed portrait of our universe as accurately as living humans understand it. We also expect our approved articles to be, in the long run, as authoritative, error-free, and well-written as encyclopedia articles are expected to be. We believe that an indispensable means to this end is the involvement of many levels of experts who will not only write, but also help guide and, ultimately, approve many of our articles. 
 
'''''Quantity'''''  <br>
We have already added thousands of articles, and hope to grow to hundreds of thousands of articles within the near future, and millions after that.  This is not the traditional goal of paper-and-print encyclopedias, which have typically sought to offer only mainstream views of the most important aspects of a small number of important topics.  Cheap disk space and bandwidth, and the potential of participation by ultimately ''millions'' of people, means that we can capture humanity's understanding of reality with far more nuance and detail. Quantity, alone, is useless, however, without the trust that comes with high quality, reliable content.
 
'''''A new sort of online community''''' <br>
We welcome experts as well as the general public; we will be built not by top-down orders but as and where contributors wish to work; and we will be organized as a genuine [[republic of letters]] governed by a rule of law.  There will be no "dictators," but a regularly changing group of people tasked to manage a public trust in conformity with a relatively stable code of rules.  It also means that we will have very little tolerance for the sort of immature disruption and abuse that plagues so many other Internet communities.


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Revision as of 08:19, 15 March 2022

Citizendium originally described itself as a "citizens' compendium of everything", an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and reliable repository of structured knowledge. It was founded in 2007 and has gone through two major governance models before its current one.

The community is built on the principles of trust and respect; contributors, or "citizens", work under their own real names. As of 2020, we are focused on creating articles that are useful and that for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia; more about our current operations is here.

We are a growing community, and we'd like to invite you to join us in building Citizendium! Please use our application form (Google Account required).

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