CZ:Citizen/V1-N1: Difference between revisions

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
imported>Robert W King
m (CZ:Citizen moved to CZ:Citizen/V1-N1-01-01-2008: moving to correct naming convention)
imported>Robert W King
No edit summary
Line 3: Line 3:
{|border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="margin: 0 0 0 0; background:#efefef; wrap=yes"  
{|border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="margin: 0 0 0 0; background:#efefef; wrap=yes"  
|-
|-
|<center>'''Vol. 1, No. 1 -- 1 / 1 / 2008'''</center>
|width="100%" colspan=2|<center>'''Vol. 1, No. 1 -- 1 / 1 / 2008'''</center>
|-
|-
|
|width="100%" colspan=2|'''<big>Happy New Year!</big>'''
==Happy New Year!==
'''Welcome to Citizendium's monthly news report, The Citizen!  Hosted on a [[Creative_Commons_CC-by-sa_3.0|CC-by-sa-3.0 Unported]] licensed knowledge base!'''
'''Welcome to Citizendium's monthly news report, The Citizen!  Hosted on a [[Creative_Commons_CC-by-sa_3.0|CC-by-sa-3.0 Unported]] licensed knowledge base!'''


We begin our first issue in 2008; Citizendium has reached almost [[CZ:Statistics|five-thousand articles]], a license having been chosen(see [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citizendium_Press_Releases/Dec212007 press release here]), and because more is planned as a part of the project's advancement it feels appropriate to begin the recap project now.   
We begin our first issue in 2008; Citizendium has reached almost [[CZ:Statistics|five-thousand articles]], a license having been chosen(see [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citizendium_Press_Releases/Dec212007 press release here]), and because more is planned as a part of the project's advancement it feels appropriate to begin the recap project now.   
|-
|width="50%" align=top|'''[[CZ:Topics in the News]]'''
*the passing of [[Benazir Bhutto]],
*the regular updating of the [[2008 United States presidential election]] as the Iowa Caucus approaches.
|width="50%" align=top|'''Events'''
*'''We turned one year old!''' [http://www.citizendium.org/oneyearandthriving.html following our first birthday, a summary report] was written in October by CZ's [[User:Larry_Sanger|Editor in Chief]], Larry Sanger outlining our accomplishments! 
*A license decision was made in December([http://www.citizendium.org/czlicense.html essay here])! Dr Sanger outlines the reason and highlights the issues surrounding the license decision which  were well thought out.
|-
|width="50%"|'''Project Initiatives!'''
* The [[CZ:CORE|Core Article Initiative]]: a massive list developed in order to shift article creation focus to developing the most popular-referenced articles
*[[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium]]: A program created to pair doctoral programs and seminars with CZ in order to create high-quality entries!
*An [[CZ:Monthly_Write-a-Thon|article-writing "kegger"]] that proved extremely popular and successful!  It even spawned a sister initiative, known as the [[CZ:Geography_Workgroup/Gazetteer/Geogra-thon|The Geogra-thon]]!
*The [[CZ:New Draft of the Week|Draft of the Week]] and the [[CZ:Article of the Week|Article of the Week]] that both represent a sampling of not only articles that have great beginnings but are also well developed.
*The [[CZ:Subpages|Subpages initiative]] was created in order to provide a better organization of everything related to a particular article topic; Programming by [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]]
|width="50%"|'''Technical Initiatives'''
*An exhaustive documentation initative for both [[CZ:Templates|templates]] and [[CZ:Extensions|extensions]], to create an easy reference guide for the user base
*A proposed [[CZ:Technical Team|workgroup for the technical team]], to collate wiki developments into a central location
'''Exciting Developments!'''
* A new method for requesting and authorizing accounts, developed by [[User:Aaron_Schulz|Aaron Schulz]] in order to expedite account creation
*Extensive developments by [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]], particularly the [[CZ:Upload Wizard]] for the [[CZ:Media Assets Workgroup]]
|-
|colspan=2 width="100%"|
==Press Links==
*[[CZ:Press|Press Page]]
*[[CZ:PR|Future Press Initiatives]]
*[http://blog.citizendium.org/ The CZ Blog]
==Thanks to:==
*[[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]]
*[[User:Joe Quick|Joe Quick]]
*[[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]]
*[[user:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]]
*and many others...
*[http://technology.timesonline.co.uk The Times Online] (specifically [http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3103278.ece this post])
*[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] for starting Citizendium
*Andrew Keen and Wikipedia, for inspiring us to acheive.
*Slashdot [http://www.slashdot.org /.]
*[http://sncr.org/ The Society for New Communications Research]
*[http://arstechnica.com ArsTechnica]
*[http://www.newassignment.net NewAssignment.Net] and Assignment Zero for getting me here!




|}
|}

Revision as of 10:55, 31 December 2007

--- The Citizen ---
Vol. 1, No. 1 -- 1 / 1 / 2008
Happy New Year!

Welcome to Citizendium's monthly news report, The Citizen! Hosted on a CC-by-sa-3.0 Unported licensed knowledge base!

We begin our first issue in 2008; Citizendium has reached almost five-thousand articles, a license having been chosen(see press release here), and because more is planned as a part of the project's advancement it feels appropriate to begin the recap project now.

CZ:Topics in the News Events
Project Initiatives!
  • The Core Article Initiative: a massive list developed in order to shift article creation focus to developing the most popular-referenced articles
  • Eduzendium: A program created to pair doctoral programs and seminars with CZ in order to create high-quality entries!
  • An article-writing "kegger" that proved extremely popular and successful! It even spawned a sister initiative, known as the The Geogra-thon!
  • The Draft of the Week and the Article of the Week that both represent a sampling of not only articles that have great beginnings but are also well developed.
  • The Subpages initiative was created in order to provide a better organization of everything related to a particular article topic; Programming by Chris Day
 Technical Initiatives

Exciting Developments!

Press Links

Thanks to:


Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=CZ:Citizen/V1-N1&oldid=369296"