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Revision as of 08:44, 15 January 2008

Welcome!

This is the home page of the Citizendium project. It's a notice board and central launch point for community pages. From here, you can get started, get technical help, read about content policy, explore our articles and organization, and much more.
We're deeply committed to making a reliable, free, and enormous general reference. We've shown to our delight that we can create a more mature wiki community, open to the public, led by experts, with all using their own identities; we're in it for the long haul.

Won't you join in?



Launch Point
Register
Everyone needed. Reply within 24 hours.
About us
What exactly is going on here, anyway?
FAQ
A variety of common questions.
Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians
Are you a Wikipedian? This is for you.
more...
Workgroups
Workgroups are devoted to different subjects.
Personnel
Lists of editors, authors, etc.
Contact
Talk to us.
Donate
Your tax-free donation: a tremendous bang for the buck.
more...
Approval Standards
What's a good Citizendium article like?
Article Mechanics
Essential; a guide to mechanics and style
Subpages
We're not just an encyclopedia. See what else.
Converting Wikipedia to Citizendium
If you must upload that Wikipedia article, read this.
[[CZ
Content Policy|more...]
Live articles
Articles we're working on.
Approved
Articles editors have approved.
Developed
Well advanced articles.
All Checklisted
All articles we're tracking with the checklist.
more...
How to edit an article
The techie nitty-gritty; WikiMedia markup
Start article with subpages
Like those subpages? Here's a tool.
The Article Checklist
How we keep track of data about articles.
Subpage template
Technical intro to subpages
[[CZ
Technical Help|more...]
Core Articles
A game: get points for top-priority articles.
Recruitment
Help recruit people en masse to the project!
Article of the Week
Nominate and vote for highlighted articles.
Monthly Write-a-Thon
An article-writing party, first Weds. of the month.
[[CZ
Initiatives|more...]
Talk Pages
Where and how to discuss articles.
Mailing lists
Announcements. See CZ-L, CZ-Editors, and CZ-Tools.
Forums
The "town hall" of the project.
Blog
Outward-facing news and discussion.
[[CZ
Communication|more...]
The Editor Role
Basic instructions for editors.
Approval Process
How editors approve articles.
Article Deletion Policy
Explains the grounds for deleting articles.
Editor Application Review Procedure
How we review editor applications.
[[CZ
Editor Policy|more...]
Members
The volunteers who oversee our content policy.
Resolutions
What we've passed, what we're working on.
How to Make a Resolution
An introduction for Council members.
Suggestion Box
Have an idea for the Council to take up?
[[CZ
Editorial Council|more...]
Application Review Procedure
How constables review author applications.
Professionalism
Act professionally; here's how.
Constabulary Blocking Procedures
Constables in extreme cases can block accounts.
Article Deletion Policy
Article types constables can delete.
[[CZ
Constabulary|more...]



Notice Board
November 7, 2007
Today is the Monthly Write-a-Thon!
Also, today we're starting Stub Week. Yes, we're actually encouraging you to write stubs, and we're reducing the minimum length to just two sentences. It's an experiment!
October 31, 2007
As you probably noticed, we did a press release yesterday. We also launched a progress report. As a result, we have been Slashdotted, and that has resulted in a lot of new people arriving.
Also, I (LMS) have decided not to pursue the organization of "What's Your Article?" at this time. Too much else to do, not enough internal interest.
October 26, 2007
Just a reminder: please slap Category:CZ Live on all new articles (not un-reworked Wikipedia imports) that you start!
October 23, 2007
There are now new links to our three main new initiatives on the main page, recruitment, Core Articles, and What's Your Article?.
Do you think we need more people in some particular discipline? Then make a request on Recruitment and hopefully someone will be motivated to round up some new people who study that subject.
October 18, 2007
Recently, a recruitment campaign kicked off and has already yielded considerable dividends in terms of new accounts and several new people on the wiki. Please help spread the word!
October 15, 2007
Just to let you know, an editcount has been activated, see [1]. It is supposed to be more stable than the older version. The price is a one-day lag, something to be yet improved. To promote the work in the mainspace, one more counter has been added (percentage of edits to articles).
October 8, 2007
Registration now takes place via Web form...and approving an application is done with a click of a constable's button. Thanks to Aaron Schwarz.
Thanks to everyone.
Image problems fixed.
October 6, 2007
Image problems: There is an intermittent problem with dispaying images right now. The technical people are aware of it.
October 4, 2007
There were several hours of downtime, when one of the CZ servers went down, for unknown reasons.
Then, in the evening (7:30-8:30 PM Eastern), the entire Steadfast network and other Chicago networks went down. Again, no idea why.
We passed 3,000 sometime probably yesterday.