CZ:How did you hear about CZ?

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So how exactly did you first hear about Citizendium?

Entries below come from two sources.

  1. The constabulary and personnel administrators. As part of the application, people are asked to optionally respond to the question.
  2. YOU! If you did not tell how you heard about CZ in your application, please do add the information below.

Tabulating this information helps "keep pulse" on how new entrants enter the community and can inform future recruitment efforts.

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Print publication

Journal

  • "through reading journal articles on wikis."

Magazine

  • PCMag (5X)
  • Unspecified Brasilian magazine (3X)
  • "PC Pro magazine (UK) (2X)
  • "the July 2007 issue of PC Authority magazine" (New Zealand)
  • "in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education".

News

  • "Motivated to sign up by a splenetic interview with Andrew Keen in the Sunday Times (London) saying that Wikipedia (which I use constantly and gratefully but carefully) is "full of mistakes, half-truths and misunderstandings". He had good words for Citizendium."
  • "through Singapore newspapers who tout it as a better alternative to Wikipedia."
  • Wall Street Journal "in an article discussing visitor-supported information internet sites".
  • "from Sunday Times (UK), 3 june 2007"
  • "through a newspaper article which complained about the mediocrity that was tolerated in Wikipedia"

Web

Blog

  • "on a blog"

List-serve

  • "It was mentioned on the email listserv for the Society of Personality & Social Psychology, as an alternative to Wikipedia."
  • "through the American Communication Association"
  • "through controversy deal with Wiki validity on a professional library/info science working group called LM_NET."
  • "in a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia on the ARNOVA-L discussion list."

News

Podcast

  • "Academic Impressions webinar by Ray Schroeder and Shari McCurdy"
  • "A variety of podcasts charting your progress this year"

Search engine

  • "at dmoz.org"
  • "first through Mashable and then more through various Google searches".
  • "Google News Portuguese service"

Website

  • www.inq.com

Wikipedia

  • At Wikipedia, unspecified (3X)
  • "The Citizendium or Sanger article"
  • "from people bashing on Wikipedia"
  • "At the Flagged Revisions project on WP, people kept invoking the CZ model."
  • "through discussion with other Wikipedia editors
  • "on the German Wikipedia site"
  • "on the Wikipedia self article"

Broadcast media

Radio

  • Monte Carlo FM Arabic Radio
  • "on the radio program of R. U. Sirius in San Francisco via web link"

Recruited by a CZ contributor

  • by a Citizendium contributor (4X)

Word of mouth in meatspace

Friend

  • "I first heard about Citizendium from a friend who felt very ill when he found that Wikipedia had a page on him."
  • "through a friend after we had done some research and were looking for a scholarly source similar to Wikipedia."

School

Does NOT include Eduzendium
  • "during a Geography lesson at [high] school"

Other / Unspecified sources

  • "I was researching the current state of wikis for a paper I'm supposed to get ready in a few days and Citizentium popped up several times"
  • "while researching a new chemistry project"
  • "a number of different places both in print media and online".
  • "through the media"
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