I think a lot of interesting project discussion goes on and frankly, some exciting plans have been expressed on Citizendium-L. The more expert oversight used, the more expense is involved and expense … Will Citizendium succeed? In over a decade, it has gone through at least two major different management teams. Hello Wikipedia—this is Mike Johnson, casual Wikipedian, and member of Citizendium's Executive Committee. If you'll read the original essays I posted about the project, before it even … Therefore, those professors, teachers, and librarians have every reason to root for and support the Citizendium. I think people who come to the Citizendium will actually find that there is less control going on on Citizendium than on Wikipedia, and I mean that literally. Once it looks to them like we’re a going concern–which, arguably, we already are–there’s a good chance that increasing numbers of these information professionals will join us and recommend that others join us. What it’s turning out to be is just a mirror of Wikipedia with less than full GFDL compliance. It seems like this ‘pedia is redundant and obliquely based on a criticism that is, in a word, whiny: “Stop rattling our ivory tower, you filthy wikipedian hooligans!” Oh dear oh dear oh dear, just take a look at Citizendium's article on Global Warming (though I have cheated slightly; the current version, while still rubbish, is marginally better). Citizendium turns five, but the Wikipedia fork is dead in the water In October 2006, Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger launched Citizendium, a … Timothy B. Lee - Oct 27, 2011 1:22 pm UTC CZ, being a general-purpose encyclopedia, is going to focus on the same articles that Wikipedia does, but Wikipedia is always going to rank higher in search results, causing CZ’s good content to not attract readers. Reading the Citizendium articles on a subject won't prepare you for the midterm, but they might be a nice extra resource. Citizendium has two problems in this regard. The general mailing list for the Citizendium, citizendium-l, which I moderate along with the administrator, Larry Sanger, has had a change of policy … Myth: the Citizendium uses old-fashioned, top-down editorial control, so it is going nowhere. Going along a row from left to right, the reactivity increases, and properties such as electronegativity increase as well. I’d rather have the politicking of Wikipedia than elitism that we can get our daily dosage from E. Britannica, anyways. Citizendium has two problems in this regard. Before I start talking about what's been going on at Citizendium (unofficially and with a healthy dose of personal opinion), I'd like to thank Sage Ross and Michael Snow for the invitation to write this piece for … Citizendium seems predicated on several related ideas about cost and value: having expertise and being an expert are roughly the same thing; the costs of certifying experts will be relatively low; building and running software that confers a higher degree of authority to them than on non-expert users will be similarly low; and the appeal to non-experts of participating in such a … As much as some critics might wish this were true, it isn’t. Sanger claims it is more close to the idea that was really in his mind, when he started Wikipedia. Wrong. The project went online in March 25, 2007 and has been growing since. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: "We are not going to have a thread on citizendium-l about Bernard Haisch. Some of the cool things that'll hit in the next few weeks include - A semi-automated registration system which should eliminate our application … and the blog. It's going to be hard to write about the death of Citizendium before any reliable source does, and without some serious original research. What we’re going to do, we’re going to set up this small committee that looks into every e-mail you get, and we’re only going to send you the ones we think are OK. Oh, and by the way, don’t worry about who’s going to be on this committee and how they get there. While it is true that activity on the site has declined since its inception, it is also true that the number of articles, including expert-approved ones, slowly but surely keeps going … Things are not, however, as bad as that sounds. Dispensing with abstractions, how does Citizendium … CZ, being a general-purpose encyclopedia, is going to focus on the same articles that Wikipedia does, but Wikipedia is always going to rank higher in search results, causing CZ’s good content to not attract readers. For the latter reason, the tendency to lose an electron to form a covalent bond decreases and turns into the tendency of needing one or more electrons to form a stable covalent bond, producing a more … There’s a rather positive description of the Citizendium, and especially Eduzendium, … We can safely ignore it. Persons inclined to “debauch self-certification” as on IRC chatrooms will be removed from the project; and others will not protest at such perfectly appropriate treatment, because we will have already announced this as a policy.