[Cz-biology] FW: Biology Week at Citizendium next week

[Larry Sanger]

>From my Dad, who is a retired seabird biologist (now a tour operator) in
Alaska.  Sent to the Pacific Seabird Group.  I just wanted to give you a
little more evidence that the word is getting out there...and again, please
help similarly in the next few days!
 
--Larry
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Sanger [mailto:sea at alaska.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:58 PM
To: A tool for information exchange for the Pacific Seabird Group.
Subject: Fwd: Biology Week at Citizendium next week


PSG folks, here's something some of you may be interested in participating
in.  http://www.citizendium.org is a rapidly-budding project that aims to be
sort of a refereed Wikipedia .   

Gerry Sanger

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From: "Larry Sanger" <sanger at citizendium.org>
Date: September 19, 2008 12:52:28 PM AKDT
Subject: Biology Week at Citizendium next week


Please, if you have time, do what you can to spread the word about the
Biology Week next week at Citizendium.

Feel free to use the press release below, and encourage people to spread the
word!

--Larry

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For immediate release 





Wiki Encyclopedia Invites Biologists to a Weeklong Open House 





International Cyberspace - September 19 - Biology Week, an online "open
house" for biologists, biology students, and anyone else interested, begins
September 22 on Citizendium ( <http://www.citizendium.org/>
http://www.citizendium.org/), the next-generation wiki encyclopedia started
by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. 

During the week, biologists and anyone interested in the topic are invited
test out the Citizendium system. Editors and authors from the project's
Biology Workgroup will be on hand to meet and greet new people on the wiki.
"I strongly believe that the Citizendium system will be appealing to many
scientists and scholars," said Sanger. "Many of them just need to give it a
try. Biology Week is an excuse for biologists to try out the system
together." 

Biology is one of the more active areas in the Citizendium, with nearly
1,000 articles in progress. Unlike the Encyclopedia of Life, the project is
a wiki and benefits from strong collaboration; for an example of the success
of the system, biologists might want to see the article "Life" (
<http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Life> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Life). 

Dr. Gareth Leng, Professor of Experimental Physiology at the University of
Edinburgh, and Citizendium author and editor, described the project: "Our
role will not be to tell readers what opinions they should hold, but to give
them the means to decide, rationally, for themselves. The role of experts is
critical-not to impose opinions, but to support accuracy in reporting and
citing information." 

The Citizendium, or "citizens' compendium," uses the same software as
Wikipedia. It is a successful public-expert hybrid project to produce a
general reference resource. The community encourages general public
participation, but makes a low-key, guiding role for experts. It also
requires real names and asks contributors to sign a "social contract." 

As a result, the project is vandalism-free and, despite its youth (its
public launch was just 18 months ago), has steadily added over 8,000
articles, many of them of fine quality. 

LINKS: 

*	Citizendium website:  <http://www.citizendium.org/>
http://www.citizendium.org/ 

*	Biology Week homepage:
<http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Biology_Week>
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Biology_Week 

*	"Life" (sample article):  <http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Life>
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Life 

PRESS CONTACT INFORMATION: 

Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari (Biology Week coordinator) 

Founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics 

PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research 

Coimbatore, India 

supten at gmail.com 

 <http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Supten_Sarbadhikari>
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Supten_Sarbadhikari 

Dr. Daniel Mietchen (Biology Week coordinator) 

Structural Brain Mapping Group 

Department of Psychiatry 

University of Jena 

daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com 

 <http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen>
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen 

Dr. Larry Sanger 

Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium; co-founder of Wikipedia 

Executive Director,  <http://www.watchknow.org/> WatchKnow (to launch soon) 

sanger at citizendium.org 

 <http://www.larrysanger.org/> http://www.larrysanger.org/ 

 

This press release may be found at
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citizendium_Press_Releases/Sept192008


Gerald A. Sanger
PO Box 707
Whittier, AK 99693 USA
Phone/Fax: 907-472-2312
Cell: 907-242-0637

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