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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.

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Getting Started 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.	Technical Help 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
Content Policy 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.	Article Lists 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.
Organization 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.	Initiatives 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.
Communication 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.	Editor Policy 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.
Editorial Council 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?	Constabulary 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.

Notice Board 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. September 30, 2007 We're doing technical work on the servers, which may cause temporary slowdowns on the wiki. We are working on it! September 29, 2007 We have about 2,935 articles marked 'CZ Live' on the wiki. Why not start an article this week, and get us past the 3,000 mark? This link will help you do just that, either the easy way or the sexy subpages way. Don't know what to start? Consider adding an important topic, and get credit for it by picking something at Core Articles. September 25, 2007 Core Articles is very probably going to get started soon; we're giving the Editorial Council a chance to comment. What's Your Article? and What's Your Message? have been made into Editorial Council Resolution 0006. September 24, 2007 The Subpagination Bot started going through all articles and converting them to the subpages technology. September 14, 2007 We are now calling for License Essays. This is very important, if you have some opinions to express about what license we should be using. Note that on CZ:Workgroups as well as the workgroup homepages, such as CZ:Anthropology Workgroup, there are now direct links to workgroup mailing lists. September 13, 2007 The template {{subpages}} should now be used at the top of each page in a cluster. {{subpages9}} will still function but will become obsolete. September 8, 2007 We're pushing toward 3,000 articles for our September 15 anniversary. It would be great if you would add a couple new articles within the next week! Notice all the many changes to the way our community pages are now organized. CZ:Home will be the new home page for our community pages. For details about what I (LMS) have been doing to the pages, see CZ:Community Pages. I hope you like the changes. September 5, 2007 The big monthly "Write-a-Thon," takes place this Wednesday (September 5, which starts on September 4, 1200 UTC, in New Zealand, and ends on September 6, 1000 UTC, in Hawaii). Come start a new article, edit a new article, and join a global rolling party! The last time was lots of fun and created bunches of free, excellent content. So let's do it again! CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon If you need an excuse to spend some "quality time" on the wiki, this is it. Older notices