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To contact staff off-site, please use the email below.

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Memberships, and Editor-in-Chief

Pat Palmer

Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Featured Article

E. J. Diamond

Members

Contributors

We have several dozen Contributors
Number of past contributors: (4,654)

Technical Staff

Pat Palmer (since June 23rd, 2020)
Anthony Messana (currently writing a bot to populate topics on the Related Articles tab)
John Stephenson (fills all the empty spaces that no one else is filling)
Sergei Chekanov (did the server migration and major software upgrades in 2022)
Russell John (software update in Nov 2022)
Greg Sabino Mullane (emergency backup; reappointed March 27th, 2015)

Former tech staff:

Joshua Sadule (in 2020 if not earlier; on the server side of things; exited Mar. 2022)
Francisco Reyes (since March 27th, 2015; exited Mar. 2022; still advises some)

Other positions

Treasurer: Mark Widmer

About our staff

The Citizendium is run by a collection of volunteers. Pat Palmer and User:John Stephenson are working with an Advisory Team on policy, goals and membership. John Stephenson is handling new account requests, and User:Sergei Chekanov upgraded the software in March 2022; at the same time as the software upgrade, hardware was also upgraded to include SSD drives and a faster processor.

Until 2021, Francisco Reyes and Joshua Sadule worked (along with occasional assistance from others) towards upgrading the server and outdated wiki software, and generously handled many repairs and backups.

In 2020, domain ownership was transferred to Pat Palmer, who expects to continue operating the wiki with a high degree of transparency, with gratitude to all the volunteers helping keep things going. Also since 2020, Citizendium has occasionally paid for professional tech support in upgrading the software behind the wiki.

New volunteers are welcome! Let us know if you'd like to become involved.

Payments

Contributors are not paid for writing articles and we have no plans to allow that. The wiki is also free to use and all our articles are available under a free license. We rely entirely on donations from our volunteers and supporters.

In terms of work on the project itself, this is a volunteer project. Occasionally, management has had to pay a contractor briefly for technical work, but mostly we do it ourselves. No one helping manage or run the wiki receives any salary or benefits.

Citizendium Organization

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+''To contact staff off-site, please use the {{EnquiryForm}}.''
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-== Editors ==
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Editors|CZ Editors]]'''
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Editorial Personnel Administrators|CZ Editorial Personnel Administrators]]'''
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Editorial Council Members|CZ Editorial Council Members]]'''
-* '''[http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html Become an editor]'''
-== Authors ==
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Authors|CZ Authors]]'''
-* '''[http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html Become an author]'''
-== Constabulary ==
+==Memberships, and Editor-in-Chief==
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Constables|CZ Constables]]'''
+* [[User:Pat_Palmer|Pat Palmer]]
-* '''Email :''' [mailto:constables@citizendium.org constables@citizendium.org]
-== Executive Committee ==
+==Assistant Editor-in-Chief==
-The [[CZ:Executive Committee|Executive Committee]] of the ''Citizendium'' is chosen by the Editor-in-Chief from among the most active participants, with approximately equal numbers of editors and authors.  Its function is primarily to advise the Editor-in-Chief and to help make "business" decisions that, due to their sensitive nature, cannot be negotiated entirely out in the open.  This is not a Board of Directors; we will be adding such a board hopefully in the second half of 2008.  Since it is impossible to serve both on the Executive Committee and another major project body, such as the Editorial Council and the Constabulary, this is not necessarily a list of the most "valuable" or "honored" members of the project; indeed, some of our most crucial and useful Citizens are members of the Editorial Council or the Constabulary.
+*[[User:John Leach|John Leach]]
+*[[User:John_Stephenson|John Stephenson]]
+*[[User:George_Swan|George Swan]]
-*[[User:Robert Badgett|Robert Badgett]]
+==Featured Article==
-*[[User:Lee R. Berger|Lee Berger]]
+*[[User:E. J. Diamond|E. J. Diamond]]
-*[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]]
-*[[User:Ruth Ifcher|Ruth Ifcher]]
-*[[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]]
-*[[User:Mike Johnson|Mike Johnson]]
-*[[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]]
-*[[User:Greg Sabino Mullane|Greg Sabino Mullane]]
-*[[User:Jitse Niesen|Jitse Niesen]]
-*[[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]]
-*[[User:ZachPruckowski|Zachary Pruckowski]]
-*[[User:Joe Quick|Joe Quick]]
-*[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]]
-*[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] (chair)
-*[[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]]
-A "focus" subset of the Executive Committee was formed in December 2007, which will soon begin regular Skype chats.
+==Members==
+===Contributors===
+* We have several dozen '''[[Special:ListUsers|Contributors]]'''
+* Number of past contributors: ({{PAGESINCAT:CZ Authors}})
-== Other groups ==
+<onlyinclude>== [[CZ:Technical Team|Technical Staff]] ==
-'''PR Group'''
-* [[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]]
-* [[User:Mike Johnson|Mike Johnson]]
-* [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]]
-'''Wiki-Converting Team'''
+{{TTmembers}}
-* [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] - Co-coordinator
-* [[User:Louise Valmoria|Louise Valmoria]] - Co-Coordinator
-Volunteers to convert articles submitted in word processor format to MediaWiki mark up:
+===Other positions===
-:*See list of volunteers at: [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Wiki-converting CZ:Wiki-converting]
+*'''Treasurer''': [[User:Mark Widmer|Mark Widmer]]
-:*NOTE: Additional volunteers encouraged and welcomed. To volunteer, see: [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Wiki-converting CZ:Wiki-converting]
+==About our staff==
+The [[CZ:About|Citizendium]] is run by a collection of volunteers. [[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] and [[User:John Stephenson]] are working with an Advisory Team on policy, goals and membership.  [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] is handling new account requests, and [[User:Sergei Chekanov]] upgraded the software in March 2022; at the same time as the software upgrade, hardware was also upgraded to include SSD drives and a faster processor.
+Until 2021, [[User:Francisco Reyes|Francisco Reyes]] and [[User:Joshua Sadule|Joshua Sadule]] worked (along with occasional assistance from others) towards upgrading the server and outdated wiki software, and generously handled many repairs and backups.
-Other ad hoc groups have come and gone, including an Ad Hoc Licensing Committee (Nov.-Dec. 2007) and an Ad Hoc Steering Committee (late 2006).
+In 2020, domain ownership was transferred to Pat Palmer, who expects to continue operating the wiki with a high degree of transparency, with gratitude to all the volunteers helping keep things going.  Also since 2020, Citizendium has occasionally paid for professional tech support in upgrading the software behind the wiki.
-== Staff ==
+New volunteers are welcome! [[Help:Index/Join|Let us know]] if you'd like to become involved.
-* '''Editor-in-Chief:''' [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]]
-* '''Technical Lead:''' [[User:Greg Sabino Mullane|Greg Sabino Mullane]]
-* '''Chief Constable:''' [[User:Ruth Ifcher|Ruth Ifcher]]
-* '''Assistant to the Chief Constable:''' [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]]
-* '''Mailing List Manager:''' [[User:Louise Valmoria|Louise Valmoria]]
-The [http://www.citizendium.org/about.html Citizendium] (<u>*.citizendium.org</u>) is run by the Citizendium Foundation, which is almost entirely volunteer-run.  Larry Sanger and Jason Potkanski are the only persons who have yet been compensated for their work on the project, and at present, no one is receiving any compensation for their work, including Sanger.
+===Payments===
+Contributors are not paid for writing articles and we have no plans to allow that. The wiki is also free to use and all our articles are available under a [[CZ:License|free license]]. We rely entirely on [[CZ:Donate|donations]] from our volunteers and supporters.
-The ''Citizendium'' is a project of the Tides Center, but is operationally independent.  We will become a fully independent non-profit probably in 2008.  We are currently a non-profit in virtue of the fact that we are legally a Tides project.
+In terms of work on the project itself, this is a volunteer project.  Occasionally, management has had to pay a contractor briefly for technical work, but mostly we do it ourselves.  No one helping manage or run the wiki receives any salary or benefits.
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