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The first article approved according to our proposed approval process is the “Biology” article:

http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Biology

The nomination was by Nancy Sculerati, with Gareth Leng, David Tribe, and Chris Day concurring.  My understanding is that Dr. Sculerati did much of the writing, and it is really an excellent article, a wonderful replacement for the relatively unreadable and pedantic Wikipedia article.  As I told the contributors on the talk page:

“This is an amazingly well-written article. It does not attempt to introduce every aspect of biology equally, but by being selective–focusing on the definition and scope of biology, and then surveying its main areas via its history–it does provide exactly what is wanted from an encyclopedia article about biology, namely, a general introduction that conveys a rough general understanding. A survey of the main areas–alphabetically, say–would convey more information about those areas, but would very probably not do nearly as good a job at introducing biology as a whole. So, thanks, folks, for helping prove the viability of the general premise behind CZ.”

Here’s a description of the proposed article approval process.

And here’s a technical report on what I did actually to set up the process.

We’re still quite open to comments on this, by the way.