Citizendium Blog

Here are some updated stats.

• I think it’s safe to say that in the last few weeks we have moved up to the range of 300-400 edits per day, during weekdays anyway.  Many of these are categorizing edits, but many of them aren’t.
• 659 articles tagged “CZ Live”
• 1 approved article (”Biology”), 1 up for approval ;-)  (these are test articles for our new approval procedure, outlined just last week)
• 431 registered users with read/write privileges on the wiki (more coming soon as we catch up with backlogs)
• 136 editors

Here are the leading workgroups in order of number of editors:

20 Health Sciences
19 Computers
17 Biology
14 Chemistry
12 Politics
9 History
7 Engineering
7 Library and Information Science
6 Physics
6 Economics
6 Philosophy
6 Media
5 Education
5 Law
5 Literature

Here’s the complete list of workgroups (subject to regular additions and probably, before too long, the oversight of a special workgroup of editors).

I think it would be all right if these groups were to begin approving articles.  There’s been quite a bit of discussion about the new approval process and that’s where you can find the procedure outlined.  I’ll put together a wiki policy page and post the URL sometime soon.

I have to say I’m quite happy at the attention this project has received from the health sciences community.  One health sciences editor has proposed to start a conference focused on some CZ issues, and we have the attention of a very influential, highly-placed person with the British health service.  We’ve got quite a few distinguished researchers on board, too, including two on the executive committee who must be among the top five hardest-working Citizens (Nancy Sculerati and Gareth Leng).  See the health sciences editor list (link above).

The other groups are relatively low in number, I think, primarily because we’ve done very little organized recruitment.  Most people arrived at the project via tech news stories, the blogosphere (geek-heavy), and the Financial Times and Nature articles.  Social sciences, arts, and recreation are especially weak at present, but that’s not surprising because people in those areas don’t tend to be exposed to stories like CZ.  We are going to have to go out and bring them in.  That effort begins next month.  Expect our numbers to double or triple (or more) by February.