1,000 “CZ Live” articles
Sometime last night we passed 1,000 “CZ Live” articles!
If people are using the tag correctly–admittedly, a big “if”–that’s the number of articles that people have been working on. I sometimes come across active articles that are not tagged “CZ Live.” I also sometimes come across “CZ Live” articles imported from Wikipedia that no one has really worked on (no doubt they have good intentions).
Nevertheless, this is definitely a milestone and demonstrates quite well that we’re making steady progress.
Thanks, everyone!
I’m off to San Diego for a conference so will be lying low for a bit.
[...] Citizendium’s original model was to copy all of Wikipedia’s content, and then have a team of experts approve any further changes to the material. Sanger has since abandoned that road, choosing instead to start his new encyclopedia from scratch. As of February 4th, Sanger blogs there are 1,000 articles in progress. Citizendium hopes to address many of the problems of Wikipedia by having all users login using their real name, and creating a split structure of “constables”, “editors”, and “experts.” You have to register with Citizendium to view any of their articles, but a manifesto stating their current policies is here. [...]
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