Congratulations!

All success to you. Citizendium will grow to be one of the tiny minority sites which are truly useful and contribute to our well being.

Chris

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It’s Mike3 again… Although I’m not going to join the project as I still do not agree
with some of it’s rules — not enough, at least, to *endorse* them especially (when I
discovered that I had to do *that*, my bit of want to join Citizendium disappeared.).
I still have some concerns about the lack of anonymity, and whether or not experts in
the positions they are in will or will not introduce undue mainstream bias (Neutrality
issue.). Although many of the long and nice discussions I had helped to alleviate a
significant level of these concerns, they are not gone fully. But now that the Citizendium
has launched, I can watch it and see how well it performs, to see if my concerns really
do have any basis in fact or not. Finally, I got to read it! Some of the “approved”
articles do seem more encyclopedic than those on Wikipedia, more like the paper
encyclopedias I’ve read. But most of them are on casual, non-controversial topics. Where
I’ll really be curious about is when the Citizendium gets to doing “hot topics” like
abortion, George W. Bush, death penalty, anything labeled as “pseudoscience”,
religion (although a few religion articles are there, it doesn’t seem any have been
“approved” as of yet.), etc. Those are the kind of things where a truly neutral
point of view is difficult to get at — I’ve seen a lot of NPOV debates about them on WP,
and I think *those* are what will really test Citizendium’s neutrality. So I’m really
curious as to how this goes. It could be a good encyclopedia if all works out and the
neutrality I hope for is achieved.

I didn’t find the Citizendium through a media link, it was a result of reading some web pages that complained about Wikipedia’s arbitrary, clique-y, heavy handed editorial style… Evidentially, there’s quite a few fans out there already for the Citizendium!

If I understand it correctly, it seems to me you have come up with an elegant solution to Wikipedia’s flaws - Have a relatively simple, straightforward initial page… And then let people battle it out on the unapproved sub-pages.

Thank you for starting a knowledge community where people are ultimately allowed - And encouraged! - To make up their own minds!

- Dave

I am afraid you don’t understand the concept of the GFDL license. GFDL means there is no author, no one can claim ownership. Everything on Wikipedia may be freely published everywhere now and in the future. Once applied, it will remain in affect forever.