Citizendium Blog

Five announcements here.

(1) Big Cleanup complete

I’m very happy to announce that as of yesterday, the Big Cleanup is complete! It took a little over two months. Not too bad, I think. Thanks again to the people who went through literally thousands of articles systematically and cleaned them up. This has arguably changed the nature of CZ–decidedly for the better. The advantages are listed on CZ:The_Big_Cleanup.

(2) Unchecklisted articles remain

There are still some unchecklisted articles, however–these are articles that were created since we started the Big Cleanup. See: CZ:Unchecklisted_Articles Please feel free to sign up on that page to “checklist” the rest of the articles.

(3) New guideline: always add the checklist to new articles

We can now install a new guideline, which I assume no one will have a problem with. Here it is. NEW GUIDELINE: whenever you create a new article, or you notice that someone else has created a new article, add the article checklist to the talk page. Note that the checklist can now be found conveniently in the sidebar, under “project pages.” I’ve added this guideline to a few different pages in the appropriate places on the wiki.

(4) Next steps?

Now that the Big Cleanup is done and most of our articles are checklisted, we can now use the results for all sorts of new Big Initiatives. So what’s the next Big Thing? Citizens, please look at this Board and make suggestions, or state your opinions about what our top priorities should be next.

(5) Lots of statistics graphs

I just wanted to point out the fine work of Aleksander Stos in creating this helpful statistics page. Thanks, Alex. There’s much else to announce, but it will have to wait until later.