http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=126 Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:52:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=126#comment-1654 Larry Sanger launches Citizendium to compete with Wikipedia « ValueWiki Blog Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:42:10 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/04/1000-cz-live-articles/#comment-1654 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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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