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Welcome to the Citizendium Pilot Project! The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names. As of February 2, 2007, we were working on over 1,000 articles. Note: in our first several months we were aiming to fork Wikipedia. We have decided, experimentally and provisionally, not to do so after all. That's why there are so many red links. You can click on those red links and start a new article! While these new articles can be borrowed from Wikipedia, if they are modified according to the Citizendium style, we encourage contributors to start from scratch. See this blog post for more information.
Browse articles alphabetically The list is constantly growing.	Approved articles Some of Citizendium's finest. (about)	Disciplines Citizendium personnel are informally divided up into discipline workgroups. Workgroup's homepages are at Φ. The articles corresponding to workgroup names are good places to look for important articles to edit, and we want these articles themselves to be excellent as well. Natural Science Astronomy Φ - Biology Φ - Chemistry Φ - Computers Φ - Earth Sciences Φ - Engineering Φ - Health Sciences Φ - Mathematics Φ - Physics Φ - Other Social Sciences Anthropology Φ - Archaeology Φ - Economics Φ - Education Φ - Countries of the world - Geography Φ - Law Φ - Linguistics Φ - Politics Φ - Psychology Φ - Sociology Φ - Other Humanities Classics Φ - History Φ - Literature Φ - Philosophy Φ - Religion Φ - Other Arts Architecture Φ - Music Φ - Theater Φ - Visual Arts Φ - Other Applied Arts Agriculture Φ - Business Φ - Healing Arts Φ - Journalism Φ - Library and Information Science Φ - Media Φ - Military Φ - Other Recreation Games Φ - Hobbies Φ - Sports Φ - Other
Welcome section For contributors: How to get started with the Citizendium pilot For readers: About the Citizendium Hint: look to the left for other important links. For technical problems: You might need to get a contributor account if you don't have one. If you get an odd error message, do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to view. If you are still having trouble, mail personnel@citizendium.org immediately.
Our project Project Home! Project Policy For notices to people working on this wiki, see the notice board. For news, use the Citizendium Blog. For discussion, use the Citizendium Forums. For community-wide announcements, feel free to use Citizendium-L. For editors' announcements to other editors, feel free to use Citizendium-Editors. Have questions? Ask here.	Our contributors The Citizendium is like a lively bazaar, with authors and expert editors doing vigorous trade in words. Editors do not give top-down orders; they offer the occasional word of direction or advice, and can approve articles in their areas of expertise. Constables, who are barely needed in our very friendly community, ensure everything runs smoothly. These are all volunteers, contributing their time, energy, and professional expertise in support of a shared vision.