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This is the home page of the Citizendium project. It's a notice board and central launch point for community pages. From here, you can get started, get technical help, read about content policy, explore our articles and organization, and much more.

We're deeply committed to making a reliable, free, and enormous general reference. We've shown to our delight that we can create a more mature wiki community, open to the public, led by experts, with all using their own identities; we're in it for the long haul.

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Getting Started Register Everyone needed. Reply within 24 hours. About us What exactly is going on here, anyway? FAQ A variety of common questions. Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians Are you a Wikipedian? This is for you.	Technical Help How to edit an article The techie nitty-gritty; WikiMedia markup Start article with subpages Like those subpages? Here's a tool. The Article Checklist How we keep track of data about articles. Subpage template Technical intro to subpages
Content Policy Approval Standards What's a good Citizendium article like? Article Mechanics Essential; a guide to mechanics and style Subpages We're not just an encyclopedia. See what else. Converting Wikipedia to Citizendium If you must upload that Wikipedia article, read this.	Article Lists Live articles Articles we're working on. Approved Articles editors have approved. Developed Well advanced articles. All Checklisted All articles we're tracking with the checklist.
Organization Workgroups Workgroups are devoted to different subjects. Personnel Lists of editors, authors, etc. Contact Talk to us. Donate Your tax-free donation: a tremendous bang for the buck.	Initiatives Core Articles A game: get points for top-priority articles. Recruitment Help recruit people en masse to the project! Article of the Week Nominate and vote for highlighted articles. Monthly Write-a-Thon An article-writing party, first Weds. of the month.
Communication Talk Pages Where and how to discuss articles. Mailing lists Announcements. See CZ-L, CZ-Editors, and CZ-Tools. Forums The "town hall" of the project. Blog Outward-facing news and discussion.	Editor Policy The Editor Role Basic instructions for editors. Approval Process How editors approve articles. Article Deletion Policy Explains the grounds for deleting articles. Editor Application Review Procedure How we review editor applications.
Editorial Council Members The volunteers who oversee our content policy. Resolutions What we've passed, what we're working on. How to Make a Resolution An introduction for Council members. Suggestion Box Have an idea for the Council to take up?	Constabulary Application Review Procedure How constables review author applications. Professionalism Act professionally; here's how. Constabulary Blocking Procedures Constables in extreme cases can block accounts. Article Deletion Policy Article types constables can delete.

Notice Board November 7, 2007 Today is the Monthly Write-a-Thon! Also, today we're starting Stub Week. Yes, we're actually encouraging you to write stubs, and we're reducing the minimum length to just two sentences. It's an experiment! October 31, 2007 As you probably noticed, we did a press release yesterday. We also launched a progress report. As a result, we have been Slashdotted, and that has resulted in a lot of new people arriving. Also, I (LMS) have decided not to pursue the organization of "What's Your Article?" at this time. Too much else to do, not enough internal interest. October 26, 2007 Just a reminder: please slap Category:CZ Live on all new articles (not un-reworked Wikipedia imports) that you start! October 23, 2007 There are now new links to our three main new initiatives on the main page, recruitment, Core Articles, and What's Your Article?. Do you think we need more people in some particular discipline? Then make a request on Recruitment and hopefully someone will be motivated to round up some new people who study that subject. October 18, 2007 Recently, a recruitment campaign kicked off and has already yielded considerable dividends in terms of new accounts and several new people on the wiki. Please help spread the word! October 15, 2007 Just to let you know, an editcount has been activated, see [1]. It is supposed to be more stable than the older version. The price is a one-day lag, something to be yet improved. To promote the work in the mainspace, one more counter has been added (percentage of edits to articles). October 8, 2007 Registration now takes place via Web form...and approving an application is done with a click of a constable's button. Thanks to Aaron Schwarz. Thanks to everyone. Image problems fixed. October 6, 2007 Image problems: There is an intermittent problem with dispaying images right now. The technical people are aware of it. October 4, 2007 There were several hours of downtime, when one of the CZ servers went down, for unknown reasons. Then, in the evening (7:30-8:30 PM Eastern), the entire Steadfast network and other Chicago networks went down. Again, no idea why. We passed 3,000 sometime probably yesterday. Older notices