Citizendium
Citizendium is an online collaborative volunteer community that works much like Wikipedia to provide encyclopedic inspired information. Citizendium differs from Wikipedia in that it emphasizes information quality. Volunteer information providers must provide their real name in order to become editors, and information must be confirmed by experts in order to be published on the site.[1]
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History
Citizendium started as a pilot encyclopedic project in 2006, although Larry Sanger a Wikipedia co-founder, officially launched the project in March 2007.
Citizendium Roles and Features
Authors
Citizendium authors start new articles, make additions to existing articles and discuss topic discrepancies on Citizendium's talk pages.
Editors
Citizendium editors have all privileges of authors. The main difference between an author and an editor is that an editor is a community-recognized or formally acknowledged expert in some field of knowledge. Official expertise status guidelines (usually obtained through education or experience) are set by Citizendium's Editorial Council. An editor's main role in the Citizendium community consists of guiding article content to ensure that it conveys reliable information to its users.
Constables
Workgroups
Myths and Facts
Myths
Facts
References
- ↑ Andrew J. Flanagin & Miriam J. Metzger (2011): FROM ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA TO WIKIPEDIA, Information, Communication & Society, 14:3, 355-374.
- ↑ http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Community_Overview
- ↑ http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Myths_and_Facts