Citizendium

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Founded by:	Larry Sanger, Peter Hitchmough
Status:	Active
Language:	English
Edit mode:	ByInvitation
Wiki engine:	MediaWiki
Wiki license:	Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Main topic:	Compendium
Backups:	2014-02-06

Wiki size:	305 article pages see stats
wikiFactor:	36 info / verify

(Page count as of: 2022-05-28
wikiFactor as of: 2014-07-01)

Citizendium – the citizens' compendium is a wiki site that aims to gather knowledge more effectively than Wikipedia, and aims at quality as well as quantity.

Original 2006 Citizendium

The Citizendium wiki site was founded by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, together with Peter Hitchmough, in October 2006[1] (although not 'officially' launched until 28 March 2007) to remedy what he viewed as problems with Wikipedia. The site requires the use of verifiable real names and academic credentials. Initially, the community considered forking the English Wikipedia, but decided against it.

Citizendium has an organized hierarchy: 'Authors' are anyone with an approved account, while 'Editors' are contributors whose demonstrated expertise in their field is officially recognized by the Citizendium. 'Constables' play the role of administrators.

The site has Approved Articles which pass a process of review. Several of the most extensive articles are on homeopathy and alternative medicine.

• Citizendium Downloads — daily XML 'data dumps' of current versions (only) the major Citizendium namespaces, in bz2 and gzip formats
• Citizendium Statistics — detailed statistics displayed in textual and graphical formats
• Critique — from RationalWiki
• Article — from the English Wikipedia

2020 restart

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Larry Sanger became largely inactive in the project after 2010, and it has since had three-to-four different primary editors. In 2020, Larry Sanger transferred ownership of the domain to the current primary editor.

License

From its foundation in 2006 under the tenure of Larry Sanger, the Citizendium wiki released its content under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 unported license (CC-BY-SA-3.0)[2]. From its 2020 restart, it changed to the more restrictive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 international license (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0).

See also

• Citizendium Editorial Council

External links

• Citizendium — at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites