Citizendium
| http://En.Citizendium.org/images/skinlogos/czlogo.png | Citizendium – the citizens' compendium Recent changes [No WikiNode] About [No Mobile URL] |
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| Founded by: | Larry Sanger |
| Status: | Active |
| Language: | English |
| Edit mode: | ByInvitation |
| Wiki engine: | MediaWiki |
| Wiki license: | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike"Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike" is not in the list (Custom license, Attribution to contributing authors, Copyright to contributing authors, Site retains copyright, WTFPL, Licence Art Libre, Open Content License, Apache License, BSD Documentation License, FreeBSD Documentation License, ...) of allowed values for the "Wiki license" property. |
| Main topic: | Encyclopedia |
| Backups: | 2012-06-28 |
| Wiki size: | 75,135 article pages see stats |
| wikiFactor: | 26 info / verify |
(Page count as of: 2018-09-20
wikiFactor as of: 2012-05-25)
Citizendium – the citizens' compendium aims to gather knowledge more effectively than Wikipedia, and aims at quality as well as quantity.
It was founded by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger in 2006 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
- Critique from RationalWiki
- Article from the English Wikipedia