The Citizendium home page with default format (2018)
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available in
English
Created by
Larry Sanger
URL
en.citizendium.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional (Required to edit pages, via request of account)
Launched
23 October 2006; 17 years ago (2006-10-23) (pilot) 25 March 2007; 17 years ago (2007-03-25) (public)
Current status
active, but with few editors[1]
Content license
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Citizendium (/ˌsɪtɪˈzɛndiəm/SIT-i-ZEN-dee-əm; "the citizens' compendium of everything")[2] is an English-language wiki-based free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger,[3] co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia.[4]
It was first announced in September 2006 as a fork of the English Wikipedia,[5] but instead launched in March 2007 with an emphasis on original content. The project's aim was to improve on the Wikipedia model by providing increased reliability.[6] It planned to achieve this by requiring virtually all contributors to use their real names, by strictly moderating the project for unprofessional behavior, by providing "gentle expert oversight" of everyday contributors, and through "approved articles" which have undergone a form of peer-review by topic experts with credentials.[7][8]
Active contributors increased through the first quarter of 2008 and then declined; by 27 October 2011, the site had fewer than 100 active members.[9] The last managing editor was Anthony Sebastian,[10] until the office was vacated in 2016. As of 21 July 2023[update], it had 17,956 "live" and 6,322 "lemma" articles (lemmas are undeveloped articles which contain little more than a definition).[1]
^ ab"Welcome to Citizendium", Citizendium. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
^"CZ:About – Citizendium". En.citizendium.org. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
^Bergstein, Brian (25 March 2007). "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia". NBCNews.com. Associated Press.
^Volpicelli, Gian (16 April 2019). "Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales wanted to save journalism. He didn't". Wired News.
^Andrew Orlowski."Wikipedia founder forks Wikipedia, More experts, less fiddling?", The Register, 18 September 2006. In software engineering, a project fork occurs when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software.
^"The Citizendium's Statement of Fundamental Policies". Citizendium. 6 September 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
^McCarthy, Caroline (23 January 2007). "Citizendium: Wikipedia co-founder Sanger's Wikipedia rival". CNET News. Archived from the original on 30 July 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2009.
^Anderson, Nate (25 February 2007). "Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia". Ars Technica. Retrieved 13 April 2009.
^Lee, Timothy B. (27 October 2011). "Citizendium turns five, but the Wikipedia fork is dead in the water". Ars Technica. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
^"[Citizendium-l] New Managing Editor and reduced Council sizes". The Mail Archive. 1 July 2012. Archived from the original on 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
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worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia...
(2002–2021) in Spanish and Conservapedia (2006–), Scholarpedia (2006–), and Citizendium (2007–) in English, the latter of which had become inactive by 2014....
it." Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, responded to Wales on his Citizendium blog by calling Wales' initial reaction "utterly breathtaking, and ultimately...
Encyclopedia of Life and the online wiki encyclopedias Scholarpedia and Citizendium. The latter was started by Sanger in an attempt to create a reliable...
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license and GFDL. An Anarchist FAQ Citizendium – the project uses GFDL for articles originally from Wikipedia. Free...
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Encyclopædia Britannica article "Celt". Ancient Celtic music – in the Citizendium Essays on Celtiberian topics – in e-Keltoi, University of Wisconsin,...
alternative wiki encyclopedias to Wikipedia run on MediaWiki, including Citizendium, Metapedia, Scholarpedia and Conservapedia. MediaWiki is also used internally...
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Wikipedia's co-founder Larry Sanger (who later founded rival project Citizendium) characterized the Wikipedia community in 2007 as ineffective and abusive...
against resistant pathogens. This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article "Azole", which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike...
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Retrieved 22 October 2011. "Archive: Family-Friendly Policy – Citizendium". en.citizendium.org. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. Retrieved...
preferred the peer-reviewed approach used by Nupedia and later founded Citizendium in 2006 as an expert-reviewed alternative to Wikipedia. In October 1999...
Hinamatsuri Japanese craft Meibutsu This article incorporates text by Citizendium editors available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Salvador Jimenez Murguia...
inclusionist, except on certain topics pertaining to sexuality, for his Citizendium project. Former Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher...
He went on to found and work for competitors to Wikipedia, including Citizendium and Everipedia. Among other criticisms, Sanger has been vocal in his...
2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014. Bergstein, Brian (April 2, 2007). "Citizendium founder Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia, but don't tell that to Jimmy...
history of biology links Biology – historically oriented article on Citizendium Miall, L. C. (1911) History of biology. Watts & Co. London Ernest Ingersoll...
according to the 10-20 system Long March (rocket family), or Chang Zheng Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project Cz (digraph), in the Polish language...
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Retrieved 3 March 2023. This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article "Gamma function", which is licensed under the Creative Commons...
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