CZ:Charter

The nature of the project

 * 1) The ultimate goal of the Citizendium community, a global group of collaborators, is to create the most reliable and largest comprehensive encyclopedia that they can.
 * 2) If an "approved" or "certified" version of an article is available, that version will be presented to the public by default; in that case, viewing unapproved versions will require further mouseclicks for the public, and such versions will be clearly labelled as unapproved, and users will be instructed not to rely upon them.
 * 3) The Citizendium will be a wiki. Edits will not normally be required to be approved by editors before appearing on the wiki.
 * 4) The Citizendium will be owned and ultimately controlled by a non-profit organization.
 * 5) The Citizendium will not sell advertisements.  There may be unobtrusive non-profit sponsorship statements, but sponsors will have no editorial influence over the project, and enforceable, adequate oversight of this rule will be in place.  Similarly, no grants that make specific editorial demands will be accepted.
 * 6) The Citizendium will be devoted to simplicity, both in presentation of content and in the organization of the community.  Many features as implemented by Wikipedia, such as subject categories and so-called user boxes, may be eliminated from (or never included in) the  Citizendium.  Special roles will not be created without excellent reason, and bureaucracy will be kept to the absolute minimum necessary.