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Welcome to Citizendium beta! The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project started by a co-founder of Wikipedia with the aim of improving on that model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names. The pilot project launched in November 2006 and became public in March 2007. As of July 11, 2007, we were working on over 2,300 articles.
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	Welcome section For readers: About the Citizendium To edit pages: You can get a contributor account For contributors: How to get started as an author For Wikipedians: Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians Why the Citizendium Will (Probably) Succeed
	Our contributors & their work See our work: Browse articles alphabetically Our contributors are authors, who write the articles and discuss them on discussion pages. Some are also expert editors, who nominate articles for approval. Most of our constables, who get new folks on board, and ensure everything runs smoothly, are also authors - and some are editors, too. We work together, learn together, and try to make our dream of a great and free encyclopedia come true - together.

Our project Project Home! | Project Policy. For notices to wiki contributors, see the notice board. For news, use the Citizendium Blog. For discussion, use the Citizendium Forums. Join Nature Network Citizendium Group [1] For community-wide announcements, feel free to use Citizendium-L. For editors' announcements to other editors, feel free to use Citizendium-Editors. Ask questions here.

Approved articles Some of Citizendium's finest. (about). Want to work on an article heading towards approval? Browse: Developed Articles & Articles Nominated for Approval For newly approved, and newly nominated articles: see Approval Announcements

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Technical issues: If you get an odd error message, or a page won't load or update, do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to view. If changes to another page (like a template) affects the display of a page, you may have to make a trivial edit, such as adding a space, to page you want to update. This is because we have caching turned on during launch. If you are still having trouble, mail constables AT citizendium.org immediately. Bug reports go to bugs_at_citizendium.org (but we'll know about any obvious bugs).