Welcome to Citizendium

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Welcome to the Citizendium Pilot Project!

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.

Note: in our first several months we were aiming to fork Wikipedia. We have decided, experimentally and provisionally, not to do so after all. That's why there are so many red links. See this blog post for more. Inactive Wikipedia-sourced articles have been deleted from the Citizendium, leaving a huge number of openings available for all citizens to start new articles.

Browse articles alphabetically

The list is constantly growing.

Approved articles

Some of Citizendium's finest. (about)

Disciplines

Citizendium personnel are informally divided up into discipline workgroups. Workgroup's homepages are at Φ. The articles corresponding to workgroup names are good places to look for important articles to edit, and we want these articles themselves to be excellent as well.

Natural Science
Astronomy Φ - Biology Φ - Chemistry Φ - Earth Sciences Φ - Health Sciences Φ - Mathematics Φ - Physics Φ - Other
Social Sciences
Anthropology Φ - Archaeology Φ - Economics Φ - Education Φ - Geography Φ - Law Φ - Linguistics Φ - Politics Φ - Psychology Φ - Sociology Φ - Other
Humanities
Classics Φ - History Φ - Literature Φ - Philosophy Φ - Religion Φ - Other
Arts
Architecture Φ - Music Φ - Theater Φ - Visual Arts Φ - Other
Applied Arts
Agriculture Φ - Business Φ - Computers Φ - Engineering Φ - Healing Arts Φ - Journalism Φ - Library and Information Science Φ - Media Φ - Military Φ - Other
Recreation
Games Φ - Hobbies Φ - Sports Φ - Other
Welcome section

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For technical problems:

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  • If you get an odd error message, do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to view.
  • If you are still having trouble, mail personnel@citizendium.org immediately.
Our project
Our contributors

The Citizendium is like a lively bazaar, with authors and expert editors doing vigorous trade in words. Editors do not give top-down orders; they offer the occasional word of direction or advice, and can approve articles in their areas of expertise. Constables, who are barely needed in our very friendly community, ensure everything runs smoothly. These are all volunteers, contributing their time, energy, and profesional expertise in support of a shared vision.