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''To write''
Citizendium is a growing resource of knowledge. It's goal is to provide instant and free knowledge to ''anyone'' with on-line access, world-wide, at ''no'' fee. There's certainly lots of information on the web, but so much of it is unfiltered and chaotic, not to mention inflammatoy and inaccurate, that we have joined together to create something new. Our aim is to provide entry into a Compendium of knowledge that is clearly written, entertaining, and, as far as we can make it, ''true''.
 
Right now we have many articles in the draft stage, and a handful of [[approved articles]] that we consider to be finished editions - for the present. You can't make changes in those few finished approved articles, although (as you'll see when you go to them) each one has a draft page where a new edition is brewing. You are welcome to add to the draft and edit what's there- as soon as you've signed up as an author.
 
We hope you'll see another thing about those approved articles. You can actually read them and make sense out of them, and - if you click the "history" tab at the top of each one, you'll see the amount of careful collaboration that has gone into making them. Each has been read and approved by experts in the field in an honest attempt to provide you with useful information. Now, we're running on refurbished everytrhing at the moment, so you'll have to excuse the lack of bells and


Need link to [[CZ:Tips for new contributors]]
Need link to [[CZ:Tips for new contributors]]

Revision as of 17:49, 20 January 2007

Citizendium is a growing resource of knowledge. It's goal is to provide instant and free knowledge to anyone with on-line access, world-wide, at no fee. There's certainly lots of information on the web, but so much of it is unfiltered and chaotic, not to mention inflammatoy and inaccurate, that we have joined together to create something new. Our aim is to provide entry into a Compendium of knowledge that is clearly written, entertaining, and, as far as we can make it, true.

Right now we have many articles in the draft stage, and a handful of approved articles that we consider to be finished editions - for the present. You can't make changes in those few finished approved articles, although (as you'll see when you go to them) each one has a draft page where a new edition is brewing. You are welcome to add to the draft and edit what's there- as soon as you've signed up as an author.

We hope you'll see another thing about those approved articles. You can actually read them and make sense out of them, and - if you click the "history" tab at the top of each one, you'll see the amount of careful collaboration that has gone into making them. Each has been read and approved by experts in the field in an honest attempt to provide you with useful information. Now, we're running on refurbished everytrhing at the moment, so you'll have to excuse the lack of bells and

Need link to CZ:Tips for new contributors