Archive:Project Home

This is the home page for our community of contributors. If you're an author or editor, you should find links to everything important to your job below.

Help and introductory material

How to

• How to get started as an author (essential reading)
• How to start a new article
• How to edit an article
• How you can help: don't know what to do? Here are some ideas.
• Help (a help menu on How to)

The Citizendium and Wikipedia

• How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
• We aren't Wikipedia

See also

• Notice Board
• Policy (below)

Project Organization

Workgroups

• Workgroups

Recruitment and Admission

• Recruitment Letter
• Mailing List Outreach
• Blog Outreach
• Professional Organization Outreach

Initiatives

• Under way: The Big Cleanup (and see forum post): cleans up, tags, formats, etc., our articles
  • Under way: The Article Checklist: tracks various data about articles
• Under way: The Big Write: a community initiative in which editors offer to "bless" credible starts on new articles
• Concluded: The Big Speedydelete: deleted cruft from our article database

Constabulary

• Constabulary Home

Discussion

• The use of talk pages
• Citizendium forums for discussion
• Community blog for news
• Mailing lists for discussion
• Summaries of policy arguments

Policy

The following should be a comprehensive set of links to Citizendium policy documents. The "home page" of Citizendium policy, and a lengthy summary of policy, can be found at CZ:Policy Outline.

• Policy Outline (under development)
• Policy questions raised by articles

About the Policy Outline

• Maintainers of the policy outline
• Statement of Fundamental Policies takes precedence
• This Policy Outline is the Citizendium's policy "home page"
• Mailing list and forum input
• Executive Committee not a forum for policy discussion

The Citizendium's Foundational Policies

• The role of the Statement of Fundamental Policies
  • Toward a new compendium of knowledge
  • Statement of Fundamental Policies
  • Draft Charter
• The purposes of articulating non-negotiable policies

Authors and Authoring Citizendium Articles

• Author Sign-Up
  • Call for applications
  • New Account Review Procedure
• Author User Pages
• Authoring Articles
  • How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
  • Naming Conventions
  • Maintainability
  • Article Standards
    • What Citizendium articles are not
    • Neutrality Policy
    • Article Mechanics
    • Original Research Policy
    • Family-Friendly Policy
    • Legal policies:
      • Copyright Violation Policy
      • Libel Policy
      • Biographies of Living Persons
    • Article Approval Standards
  • Article Deletion Policy
    • Article Deletion Policy (details)
• Standards of Professionalism
  • Professionalism (details)
• Author Conflict Resolution
• The Appeals Process: Notes for Authors

Policy regarding Individual Editors

• Decisionmaking and Dispute Resolution regarding Articles
• Article Approval
  • Approval Process
• Low-Level Administrative Management of Authors
  • Policy on Content-Based Bans
• Editorial Dispute Resolution: Notes for Individual Editors
• Editor Registration
  • Policy on Editorship Review
• Categories of Editorship
• Topic Informants
  • Policy on Topic Informants
• Other Notes for Editors

Editorial Workgroups and Management

• Editorial Council
• Editorial Workgroups in General
  • Policy on Shared Articles
  • Policy on Starting Subdiscipline Workgroups
• Editorial Workgroup Formation and Function
  • Policy on Project Workgroups
• Chief Subject Editors
• Editor Review
• Dispute Resolution
  • Policy on resolving editorial disputes

Constabulary Policy

• The Role and Selection of Constables
• Policies and Procedures for Constables
• Checks on Constables
• Some Rules of Behavior Enforced by Constables
• Need to add section about CZ:personnel administration.

Citizendium Beta Reference documents

Documents relating to alternative policy options under revision or consideration

• GNU Free Documentation License