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'''Welcome!''' This is the central launch point for all the pages about the project.  From here, you can get started, get technical help, read about content policy, explore our articles and organization, and much more.
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'''Welcome!''' This is the central launch point for all the pages about the projectFrom here, you can get started, get technical help, read about content policy, explore our articles and organization.


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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:How to start a new article|How to start a new article]]|Dive in!}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Email us an article in word processor format|E-mail your article to us]]|Yep, you can do that.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Start article with subpages|Start with subpages]]|A more advanced way to start.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Start article with subpages|Start with subpages]]|A more advanced way to start.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:The Author Role|The Author Role]]|What authors do; essential reading for all.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:The Author Role|The Author Role]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:The Editor Role|The Editor Role]]|What editors do; essential reading for editors.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:The Editor Role|The Editor Role]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians|Intro. to CZ for Wikipedians]]|Are you a Wikipedian?  This is for you.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians|Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Dozen Essentials|Dozen Essentials]]|Tips every Citizen should know}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Dozen Essentials|Dozen Essentials]]|Tips every Citizen should know}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Why Citizendium?|Why Citizendium?]]|Why we are here.  Why we are inevitable!}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Why Citizendium?|Why Citizendium?]]|}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:How To|A "How-to" index]]|Having trouble with something?  Check here!}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:FAQ|FAQ]]|A variety of common questions.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:How to edit an article|How to edit an article]]|The techie nitty-gritty; MediaWiki markup}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Community Overview|Community Overview]]|How our community works.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article structure|Article structure]]|What is an article anyway?}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Workgroups|Workgroups]]|Workgroups are devoted to different subjects.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:The Article Checklist|The Article Checklist]]|How we keep track of data about articles.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Executive Committee|Executive Committee]]|The "executive branch."}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Using the Subpages template|Subpage template]]|Technical intro to subpages.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|See also [[CZ:Editorial Council|Editorial Council]] and [[CZ:Constabulary|Constabulary]]|Also, detailed link lists below.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Templates|A list of the templates we use]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Personnel|Personnel]]|Lists of editors, authors, etc.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Downloads|Downloads]]|Swipe CZ content here.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Fundamentals|Statement of Fundamental Policies]]|Our "constitution"; to be revised soon.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Technical Team|Technical Team]]|Our techies.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:We aren't Wikipedia|We aren't Wikipedia]]|Smaller (for now!), but better.}}
 
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Statistics|Statistics]]|Our progress, in numbers and graphs.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Group Status|Group Status]]|Where some of us track our doings and goals.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Become a partner|Become a partner]]|How your organization can get involved.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Donate|Donate]]|Your tax-free donation: a tremendous bang for the buck.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Press|Press]]|Press releases, etc.; a page for journalists.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Approval Standards|Approval Standards]]|What's a good ''Citizendium'' article like?}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article Mechanics|Article Mechanics]]|Essential; a guide to mechanics and style}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article Mechanics|Article Mechanics]]|a guide to mechanics and style}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Subpages|Subpages]]|We're not just an encyclopedia.  See what else.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Subpages|Subpages]]|We're not just an encyclopedia}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|Converting Wikipedia to CZ]]|If you ''must'' upload that article, read this.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles|Converting Wikipedia to CZ]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Neutrality Policy|Neutrality Policy]]|Represent all sides fairly, please.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Objectivity_Guidance|Objectivity_Guidance]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Naming Conventions|Naming Conventions]]|Which name should you pick for your article?}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Naming Conventions|Naming Conventions]]|Which name should you pick for your article?}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Stubs|Stubs]]|Short articles are OK, as long as they're not ''too'' short.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Stubs|Stubs]]|Short articles are OK, as long as they're not ''too'' short.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Citation style|Citation style]]|Yes, we use notes; here's how.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Citation style|Citation style]]|Yes, we use notes; here's how.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Images|Images]]|How to upload images.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Media Assets Workgroup|Media Assets Workgroup]]|The workgroup that manages our media.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Media Assets Workgroup|Media Assets Workgroup]]|The workgroup that manages our media.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Policy on Self-Promotion|Policy on Self-Promotion]]|Thou shalt not promote thyself.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Categories|Categories]]|We use them sparsely, mainly for workgroups.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Disclaimer|Disclaimer]]|We don't guarantee perfection.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Reusing Citizendium Content|Reusing Citizendium Content]]|CZ is free!}}


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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:About|About us]]|A brief explanation.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Governance|Governance]]|How the community is run.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Community Overview|Community overview]]|How the community works.|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Ready for approval|Ready for approval]]|Editors, consider approving these.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Workgroups|Workgroups]]|Article lists and the people who work on them.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[Special:Allpages]]|Every page on the website.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Personnel|Personnel]]|Editors, Authors, etc.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:We aren't Wikipedia|We aren't Wikipedia]]|Smaller but better.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Statistics|Statistics]]|Our progress, in numbers.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Group Status|Group Status]]|Where some of us track our goals.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Become a partner|How your organization can get involved]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Donate|Donate]]|Donations are very welcome.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Press|Press]]|Press releases, etc.; a page for journalists.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Contact|Contact]]|Talk to us.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:The Article Checklist|The Article Checklist]]|How we keep track of data about articles.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Using the Subpages template|Subpage template]]|Technical intro to subpages.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Templates|Templates]]|A list of the templates we use.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[:Category:Subpages|Subpages]]|}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Downloads|Downloads]]|Swipe CZ content here.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Ready for approval|Ready for approval]]|Editors, consider approving these.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Technical Team Workgroup|Technical Team Workgroup]]|A wiki home (under construction) for our volunteer techies.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Recruitment|Recruitment]]|Help recruit people ''en masse'' to the project!}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Recruitment|Recruitment]]|Help recruit people to the project!}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Approval and Feedback|Approval and Feedback]]|Plan out how to improve article approval and feedback.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Approval and Feedback|Approval and Feedback]]|Plan out how to improve article approval and feedback.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article of the Week|Article of the Week]]|Nominate and vote for highlighted articles.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article of the Week|Article of the Week]]|Nominate and vote for an article for the front page.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon|Monthly Write-a-Thon]]|An article-writing party, first Weds. of the month.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article of the Week|Article of the Week]]|Vote for a well-developed article for the front page.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:New Draft of the Week|New Draft of the Week]]|Vote for a ''newly added'' article for the front page.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:New Draft of the Week|New Draft of the Week]]|Vote for a ''newly added'' article for the front page.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Feedback Requests|Feedback Requests]]|Ask for feedback!}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Talk Pages|Talk Pages]]|Where and how to discuss articles.}}
<span class=plainlinks>{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Mailing lists|Mailing lists]]|Announcements. See [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l CZ-L], [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-editors CZ-Editors], and [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-tools CZ-Tools].}}</span>
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<span class=plainlinks>{{CZ:Home/Item|[http://forum.citizendium.org Forums]|The "town hall" of the project.}}</span>
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[Forum:Home|Forum]]|Announcements and discussions.}} (<span class=plainlinks>{{CZ:Home/Item|[http://forum.citizendium.org Old forums]|forum archive to September 2014.)}}</span>
<span class=plainlinks>{{CZ:Home/Item|[http://blog.citizendium.org Blog]|Outward-facing news and discussion.}}</span>
<span class=plainlinks>{{CZ:Home/Item|[http://twitter.com/TheCitizendium Twitter]|Feed of official CZ news.}}</span>
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Approval Process|Approval Process]]|How editors approve articles.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article Deletion Policy|Article Deletion Policy]]|Explains the grounds for deleting articles.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article Deletion Policy|Article Deletion Policy]]|Explains the grounds for deleting articles.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Editor Application Review Procedure|Editor Application Review Procedure]]|How we review editor apps.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Editorial Council Resolutions Complete List|Resolutions]]|What we've passed, what we're working on.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Council#Decisions reached and motions passed by the Citizendium Council|Decisions]]|Decisions reached and motions passed.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Editorial Council How to Make a Resolution|How to Make a Resolution]]|An introduction for Council members.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Citizendium Council proposed motions|Proposed motions]]|Proposals currently under discussion.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Editorial Council Suggestion Box|Suggestion Box]]|Have an idea for the Council to take up?}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Application Review Procedure|Application Review Procedure]]|How Moderators review Author apps.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Professionalism|Professionalism]]|Act professionally; here's how.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Professionalism|Professionalism]]|Act professionally; here's how.}}
{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Constabulary Blocking Procedures|Blocking Procedures]]|Constables in extreme cases can block accounts.}}
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{{CZ:Home/Item|[[CZ:Article Deletion Policy|Article Deletion Policy]]|Article types constables can delete.}}
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<div style="font-size: large">Notice Board</div>


'''The Notice Board has been replaced with [https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l the Citizendium-L mailing list,] which posts project announcements.''' All contributors should be subscribed. You can still view [[CZ:Notice Board|old notice board messages]].
'''The Notice Board has been replaced by the [[CZ:Forum|Forum]]. You can still view [[CZ:Notice Board|old notice board messages]].
 
[[Category:Getting Started]]

Revision as of 12:00, 19 January 2023


The information on the page below is OBSOLETE
This information applied to an older way of operating
The wiki's policies and rules are now linked to the main page at Welcome_to_Citizendium.
Try also our help system

Welcome! This is the central launch point for all the pages about the project. From here, you can get started, get technical help, read about content policy, explore our articles and organization.

Launch Point
Explore these pages to get started as a contributor.

Register: application form (Google Account required)
How to start a new article:
Start with subpages: A more advanced way to start.
The Author Role:
The Editor Role:
Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians:
Dozen Essentials: Tips every Citizen should know
Why Citizendium?:

Don't get the weird wiki code? Start here.

A "How-to" index: Having trouble with something? Check here!
How to edit an article: The techie nitty-gritty; MediaWiki markup
Article structure: What is an article anyway?
The Article Checklist: How we keep track of data about articles.
Subpage template: Technical intro to subpages.
A list of the templates we use:
Downloads: Swipe CZ content here.
Technical Team: Our techies.

Guidelines for writing articles and other content.

Approval Standards: What's a good Citizendium article like?
Article Mechanics: a guide to mechanics and style
Subpages: We're not just an encyclopedia
Converting Wikipedia to CZ:
Objectivity_Guidance:
Naming Conventions: Which name should you pick for your article?
Stubs: Short articles are OK, as long as they're not too short.
Citation style: Yes, we use notes; here's how.
How to upload images:
Media Assets Workgroup: The workgroup that manages our media.
Categories: We use them sparsely, mainly for workgroups.
Policy on Self-Promotion:
Disclaimer: We don't guarantee perfection.
Reusing Citizendium Content: CZ is free!

Essential info about us.

Policies: Document that sets out the structure of the project.
About us: A brief explanation.
FAQ: Common questions.
Governance: How the community is run.
Community overview: How the community works.
Workgroups: Article lists and the people who work on them.
Personnel: Editors, Authors, etc.
We aren't Wikipedia: Smaller but better.
Statistics: Our progress, in numbers.
Group Status: Where some of us track our goals.
How your organization can get involved:
Donate: Donations are very welcome.
Press: Press releases, etc.; a page for journalists.
Contact: Talk to us.

Ways to browse our stuff.

Articles we're working on:
Articles editors have approved:
Developed articles:
Subpages:
Ready for approval: Editors, consider approving these.
Recently created pages:
Every page on the website:

We do special projects together.

Core Articles:
Recruitment: Help recruit people to the project!
Approval and Feedback: Plan out how to improve article approval and feedback.
Article of the Week: Nominate and vote for an article for the front page.
New Draft of the Week: Vote for a newly added article for the front page.
Feedback Requests: Ask for feedback!

How we talk to each other; lists, forums, etc.

Talk Pages: Where and how to discuss articles.
Mailing lists: Announcements.
Forum: Announcements and discussions.
(Old forums: forum archive to September 2014.)
Twitter: Feed of official CZ news.

The policies governing what Editors do.

The Editor Role: Basic instructions for editors.
Approval Process: How editors approve articles.
Article Deletion Policy: Explains the grounds for deleting articles.
Editor Application Review Procedure:

Our previous editorial and administrative policy body (no longer active).

Members: The volunteers who oversee our content policy.
Decisions: Decisions reached and motions passed.
Proposed motions: Proposals currently under discussion.

Our community moderators.

Application Review Procedure: How Moderators review Author apps.
Professionalism: Act professionally; here's how.
Blocking Procedures: Moderators in extreme cases can block accounts.
Article Deletion Policy: Article types Moderators can delete.



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