Welcome to Citizendium

Natural Sciences     Social Sciences     Humanities     Arts     Applied Arts and Sciences     Recreation A project to develop a comprehensive compendium of knowledge Welcome to Citizendium, a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real, verified names. We welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge by writing and improving articles on virtually any subject. While this wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see %newwin% [description on Quora], a core group of writers have continued writing articles in the wiki that we believe are useful, and which for various reasons could not be written in Wikipedia. After the probably ending of Citizendium as a public project on or about Sept. 30, 2020, we hope to keep the wiki running by a combination of donations and subscriptions. If in the future we decide to shut down, any leftover funds will be donated to the Internet Archive. See Recent Changes—an overview of articles we are writing now. Join us Join here and start a new article or improve existing ones. Get started: How to collaborate | How to format pages Wikipedians are very welcome! For more details on participation, see Why Citizendium? and Why I Contribute. We Need Support From Donations! Please help! Funds are used to pay for hosting our servers. See our financial report for complete details. Please make your donations here.

Some of our finest Citable Articles (145) Developed Articles (1,149) (17,710 total articles) The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. — Frank Herbert, American science fiction author (1920 - 1986)        —add a quotation about knowledge or writing •Did You Know? Monthly Donation Day  |  Monthly Donor Honor Roll Our help system and forum Questions and answers to help you find the information you need More about the project We have a policy document to provide a framework for governance. We have 17,710 articles at different stages of development, of which 145 have expert-approved citable versions. Our community is collegial and congenial; everyone writes under his or her verified real name. We prefer new material but allow work from other sites to be imported and improved under certain conditions. For a brief guide on what Citizendium is and is not, see Myths and Facts; for more details, see the frequently-asked questions page. Students in higher education write here as part of their courses under our Eduzendium initiative. To learn more about the project, see our article on ourselves, our Help System, our financial report and our Statistics page. Follow us on Twitter (general news; new pages), Facebook or Google+. Comment on articles nominated for approval. You can discuss any article on its Talk page.