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<CENTER> <font size="100%">''':: The Citizen ::'''</font></center>
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|width="100%" colspan=2|<center>'''Vol. 1, No. 1 -- 1 / 1 / 2008'''</center>
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|width="100%" colspan=2|'''<big>Happy New Year!</big>'''
'''Welcome to Citizendium's monthly news report, The Citizen!  Hosted on a [[Creative_Commons_CC-by-sa_3.0|CC-by-sa-3.0 Unported]] licensed knowledge base!'''

We begin our first issue in 2008; Citizendium has reached almost [[CZ:Statistics|five-thousand articles]], a license having been chosen(see [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citizendium_Press_Releases/Dec212007 press release here]), and because more is planned as a part of the project's advancement it feels appropriate to begin the recap project now.  
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|width="50%" align=top|'''[[CZ:Topics in the News]]'''
*'''[[Benazir Bhutto]] assassinated''' 
*'''[[2008 United States presidential election]] regularly updated''' as the [[Iowa Caucus]] approaches
|width="50%" align=top|'''Events'''
*'''We turned one year old!''' [http://www.citizendium.org/oneyearandthriving.html following our first birthday, a summary report] was written in October by CZ's [[User:Larry_Sanger|Editor in Chief]], Larry Sanger outlining our accomplishments!  
*'''A license decision was made''' in December ([http://www.citizendium.org/czlicense.html essay here])! Dr Sanger outlines the reason and highlights the issues surrounding the license decision which  were well thought out.
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|width="50%"|'''Project Initiatives!'''
* '''The [[CZ:CORE|Core Article Initiative]]''': a massive list developed in order to shift article creation focus to developing the most popular-referenced articles
*'''[[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium]]''': A program created to pair graduate programs and seminars with CZ in order to create high-quality entries!
*'''An [[CZ:Monthly_Write-a-Thon|article-writing "kegger"]]''' that proved extremely popular and successful!  It even spawned a sister initiative, known as the [[CZ:Geography_Workgroup/Gazetteer/Geogra-thon|The Geogra-thon]]!
*'''The [[CZ:New Draft of the Week|Draft of the Week]] and [[CZ:Article of the Week|Article of the Week]]''': both samplings of not only articles that have great beginnings but that are also well developed.
*'''The [[CZ:Subpages|Subpages initiative]]''' was created in order to provide a better organization of everything related to a particular article topic; Programming by [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]]
|width="50%"|'''Technical Initiatives'''
*'''Exhaustive documentation initiative for both [[CZ:Templates|templates]] and [[CZ:Extensions|extensions]]''', to create an easy reference guide for the user base.  Stop by and see some extensions you might not know we already have
*'''A proposed [[CZ:Technical Team|workgroup for the technical team]]''', to collate wiki developments into a central location

'''Exciting Developments!'''
*'''[http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1421.0.html Brainstorming to ramp up writing, recruitment, retainment, and approval] in the coming year!'''  ''Everyone'' please comment if you have not already.
* '''A new method for requesting and authorizing accounts''', developed by [[User:Aaron_Schulz|Aaron Schulz]] in order to expedite account creation
*'''Extensive development of the [[CZ:Upload Wizard]]''' to make media uploading friendly for both new and seasoned contributors, developed by [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]]. [[CZ:Media_Assets_Workgroup/Development|Help is needed to make it still better]]
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==Press Links==

*[[CZ:Press|Press Page]]
*[[CZ:PR|Future Press Initiatives]]
*[http://blog.citizendium.org/ The CZ Blog]

==Thanks to:==

*[[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 
*[[User:Joe Quick|Joe Quick]]
*[[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]]
*[[user:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]]
*and many others...

*[http://technology.timesonline.co.uk The Times Online] (specifically [http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3103278.ece this post])
*[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] for starting Citizendium
*Andrew Keen and Wikipedia, for inspiring us to acheive.
*Slashdot [http://www.slashdot.org /.]
*[http://sncr.org/ The Society for New Communications Research]
*[http://arstechnica.com ArsTechnica]
*[http://www.newassignment.net NewAssignment.Net] and Assignment Zero for getting me here!


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[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 09:58, 31 December 2007 (CST)