CZ:Citizen/V1-N1

:: The Citizen ::

Vol. 1, No. 1 -- 1 / 1 / 2008
Happy New Year! Welcome to Citizendium's monthly news report, The Citizen! Hosted on a CC-by-sa-3.0 Unported licensed knowledge base! We begin our first issue in 2008; Citizendium has reached almost five-thousand articles, a license having been chosen(see 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.
CZ:Topics in the News the passing of Benazir Bhutto, the regular updating of the 2008 United States presidential election as the Iowa Caucus approaches.	Events We turned one year old! following our first birthday, a summary report was written in October by CZ's Editor in Chief, Larry Sanger outlining our accomplishments! A license decision was made in December(essay here)! Dr Sanger outlines the reason and highlights the issues surrounding the license decision which were well thought out.
Project Initiatives! The Core Article Initiative: a massive list developed in order to shift article creation focus to developing the most popular-referenced articles Eduzendium: A program created to pair doctoral programs and seminars with CZ in order to create high-quality entries! An article-writing "kegger" that proved extremely popular and successful! It even spawned a sister initiative, known as the The Geogra-thon! The Draft of the Week and the Article of the Week that both represent a sampling of not only articles that have great beginnings but are also well developed. The Subpages initiative was created in order to provide a better organization of everything related to a particular article topic; Programming by Chris Day	Technical Initiatives An exhaustive documentation initative for both templates and extensions, to create an easy reference guide for the user base A proposed workgroup for the technical team, to collate wiki developments into a central location Exciting Developments! Brainstorming to ramp up writing, recruitment, retainment, and approval in the coming year! A new method for requesting and authorizing accounts, developed by Aaron Schulz in order to expedite account creation Extensive developments by Stephen Ewen, particularly the CZ:Upload Wizard for the CZ:Media Assets Workgroup
Press Links Press Page Future Press Initiatives The CZ Blog Thanks to: Stephen Ewen Joe Quick Chris Day Aleta Curry and many others... The Times Online (specifically this post) Larry Sanger for starting Citizendium Andrew Keen and Wikipedia, for inspiring us to acheive. Slashdot /. The Society for New Communications Research ArsTechnica NewAssignment.Net and Assignment Zero for getting me here!

Robert W King 09:58, 31 December 2007 (CST)