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| [[Image:Lsanger02sm.jpg|left|]] Hi there! Larry Sanger here. I'm the Editor-in-Chief of the ''[[Citizendium]].'' I am also currently, and temporarily, serving as Chair of the [[CZ:Editorial Council|Editorial Council]]. If you have a question, I'll try to answer, but you might want to try the [http://smf.citizendium.org/ Forums] first if I don't answer instantly. I'm happy to report that I'm extremely busy! You can join my shameful backlog of e-mail at sanger <at> citizendium <dot> org. | | {{AccountNotLive}} |
| | [[Image:Lsanger02sm.jpg|left|]] Hi there! Larry Sanger here. My [[CZ:Charter|official]] title is now Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ''[[Citizendium]].'' I started this thing, but I'm no longer in any official leadership capacity. I'm happy to be able to report that the project now enjoys an existence independent of me, per my own previously-announced intentions back in 2006. My best wishes go with this very worthy project! |
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| You can read more about me at [http://www.Larrysanger.org my personal home page.] I have a Ph.D. in [[Philosophy]] from Ohio State and a passion for [[Irish traditional music]]. I was born in the [[Seattle]] area and grew up in [[Anchorage, Alaska]]. | | I'm happy to report that I'm extremely busy! You can add to my shameful backlog of e-mail at larry <at> sanger.io. |
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| I do not claim any sort of editorship other than being Editor-in-Chief, I'm afraid, not even in philosophy or the Internet. I am too long out of doing any serious research. | | You can read more about me at [http://www.larrysanger.org my personal home page and blog.] I have a Ph.D. in [[Philosophy]] from Ohio State and a passion for [[Irish traditional music]]. I was born in the [[Seattle]] area and grew up in [[Anchorage, Alaska]]. |
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| [[Image:Citizendium 80x15.png]] | | In 2008-10 I slowly ramped up my work on what became [http://www.watchknowlearn.org WatchKnowLearn.org,] a project to organize educational videos for PreK-12 education. I also posted a 140-page essay, free of charge, called ''[http://www.larrysanger.org/reading.html How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read.]'' In October 2011 I launched [http://www.readingbear.org/ Reading Bear,] a free reading tutorial for children. I have since worked on a variety of Internet projects as founder and as consultant. As of 2020, I am a consultant at [https://sanger.io Sanger Consulting]. |
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| |Friday, June 29: about to start constructing my master "to do" list on this page (my user page). I'm back in the saddle after four presentations in four weeks!
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| |Got a suggestion for me personally? I mean, you can use the [http://forum.citizendium.org Forums] to make any suggestion, but if there is some big sweeping change or project or idea that probably ain't gonna happen if I don't get behind it, please let me know at [[User talk:Larry Sanger/Suggestion Box|Suggestion Box]].
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| |colspan=2 align=center style="color:#FFFFF0; background:darkgreen"|<big>'''Sanger's Dashboard'''</big>
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| == New project planning ==
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| Subpage/subproject stuff:
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| * Do mock-up & preliminary design of {{Tl|subpages}} template
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| * Strategize deeply about the use of subpages for subprojects; among other things, decide: will there be exactly one subproject per subpage type?; decide: will there be checklists, or only categories, for subpages?
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| * Also strategize deeply about the "launch list" of subprojects and about subprojects generally; should each type of subpage have its own Project Workgroup, headed up by a Project Coordinator?
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| * Do initial conceptualization/policymaking for each of these:
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| ** Annotated Web links
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| ** Annotated (non-Web) bibliography
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| ** Categories (subtopics, supertopics, related topics; prereqs etc., see math board)
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| ** Catalogs (almanac-type information in tabular form; see e.g. [[catalog of religions]])
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| ** Gallery/multimedia
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| ** Expert (curated) articles with bylines
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| ** Debate guide
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| ** News guide
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| ** Tutorials
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| * Produce subpage type list; put a canonical list on a wiki page
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| Other stuff:
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| * Follow up (write policy on and develop) "Cold Storage"
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| * Use wiki pages for public patron program
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| ** Write policy
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| ** Write mock-up pages
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| == Governance policymaking ==
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| * Write policy affecting the Personnel Manager
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| * Write policy regarding "job listings"
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| * Craft Judicial Board policy
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| * Get feedback & confirmation of this policy from Editorial Council & Constabulary
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| * Finish drafting policy regarding entrance and exit from Constabulary (an element of sortition here?)
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| * Hammer out policy about how new Constabulary policy is created
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| * Start a general debate about sortition
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| * Pass a resolution about how to get new people on (and off) the Council; also, address the issue of term limits and total number of members; and about how to get authors on the Council
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| * Write Executive Committee rules into Policy Outline
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| * Write various Editor-in-Chief powers and constraints into rules
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| ** Veto power
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| ** Minor policymaking power (must be exercised before Council & Const.)
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| ** Ask Editorial Council and Constabulary to vet the rules about Editor-in-Chief powers and constraints
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| == Recruitment Step 1 ==
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| * Request resignations from inactive members of Executive Committee, Constabulary, and Editorial Council
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| ** Follow up to nonreplies after a week (set reminder)
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| ** Actually remove people from various wiki lists and mailing lists
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| * Do big management recruitment push
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| ** Create "job listings" page
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| ** E-mail lists when ready
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| * "Jobs" to list include (be sure to specify which positions are pending approval):
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| ** Chair of the Editorial Council
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| ** Constables (6-10 new recruits)
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| ** Executive Committee (6-10 new recruits)
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| ** Executive Committee Secretary
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| ** Editorial Personnel Administrators (8-12 new recruits)
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| ** Chair of the Editorial Personnel Committee
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| ** Judicial Board members (3)
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| ** Personnel Manager
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| ** Project Coordinators: annotated Web links; annotated (non-Web) bibliography; categories (subtopics, supertopics, related topics); catalogs (almanac-type information in tabular form; see e.g. [[catalog of religions]]); gallery/multimedia; expert (curated) articles with bylines; debate guide; news summary; tutorials
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| * Update [[CZ:Personnel]] with data about beginning and end of terms
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| * Follow up on old volunteer offers
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| == Recruitment Step 2 ==
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| * If possible, find a Personnel Manager first; work with this person to complete Step 2
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| * Begin matching jobs to persons when applications begin dropping off
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| * If necessary, use Craigslist and/or other sites for recruitment
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| * Find new E.C. Chair
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| ** Solicit from within Council
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| ** If there are no replies (set reminder), solicit from outside Council
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| * When finished, make self rank-and-file member of Council & remove self from Constabulary
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| == Judicial Board, Constabulary, and Editorial Council ==
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| * Resign (self) from Constabulary (after Constabulary changes are made)
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| * Work with current constables and Chief Constable to get new constables on board
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| * Discuss with the Council: open up Chair actions to all Council members?
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| * Nominate new Editorial Council members
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| * Create new workgroups, finally
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| * Add rules about the Editorial Personnel Committee and its Chair
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| == Executive Committee & Editor-in-Chief ==
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| * Select new members (from within set of general volunteers, and possibly others)
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| * Establish meetings (conference call)
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| ** Settle upon technology
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| ** Settle upon time
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| ** Ask whether anyone will serve as Secretary
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| ** Set up new Executive Committee wiki page, containing reports/minutes
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| ** Decide whether to post these meeting reports to Citizendium-L
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| == Subpages and subprojects ==
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| * The Big Subpage Move
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| * Rewrite help pages so that it is perfectly clear how starting a new article is changed
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| == Policy/Help Page Work ==
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| * Completely rework (or help others rework):
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| ** [[CZ:Policy Outline]]
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| ** [[Main Page]]
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| ** [[CZ:Project Home]]
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| ** A new "how to get started" page for editors
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| ** [[CZ:How to get started as an author]]
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| ** Do general overhaul/rethink of policy and help pages. The goal here is to simplify, clarify, and make more inviting.
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| * Place templates & categories on all policy and help pages
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| * Write up some guidelines for editing policy documents: which details go in the document and which go on more specialized policy pages, who needs to be informed of changes, and that we should be linking to all (yes, all) policy pages from the Policy Outline
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| * Assign authority to edit these pages to certain specific individuals; track these assignments on [[CZ:Policy Outline]]
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| == Other Tasks ==
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| * Get Andy Philpotts started on the recruitment software
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| * Accomplish separation of powers
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| ** Compile list of people who serve on more than one group
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| ** Send mail to all of them asking them to choose which group they want to remain on
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| ** Follow up to nonreplies after a week (set reminder)
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| ** Make decisions for any laggards (set reminder)
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| ** Actually remove people from various wiki lists and mailing lists
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| * the Big Invite
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| * Create coder wiki page, to include: desired projects; "bounties" (solicit donations for particular software projects--domystuff.com?)
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| * See [[User talk:Larry Sanger/Approved in pagehist]]; discuss [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,831.msg6349.html#msg6349 here.]
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| * Expand the Article Checklist
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| * Son of the Big Delete (eeee!)
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| * Create Board of Advisors
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| ** Ask for nominations from Citizendium-L, Citizendium-Editors, Executive Committee, as well as the blog
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| ** Create criteria
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| ** Do further research into possible invitees
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| ** Make a master list of possible invitees
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| ** Approach each personally
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| * Follow up on eBay thing
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| * "Submit articles" button/address & process?
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| * Reannounce discipline mailing lists
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| * Create "one-off" job board
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| * Start a central "proposals" page?
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| * Purdue thing
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| [[Category:CZ Editors|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Editorial Personnel Administrators|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Editorial Council Members|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Constables|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Authors|Sanger, Larry]] | | [[Category:CZ Authors|Sanger, Larry]] |
| [[Category:Philosophy Authors|Sanger, Larry]] | | [[Category:Philosophy Authors|Sanger, Larry]] |
| | [[Category:Computers Authors|Sanger, Larry]] |
