Archive:Project Home

Welcome to the CZ:Project Home page for our community of contributors! Whether you're an author or editor, you should find links to everything important to your job below. Or you can add key links, it's your wiki. You'll find links about how to write or edit, how we relate to Wikipedia, and Citizendium's unique approach to workgroups. This Project Home also can guide you to CZ's initiatives and our various policies, including key policies for authors.

Besides serving as a central directory, Project Home aims to promote collaboration among all of us, newcomers and veterans, constables and other personnel, authors and editors, both within and across workgroups. So, please be sure to check here for collaboration opportunities.

	Collaboration Opportunities Request an article be written, or fulfill an article request. Seek feedback for a developing article, and help provide that feedback for others. Nominate or vote for the Article of the Week. Nominate or vote for the New Draft of the Week. Participate in the Weekly Wiki on Wednesdays to discuss Citizendium articles, issues, and policy. Participate in the Monthly Write-a-Thon on the first Wednesday of every month.
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Help and introductory material

How to

• How to get started as an author (essential reading)
• How to start a new article
• How to edit an article
• Article Mechanics: how to write an article
• How you can help: don't know what to do? Here are some ideas.
• Help (a help menu on "How to")

The Citizendium and Wikipedia

• How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
• Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians
• We aren't Wikipedia

Tools

• Template:Checklist
• Template:Subpages

See also

• Notice Board
• Policy (below)

Project Organization

Workgroups and approval

• Workgroups
• Approval Announcements

Governing bodies

• Constabulary Home
• Editorial Council Home
• Topic Informant Workgroup

Personnel

• Personnel

Recruitment and Admission

• Recruitment Letter
• Mailing List Outreach
• Blog Outreach
• Professional Organization Outreach

Initiatives

• Announced: Weekly Wiki: a weekly on-wiki get-together for regular Citizens
• Started: New Article of the Week: a newly-created high-quality article chosen weekly by vote among Citizens
• Started: Article of the Week: a high-quality article chosen weekly by vote among Citizens
• Started: Monthly Write-a-Thon: a wiki-whoopie, a cyber-social, a collaborative kegger!
• Adopted and under development: Eduzendium: an initiative to attract university professors and graduate students to participate in Citizendium
• Under discussion and development: Subpage Pilot: an expansion of CZ's scope, would have us add many types of reference information other than encyclopedia articles, all clustered together as "subpages" of the main encyclopedia article page
• Under discussion: Topic Partners: a framework in which to partner with expert organizations, and solicit support
• Concluded: The Big Cleanup: cleaned up, tagged, formatted, etc., our articles
• Concluded: The Big Speedydelete: deleted cruft from our article database

Discussion

• How to use talk pages
• Citizendium forums for discussion
• Community blog for news
• Mailing lists for discussion
• Summaries of policy arguments

Requests to the community

• Requested Articles: request an article, or write an requested article
• Feedback Requests: ask for feedback on an article, or offer feedback
• The Big Write: a community initiative in which editors offer to "bless" credible starts on new articles
• Editorial Council suggestion box
• Larry Sanger's suggestion box

Archive

• Archived Pages
• Cold Storage -- for deleted articles that, for whatever reason, we want to continue to make available

Policy

The following should be a comprehensive set of links to Citizendium policy documents. The "home page" of Citizendium policy, and a lengthy summary of policy, can be found at CZ:Policy Outline.

• Policy Outline: the "master document"; links into this document are below

About the Policy Outline

• Maintainers of the policy outline
• Statement of Fundamental Policies takes precedence
• This Policy Outline is the Citizendium's policy "home page"
• Mailing list and forum input
• Executive Committee not a forum for policy discussion

The Citizendium's Foundational Policies

• The role of the Statement of Fundamental Policies
  • Toward a new compendium of knowledge
  • Statement of Fundamental Policies
  • Draft Charter
• The purposes of articulating non-negotiable policies

Authors and Authoring Citizendium Articles

• Author Sign-Up
  • Call for applications
  • New Account Review Procedure
• Author User Pages
• Authoring Articles
  • How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
  • Naming Conventions
  • Maintainability
  • Article Standards
    • What Citizendium articles are not
      • Policy on Self-Promotion
    • Neutrality Policy
    • Article Mechanics
    • Original Research Policy
    • Family-Friendly Policy
    • Uploading Images and copyrights
    • Legal policies:
      • Copyright Violation Policy
      • Libel Policy
      • Biographies of Living Persons
    • Article Approval Standards
  • The Article Checklist
    • The Article Checklist (details)
    • Checklisted Articles
  • Article Deletion Policy
    • Article Deletion Policy (details)
• Standards of Professionalism
  • Professionalism (details)
• Author Conflict Resolution
• The Appeals Process: Notes for Authors

Policy regarding Individual Editors

• Decisionmaking and Dispute Resolution regarding Articles
• Article Approval
  • Approval Process
• Low-Level Administrative Management of Authors
  • Policy on Content-Based Bans
• Editorial Dispute Resolution: Notes for Individual Editors
• Editor Registration
  • Policy on Editorship Review
• Categories of Editorship
• Topic Informants
  • Policy on Topic Informants
• Other Notes for Editors

Editorial Workgroups and Management

• Editorial Council
  • Editorial Council home page
• Editorial Workgroups in General
  • Policy on Shared Articles
  • Policy on Starting Subdiscipline Workgroups
• Editorial Workgroup Formation and Function
  • Policy on Project Workgroups
• Chief Subject Editors
• Editor Review
• Dispute Resolution
  • Policy on resolving editorial disputes

Constabulary Policy

• The Role and Selection of Constables
• Policies and Procedures for Constables
• Checks on Constables
• Some Rules of Behavior Enforced by Constables
• Need to add section about CZ:personnel administration.

Citizendium Beta Reference documents

Documents relating to alternative policy options under revision or consideration

• GNU Free Documentation License