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Welcome to the Citizendium Pilot Project!

This is the home page for the Citizendium pilot project. Our aim here is to set up a functioning Citizendium wiki encyclopedia project, demonstrate that it can work, and get it ready for a public launch.

IF YOU HAVE NOT APPLIED YET TO JOIN THE PILOT PROJECT please follow this link for more information and application directions.

What is the most important thing that we could be doing here? Simple: work on articles. The more articles we greatly improve over the Wikipedia versions, the more viable our enterprise is going to look to the rest of the world, and the more people will join in and make it viable. The content-rich get content-richer! So please get started!

If you're new, please read how to get started with the Citizendium pilot! It tells you to use [[Category:CZ Live]] on articles you've edited, and other essential tips.

Everyone, be sure to check the Notice Board regularly! (Check "Watch this page" to receive e-mail alerts!)

Need help?

If this is your first visit, here are some tips:

See how to get started with the Citizendium pilot
You need to apply to join the pilot project. Please see this page. Once you've received an invitation, you should create your account, and then send an email with your account name to personnel@citizendium to activate it. We'll send you a note back that we've let you in. Note: you will not be able to confirm your email address until after this email.
Check the Notice Board for the latest announcements, requests, etc.
For general news, check the blog.
If you get a weird error message, refresh the page, or do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to visit. We might still be figuring out the proper settings for caching. Sorry about this bug, we'll squash it eventually.
For general help questions, you can always try the "Help" board at the CZ Forums. If you're to all this and have some general questions, why not go there and ask away?
If you're still having trouble, mail personnel@citizendium.org immediately. Thanks.

Please be patient. We're fixing problems as they come up and that occasionally leads to more problems. :-)

Disciplines

Here are some good places to start your editing!

Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Science

Astronomy - Biology - Chemistry - Medicine (Human Biology) - Earth Sciences - Mathematics - Philosophy - Physics

Social Sciences

Anthropology - Archaeology - Economics - Geography - History - Linguistics - Politics - Psychology - Sociology

Applied Arts and Sciences

Agriculture - Architecture - Business - Communication - Computer Science - Education - Engineering - Family and Consumer Science - Government - Health Sciences - Law - Library and Information Science - Technology - Transport

Culture

Classics - Cooking - Critical Theory - Dance - Film - Internet - Toys - Games - Hobbies - Literature - Music - Opera - Painting - Performing Arts - Recreation - Religion - Sculpture - Sports - Theater - Design

Discipline workgroups

Project Pages

Our "Live Articles"
Policy Outline (under development)
Notice Board
How to Edit Citizendium
High priority articles for the pilot project
Background information at Citizendium.org
Press Coverage of the Citizendium
Some of our
- authors
- editors
- constables (all of them)

Citizendium Wiki Technical Development

Important Notes

Access (including reading) is currently limited to registered users only.

The wiki software is undergoing development.

Please backup major changes elsewhere if possible and excuse us if the wiki breaks for short periods. This will be avoided if at all possible.

Latest News

We had some trouble with a database update, but it was solved.
Tech Team, 12 November 2006

Update: We are back. We spent 16 hours restoring and repairing the database after the "anonymous" account was erronously deleted. Lesson? Don't mess with Anon-y-mous.
--Jason Potkanski, Tech Team, 30 October 2006

Users can create pages again.
--Peter Hitchmough 16:54, 25 October 2006 (CDT)

Forge

A forge for Software Development of Citizendium is open. See http://forge.citizendium.org/gf/project/caesarwiki/

Please use the bug tracker for bugs with pilot: http://forge.citizendium.org/gf/project/caesarwiki/tracker/

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 * You need to apply to join the pilot project.  Please see [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html this page].  Once you've received an invitation, you should create your account, and then send an email with your account name to personnel@citizendium to activate it. We'll send you a note back that we've let you in. Note: you will not be able to confirm your email address until ''after'' this email.
 * Check the [[CZ:Notice Board|Notice Board]] for the latest announcements, requests, etc.
+* For general news, check [http://blog.citizendium.org/| the blog].
 * If you get a weird error message, refresh the page, or do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to visit.  We might still be figuring out the proper settings for caching.  Sorry about this bug, we'll squash it eventually.
 * For general help questions, you can always try [http://textop.org/smf/index.php?board=18.0 the "Help" board at the CZ Forums].  If you're to all this and have some general questions, why not go there and ask away?