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Welcome to '''Citizendium''', a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real, verified names. We welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge by writing and improving articles on virtually any subject. | Welcome to '''Citizendium''', a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real, verified names. We welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge by writing and improving articles on virtually any subject. | ||
While this wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see | While this wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendium), a dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about '''Sept. 30, 2020''', we plant to end Citizendium as a public project, yet keep the wiki running by a combination of donations and subscriptions. | ||
See [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]—an overview of articles we are writing ''now''. | See [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]—an overview of articles we are writing ''now''. |
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- We have 16,469 articles at different stages of development, of which 146 have expert-approved citable versions.
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- We prefer new material but allow work from other sites to be imported and improved under certain conditions.
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