CZ:Citizen/V1-N1

Template:Citizen 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. You can access the news at any time from CZ:Citizen or CZ:CZ! |- |width="50%" align=top|CZ:Topics in the News

• Benazir Bhutto assassinated
• 2008 United States presidential election regularly updated as the Iowa Caucus approaches

|width="50%" align=top|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.

|- |width="50%"|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 graduate 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 Article of the Week: both samplings of not only articles that have great beginnings but that 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

|width="50%"|Technical Initiatives

• Exhaustive documentation initiative for both templates and extensions, to create an easy reference guide for the user base. Stop by and see some extensions you might not know we already have
• 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! Everyone please comment if you have not already.
• A new method for requesting and authorizing accounts, developed by Aaron Schulz in order to expedite account creation
• Extensive development of the CZ:Upload Wizard to make media uploading friendly for both new and seasoned contributors, developed by Stephen Ewen. Help is needed to make it still better

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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 achieve.
• Slashdot /.
• The Society for New Communications Research
• ArsTechnica
• NewAssignment.Net and Assignment Zero for getting me here!

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