All, That...
https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-June/000994.html ...is a lot to read! So here are the highlights, divided into governance and content changes. Governance changes: we're going to start enforcing the separation of powers (e.g., constables can be on the Editorial Council); I'm going to spend less time on day-to-day controversies; I will have a "veto power" over Editorial Council and Constabulary decisions; the role of the Editor-in-Chief is otherwise clarified; the Executive Committee will be starting up a new regular voice meeting; if the Editorial Council agrees, we will allow all members to exercise nearly the same authority the Chair has; authors will join the Council; we're going to pursue a cool new initiative called the Big Invite; we are going to establish a Judicial Board independent of the Constabulary; the Constabulary will regularize its rule-making process; I'm going to start recruiting, outside the CZ fold, for the CZ Advisory Board, which will approve the Citizendium Charter and select the Board of Directors of the Citizendium Foundation; we're going to get a Personnel Manager on board (if possible); and we're going to actually have a "job listings" board for volunteer positions. Content changes. We're going to start a whole passel of new subprojects, devoted to: annotated Web links; annotated (non-Web) bibliographies; categories (subtopics, supertopics, related topics); catalogs (almanac-type information in tabular form; see e.g. [[catalog of religions]]); galleries; expert (curated) articles with bylines; debate guides; and news guides. These are going to live on subpages of main namespace articles, with links to each of the subproject pages at the top right of all CZ articles. In time, the software is going to have to be changed, and the subproject pages will be linked from a third column. For these subprojects, we're going to look for project coordinators. In addition, we're going to be doing some more "Big" initiatives. We're going to start asking editors to rate articles on various measures, using an expanded Article Checklist, and we're also going to delete all (or most) "External Articles." --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
