[fc-uk-discuss] The Citizendium Project

[David M . Berry]

<x-tad-bigger>Larry Sanger</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, plans to fork </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>. In Berlin he announced the start of </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> — the citizen's compendium. Main differences: no anonymous editing, and experts will rule the project. </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Members of Wikipedia were not amused</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>.



</x-tad-bigger>The Citizendium Project

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.  It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia.  But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects.  We will avoid calling it an "encyclopedia," because there will probably always be articles in the resource that have not been vouched for in any sense.

We believe a fork is necessary, and justified, both to allow regular people a place to work under the direction of experts, and in which personal accountability--including the use of real names--is expected.  In short, we want to create a responsible community and a good global citizen.

http://citizendium.org/

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