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Citizendium After One Year

Posted by kdawson on from the 3,200-articles dept.

Larry Sanger writes "Citizendium, 'the Citizens' Compendium' — a free, non-profit, ad-free, wiki encyclopedia with real names and a role for experts — has just announced that it's celebrating the one-year anniversary of its wiki, an occasion for which I wrote a project report. Make up your own mind about whether 'we've made a very strong start and an amazing future likely lies ahead of us.' We have been the subject of a lot of misunderstanding, but we've still proven a lot, such as that a public-expert hybrid wiki is consistent with accelerating growth and leads to high quality, or that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism. Signs are good that we are starting into a serious growth spurt. Might the Web 2.0 umbrella be expanded to include real name requirements and roles for experts? It's looking that way."

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  1. Oblig by Kingrames · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

    My name is Anonymous Coward, I'm just posting anonymously.

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    If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
  2. Misleading statement there by GDubs · · Score: 1, Funny

    we've still proven ... that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism. It certainly helps when there's no articles to vandalize and no members to do the vandalizing.
  3. Re:"...year anniversary" by mrami · · Score: 4, Funny

    People started doing this after certain other people started using phrases like "two month anniversary". I tried to push the word "mensiversary", but everyone thought I was talking about menstrual poetry.

  4. Re:Keeping things Web 1.0 by Grandiloquence · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just tell us who you are and where we can find you and we'll be right over with a crowbar!

  5. Re:Keeping things Web 1.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey john! where have you been? :)

  6. Re:Keeping things Web 1.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Just to add insult to injury, I shared a cube with a great then-young engineer, but the a-hole next door had just expanded his cube at our expense, and I had to crawl over my desk just to get into my chair. My chair had only 3 wheels, with the fourth missing, and the stuffing in the seat was long-gone, so my first task was rebuilding the damned thing. I was told I couldn't just go buy a chair, as it was against company policy...
    ...so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...