Citizendium After One Year

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."

Comments

"...year anniversary"

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't mean to be a grammar Nazi here, just pointing out something that's illogical and repetitive.

Am I the only one annoyed by the frequent use of the word "year" when mentioning anniversaries? I wouldn't be surprised if it were only on blogs and web sites without editorial control. I also see it often in traditional news media like newspapers, TV news, etc. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary an anniversary is "the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event". So there's no need to mention years, it's built-in, so to speak (from the Latin annus = year + versus = "to turn").

Here is the real trial:

[NeuroManson]

When I was born, it was back during the summer of love, so to speak. The guy who chose to side with my mom was a Catholic, and vis a vis he changed my name to his own. Except, because of Social Security's recent revisions, I cannot even live by the name I grew up with. Yet because of this, I cannot chose a job or what have you, because I'm essentially forced to live by the name I was born with.