CZ:Charter/Definitions/Compendium

This page and its parent page are dedicated to drafting a charter for Citizendium and should only be edited by those eight Citizens elected to the drafting Committee. Other Citizens, please comment on the dedicated thread at the Citizen Forum. Non-Citizens can comment in a separate thread at the non-Member Forum. The drafting period shall end when November 12, 2009 is over all around the globe.

A compendium is a collection of knowledge. Some of this knowledge is encyclopedic in nature but it is not exclusively encyclopedic. The Citizens' Compendium is an open source platform for making structured knowledge freely and reusably available in public. This shall include original research, synthesis, memoirs, archives, original works of literature and art, as well as encyclopedic knowledge.

Yes, we should clarify the scope. Does an encyclopedia necessarily restrict the above? (comment by Matt)

We can certainly make CZ:Charter drafting/Definitions/Encyclopedia contain these notions. --Daniel Mietchen 22:02, 16 October 2009 (UTC)