CZ:Organization

Getting Started	Organization	Technical Help
Policies	Content Policy

Welcome Page

Basic organization information

Community Overview: How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, various governance bodies, etc.

Fundamentals: The Citizendium Statement of Fundamental Policies.

Press: A landing page for the press; includes our press releases.

We aren't Wikipedia: An explanation of how our project differs from Wikipedia.

Statistics: Our progress quantified, updated monthly.

Privacy policy: What we do and won't do with your private information.

CZ YouTube page: A page where we can put CZ-related videos (e.g.,

Thanks to our first year contributors and supporters: Editor-in-Chief thanks dozens of participants and partners in a mailing list posting.

Our people

Personnel: Lists of project participants and leadership.

Contact: How to get in touch with various Citizens.

International: A list of people interested in expanding to languages other than English.

Project governance

Executive Committee: This group advises the Editor-in-Chief and takes the lead in various projects.

See also Editorial Council and Constabulary: These have separate homepages.

Workgroups: A list of our workgroups.

New Workgroup Requests: Request new workgroups here.

Topic Partners: A proposal for how to partner with other organizations for work on specific subjects.

Support us

Donate: How and why to support the cause.

Friends of Citizendium: A list of websites that link to us.

Supplemental content

Archived Pages: Pages that are no longer in use. "Historical" interest only.

Cold Storage: Problematic articles removed from the main namespace are sometimes put here, simply out of respect for the author.

The Citizendium Organization

Find links to information about general aspects of our organization here, things like our fundamental principles, our workgroups, our personnel lists, and so forth. Want an introduction to our community? Start with Community Overview.

Notice that we have specialized homepages for Initiatives (how we organize ourselves for special projects), Communication (how we talk to each other), the Editorial Council (our editorial legislative body), and the Constabulary (our project "moderators"). You might also be interested in Getting Started and Content Policy (article guidelines and more). If you can't find what you're looking for here, try there.

Key organization pages:

General article policy and instructions
Approval Standards The basic qualities of a good encyclopedia article. Article Mechanics A guide to encyclopedia article style and mechanics. What Citizendium articles are not A few items that one should not confuse Citizendium encyclopedia articles with. Sage advice on writing CZ articles Just a few words of wisdom.

Fundamental principles
Neutrality Policy Where agreement is lacking, represent all sides sympathetically. Maintainability If we can maintain a whole set of articles like that, have at it. Family-Friendly Policy Respect the usual publishing standards for Junior.

Media policy
Images How to upload and give credit for images. Media Assets Workgroup A proposed workgroup would help manage our media resources. Fair Use Policy Guidance for fair use issues.

Topic Informants and Self-Promotion
Policy on Topic Informants What we do when someone with a vested interest in a topic wants to get involved. Topic Informant Workgroup Interviewers and writers volunteering to work with topic informants. Policy on Self-Promotion Thou shalt not promote thyself.

Subpages
Subpages We're not just an encyclopedia. See what else. Default subpages Related Articles and Definitions \| Bibliography \| External Links Subpages that should be included in (almost) all articles. Optional subpages Catalogs, timelines, galleries, tutorials--all different sorts of reference information.

Special issues

Stubs: Even "stubs," very short articles, can be high quality.
How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles: If you must upload that Wikipedia article, here's how.
Topic Choice: First step is to pick a topic; a few rules about that.
Naming Conventions: How to name articles.
Citation style: How to cite articles and books.
Disambiguation: "Disambiguation pages" let people choose which sense of a term they're interested in.

Legal

Disclaimer: Essentially, unapproved articles shouldn't be relied upon.
Copyrights: CZ is free, but see this page for details about our licensing scheme.
GNU Free Documentation License: One of our licenses (used for articles that began life on Wikipedia).
Reusing Media Hosted at Citizendium: How you may reuse media we host.
Permissions: Contributors, it's important to document use permissions you receive.