14 Facts About Citizendium

Citizendium is an English-language wiki-based free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia.

Not all Citizendium contributors were supportive of this change, but Sanger emphasized that this deletion was "an experiment" and a new set of Wikipedia articles could be uploaded if the experiment were deemed unsuccessful.

However, after initiating the idea of not forking, and then soliciting comments on the matter from Citizendium mailing list and web forum members, Sanger said that a complete fork at launch was not a "foregone conclusion".

Citizendium stated that the experiment "represents a reconception of our project's basic aim".

Citizendium aimed to foster an expert culture and a community that encourages participants to "respect" the expert contributions .

Related searches

Citizendium instituted a minimum "maturity" requirement—25 years of age—for constables.

Citizendium articles are subject to an "approval" process after they have achieved reasonable quality.

Citizendium envisioned a "restricted-access" wiki where the idea could be tried and requested further discussion.

On 25 March 2007, Citizendium ended its pilot phase and went live, into its beta phase, and the site became publicly readable.

Day prior to launch, Sanger released an essay, "Why the Citizendium Will Succeed" in which he stated that activity at Citizendium grew from 100 edits a day in the first month to over 500 prior to launch.

The Citizendium has a "professionalism" policy for editors, which Sanger said is different from most online communities.

Citizendium was honored on 5 December 2007, as an award finalist of the Society for New Communications Research.

In 2014, the number of Citizendium contributors was under 100 and the number of edits per day was about "a dozen or so" according to Winthrop University's Dean of Library Services.

On 2 January 2020, a discussion on Citizendium began to determine whether the site should be shut down.