CZ:Editorial Council

In October, 2010, the first Editorial Council (EC) authorized by the Charter was elected.

Members

It has four Editor and three Author members, with Hayford Peirce chosen as Secretary. New elections will be held on December 21, 2011, to choose a number of members who are currently, under the Charter, serving half-terms as opposed to full terms. Elections to fill the terms of the other members will be on December 21, 2012.

• Howard C. Berkowitz
• Aleta Curry
• Johan A. Förberg
• Hayford Peirce
• Peter Schmitt
• Anthony Sebastian
• Ro Thorpe

Pre-Charter Council

For information about proceedings from before the Charter was ratified in September, 2010, see here and the category page.

Suggestion Box

The Editorial Council can be reached at ec@citizendium.org. The name of the sender will be kept confidential.

Decisions made by the Council, in chronological order

2010

• EC-D-2010-001 at [1] Internal communications of the EC, added November 26, 2010
• EC-D-2010-003 at [2] Election of Ro Thorpe as Secretary, added November 26, 2010
• EC-D-2010-002 at [3] Election of Peter Schmitt as wiki sysop, added November 26, 2010
• EC-D-2010-004 at [4] Election of Hayford Peirce as Secretary, added November 26, 2010
• EC-D-2010-005 at [5] Management of Proposals, files and filenames on the EC wiki, added November 26, 2010
• PR-2010-007 at [6] Election of Johan A. Förberg as back-up sysop, added December 2, 2010
• PR-2010-008 at [7] Redefining CZ maintainability policy as Inclusion, added December 6, 2010
• PR-2010-011 at [8] Review of qualifications of Editors, added December 11, 2010
• PR-2010-012 at [9] Titles of Language articles, added December 11, 2010
• PR-2010-013 at [10] Importation of articles from other sources, added December 12, 2010
• PR-2010-014 at [11] Romanization of Chinese text, added December 12, 2010
• EC-D-2010-006 at [12] Approval of the Homeopathy article, added December 13, 2010
• PR-2010-016 at [13] Approval of accelerated decision making, added December 13, 2010
• EC-D-2010-007 at [14] Approval of the WikiLeaks motion, added December 13, 2010
• PR-2010-017 at [15] Approval of the move of Healing Arts workgroup, added December 14, 2010
• PR-2010-018 at [16] Approval of the format of Definitions, added December 15, 2010
• DR-2010-006 at [17] Approval of the Homeopathy draft blanking, added December 16, 2010

2011

• PR-2010-021 at [18] Approval of redefining the categories of articles, added January 13, 2011
• PR-2010-024 at [19] Approval of requiring the public credentials of Editors, added January 15, 2011
• DR-2010-007 at [20] Approval of reverting the Adolf Hitler article, added January 15, 2011
• PR-2010-023 at [21] Approval of a new way of handling EC motions, added January 17, 2011
• PR-2011-002 at [22] Approval of removing inactive Editorial Council delegates, added January 21, 2011
• EC:PR-2011-003 at [23] Decision not to consider Fair Use images, added January 25, 2011
• EC:DR-2011-001 at [24] Decision to review the credentials of an Editor, added January 25, 2011

Recommendations made by the Council, in chronological order

2010

• EC-Rec-2010-001 at [25] On the naming of the Nuremberg Trials, added November 26, 2010

2011

• EC-REC-2011-001 at [26] Thanking the Technical Staff, added January 23, 2011

Regulations decided upon by the Council, in chronological order

2010

• EC-R-2010-001 at [27] Modes of governance by the Editorial Council, added November 26, 2010
• EC-R-2010-002 at [28] Concerning communications with the Council, added November 23, 2010.

Motions not passed by the Council, in chronological order

2010

• EC-2010-003 at [29] Aborted attempt to set out voting procedure, added November 26, 2010.
• EC-2010-013 at [30] Aborted attempt to strip a member of his Editorships, added November 26, 2010.
• PR-2010-002 at [31] Unseconded proposal concerning "knowledge management", added November 25, 2010.
• PR-2010-005 at [32] Unseconded proposal concerning supposed priorities, added November 28, 2010
• PR-2010-004 at [33] Proposal concerning the CZ maintainability policy, discussion time expired, added December 1, 2010
• PR-2010-003 at [34] Proposal concerning the importation of articles from Wikipedia, discussion time expired, added December 2, 2010
• PR-2010-006 at [35] Proposal concerning the romanization of Chinese text, discussion time expired, added December 2, 2010
• PR-2010-009 at [36] Proposal concerning the Secretary deleting comments, not seconded, added December 5, 2010
• PR-2010-010 at [37] Proposal concerning an import Wiki, not seconded, added December 7, 2010
• DR-2010-002 at [38] Proposal concerning the Ombudsman's authority, rejected by 6-0, with 1 abstention, added December 11, 2010
• DR-2010-003 at [39] Proposal concerning the Editor/Author relationship, failed to achieve enough votes, 1-2, with 4 members not voting, added December 11, 2010
• PR-2010-020 at [40] Proposal to create a committee of Editors, failed to be seconded, added December 12, 2010
• PR-2010-019 at [41] Proposal to merge two Workgroups, rejected by 4-2, with 1 member not voting, added December 17, 2010

2011

• PR-2010-022 at [42] Proposal about the limitation of expertise, not seconded, added January 6, 2011
• PR-2011-001 at [43] Proposal about media news sources, not seconded, added January 16, 2011
• PR-2011-005 at [44] Proposal about questionable articles, rejected by 3-1, with 3 members not voting, added January 30, 2011