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

• 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

Recommendations made by the Council, in chronological order

• EC-Rec-2010-001 at [10] On the naming of the Nuremberg Trials, added November 26, 2010

Regulations decided upon by the Council, in chronological order

• EC-R-2010-001 at [11] Modes of governance by the Editorial Council, added November 26, 2010
• EC-R-2010-002 at [12] Concerning communications with the Council, added November 23, 2010.

Motions not passed by the Council, in chronological order

• EC-2010-003 at [13] Aborted attempt to set out voting procedure, added November 26, 2010.
• EC-2010-013 at [14] Aborted attempt to strip a member of his Editorships, added November 26, 2010.
• PR-2010-002 at [15] Unseconded proposal concerning "knowledge management", added November 25, 2010.
• PR-2010-005 at [16] Unseconded proposal concerning supposed priorities, added November 28, 2010
• PR-2010-004 at [17] Proposal concerning the CZ maintainability policy, discussion time expired, added December 1, 2010
• PR-2010-003 at [18] Proposal concerning the importation of articles from Wikipedia, discussion time expired, added December 2, 2010
• PR-2010-006 at [19] Proposal concerning the romanization of Chinese text, discussion time expired, added December 2, 2010
• PR-2010-009 at [20] Proposal concerning the Secretary deleting comments, not seconded, added December 5, 2010
• PR-2010-010 at [21] Proposal concerning an import Wiki, not seconded, added December 7, 2010
• DR-2010-002 at [22] Proposal concerning the Ombudsman's authority, rejected by 6-0, with 1 abstention, added December 11, 2010
• DR-2010-003 at [23] Proposal concerning the Editor/Author relationship, failed to achieve enough votes, 1-2, with 4 members not voting, added December 11, 2010