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Support us

Donate
How and why to support the cause.
Friends of Citizendium
A list of websites that link to us.

Press & PR

Press
An outward-facing landing page for the press; includes our press releases.
PR
An inward-facing page in which we prepare various PR materials.

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:
  1. Community Overview
  2. Statement of Fundamental Policies
  3. Workgroups
  4. Personnel
  5. Contact
  6. Donate

 

Basic organization information
About
An introduction to the Citizendium; our goals.
FAQ
A lengthier, question-and-answer style introduction.
Fundamentals
The Citizendium Statement of Fundamental Policies. The current "constitution" of the Citizendium community.
Community Overview
How we work together: the roles of authors, editors, workgroups, various governance bodies, etc.
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.,


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.

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


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.


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.