Citizendium After One Year

Larry Sanger writes "Citizendium, 'the Citizens' Compendium' — a free, non-profit, ad-free, wiki encyclopedia with real names and a role for experts — has just announced that it's celebrating the one-year anniversary of its wiki, an occasion for which I wrote a project report. Make up your own mind about whether 'we've made a very strong start and an amazing future likely lies ahead of us.' We have been the subject of a lot of misunderstanding, but we've still proven a lot, such as that a public-expert hybrid wiki is consistent with accelerating growth and leads to high quality, or that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism. Signs are good that we are starting into a serious growth spurt. Might the Web 2.0 umbrella be expanded to include real name requirements and roles for experts? It's looking that way."

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[Kingrames]

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

My name is Anonymous Coward, I'm just posting anonymously.

Misleading statement there

[GDubs]

we've still proven ... that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism.

It certainly helps when there's no articles to vandalize and no members to do the vandalizing.

Re:"...year anniversary"

[mrami]

People started doing this after certain other people started using phrases like "two month anniversary". I tried to push the word "mensiversary", but everyone thought I was talking about menstrual poetry.

Re:Keeping things Web 1.0

[Grandiloquence]

Just tell us who you are and where we can find you and we'll be right over with a crowbar!

Re:Keeping things Web 1.0

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey john! where have you been? :)

Re:Keeping things Web 1.0

[Anonymous Coward]

...Just to add insult to injury, I shared a cube with a great then-young engineer, but the a-hole next door had just expanded his cube at our expense, and I had to crawl over my desk just to get into my chair. My chair had only 3 wheels, with the fourth missing, and the stuffing in the seat was long-gone, so my first task was rebuilding the damned thing. I was told I couldn't just go buy a chair, as it was against company policy...

...so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...