We’ll see in a year or two if it takes up or not.

This is what Wikipedia looked like after a year.

You are a genius! Thank you for writing it and thank you for sharing it. Your poem not only is brilliantly humorous but deeply insightful.

Now the question is: who’s next?

Cheers

In short, Citizendium isn’t THE place to seek for information today, but it very probably will be.

Thank you for your comment.

I did mention the approving system and I’ve also read those pages. Look, I’m a real fan of Citizendum as I also need a universal medical database which is reliable. I joined your community to find ways how to help your work.

But you have a great advantage, you’re able to see how many mistakes Wikipedia has done so far and you can learn from those. So if we, users, can expect anything from Citizendum is that to have a perfect start with clear guidelines and manuals for every workgroups.

Mike, keep up this great job and I’ll try to lend a hand where needed. Thanks for dropping by,

Bertalan Meskó

I’m a member of the Citizendium Executive Committee. Thanks for the coverage. However, I do take issue with some of your points.

First, I’d like to clarify that editors need not approve your contributions for readers to see them. If an author edits a standard article, people will see that change instantly with no expert approval needed. One does need expert editors involved in the formal approval of an article, a difference from Wikipedia.

Also, we do have a general manual of style but we do not yet have a specialized manual of style for medical articles. That’ll likely come from the relevant workgroup, which is in the process of being organized.

In general, I think it’s worthwhile to step back and consider fair comparisons: we just entered ‘public beta’ a few weeks ago, whereas Wikipedia has a five-and-a-half year head start. Very few of our processes are in their final form. That said, we’ve made tremendous progress- much /more/ than Wikipedia had at the same point (bless their hearts)- and every single day we make more progress on many fronts.

You might get something out of perusing our introduction to Citizendium for Wikipedians:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Introduction_to_CZ_for_Wikipedians

As well as our guide on how to get started as an author on Citizendium:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:How_to_get_started_as_an_author

They will likely answer a number of your questions and concerns.

Best wishes,
Mike Johnson

We’ll see in a year or two if it takes up or not.

This is what Wikipedia looked like after a year.
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org