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Citizendium (short for the citizens' compendium) is an English-language wiki-based online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger in 2007. On this wiki, people have to use their given names and must request an account to prove they are real. Articles created by Citizendium editors are under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. As of October 2013, Citizendium has 16,500 articles and 149 approved articles.

Experts are given a special status on Citizendium: they are allowed to "approve" articles and are able to decide who is right when there are conflicts over the content in the encyclopedia.

The server which runs the website costs money to run. The only way the wiki will stay active is if members donate money, or if Citizendium can find a group or organization that can provide funds.

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  • L Sanger

    Larry Sanger, founder and former editor-in-chief of Citizendium

  • Citizendium Checklisted

    Breakdown of articles in December 2007

  • Citizendium number of articles graph

    Number of articles from launch of the pilot project until late 2014

  • Citizendium Creation rate main

    Creation rate (articles per day) until late 2014

  • Citizendium main page

    Citizendium homepage in 2010

  • Citizendium Editing users

    Number of users making at least one edit in a given month, until late 2014

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Citizendium para niños

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