Front page:
This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendi...). A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about Sept. 30, 2020, we plan to end Citizendium as a public "open" project, yet (possibly) keep the wiki running and editable by a combination of donations and subscriptions. How this might occur is still being examined.
Original announcement https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864...
basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running out.
- d.
here's the discussion: https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thou...
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Front page:
This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendi...). A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about Sept. 30, 2020, we plan to end Citizendium as a public "open" project, yet (possibly) keep the wiki running and editable by a combination of donations and subscriptions. How this might occur is still being examined.
Original announcement https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864...
basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running out.
- d.
Is there any merit in us helping them continue to exist?
Seddon
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:13 PM David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
here's the discussion:
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thou...
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Front page:
This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendi...). A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about Sept. 30, 2020, we plan to end Citizendium as a public "open" project, yet (possibly) keep the wiki running and editable by a combination of donations and subscriptions. How this might occur is still being examined.
Original announcement
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864...
basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running
out.
- d.
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Not that occurs to me. I mentioned it here mostly as a historical note - what happened to our most widely publicised fork.
Their current plans are:
* put good content into Wikipedia * archive a final version with the Internet Archive * maybe set up some sort of successor
- d.
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:20, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is there any merit in us helping them continue to exist?
Seddon
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:13 PM David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
here's the discussion:
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thou...
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Front page:
This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendi...). A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about Sept. 30, 2020, we plan to end Citizendium as a public "open" project, yet (possibly) keep the wiki running and editable by a combination of donations and subscriptions. How this might occur is still being examined.
Original announcement
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864...
basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running
out.
- d.
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If it was just a matter of money to keep the servers running, I would say yes, but if they have no editors there would not be a lot of point. We could offer an archive, and assimilation. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Seddon Sent: 04 July 2020 23:19 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Citizendium shutting down
Is there any merit in us helping them continue to exist?
Seddon
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:13 PM David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
here's the discussion:
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thou...
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Front page:
This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendi...). A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about Sept. 30, 2020, we plan to end Citizendium as a public "open" project, yet (possibly) keep the wiki running and editable by a combination of donations and subscriptions. How this might occur is still being examined.
Original announcement
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864...
basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running
out.
- d.
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On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running out.
Or, as en.Wikipedia puts it: "As of January 2019, it had 16,978 articles, of which 166 had achieved editorial approval, and around 2 contributors who made at least 1 edit in the previous month."
How's Everipedia getting on, BTW?
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