[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

[· Firefoxman]

Nevermind, I read their site.

On 1/16/07, · Firefoxman <enwpmail at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What is Citizendium?
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>  On 1/16/07, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Last week a Citizendium participant sent out this message on h-afro-am:
> >
> >
> > http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-afro-am&month=0701&week=b&msg=JIarw4S/UalprGLZ2cp5NA&user=&pw=
> >
> > The whole thing is worth reading, but the gist of it is this paragraph:
> >
> > "I am withdrawing from Citizendium because of the racist and sexist
> > policy put in place by Larry Sanger, who claims that the disciplines
> > of Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies do not belong in the list of top
> > level categories in Citizendium, or as individual categories at all.
> > Sanger has unilaterally decided that all race and gender topics
> > should be split up under traditional disciplinary headings, so that
> > there will be, for example, a sub-group of "African American
> > Literature," and "African American History," but no category -- at
> > any level -- in African American studies, and he embraces the same
> > tactic of fragmenting other Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies.  The
> > fact that his broad strokes of exclusion primarily effect women and
> > minority scholars does not seem to matter to him."
> >
> > I'm interested to know the reactions of the Wikipedians on this list
> > who've been participating in Citizendium.  This persistence of this
> > kind of thing, especially entrenched at the policy level, would
> > probably spell the doom of Citizendium's long-term prospects (which
> > would be unfortunate in my view).
> >
> > -Sage
> >
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