Citizendium

Citizendium is an English-language wiki-based free encyclopedia project led by Larry Sanger, who co-founded the encyclopedia Wikipedia in 2001.


The project aims to improve on the Wikipedia model by providing a "reliable" encyclopedia. According to wikpedia, It hopes to achieve this by requiring all contributors to use their real names, by strictly moderating the project for unprofessional behavior, by providing what it calls "gentle expert oversight" of everyday contributors, and also through its "approved articles," which have undergone a form of peer-review by credentialed topic experts and are closed to real-time editing.


Citizendium was first announced in September 2006 as a complete "fork" of the English Wikipedia, but that idea was abandoned prior to its March 2007 public launch in favor of emphasizing its own original articles.


As of 5 November 2009, the project had 12,590 articles in various stages of development of which 120 (1%) had achieved editorial approval.