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==Welcome to the ''Citizendium'' Pilot Project!==
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=== '''Help Write Articles about our World''' ===


This is the home page for the ''Citizendium'' pilot project.  Our aim here is to set up a functioning ''Citizendium'' wiki encyclopedia project, demonstrate that it can work, and get it ready for a public launch.
Welcome to '''Citizendium''', a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their '''real names'''.  We regard information as a public good and welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge on virtually any subject.  Our online community prides itself on being congenial and supportive.  
{{Getting Started}}


What is the most important thing that we could be doing here?  Simple: work on articles.  The more articles we greatly improve over the Wikipedia versions, the more viable our enterprise is going to look to the rest of the world. So please get started!
See '''<big>[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]</big>'''&mdash;an overview of articles being worked on ''now''.


'''[[How to get started with the Citizendium pilot]]!'''
Read [[CZ:Ready for reading|some of our finest articles]].


===='''Become a member--it's free!'''====
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[[:Category:CZ Live|Our "Live Articles"]] - [[CZ:Policy Outline|Policy Outline (under development)]] - [http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Citizendium Citizendium planning pages (on the Textop wiki)]




==Citizendium Wiki Technical Development==


===Important Notes===


Access (including reading) is currently limited to registered users only.


The wiki software is undergoing development.


Please backup major changes elsewhere if possible and excuse us if the wiki breaks for short periods. This will be avoided if at all possible.


===Latest News===


Users can create pages again.<br/>
--[[User:Peter Hitchmough|Peter Hitchmough]] 16:54, 25 October 2006 (CDT)


===Forge===


A forge for Software Development of Citizendium is open. See http://forge.citizendium.org/gf/project/caesarwiki/


Please use the bug tracker for bugs with pilot: http://forge.citizendium.org/gf/project/caesarwiki/tracker/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 08:12, 9 December 2024

New Blog Post
Why is Citizendium deleting articles?


Help Write Articles about our World

Welcome to Citizendium, a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real names. We regard information as a public good and welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge on virtually any subject. Our online community prides itself on being congenial and supportive.

Citizendium Getting Started
Quick Start | About us | Help system | Start a new article | For Wikipedians  


See Recent Changes—an overview of articles being worked on now.

Read some of our finest articles.

Become a member--it's free!

Join this wiki and start an article
 
Browse the Workgroups:

Agriculture Earth Sciences Journalism Physics
Anthropology Economics Law Politics
Archaeology Education Library & Info. Sci. Psychology
Architecture Engineering Linguistics Religion
Astronomy Food Science Literature Robotics
Biology Games Mathematics Sociology
Business Geography Media Sports
Chemistry Health Sciences Military Theater
Classics History Music Topic Informant
Computers Hobbies Philosophy Visual Arts


Please help today!
Please make your donations here.
Donations go to keep our servers running. See our financial report.





















Article counts

Citable (146)
Developed (1,127)
Developing (7,353)
Stubs (7,656)
(16,411 total)

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing


Featured Article: Paramhansa Yogananda

Paramhansa Yogananda circa 1920.

Paramhansa Yogananda (5 Jan 1893–7 Mar 1952) was one of the first Indian teachers from the Hindu spiritual tradition to reside permanently in the West, and in particular, he was the first to teach yoga to Americans. He emphasized the universality of the great religions, and ceaselessly taught that all religions, especially Hinduism and Christianity, were essentially the same in their essence. The primary message of Yogananda was to practice the scientific technique of kriya yoga to be released from all human suffering.

He emigrated from India to the United States in 1920 and eventually founded the Self-Realization Fellowship there in Los Angeles, California. He published his own life story in a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946. In the book, Yogananda provided some details of his personal life, an introduction to yoga, meditation, and philosophy, and accounts of his world travels and encounters with a wide variety of saints and colorful personalities, including Therese Neumann, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Luther Burbank, and Jagadis C. Bose.

Paramhamsa, also spelled Paramahamsa, is a Sanskrit title used for Hindu spiritual teachers who have become enlightened. The title of Paramhansa originates from the legend of the swan. The swan (hansa) is said to have a mythical ability to sip only the milk from a water-and-milk mixture, separating out the more watery part. The spiritual master is likewise said to be able to live in a world like a supreme (param) swan, and only see the divine, instead of all the evil mixed in there too, which the worldly person sees.

Yogananda is considered by his followers and many religious scholars to be a modern avatar.

In 1946, Yogananda published his Autobiography of a Yogi. It has since been translated into 45 languages, and in 1999 was designated one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a panel of spiritual authors convened by Philip Zaleski and HarperCollins publishers.

Awake: The Life of Yogananda is a 2014 documentary about Paramhansa Yogananda, in English with subtitles in seventeen languages. The documentary includes commentary by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, among others.[1][2]

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia has an article about the 2014 documentary film.
  2. The IMBd filmography database has a full cast list and other details about the 2014 documentary film.