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Welcome to the Citizendium Pilot Project!

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.

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!

If you're new, please read how to get started with the Citizendium pilot! It tells you to use [[Category:CZ Live]] on articles you've edited, and other essential tips.

Everyone, be sure to check the Notice Board regularly! (Check "Watch this page" to receive e-mail alerts!)

Need help?

If this is your first visit, here are some tips:

See how to get started with the Citizendium pilot
Please register an account with username that is in the form "Firstname Lastname." This should be your own real name, of course. According to the rules, we cannot authorize a single name account such as "Me_Supereditor".
After registering please, mail your username to [email protected] to let us quickly enable your account (it's temporary procedure).
Make sure your account has been activated. You should have received a mail back from [email protected] saying we've let you in. (Addendum: You will be able to confirm your email address only after this email. Please, don't try to follow e-mail confirmation link before receiving mentioned account activation e-mail. -jtp)
Check the Notice Board for the latest announcements, requests, etc.
If you think you should be able to view a page, do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to visit. We might still be figuring out the proper settings for caching.
For general help questions, you can always try the "Help" board at the CZ Forums. If you're to all this and have some general questions, why not go there and ask away?
If you're still having trouble, mail [email protected] immediately. Thanks.

Please be patient. We're fixing problems as they come up and that occasionally leads to more problems. :-)

Disciplines

Here are some good places to start your editing!

Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Science

Astronomy - Biology - Chemistry - Medicine (Human Biology) - Earth Sciences - Mathematics - Philosophy - Physics

Social Sciences

Anthropology - Archaeology - Economics - Geography - History - Linguistics - Politics - Psychology - Sociology

Applied Arts and Sciences

Agriculture - Architecture - Business - Communication - Computer Science - Education - Engineering - Family and Consumer Science - Government - Health Sciences - Law - Library and Information Science - Technology - Transport

Culture

Classics - Cooking - Critical Theory - Dance - Film - Games - Hobbies - Literature - Music - Opera - Painting - Performing Arts - Recreation - Religion - Sculpture - Sports - Theater - Design

Useful Links

Our "Live Articles" - Policy Outline (under development) - Citizendium planning pages (on the Textop wiki) - Notice Board

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

Update: We are back. We spent 16 hours restoring and repairing the database after the "anonymous" account was erronously deleted. Lesson? Don't mess with Anon-y-mous.
--Jason Potkanski, Tech Team, 30 October 2006

Users can create pages again.
--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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 If this is your first visit, here are some tips:
 * See [[Citizendium_Pilot:How_to_get_started_with_the_Citizendium_pilot|how to get started with the Citizendium pilot]]
-* Make sure your account has been activated.  You should have received a mail back from [email protected] saying we've let you in. (Addendum: You will be able to confirm your email address after this email. -jtp)
+* Please register an account with username that is in the form "Firstname Lastname."  This should be your own real name, of course.  According to the rules, we cannot authorize a single name account such as "Me_Supereditor".
+* After registering please, mail your username to [email protected] to let us quickly enable your account (it's temporary procedure).
+* Make sure your account has been activated.  You should have received a mail back from [email protected] saying we've let you in. (Addendum: You will be able to confirm your email address only after this email. Please, don't try to follow e-mail confirmation link before receiving mentioned account activation e-mail. -jtp)
 * Check the [[CZ:Notice Board|Notice Board]] for the latest announcements, requests, etc.
 * If you think you should be able to view a page, do a "hard refresh" (ctrl-F5 in Windows) of the page you're trying to visit.  We might still be figuring out the proper settings for caching.