All, I'm sorry I haven't been very active on the list or forums. This is a vast project and I have been busy getting people together, which has left me with less time for discussion.
=================== New groups launched This evening, we launched two different important groups: The Executive Committee. Seventeen members at present, eight editors, four constables, the three technical guys, and two more. I'm asking these people to take my *very* long "to do" list and help me spearhead efforts to get to work on it. I hope you'll see them out and about and making noise in the coming weeks. This committee *will not* be making policy; it's the executive, not the policymaking body. The Citizendium-Editors list. It will be the main editors' forum. They will answer such questions as these: * What top-level workgroups should be set up? * What should the editor registration process be? * What should the article approval process be? * What should the dispute resolution process be? If you're an editor and you're not on it (I didn't add you or send you an invitation), then let me know. Note that only editor-specific issues will be discussed on CZ-Editors. Other issues will be handled by Citizendium-L and the forums, as before. Both of these groups are by invitation only. The Executive Committee, since it deals with sensitive issues of many sorts, will be closed-archive. The editor group will be open archive: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-editors/ ===== Stats 110 editors have activated usernames on the pilot project wiki, and 151 editors have been invited. Most of these people possess doctorates, although not all of them do; if they had the terminal degree in their field (such as JD or MLIS) plus a certain amount of experience and publications, then they were invited. In addition, approximately 90 authors have been invited; around 70 constable applicants were asked to be authors (we have filled our quota of constables, namely five for now); and about 60 highly-qualified people, who might become "specialist editors" if we opt to include such a category, were asked to be authors. We are waiting for more information, or for endorsement of the Statement of Fundamental Policies, from approximately 90 people. In all, there are 263 usernames on the wiki with read/write access. If you are thinking there are still quite a few invitees who haven't created usernames, or who haven't had their usernames activated, you'd be right! (Actually getting all these people into the system is what I've spent much of the last 3-4 days doing--that's why I haven't been seen much anywhere else.) There are 183 articles tagged "CZ Live," i.e., someone is or intends to be working on them. I'd estimate we had about 300 edits yesterday. Nothing compared to Wikipedia, but then, as I can tell you since I was there, it's a heck of a lot more than Wikipedia had after its first ten days. --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
