Two announcements.

(1) The Weekly Wiki is about to begin

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Weekly_Wiki

at least, Down Under.  Join in!  The times will be:

* Wednesday UTC 0900 (= 7 PM Sydney) 
* Wednesday UTC 1800 (= 7 PM London, 8 PM Paris) 
* Thursday UTC 0100 (= Wednesday 6 PM California, 9 PM New York)

Make it what you will, please!

(2) We now invite stubs--but stub responsibly

Here's the language (http://tinyurl.com/ypxvfe) as recently changed:

You are welcome to contribute short entries, called "stubs," or articles
that are approximately 150-250 words in length.  (Note: articles under
50 words may be deleted.)  Stubs should be self-contained, include an
excellent [[CZ:Article_Mechanics#Definitions|definition or description]]
of the topic, and in other respects serve as a good albeit very general
overview of the topic.  In other words, it should be serviceable as an
entry in a traditional desktop reference such as the
''[http://www.bartleby.com/65/ Columbia Encyclopedia.]''

Some people believe that stubs actually encourage others to help "build
the web."  Certainly there are many people who are capable of writing
excellent shorter articles even when they are incapable of expanding
them in a credible way.  We don't wish to discourage the creation of
good content, and we bear in mind that we are still a very new project,
and we must begin somewhere.  So if you feel tempted to "turn a red link
blue" with a stub, feel free--just please do a good job, even if your
entry is indeed brief.

--Larry

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