All, First, let me thank everyone who put considerable work into Biology Week. I never did make the report about it I wanted to make. We did manage to get the word out a bit, and strengthen the Biology Workgroup somewhat. Since the week and the Write-a-Thon earlier this month, we've been more active than in previous months, I'm happy to say. I want to thank the regulars, and the newer people too of course. But the regulars like Roger Lohmann, Howard C. Berkowitz, Anthony Sebastian, Nick Gardner, Milton Beychok, Aleta Curry, Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Hayford Peirce, Chris Day, and many more--what a great bunch of people to have as regulars!--have kept this project on track. I owe all of you a big "thank you" e-mail similar to the one I did about a year ago. Without you, we'd be nowhere. With you, we keep trucking along and have a great chance to reach that tipping point that, I am convinced, is still not only possible for us, but inevitable.
I just looked at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:CZ_Live and clicked on some articles and I have to say the experience made me very proud. We're getting closer to being useful as a general information resource to consult, and our articles are, as you can see for yourself, quite good. I believe we've been rather modest about our success. I think we're doing very well indeed. You should know, in case you had any doubts, that the project still has my deepest support and that I consider time spent on it to be very worthwhile. Your faith and work will be repaid in the long run, when we are known as the single best, most reliable general encyclopedia online. This is only a matter of time! I admit I've been absent from the wiki too much--as you have probably guessed, I remain woefully overextended. I'll be able to explain fully sometime in the future, but at least I can tell you that in recent months, I've been working full time getting http://www.watchknow.org/ ready for launch. This has helped support me and my family and will provide more good publicity for CZ when we do launch. I hope that, after it's launched and on its way, I'll be able to give CZ more attention; if it is so busy that it demands a huge amount of my time, we'll be hiring a manager for it. But I've continued to work on getting the CZ automatic newsletter supported and installed, and this is going to be a great shot in the arm when it's finally ready to go...which, if I'm not mistaken, should be this coming week! I'm about to leave for Frankfurt for a keynote and will be back on Wednesday. See you online again soon... --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
