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Citizendium

Citizendium (/ˌsɪtɪˈzɛndiəm/ SIT-i-ZEN-dee-əm; "the citizens' compendium of everything") is an English-language wiki-based free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia.

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Available in
English
Commercial
No
Content license
CC BY-SA 3.0 or later
Created by
Larry Sanger
Current status
active
Launched
23 October 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10-23) (pilot) 25 March 2007; 19 years ago (2007-03-25) (public)

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Citizendium

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples159
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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Citizendium

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related to Decline · 29
Citizendium → April, Ars Technica, At, August, Australian Department, Broadband, By October, Communication, Digital Economy, English-language, Financial Times, In, In August, In June, In March, In September, Launched, Library, Library Services, March
related to Fork of Wikipedia · 21
Citizendium → According, Amateur, Andrew Keen's, But, Citizendium's, Citizens' Compendium, English, English-language, GNU Free Documentation License, He, However, If, In, January, Keen's, No, On, Sanger, The, The Cult
related to Inauguration · 14
Citizendium → After, Associated Press, Citizendium Will, March, On, Probably, Sanger, Succeed, The, USA Today, We, Why, Wikipedia, You
related to Content · 13
Citizendium → Approved, Articles, CC BY-SA, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, December, Developed, Developing, External, GNU Free Documentation License, Stub, These, Unported License, Wikipedia
related to Pilot project and initial growth · 13
Citizendium → Berlin, He, Hitchmough, However, In, October, OS, Peter Hitchmough, Sanger, September, The, Wikipedia, Wizards
related to Later growth · 12
Citizendium → An, And, At, December, Financial Times, Larry Sanger, New Communications Research, November, October, September, Society, The Society
related to Policies and structure · 12
Citizendium → Board, Chief Constable, Directors, Editor-in-Chief, He, Managing Editor, Matt Innis, Originally, Participants, Sanger, The, Unlike Wikipedia
related to Founder viewpoints · 11
Citizendium → CZ, CZ Live, In August, January, Not, November, October, On, Sanger, The, Wikipedia
related to Recent status · 10
Citizendium → As, But, Citizendium's, In, July, Larry Sanger, MediaWiki, On, Pat Palmer, User
related to Planning for succession of editor-in-chief · 8
Citizendium → Citizendium-l, He, In May, July, On, Sanger, September, WatchKnow

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sanger wikipedia project articles 2007 pilot contributors new announced content october launch stated september site would 2006 first wiki editor-in-chief

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CitizendiumAvailable inEnglish1.00infobox
CitizendiumCommercialNo1.00infobox
CitizendiumContent licenseCC BY-SA 3.0 or later1.00infobox
CitizendiumCreated byLarry Sanger1.00infobox
CitizendiumCurrent statusactive1.00infobox
CitizendiumLaunched23 October 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10-23) (pilot) 25 March 2007; 19 years ago (2007-03-25) (public)1.00infobox
CitizendiumRegistrationOptional (Required to edit pages, via request of account)1.00infobox
CitizendiumType of siteOnline encyclopedia1.00infobox
CitizendiumURLen.citizendium.org1.00infobox
Citizendiumrelated to ContentDeveloping0.60section
Citizendiumrelated to ContentStub0.60section
Citizendiumrelated to ContentDeveloped0.60section

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