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headers Larry Sanger | 1 Jan 2008 06:23

Happy New Year!

Why not share your greetings here:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Happy_New_Year_2008

--Larry

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Robert W. King has started a project newsletter, "The Citizen," intended for
monthly publication:

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

Thanks to Robert for a nice summary of events!

--Larry

Hi,

Some news from stats dept.
As suggested by some members, a new presentation of development for
workgroups on CZ:Statistics page has been introduced. Instead of
grouping by type (Sciences, Humanities etc), they are arranged
according to the number of articles.
See http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Statistics#Progress_in_time
Our uncontested leaders are History and Biology, and Health Sciences
just went ahead of Politics to arrive at 3rd place ;)

Believe it or not -- it turns out that for some time there are some
really tough competitions held between some workgroups.
For example, the 6th place at present occupied by Astronomy is likely
to be taken soon by Military,  Mathematics or Computers. And it looks
like Chemistry is slightly winning in long undecided battle with
Physics and Engineering.

Is *your* workgroup dynamic enough to stand against others? ;)

Alek

PS. CZ:Unchecklisted Articles finally updated

All,

I'd like to shout a small "hooray" to the people who in the last few days
have quite noticeably, and unusually, taken the initiative on several
fronts.  Warren Schudy and Steve Ewen have worked quite a bit on
[[CZ:Reusing Citizendium Content]], and Joe Quick has started [[CZ:Ready for
approval]].  These aren't the only or the first examples of bold
initiative-taking, but they came without any special request, and this is
something I've been thinking lately that we need to see more of.

Unless I am mistaken, their initiative might be at least in part due to our
successful brainstorming session, here:
http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1421.0.html
I think that as we as a group get a glimpse of what we regard as our top
priorities, we might be more motivated to help make it happen.

Now, if you also take the initiative, and I weigh in and ask harsh-sounding
questions, or edit your work, please don't take it personally...birds gotta
fly, fish gotta swim, I gotta criticize.

I'm also happy that participation seems to be bouncing back after a
mid-December lull (exactly as I expected).

By the way, what will the outcome of our brainstorming be?  Well, yesterday
I started composing a new planning document, which I'm circulating among
some Executive Committee members, and we are going to start acting on this
stuff.  Of course, nothing will happen without proper input, review, and
action by the community and our governance processes.  I can tell you that
we won't be able to achieve so much if there aren't a lot more people
willing to take the initiative.  If I am the only initiator, things will go
slowly indeed.  But the one thing that I personally want to initiate is,
finally, the addition of several more specifically-empowered "initiators."
Who we'll be looking for, and to lead what, is something I hope we'll
announce next week.  I also haven't forgotten about maturing our governance
apparatus.  That's one of the priorities, after all.

--Larry

The wiki was down for something like 2.5 hours early Sunday
morning...apparently, a server was down.  It's now being fixed (or has been
fixed).

--Larry

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