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To contact staff off-site, please use the email below.

Please send email to manager A T citizendium.org . .

Memberships, and Editor-in-Chief

Pat Palmer

Assistant Editors

Featured Article

E. J. Diamond

Members

Contributors

We have several dozen Contributors
Number of past contributors: (4,654)

Technical Staff

Pat Palmer (since June 23rd, 2020)
Anthony Messana (since 2023, writing bots for the wiki)
Sergei Chekanov (in 2022, server migration and major software upgrades)
Russell John (in Nov 2022, software updates)
Greg Sabino Mullane (emergency backup; reappointed March 27th, 2015)

Former tech staff:

Joshua Sadule (in 2020 if not earlier; on the server side of things; exited Mar. 2022)
Francisco Reyes (since March 27th, 2015; exited Mar. 2022; still advises some)

Other positions

Treasurer: Mark Widmer

About our staff

The Citizendium is run by a collection of volunteers. Pat Palmer is working with an Advisory Team on policy, goals and membership and is handling new account requests, and User:Sergei Chekanov upgraded the software in March 2022; at the same time as the software upgrade, hardware was also upgraded to include SSD drives and a faster processor.

Until 2021, Francisco Reyes and Joshua Sadule worked (along with occasional assistance from others) towards upgrading the server and outdated wiki software, and generously handled many repairs and backups.

In 2020, domain ownership was transferred to Pat Palmer, who expects to continue operating the wiki with a high degree of transparency, with gratitude to all the volunteers helping keep things going. Also since 2020, Citizendium has occasionally paid for professional tech support in upgrading the software behind the wiki.

New volunteers are welcome! Let us know if you'd like to become involved.

Payments

Contributors are not paid for writing articles and we have no plans to allow that. The wiki is also free to use and all our articles are available under a free license. We rely entirely on donations from our volunteers and supporters.

In terms of work on the project itself, this is a volunteer project. Occasionally, management has had to pay a contractor briefly for technical work, but mostly we do it ourselves. No one helping manage the wiki receives any salary or benefits.

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NOTE: John Stephenson is theoretically one of our managing editors, but he hasn't been around for some time. So we're moving his name down here, for now. We hope he's okay!

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+''To contact staff off-site, please use the {{EnquiryForm}}.''
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-== Editors ==
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Editors|CZ Editors]]'''
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Editorial Personnel Administrators|CZ Editorial Personnel Administrators]]'''
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Editorial Council Members|CZ Editorial Council Members]]'''
-* '''[http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html Become an editor]'''
-== Authors (and Citizendium Members in general, an alphabetized list)==
+==Memberships, and Editor-in-Chief==
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Authors|CZ Authors]]'''
+* [[User:Pat_Palmer|Pat Palmer]]
-* '''[http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html Become an author]'''
+==Assistant Editors==
+*[[User:George_Swan|George Swan]]
+*[[User:E. J. Diamond|E. J. Diamond]]
+*[[User:Jack S. Byrom|Jack S. Byrom]]
-== Constabulary ==
+==Featured Article==
-* '''List of [[:Category:CZ Constables|CZ Constables]]'''
+*[[User:E. J. Diamond|E. J. Diamond]]
-* '''Email :''' [mailto:constables@citizendium.org constables@citizendium.org]
-== Executive Committee ==
+==Members==
-The [[CZ:Executive Committee|Executive Committee]] of the ''Citizendium'' is chosen by the Editor-in-Chief from among the most active participants, with approximately equal numbers of editors and authors.  Its function is primarily to advise the Editor-in-Chief and to help make "business" decisions that, due to their sensitive nature, cannot be negotiated entirely out in the open.  This is not a Board of Directors; we will be adding such a board hopefully in the second half of 2008.  Since it is impossible to serve both on the Executive Committee and another major project body, such as the Editorial Council and the Constabulary, this is not necessarily a list of the most "valuable" or "honored" members of the project; indeed, some of our most crucial and useful Citizens are members of the Editorial Council or the Constabulary.
+===Contributors===
+* We have several dozen '''[[Special:ListUsers|Contributors]]'''
+* Number of past contributors: ({{PAGESINCAT:CZ Authors}})
-*[[User:Robert Badgett|Robert Badgett]]
+== [[CZ:Technical Team|Technical Staff]] ==
-*[[User:Lee R. Berger|Lee Berger]]
-*[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]]
-*[[User:Ruth Ifcher|Ruth Ifcher]]
-*[[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]]
-*[[User:Mike Johnson|Mike Johnson]]
-*[[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]]
-*[[User:Greg Sabino Mullane|Greg Sabino Mullane]]
-*[[User:Jitse Niesen|Jitse Niesen]]
-*[[User:ZachPruckowski|Zachary Pruckowski]]
-*[[User:Joe Quick|Joe Quick]]
-*[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]]
-*[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] (chair)
-*[[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]]
-A "focus" subset of the Executive Committee was formed in December 2007, which will soon begin regular Skype chats.
+{{TTmembers}}
-== Other groups ==
+===Other positions===
-'''PR Group'''
+*'''Treasurer''': [[User:Mark Widmer|Mark Widmer]]
-* [[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]]
-* [[User:Mike Johnson|Mike Johnson]]
-* [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]]
-'''Wiki-Converting Team'''
+==About our staff==
-* [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] - Co-coordinator
+The [[CZ:About|Citizendium]] is run by a collection of volunteers. [[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] is working with an Advisory Team on policy, goals and membership and is handling new account requests, and [[User:Sergei Chekanov]] upgraded the software in March 2022; at the same time as the software upgrade, hardware was also upgraded to include SSD drives and a faster processor.
-* [[User:Louise Valmoria|Louise Valmoria]] - Co-Coordinator
-Volunteers to convert articles submitted in word processor format to MediaWiki mark up:
+Until 2021, [[User:Francisco Reyes|Francisco Reyes]] and [[User:Joshua Sadule|Joshua Sadule]] worked (along with occasional assistance from others) towards upgrading the server and outdated wiki software, and generously handled many repairs and backups.
-:*See list of volunteers at: [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Wiki-converting CZ:Wiki-converting]
-:*NOTE: Additional volunteers encouraged and welcomed. To volunteer, see: [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Wiki-converting CZ:Wiki-converting]
+In 2020, domain ownership was transferred to Pat Palmer, who expects to continue operating the wiki with a high degree of transparency, with gratitude to all the volunteers helping keep things going.  Also since 2020, Citizendium has occasionally paid for professional tech support in upgrading the software behind the wiki.
+New volunteers are welcome! [[Help:Index/Join|Let us know]] if you'd like to become involved.
-Other ad hoc groups have come and gone, including an Ad Hoc Licensing Committee (Nov.-Dec. 2007) and an Ad Hoc Steering Committee (late 2006).
+===Payments===
+Contributors are not paid for writing articles and we have no plans to allow that. The wiki is also free to use and all our articles are available under a [[CZ:License|free license]]. We rely entirely on [[CZ:Donate|donations]] from our volunteers and supporters.
-== Staff ==
+In terms of work on the project itself, this is a volunteer project.  Occasionally, management has had to pay a contractor briefly for technical work, but mostly we do it ourselves.  No one helping manage the wiki receives any salary or benefits.
-* '''Editor-in-Chief:''' [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]]
-* '''Technical Lead:''' [[User:Greg Sabino Mullane|Greg Sabino Mullane]]
-* '''Chief Constable:''' [[User:Ruth Ifcher|Ruth Ifcher]]
-* '''Assistant to the Chief Constable:''' [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]]
-* '''Mailing List Manager:''' [[User:Louise Valmoria|Louise Valmoria]]
-The [http://www.citizendium.org/about.html Citizendium] (<u>*.citizendium.org</u>) is run by the Citizendium Foundation, which is almost entirely volunteer-run.  Larry Sanger and Jason Potkanski are the only persons who have yet been compensated for their work on the project, and at present, no one is receiving any compensation for their work, including Sanger.
+---
-The ''Citizendium'' is a project of the Tides Center, but is operationally independent.  We will become a fully independent non-profit probably in 2008.  We are currently a non-profit in virtue of the fact that we are legally a Tides project.
+NOTE: [[User:John_Stephenson|John Stephenson]] is theoretically one of our managing editors, but he hasn't been around for some time.  So we're moving his name down here, for now.  We hope he's okay!
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