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RationalWiki:Nothing is going on at Citizendium
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Note: Citizendium is a bit like a bad horror film: just when you think it's dead, it comes back and does something ridiculous. That said, we're pretty much documenting its terminal decline now. The WIGO is, however, still open to entries.
January 2025: A Make-or-Break Year for Citizendium?[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | The death of Jimmy Carter led to an unexpected amount of non-Pat editing activity. (And at this point, any amount of non-Pat editing activity is unexpected.) However, the page is still very incomplete. It clocks in at 3.5 KB, with three paragraph-length sections about his navy career, post-presidency, and death. Note the lack of a section on his presidency (though the lead section does devote a paragraph to it). For comparison, his Wikipedia page![]() |
September 2024[edit]
June 2024[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Citizendium seems to have spent the last 6 months going backwards. From the counts on the Welcome to Citizendium main page, they have lost a net 835 articles since the Internet Archive's 29 December 2023 snapshot.
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April 2024[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | We may ridicule Citizendium for infrequent updates to their articles, but at least some exist... until they just delete them. For example, not only has the article on noted philosopher Daniel Dennett not been updated to reflect recent terminal news, but it has also been found unworthy of the great encyclopedia. |
January 2024: A Make-or-Break Year for Citizendium?[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Sysop John Leach, who has spent the last several days deleting hundreds of pages, appeals to Citizens to create more articles. (At least he's using RationalWiki to come up with the lists.) |