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RationalWiki:Nothing is going on at Citizendium

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File.svg This page is pretty much dead, but is being retained as a memorial. Please edit it to keep it fresh!
Citizendium and thus this page has either outlived its usefulness, or, through neglect and/or indifference, become mostly unused.
If you wish to reinvigorate it, just pitch in and add something.
Icon citizendium.svg Keep up to date with how nothing is going on at the alternate Wikipedia, Citizendium, with our rolling reports of the "happenings" there. Older entries are found in the archives.

What is going on?

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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]

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1The 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 pageWikipedia is 376 KB and our page is 23 KB.

September 2024[edit]

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1It's the Pat Palmer show. Of the last 1,500 edits (which span the last 10 days), 100% have been made by just four editors:
Editor Edits
David MacQuigg 2
Jack S. Byrom‎ 4
Goh Kok Keong‎ 36
Pat Palmer 1,458

June 2024[edit]

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8Citizendium 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.
Class Total on
29 Dec 2023
Total on
14 Jun 2024
Difference
Citable Articles 148 145 -3
Developed Articles 1,175 1,143 -32
Developing Articles 8,900 7,879 -1,021
Stubs 7,758 7,959 +201
TOTAL 18,079 17,244 -835

April 2024[edit]

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6We 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]

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6Sysop 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.)