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WikiProject Citizendium Porting

Welcome to WikiProject Citizendium Porting! This project is dedicated to importing useful content from Citizendium into the corresponding Wikipedia articles. This "fork mining" effort includes monitoring changes to Citizendium articles for relevant new material. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources to help in this effort. If you would like to participate, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goal: To improve Wikipedia articles by importing any useful content from their Citizendium counterparts. This also involves checking if any more useful material has been added when these Citizendium articles are updated. However, this does not mean overwriting the Wikipedia article with the Citizendium version, but rather merging Citizendium content into the Wikipedia article.

Scope: Citizendium's Approved Articles and their Wikipedia counterparts.

Promote the project

• Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
• Invite people to the project – drop a note on the user talk page of editors working on Citizendium Porting topics who aren't project members.
• Consider promoting the project via the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject desk.

Improve the project

• Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
• Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
• Come up with new ones

Use the project

• Create a new article.

• Expand some of the articles (check out Category:Citizendium Porting stubs or some of its subcategories), always respecting Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. Also, check the Wikipedia: Manual of Style.
• Add references to articles which need referencing improving. Biographies of living persons are a particular priority.
• Assess some of the Unassessed Citizendium Porting articles, using the criteria at Wikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium Porting/Assessment. Update the project banner on the relevant talk page.
• You can look at the cleanup listing to see what needs doing.
• Check the talk page for requests for help.

1. From the "Articles" section below, choose an article that has not had its Citizendium counterpart checked recently (or ever).
2. Compare the articles, and see if Citizendium has any sections that contain material that could be used to improve Wikipedia's article. Merge this content in. Do not, however, simply replace the Wikipedia content with the Citizendium content: even if that part of the Citizendium article is better, try to work in any useful information from the section of the Wikipedia article you intend to replace. For Citizendium's Approved articles, you should normally use the Approved version, not the Draft version, unless the draft is clearly superior.
   • Include the URL of the specific revision of the Citizendium article in your edit summaries. (Indicating the source is required by the CC-BY-SA license.) E.g. "from http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Biology&oldid=100370485"
   • Be sure to adjust style, templates, etc to match that of Wikipedia and keep Wikipedia's policies (e.g. NPOV) in mind when merging
3. Apply ((Citizendium|title=Article's title in Citizendium)) to the article's References section
4. Update (or add) the ((WikiProject Citizendium Porting|date=Today's date)) box on the article's talkpage with the last modified date of the version of the Citizendium article you pulled from.
5. Update the article's entry in the Articles list below.
6. Go on to the next article.

• DO NOT overwrite the Wikipedia article with the Citizendium article. Instead, extract useful information from the Citizendium article and merge it into the Wikipedia article.
• Merge the content skillfully. Avoid duplicating information.
• Watch out for situations where the two articles disagree and handle them properly (WP:NPOV, WP:RS).
• Citizendium does not require as extensive referencing as does Wikipedia. Look for references where needed, or as a last resort tag with ((cn)).
• Citizendium has a somewhat different view of what Wikipedia calls "original research." Their authors are allowed to make interpretive statements since they are presumed to be subject matter experts (or the article will eventually go under expert review where such statements will be modified as necessary). Such content will usually need sources when moved to Wikipedia, or marking with a ((cn)) tag.

Wanted: Automated tools

We are interested in programs or scripts that can be applied to mining Citizendium utilizing technologies such as:

• Document comparison
• Information extraction
• Text mining
• etc.

If you can write scripts or programs to help identify, copy, and port unique CZ material into WP (that is, information not already included in the corresponding WP articles), or if you know of any programs that might help with this, please let us know on the talk page. Thank you.

Redirects for discussion

• 22 Feb 2024 – Demographics of terrorism (talk · edit · hist) →Terrorism was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Feb 2024 – Famous terrorists (talk · edit · hist) →Terrorism was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Feb 2024 – Terrorism and War (talk · edit · hist) →Terrorism was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion

Last compared with Approved Articles list via Approval Announcements: Aug 3, 2014

• ((CZPORT|date=Date Citizendium material last checked))

	Citizendium Porting (inactive)
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Citizendium Porting, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Citizendium PortingWikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium PortingTemplate:WikiProject Citizendium PortingCitizendium Porting articles

• If the article has not been updated from the latest Approved version of the corresponding Citizendium article, set |outdated=yes in the template to get:

	Citizendium Porting (inactive)
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Citizendium Porting, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Citizendium PortingWikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium PortingTemplate:WikiProject Citizendium PortingCitizendium Porting articles

• To add a comment, use |comment=Some comment to get:

	Citizendium Porting (inactive)
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Citizendium Porting, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Citizendium PortingWikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium PortingTemplate:WikiProject Citizendium PortingCitizendium Porting articles

• If the name of the Citizendium article differs from that of the Wikipedia article, use |cztitle=Name of Citizendium article to fix the external link.

• ((Citizendium|title=Foo)):

This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article "Foo", which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL.

• ((WP:User WikiProject Cz Port)):

This user is a participant in WikiProject Citizendium Porting.

• Category:Wikipedia articles with Citizendium counterparts
  • Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Citizendium
    • Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Citizendium needing updating

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Cybercobra (talk · contribs) 18:48, 27 June 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
2. Taku (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
3. ragesoss (talk) 14:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC) (I'm Sage Ross on Citizendium.)Reply[reply]
4. DGG (talk) 02:09, 1 July 2009 (UTC) (and I'm DavidGoodman at Citizendium), not very active there, but I've mainly been waiting until the licenses sync, as they finally do.Reply[reply]
5. Rjensen (talk) 13:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC) history articlesReply[reply]
6. Rich Farmbrough, 05:17, 9 December 2010 (UTC). quick wins!Reply[reply]
7. Soumya-8974 (talk · contribs) - mainly spaceflight and language-related articles
8. The Moose 09:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
9. Andrewa (talk) 02:47, 6 October 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Inactive for a year or more

1. Banana (talk) 06:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
2. colleenfugate (talk) 14:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
3. mabdul (talk) 00:53, 11 November 2011 (UTC) all kind of computer related articles will be done by meReply[reply]

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Citizendium list of missing articles
• Citizendium: The license and our relationship with Wikipedia ^{[dead link]}
• Citizendium: Reusing Citizendium Content
• Mention in the Wikimedia Blog
• Passing mention in the Signpost
• WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Citizendium Porting
• Wikipedia:Citizendium workgroups, Wikipedia WikiProjects, and watchlists