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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.
Summary
editGoal: 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.
How can you help
edit- 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.
Manual process
edit- From the "Articles" section below, choose an article that has not had its Citizendium counterpart checked recently (or ever).
- 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
- Apply {{Citizendium|title=Article's title in Citizendium}} to the article's References section
- 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.
- Update the article's entry in the Articles list below.
- Go on to the next article.
Recommendations
edit- 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.
Open tasks
editTo-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium Porting:
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Wanted: Automated tools
editWe are interested in programs or scripts that can be applied to mining Citizendium utilizing technologies such as:
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.
Alerts
editRedirects for discussion
- 06 Aug 2024 – Classical homepathy (talk · edit · hist) →Homeopathy was RfDed by Cogsan (t · c); see discussion
Articles
editLast compared with Approved Articles list via Approval Announcements: Aug 3, 2014
Porting of Citizendium Approved Articles: 38.2% complete | ||
Citizendium article | Wikipedia article | Useful content ever merged? | Last compared | Comments |
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Accidental release source terms | Accidental release source terms | Yes | Jan 23, 2009 | The WP & CZ articles were mostly written by the same person; No significant differences |
Acid rain | Acid rain | No | Never | Original version of the CZ article was ported from Encyclopedia of Earth |
Active attack | Active attack | No | Never | Seems to have opportunity for incoming wikilinks: Special:Search/Active attack |
Adams-Onís Treaty | Adams-Onís Treaty | Yes | June 30,2010 | Most of the content is copied (without attribution) from Wikipedia. Imported one reference. |
Jane Addams | Jane Addams | No | March 23, 2020 | Most if not all of the content appears to be copied without attribution from Wikipedia. Wikipedia article is now far more comprehensive. |
Agriculture, history | History of agriculture | No | Never | |
Air pollutant concentrations | Air pollutant concentrations | Yes | July 9, 2009 | |
Alice and Bob | Alice and Bob | No | Never | |
Anycasting | Anycast | No | Never | Could benefit from porting of selected material that explains the concept. CZ has a better lede; the lede of the WP article is too jargon-heavy. |
Air pollution dispersion modeling | Atmospheric dispersion modeling | Yes | Nov 10, 2010 | The WP & CZ articles were mostly written by the same person |
Air pollution dispersion terminology | Air pollution dispersion terminology | Yes | Nov 10, 2010 | Copy of earlier WP article by largely by same editor I believe. |
Arthur J. Altmeyer | Arthur J. Altmeyer | Yes | July 3, 2010 | Tagged for clean up. |
American Institute of Chemical Engineers | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | Yes | July 13, 2009 | Articles quite similar & share core contributor |
Amine gas treating | Amine gas treating | Yes | 8 November 2010 | The WP & CZ articles were mostly written by the same person, updates from CZ merged |
Ammonia production | Ammonia production | No | Never | |
AN- | Joint Electronics Type Designation System | No | Never | Articles are similar & share core contributor |
Ancient Celtic music | Ancient Celtic music | Yes | Jun 20, 2009 | |
Anti-Saloon League | Anti-Saloon League | Yes | Sep 5, 2010 | Citizendium article based on Wikipedia. No inline citations. |
ASIMO | ASIMO | No | Never | |
Azole | Azole | Yes | July 10, 2009 | |
Bacteriophage | Bacteriophage | No | Never | Appears to derive from WP (uncredited ?), but has added material and extensive re-write |
John Logie Baird | John Logie Baird | Yes | October 1, 2010 | two words ported, citizendium article based on Wikipedia, but sans references |
Bar | Bar (unit) | Yes | Jun 28, 2009 | Much of the Citizendium article is copied or paraphrased from the Wikipedia article. |
Barnardius zonarius | Australian Ringneck | Yes | Jul 13, 2009 | The CZ article is an older version of the WP article, so no updating required. |
Charles A. Beard | Charles A. Beard | Yes | Aug 1, 2009 | CZ article is a less developed copy originating with an older version of the WP article. |
Biology | Biology | No | Never | |
Block cipher | Block cipher | No | Never | will check today |
Boiling point | Boiling point | No | Never | |
Louis D. Brandeis | Louis D. Brandeis | No | Never | |
Brute force attack | Brute force attack | No | Never | |
Butler | Butler | Yes | Jan 23, 2009 | |
Gaius Iulius Caesar (name) | Gaius Iulius Caesar (name) | Yes | Jun 28, 2009 | |
Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie | No | Never | |
Catalytic reforming | Catalytic reforming | No | Never | |
Caterpillar Club | Caterpillar Club | Yes | July 18, 2009 | CZ article is less developed version of WP article |
Augustin-Louis Cauchy | Augustin-Louis Cauchy | Yes | Jun 22, 2009} | |
Chemical engineering | Chemical engineering | No | Never | |
Chemistry | Chemistry | No | Never | |
Chiropractic † | Chiropractic | — | Never | Importation strongly discouraged † |
Shirley Chisholm | Shirley Chisholm | Yes | Sep 5th, 2010 | The Citizendium article has NPOV issues with her feminism and race. See the talk page of the Citizendium article. |
CIO | Congress of Industrial Organizations | No | Never | |
Civil society | Civil society | No | Never | |
Coal | Coal | No | Never | |
Competition policy | Competition policy | No | Never | |
Complex number | Complex number | No | Never | |
Compressibility factor (gases) | Compressibility factor | No | Never | |
Contraception (medical methods) | Contraception (medical methods) | No | Never | Last section of CZ article unusable here: Chatty, POV, uncited. |
Conventional coal-fired power plant | Conventional coal-fired power plant, Fossil fuel power station | Yes | 8 November 2010 | copied from CZ |
Countable set | Countable set | No | Never | |
Covariance | Covariance | No | Never | Both articles are more difficult to understand than necessary; they could be far more valuable to the average reader if rewritten. |
Cryptanalysis | Cryptanalysis | No | Never | |
Cryptography | Cryptography | No | Never | |
Cryptology | Cryptology | No | Never | |
Crystal Palace | The Crystal Palace | No | Never | |
Merle Curti | Merle Curti | Yes | 16 November 2010 | Rjensen, has kept these in step it seems. |
Cypherpunk | Cypherpunk | Yes | August 14, 2010 | Most of information from citizendium article |
Félix d'Hérelle | Félix d'Herelle | Yes | August 10, 2010 | Citizendium is a fork off of an older Wikipedia version. No in line citations. |
Democrat Party (phrase) | Democrat Party (phrase) | Yes | Jan 23, 2009 | Much common text; one must derive from other |
Demographic transition | Demographic transition | Yes | March 16, 2010 | Writer of article on citizendium ported the content |
DNA | DNA | No | Never | The citizendium version is a degraded version of the Wikipedia article that tries to deal with too many subjects at once. |
Dog | Dog | No | Never | |
Dokdo | Dokdo | No | Never | |
Domain Name System | Domain Name System | No | Never | |
Doom | Doom (video game) | No | Never | |
Drugs banned from the Olympics | List of drugs banned from the Olympics | Yes | Jun 27, 2009 | |
Economics | Economics | No | Never | |
Edward I | Edward I of England | No | Never | |
Ellipse | Ellipse | No | Never | |
Email system | Email, Email system | Yes | 8 November 2010 | Copied to WP. Might be a clean up and merge candidate. |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | No | Never | |
Europe | Europe | No | Never | |
Evidence-based medicine | Evidence-based medicine | No | Never | |
Explosives | Explosive material | No | Never | |
Michael Faraday | Michael Faraday | No | Never | |
Fertility (demography) | Fertility | Yes | Jun 27, 2009 | Needs more citations (WP:OR) mixes in ideas of Demographic transition |
Flash evaporation | Flash evaporation | No | Never | |
Folk saint | Folk saint | Yes | July 6, 2009 | |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | No | Never | |
John Franklin | John Franklin | No | Never | |
Free statistical software ‡ | (none) | — | Never | Topic likely not notable ‡ |
Gasoline | Gasoline | No | Never | |
Geometric sequence | Geometric progression | No | Never | |
William Ewart Gladstone | William Ewart Gladstone | No | Never | |
Grand Trunk Railway | Grand Trunk Railway | No | Never | |
Great Society | Great Society | No | Never | |
Nathanael Greene | Nathanael Greene | No | Never | |
Gross Domestic Product | Gross Domestic Product | No | Never | |
L. J. Hanifan | L. J. Hanifan | Yes | Jun 28, 2010 | Now imported into Wikipedia |
Henry's law | Henry's law | Yes | Never | Article copied from WP |
Richard Hofstadter | Richard Hofstadter | No | Never | |
Homeopathy † | Homeopathy | — | Never | Importation strongly discouraged † |
Horizontal gene transfer | Horizontal gene transfer | No | Never | |
Hydrodesulfurization | Hydrodesulfurization | No | Never | |
Ideal gas law | Ideal gas law | No | Never | |
Industrial Revolution | Industrial Revolution | No | Never | |
Infant colic | Infant colic | No | Never | Mind WP:NOTHOWTO. Contains unbalanced discussion of alternative medicine. |
International economics | International economics | Yes | Jun 27, 2009 | |
Jet Set Willy | Jet Set Willy | No | Never | |
Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc | No | Never | |
Joule-Thomson effect | Joule-Thomson effect | No | Never | |
Kamehameha I | Kamehameha I | No | Never | |
Kerckhoffs' Principle | Kerckhoffs' principle | Yes | September 17, 2010 | Citizendium article has a lot of original research and tone problems |
Ketoconazole | Ketoconazole | No | Never | |
Leptotes (orchid) | Leptotes (orchid) | Yes | June 27, 2009 | |
Life | Life | No | Never | |
Line (geometry) | Line (geometry) | No | Never | |
Literature | Literature | — | Jan 4, 2011 | Extremely Euro-centric and lacks in line citations. |
Theodor Lohmann | Theodor Lohmann | Yes | Jun 27, 2009 | |
Joe Louis | Joe Louis | Yes | August 21, 2010 | Article is unreferenced. Ported one sentence and quote. |
Macromolecular chemistry | Macromolecular chemistry | No | Never | |
Guglielmo Marconi | Guglielmo Marconi | No | Never | |
James Clerk Maxwell | James Clerk Maxwell | No | Never | |
Barbara McClintock | Barbara McClintock | Yes | July 9, 2009 | Article copied from Wikipedia |
Merox | Merox | No | Never | |
Metabolism | Metabolism | No | Never | |
Microeconomics | Microeconomics | No | Never | |
Natural gas | Natural gas | No | Never | |
Neighbourhood (topology) | Neighbourhood (mathematics) | No | Never | |
NMR spectroscopy | NMR spectroscopy | No | Never | |
Northwest Passage | Northwest Passage | No | Never | |
Partial pressure | Partial pressure | No | Never | |
Petroleum refining processes | Oil refinery, Petroleum refining processes | Yes | 8 November 2010 | Copied form CZ |
Orchid | Orchid | No | ||
Oxytocin | Oxytocin | No | Never | |
Passive attack | Passive attack | No | Never | |
Petroleum naphtha | Naphtha, Petroleum naptha | Yes | 8 November 2010 | Copied from CZ |
Phosphorus | Phosphorus | No | Never | |
Pittsburgh, History since 1800 | History of Pittsburgh | Yes | 8 November 2010 | Copy of WP article of 2007 with poor attribution |
Pittsburgh, History to 1800 | History of Pittsburgh | Yes | 8 November 2010 | Copy of WP article of 2007 with no attribution |
Plane (geometry) | Plane (geometry) | No | Never | |
Prime number | Prime number | No | Never | |
Randomized controlled trial | Randomized controlled trial | No | Never | |
Relative volatility | Relative volatility | No | Never | |
RNA interference | RNA interference | No | Never | |
Rottweiler | Rottweiler | No | Never | |
Scarborough Castle | Scarborough Castle | Yes | August 10, 2010 | Wikipedia version almost entirely replaced with higher quality citizendium article. |
Scientific method | Scientific method | No | Never | |
Set theory | Set theory | No | Never | |
Great Siege of Scarborough Castle | Great Siege of Scarborough Castle | Yes | Jun 28, 2010 | Now imported into Wikipedia. |
Schröder-Bernstein property | No | Never | Now imported into Wikipedia. | |
Schröder-Bernstein theorem | Cantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theorem | No | Never | |
Social capital | Social capital | No | Never | |
The Social Capital Foundation ‡ | (none) | — | Never | Likely not notable, does not cite secondary sources ‡ |
Specific heat ratio | Specific heat ratio | No | Never | |
Symphony | Symphony | No | Never | Citizendium article has 35 inline citations, while Wikipedia article has circa 16 inline citations (but an extensive "References" section of used - or potential? - sources). |
Telephone newspaper | Telephone newspaper | Yes | June 21, 2009 | |
Terrorism | Terrorism | No | Never | |
Frederick Jackson Turner | Frederick Jackson Turner | Yes | July 1, 2010 | Medium quality article, but imported a lot as our article was quite short. |
Tux | Tux | Yes | June 30,2010 | Strongly against porting any more. A little information added from a low quality article. |
Frederick Twort | Frederick Twort | Yes | July 2, 2010 | Based on a 2007 version of the Wikipedia article (without attribution). |
Vacuum distillation | Vacuum distillation | Yes | 10 November 2010 | Incorporated material, mainly or all by User:Mbeychok into WP |
Van der Waals equation | Van der Waals equation | — | Never | Is a 2007 fork of WP article, and less developed a decade later. |
Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Yes | Sep 11, 2010 | citizendium article based on Wikipedia one. |
Vapor pressure | Vapor pressure | — | Never | CZ article has broken edit history due to cut and paste, therefore copying would violate cc-by-sa. |
Vertebral subluxation † | Vertebral subluxation | — | Never | Importation strongly discouraged † |
Edwin E. Witte | Edwin E. Witte | Yes | July 2, 2010 | Most of Wikipedia article overwritten. |
Wheat | Wheat | Yes | June 30, 2010 | High Quality article. Whole sections imported. |
World of Warcraft | World of Warcraft | — | Never | Few footnotes. Nothing the Wikipedia article was missing. During December 2010, a new version was approved. |
† These Citizendium articles are particularly prone to containing factual errors and/or unbalanced discussion of views. Material from these articles should probably not be imported to Wikipedia, or be extremely carefully verified before being imported. | ||||
‡ These Citizendium articles may not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. Please ensure their subjects are indeed notable if you create articles for them. |
Templates
edit- {{CZPORT|date=Date Citizendium material last checked}}
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- If the article has not been updated from the latest Approved version of the corresponding Citizendium article, set
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- 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.
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Categories
editParticipants
editPlease feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- Cybercobra (talk · contribs) 18:48, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
- Taku (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
- ragesoss (talk) 14:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC) (I'm Sage Ross on Citizendium.)
- 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.
- Rjensen (talk) 13:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC) history articles
- Rich Farmbrough, 05:17, 9 December 2010 (UTC). quick wins!
- Soumya-8974 (talk · contribs) - mainly spaceflight and language-related articles
- The Moose 09:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- Andrewa (talk) 02:47, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- Inactive for a year or more
- Banana (talk) 06:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- colleenfugate (talk) 14:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
- mabdul (talk) 00:53, 11 November 2011 (UTC) all kind of computer related articles will be done by me
See also
edit- 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