Collaborative Structuring of Knowledge by Experts and the Public

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2010-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/1008.3977v1

Proceedings of the 5th Open Knowledge Conference (London, UK, April 24, 2010), pp. 29-41

Computer Science

Digital Libraries

A contribution to OKCON 2010 (cf. http://okfn.org/okcon/). Contextualized on-wiki at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Open_Kno

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There is much debate on how public participation and expertise can be brought together in collaborative knowledge environments. One of the experiments addressing the issue directly is Citizendium. In seeking to harvest the strengths (and avoiding the major pitfalls) of both user-generated wiki projects and traditional expert-approved reference works, it is a wiki to which anybody can contribute using their real names, while those with specific expertise are given a special role in assessing the quality of content. Upon fulfillment of a set of criteria like factual and linguistic accuracy, lack of bias, and readability by non-specialists, these entries are forked into two versions: a stable (and thus citable) approved "cluster" (an article with subpages providing supplementary information) and a draft version, the latter to allow for further development and updates. We provide an overview of how Citizendium is structured and what it offers to the open knowledge communities, particularly to those engaged in education and research. Special attention will be paid to the structures and processes put in place to provide for transparent governance, to encourage collaboration, to resolve disputes in a civil manner and by taking into account expert opinions, and to facilitate navigation of the site and contextualization of its contents.

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