Wikipedia: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.

Summary
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.

Manual process

 * 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.
 * 3) *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"
 * 4) *Be sure to adjust style, templates, etc to match that of Wikipedia and keep Wikipedia's policies (e.g. NPOV) in mind when merging
 * 5) Apply  to the article's References section
 * 6) Update (or add) the  box on the article's talkpage with the last modified date of the version of the Citizendium article you pulled from.
 * 7) Update the article's entry in the Articles list below.
 * 8) Go on to the next article.

Recommendations

 * 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.

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

Templates



 * If the article has not been updated from the latest Approved version of the corresponding Citizendium article, set  in the template to get:


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


 * 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.





Categories

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

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


 * 1)  18:48, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Taku (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) ragesoss (talk) 14:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC) (I'm Sage Ross on Citizendium.)
 * 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.
 * 5) Rjensen (talk) 13:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC) history articles
 * 6) Rich Farmbrough, 05:17, 9 December 2010 (UTC). quick wins!
 * 7)  - mainly spaceflight and language-related articles
 * 8)  The Moose  09:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * 9) Andrewa (talk) 02:47, 6 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Inactive for a year or more:
 * 1) Banana (talk) 06:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) colleenfugate (talk) 14:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) mabdul (talk) 00:53, 11 November 2011 (UTC) all kind of computer related articles will be done by me