BeenVerified and Citizendium Team Up to Build a Trusted Wiki
BeenVerified would like to officially welcome all Citizendium.com members to BeenVerified. Citizendium is an online encyclopedia project that was started by Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia. The Citizendium project is different from Wikipedia in the fact that they use real names and real identities. Additionally, Citizendium puts more emphasis on transparency and does not tolerate some of the policies that have gotten Wikipedia in trouble in the past. Their goal is to create a knowledge base of resources that can be trusted because editors are held accountable. For full details on the difference between Citizendium and Wikipedia, check out “We aren’t Wikipedia”.
BeenVerified will be providing Citizendium members with identity verification should they choose to become members of BeenVerified and it will be an optional service for Citizendium users. Going forward we will be working with Citizendium to implement some features that would let members voluntarily choose which credentials they would like to present on their Citizendium pages. We are very excited to be working with Larry, his team of editors, and all of the Citizendium members. We think having the ability for authors to prove their credibility from within their wiki postings is a huge advancement in the wiki process. Additionally, prior to BeenVerified, this was something that was not possible on the anonymous web.
If you would like to contribute to Citizendium, you can do so here. If you would like to read more about how they review a contributing editor’s application you can go do so here.
If you would like to learn more about becoming a BeenVerified Partner, please visit our Partner Page.
