Wikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium Porting

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.

How can you help

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

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.

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.

Open tasks

Wanted: Automated tools

Further information: Natural language processing

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.

Alerts

Redirects for discussion

• 06 Aug 2024 – Classical homepathy (talk · edit · hist) →Homeopathy was RfDed by Cogsan (t · c); see discussion

Articles

Last 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
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

• {{CZPORT|date=Date Citizendium material last checked}}

• 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:

• 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.

• {{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.

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. Cybercobra (talk · contribs) 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. Soumya-8974 (talk · contribs) - 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

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Citizendium list of missing articles
• Citizendium: The license and our relationship with Wikipedia
• 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