{"id":76,"date":"2007-12-23T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/23\/citizendium-the-other-free-encyclopedia\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T18:41:47","slug":"citizendium-the-other-free-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/23\/citizendium-the-other-free-encyclopedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizendium, the other free encyclopedia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/11\/21\/citizendium-the-non-free-encyclopedia\/\">I was wrong<\/a>. Congratulations to the Citizendium Foundation on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.citizendium.org\/2007\/12\/21\/our-gift-to-the-world-cc-by-sa\/\">choosing a free content licence<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC by-sa 3.0 unported<\/a>) for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.citizendium.org\/\">Citizendium<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freedomdefined.org\/\">Free content<\/a>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\">free software<\/a>, is about freedom &mdash; the freedom for anyone to use, study and apply, change and redistribute the work, for any purpose. &#8220;Non-commercial&#8221; isn&#8217;t free enough to be called free. &#8220;No derivatives&#8221; isn&#8217;t free enough to be called free. As Brianna Laugher <a href=\"http:\/\/brianna.modernthings.org\/article\/43\/whos-afraid-of-commercial-use\">notes<\/a>, <i>&#8220;The right to fork that is created by free content licensing keeps the parent organisations honest.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The big news here is that the choice of a free licence furthers the <i>public<\/i> expectation that educational content (Wikipedia, Citizendium, <a href=\"http:\/\/eoearth.org\/\">Encyclopedia of Earth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/opensite.info\/\">Open Site<\/a>) will be under a proper free content license. Scholarpedia and about.com need not apply. Google needs to <a href=\"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/17\/rorschach-knols\/\">think carefully<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I also get a thank you at the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizendium.org\/czlicense.html#About%20this%20essay\">Citizendium license essay<\/a>. Any help I provided in making this choice happen, I&#8217;m extremely pleased to have provided.)<\/p>\n<p>Citizendium and Wikipedia, or at least the more foolish members thereof, have their periodic pissy bitchfights. But we&#8217;re on the same side in deep and important ways.<\/p>\n<p>(Is Citizendium good for anything? Well, their history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.citizendium.org\/wiki\/BSD_Daemon\">BSD Daemon<\/a> is the best article I&#8217;ve seen on the subject. There&#8217;s excellent stuff there worth linking people to.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wrong. Congratulations to the Citizendium Foundation on choosing a free content licence (CC by-sa 3.0 unported) for Citizendium! Free content, like free software, is about freedom &mdash; the freedom for anyone to use, study and apply, change and redistribute the work, for any purpose. &#8220;Non-commercial&#8221; isn&#8217;t free enough to be called free. &#8220;No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/23\/citizendium-the-other-free-encyclopedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Citizendium, the other free encyclopedia.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}