The Chronicle of Higher Education just posted an article about a new scholarly version of Wikipedia that’s coming out soon. It’s called Citizendium, is being started by one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, and the biggest difference between it and Wikipedia is that it will be “responsibly managed” by having academic editors guiding each entry. While anyone will be able to contribute to Citizendium, there will be scholars with credentials (”the qualifications typically needed for a tenure-track academic position”) to act as editors.

The goal is to create a resource similar to Wikipedia, but with a hugh credibility boost. As librarians, we really need to keep an eye on Citizendia (and probably contribute to it!). It could be just what we’ve been looking for!

And if you’d like to be a participant of the private “pilot project,” visit their Call for Participation to submit your application.