Excerpt: Sanger, who started private testing of Citizendium in November 2006, claims to now have gotten approximately 820 authors and 186 editors on board with the project. Authors can start or edit articles. Editors decide which version of an article is approved and which requires an academic background in a particular area of expertise.
Excerpt: Anyone who registers with their full name is free to contribute. But those contributions will be monitored by constables. A "CZ Constable" is a volunteer who is required to have a bachelor's degree and be "at least 25 years old." These constables (Sanger is one of them) will have the authority to ban inappropriate contributors.
Excerpt: As criticism continues to mount over the apparent ease at which anyone can add erroneous and libellous information to Wikipedia, its creators are scrambling to find a long-term fix.
Excerpt: But Wikipedia's spectacular growth has been accompanied by regular incidents of vandalism and errors, which threaten to undermine users' trust permanently.
Excerpt: Mr Wales would not give specific details on how contributors would be verified, but the idea arose after revelations this month that one of Wikipedia's most trusted editors, who claimed to be a professor, was actually a 24-year-old with no advanced degrees.
Excerpt: * meat puppet: A person who disagrees with you.
* non-notable: A subject you're not interested in.
* vandalism: An edit you didn't make.
* neutral point of view: Your point of view.
* consensus: A mythical state of utopian human evolution. Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.