Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwas…

'Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)'

A few of the project's participants can be, not to put a nice word on it, pretty nasty. And this is tolerated. [3]