iMechanica and Citizendium - the perfect union?

Most visitors/users of iMehanica will be aware of Wikipedia. Well, there is a new project of this kind underway. To quote from its "mission statement":

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.

As of February 2, 2007, we were working on over 1,000 articles.

The main URL is at http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page

I am an editor of Citizendium and have been working a bit to create entries on fluid dynamics. Ideally, all of the mechanical sciences would be well represented in this venue. Right now there is a big push to recruit authors so that the effort can get seriously underway.

I invite you to become engaged in this project. It would be really nice to have peer groups working on articles in fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, biomechanics, etc. The expert group that Citizendium is seeking is, well... us! The work is unpaid (we're used to that), time-consuming (we're used to that too), not immediately part of the academic value system (and we will have to work to change that) and, if you like this kind of thing, a lot of fun!

Please do consider joining in. I hope to see you there!