I guess you're referring to the part where they ask for a CV. But that
is only for "editors" not for "authors".
I really don't understand how Citizendium expects to get a following if
they are going to set the bar so high just to sign up for heaven's
sake. Any expert that wants to work on an experts-only project can
just join the new Britannica can't they.
Knol already has ten times the number of articles, and it's much
younger. What I see on Citizendium is pretty sparse. I understand
that Citizendium is attempting to only allow qualified experts to
create articles but the sign up page only states "write a 50-word
biography". It makes no reference to "prove to us that you're an
expert" or whatever. It's not a friendly page at all.
The first thing they need to get is better marketing and customer
relations ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Down <neuro.wikipedia(a)googlemail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 3:33 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
The thing with Citizendium is that I'm not particularly comfortable
giving
out personal information to people that I don't even know enough to
trust it
with. If one of these 'constables' decides it, they could have an outing
extravaganza -- and don't think it is an impossibility, either -
they're not
all robots.
- Chris
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:53 AM, <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
There is a set of check boxes to identify the area in
which you are
going to be writing. There is no check box for "biography" which made
me hesitate, so I checked the box for history.
I don't need 50 words to state that my areas of expertise are in
history, biography and genealogy. I can say that in ten at the most.
The response I was given back was not welcoming. So apparently
Citizendium has no room for critics inside the system?
Criticism-from-the-inside, to my mind, is one of the most useful
strengths that Wikipedia has embraced.