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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 7:00 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
So after the mention of Citizendium once again, I
applied to join it.
The application page is extremely verbose. So much so, that it's a
bit
of
a turn-off.
All I wanted to do was sign up and tweak a few articles to see if the
interface was better.
They make you create a 50-word biography. What's the point of that?
So
I
used that space to bitch. My application was rejected.
I know Larry Sanger reads this. Maybe he could respond. "We don't
want
people who bitch". Sometimes people bitch
for the right reasons.
What I would do, is make the Sign Up page be at the most "Choose a
username, choose a password". There's really not much point in
making
it
extremely difficult to join a project.
Will Johnson
An effort is made to identify your expertise. My problem is that I'm not
particularly interested in writing articles on divorce law, and also,
although I have a Juris Doctor degree, that is not an actual
professional
level degree from a legal perspective, there are higher professional
studies. Only a few words are required. A rather low test of your
patience.
Fred
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