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@fairpoint.net To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@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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