-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Larsen larsen.thomas.h@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 6:38 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
It is my understanding that Citizendium requires users to submit a brief biography (a) to help other authors and editors know with whom they are working and (b) ensure accountability (a biography in addition to a real name can be used to almost perfectly identify a person).
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I don't see that at all. In my biography I write : "I was first a world-known plastic surgeon, but then I decided to go into soft porn. After that I wrote 12 books on nematodes."
How does that identify me? You can write anything you want. Wikipedia also has a biographical area (your user page), but they don't compel you to fill it out.
I wonder if anyone can name any other website at all, that requires you to fill out a biography before they will allow you to log in? I don't mean check boxes and short fields (like city, birthdate, etc), I mean a free-form field.
This is the first time I've ever encountered a site, that requires you to fill in a free-form field, then has a human read that field, and decide on the basis of that, whether or not they will grant you access.
Will Johnson