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