[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Chris Down]

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 at 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 at fairpoint.net>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at 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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