I guess you're referring to the part where they ask for a CV. But that is only for "editors" not for "authors".
I really don't understand how Citizendium expects to get a following if they are going to set the bar so high just to sign up for heaven's sake. Any expert that wants to work on an experts-only project can just join the new Britannica can't they.
Knol already has ten times the number of articles, and it's much younger. What I see on Citizendium is pretty sparse. I understand that Citizendium is attempting to only allow qualified experts to create articles but the sign up page only states "write a 50-word biography". It makes no reference to "prove to us that you're an expert" or whatever. It's not a friendly page at all.
The first thing they need to get is better marketing and customer relations ;)
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 3:33 am Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
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@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.