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 <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
