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