[Cz-biology] Gene articles, and new biologists arriving

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Hi all,

To follow up on Professor Mietchen; we did have a problem as the 
school's server apparently would not let our confirmation/passoword 
emails through.  It took me awhile to realize that students were not 
receiving passwords until some started to send a note to constables AT 
citizendium.org.  I then had them re-apply using a different email 
account and they were able to get in. This was the only time that I am 
aware of that we had this problem, though, the only way I would know is 
if someone emailed me to let me know they did not get their password.  I 
have not had that kind of email since Professor Mietchen's class, so 
hopefully we're ready.

Matt Innis

Daniel Mietchen wrote:
> Hi Larry,
> I think it is the right time to start banging the drums among biologists.
> However, I noticed that more than half of the students of my summer course
> had problems with their registration, and I do not think they are much less
> computer-literate than the biologists we wish to join us.
> Please give this some more thoughts before you launch the calls for
> participation.
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
>   
>> See http://news.google.com/news?q=Citizendium
>>
>> All the hits on Google News for us now (about 90 of them) are due to the
>> fact that we ultimately turned down Andrew Su in his long and well-intended
>> effort to get us to adopt pages about genes!  It's a pity!  But I think it
>> would have ultimately been a disappointment for Andrew to see the gene
>> articles uploaded here and then staying dormant for who knows how long.
>> Wikipedia does have a vigorous if imperfect system, and perhaps his articles
>> will be well served there.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I'll be doing a great deal on Biology Week in the coming weeks.
>> This will involve, among other things, posting many announcements about CZ
>> on biology mailing lists and forums, etc.  I hope you'll join in with that.
>> As a result, we'll probably see a sizeable influx of biologists, and while
>> as usual many of them won't be active (it's a numbers game), a good few of
>> them very probably will be.  Especially if they have encouragement from the
>> old hands!
>>
>> --Larry
>>
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