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Dear $1, | Dear $1, | ||
We're delighted to welcome you to the Citizendium as an author. Thanks for your interest, and we hope you'll enjoy adding to the world's knowledge alongside our many other contributors. | We're delighted to welcome you to the Citizendium encyclopedia project as an author. Thanks for your interest, and we hope you'll enjoy adding to the world's knowledge alongside our many other contributors. | ||
You should be aware that no one will be assigning you work: this is a "bottom-up" Web 2.0 project, and it thrives precisely because people work on whichever encyclopedia topics they want, whenever they want. Many people find this liberating. We hope you will follow our injunction to "be bold"! | You should be aware that no one will be assigning you work: this is a "bottom-up" Web 2.0 project, and it thrives precisely because people work on whichever encyclopedia topics they want, whenever they want. Many people find this liberating. We hope you will follow our injunction to "be bold"! | ||
Latest revision as of 20:12, 26 December 2007
Dear $1,
We're delighted to welcome you to the Citizendium encyclopedia project as an author. Thanks for your interest, and we hope you'll enjoy adding to the world's knowledge alongside our many other contributors.
You should be aware that no one will be assigning you work: this is a "bottom-up" Web 2.0 project, and it thrives precisely because people work on whichever encyclopedia topics they want, whenever they want. Many people find this liberating. We hope you will follow our injunction to "be bold"!
Log in info Username: $1 Password: $2
For security reasons you will need to change your password on first login. To login, please go to http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin.
Once you have logged in, look for a link to your new user page up in the upper right of the screen (your name will be linked).
Some highly recommended background about your role as author can be found here: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:The_Author_Role
And to get started generally, we also recommend: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Getting_Started
Please also, soon, subscribe to Citizendium-L, a low-volume, high-relevance broadcast mailing list for all "Citizens." Simply add your e-mail address on this page: https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
Again, we're very pleased to have you on board with our encyclopedia project. Could you regale us sometime soon with a few articles, even short ones just to get us started, about one or two of your favorite topics?
Regards, Citizendium Staff