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Dear $1,
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.
We're delighted to welcome you to the Citizendium project as an 'Author'. Thanks for your interest, and we hope you'll enjoy adding to the world's knowledge alongside our 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"!
No-one will be assigning you work: this is a bottom-up project, and it thrives precisely because people work on whichever topics they want, whenever they want. Check the 'Quick Start' guide at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Quick_Start for more details, and see the 'Help' pages at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Help:Index for more answers. You are also more than welcome to e-mail us back at constables@citizendium.org in confidence, or make contact publicly via contributors' 'Talk' pages.


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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).
For security reasons you will need to change your password on first login. You can also login via the link at the top-right of any Citizendium wiki page.


This "quick start" guide should be your first stop:
Please also join our e-mail list for occasional announcements via https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Quick_Start


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You can also follow what's going on at Citizendium via its forums and social networking pages:


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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?
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If you have specialist knowledge, practical skills or research qualifications, publications or other equivalent experience, consider applying to become an 'Editor' as well as an 'Author', since Citizendium has a special role for experts. Find out more at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:The_Editor_Role
 
Again, we're very pleased to have you on board with our project. We encourage you to get writing, editing and discussing articles in any area of interest.
 
Regards,
 
Citizendium Staff

Latest revision as of 13:55, 23 July 2014

Dear $1,

We're delighted to welcome you to the Citizendium project as an 'Author'. Thanks for your interest, and we hope you'll enjoy adding to the world's knowledge alongside our other contributors.

No-one will be assigning you work: this is a bottom-up project, and it thrives precisely because people work on whichever topics they want, whenever they want. Check the 'Quick Start' guide at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Quick_Start for more details, and see the 'Help' pages at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Help:Index for more answers. You are also more than welcome to e-mail us back at constables@citizendium.org in confidence, or make contact publicly via contributors' 'Talk' pages.

To login, go to http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin and enter the following:

Username: $1 Password: $2

For security reasons you will need to change your password on first login. You can also login via the link at the top-right of any Citizendium wiki page.

Please also join our e-mail list for occasional announcements via https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l

You can also follow what's going on at Citizendium via its forums and social networking pages:

http://forum.citizendium.org

http://twitter.com/TheCitizendium (official announcements)

http://twitter.com/CzPages (new articles and recent edits)

http://www.facebook.com/citizendium (official announcements; new and featured articles)

https://www.google.com/+CitizendiumOrg (some announcements)

If you have specialist knowledge, practical skills or research qualifications, publications or other equivalent experience, consider applying to become an 'Editor' as well as an 'Author', since Citizendium has a special role for experts. Find out more at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:The_Editor_Role

Again, we're very pleased to have you on board with our project. We encourage you to get writing, editing and discussing articles in any area of interest.

Regards,

Citizendium Staff