CZ:User pages

To find your userpage, log in, and simply click on your name at the very top of the screen.

Why biographies?

All Citizens are required to maintain biographies on their userpages. Why? Because we are taking real-world responsibility for our contributions and making real-world relationships with each other. A name by itself conveys little information to others. The purpose of user pages is to be helpful to the development of Citizendium by providing other Citizens with a basis from which to explore opportunities for collaboration in the framework of the project. The requirement for biographies on authors' user pages will be enforced by Citizendium's constabulary.

What goes into a biography?

Any Citizen

The biography of any Citizen should provide some basic information about themselves, their interests and educational background — preferably a few hundred words, and not fewer than 50. Rough clues as to age, location, native language and prior experience in similar projects might be helpful to other users but are optional. Example.

Minors are asked not to include any personal information about themselves, nor about where they live, but they should still give some nonspecific information about their interests and education (no school names, please).

Should conflicts of interest exist between participation in Citizendium and elsewhere, they are to be clearly stated.

Biographies of Editors as well as elected and appointed officials have the following additional requirements.

Editors

When a contributor is confirmed as an Editor, an Editorial Personnel Administrator appointed by the Editorial Council will add a section to the new Editor's userpage explaining the qualifications upon which Editorship has been granted. This section may be revised at the User's discretion, but Editorial Council rules state that qualifications and credentials must always remain visible to the casual reader.

Editors are encouraged to expand on these basic qualifications for the benefit of other Users who may be seeking guidance. For instance, it is preferable when describing professional experience to include at least one relevant link. This link could point to a formal scholarly publication or the abstract thereof, or to an informal contribution in a professional environment, such as a mailing list, a forum or an open source code repository. Example.

Officials

The biography should contain at least a link to a page describing their official role in the project. Example

User page rules

Citizens may not edit each others' user pages, or subpages thereof, unless such a page is clearly labeled as inviting contributions from others, as per Category:Editable user pages. Constables will have the authority to edit user pages to render them conform with the above rules; they will, however, first make a request that the author him- or herself do it. Purely technical edits like fixing categories, templates or redirects shall be exempted from requiring permission or prior notification.

Technicalities

Categories play an important role in managing user pages. They can be placed on pages by Constables, members of the technical team and the users themselves.

If a Constable hasn't done so, be sure to add yourself to the list of CZ authors (which you see on the left--under "Our authors") by putting this on your userpage:

[[Category:CZ Authors]]

You should also add yourself to a workgroup or several (here's the current list), with a tag; for example:

[[Category:History Authors]]

Editors are designated as such by CZ staff after having requested their account.

Signatures

Note that we do not permit pseudonyms or customized "signatures" on the wiki.