CZ:Citizendium Press Releases/Feb202008

For immediate release Citizendium Makes it Easier for Authors to Submit Articles You Can Now Mail in Your Articles Citizendium now offers authors the opportunity to submit articles written in their word processor. A Citizendium human Wiki-Converter will convert the document in the MediaWiki mark up code so that the article can appear in Citizendium as a regular encyclopedia article, complete with images, tables, notes and citation-sources (references). For the present, Citizendium will accept articles written in Microsoft ‘.doc’ format, and will accept also ‘.rtf’ files, which most word processors can generate. Authors send their articles as attachments to the following mailing list; authors submitting articles may submit to the mailing list without ‘subscribing’ to it: cz-wikiformat@mail.citizendium.org In the body of the email, authors may add any comments regarding their article. A member of the wiki-converting team will contact you confirming that your article has been accepted for conversion, and will keep you posted on the conversion progress. Expect some queries from time-to-time, for example for clarification. After your article has been converted and posted to Citizendium, you may want to make edits. You can do that yourself, for minor edits, using Citizendium’s editor. Go to the article page, click the edit tab. The editor box will be in MediaWiki code, but you can easily make edits by following the code format you will see already there. If you have extensive edits, as in the case of a re-write of a section of the article, submit the section to the mailing list and indicate the title of the article it belongs to, and the name of the Wiki-Converter. To submit articles, you must sign-up as an author in Citizendium, if you have not already done so. You do that by filling in a simple web form at:http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount If you wish to learn more about the author role, see: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:The_Author_Role Also check out the Citizendium ‘Main Page’ for more information: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page If you have questions, post them to the mailing list. Someone will get back to you with an answer. Citizendium aims at credibility and quality, not just quantity, in its articles. Both the general public and credentialed experts are encouraged to get involved. We use our real names, not pseudonyms. We’re both collegial and congenial. LINKS: Eduzendium home page (on the Citizendium): http://www.eduzendium.org Citizendium home page: http://www.citizendium.org PRESS CONTACT INFORMATION: Prof. Anthony Sebastian Reader in Human Evolution and the Public Understanding of Science University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Lee.berger@wits.ac.za http://www.profleeberger.com/ Dr. Larry Sanger Editor-in-Chief, Citizendium; co-founder of Wikipedia sanger@citizendium.org http://www.larrysanger.org/