Citizendium Blog

Finally.

To join CZ, you can now apply via a Web form.  You no longer have to use e-mail.  And maybe more importantly, our fine constables can approve an application by simply clicking a button — and their work is done!  Thanks much to Aaron Schulz!

This will allow the same number of constables to handle two or three times the number of applications, and we’ll be able to respond faster, or I think we will — maybe on the order of minutes to hours, instead of hours to a day. That’s what I will encourage, anyway.  As a result of this, one of the next initiatives I will be putting time into is — again finally — a big, organized, ambitious recruitment campaign.

Aaron Schulz is a student at my alma mater, Ohio State, and proposed to help with this rather out of the blue last summer. He’s done really excellent work (yet another victory for the Buckeyes!), and the constables are really happy with his ConfirmAccount extension. Here’s a link to it, by the way.

We would have had this installed sooner, but we had to update to the latest MediaWiki version (which is why the wiki has been wonky lately), and that took some doing. Thanks greatly to Greg and Jason for that, and to Zach for pitching in as well.