Archive:Email us an article in word processor format
Citizendium now offers authors the opportunity to submit articles written in their word processor. A Citizendium human Wiki-Converter will convert the document to 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.
Where to email articles
Just send your article as an attachment to [email protected].
We will need you preferred email address to maintain contact with you, for progress reports and for questions that might come up.
What to include in the email
In addition to including in the email the article as an attachment, in the body of the email, authors may add any comments regarding their article.
What happens after you email your article
A member of the wiki-converting team will contact you at your preferred email address 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 will receive an email with a link to the article. You may want to make edits then. 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 complete 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. Include the words, "Attention:Person's Name", on the subject line, substituting for Person's Name the name of your wiki-converter.
Requirements for submitting articles in word processor format
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 about Citizendium's mission: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page
If you have questions
If you have questions, email them to the mailing list. Someone will get back to you with an answer.
If you have questions after submitting an article, call the questions to the attention of the Wiki-Converter who initially responded to you indicating herself/himself as the person taking responsibility for converting your article. Include the words, "Attention:Person's Name", on the subject line, substituting for Person's Name the name of your wiki-converter. She/he will get back to you with an answer.
Nota Bene
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If you’d like to write an article but have no subject in mind, or too many in mind, consider an article we deem a “Core Article” that we would like to include in Citizendium soon. Here find the links to the Citizendium pages listing Core Articles for different categories of subjects. On those pages, no articles exist for those in red font color. Articles do exist for those in blue font color.