Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/October 3, 2007

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What's a Write-a-Thon?

It's a bunch of people getting together on a wiki at a particular time to do a bunch of writing. It's like an online party! Heck no, it is an online party! It's also an excuse for infrequent wikiers to show up and actually pitch in party hardy.

But hey, why not show up in between the write-ins, too!

When?

Write-a-Thons happen the first Wednesday of every month. The next Write-a-Thon is Wednesday, September 5. September 5 starts on September 4, 1200 UTC, in New Zealand, and ends on September 6, 1000 UTC, in Hawaii. Save The Date! Put it on your calendar! Set yourself a reminder!

Any new article you create, and any edit you make to somebody else's Write-a-Thon article, when it's that day in your part of the world, will count.

Our first Write-a-Thon took place Wednesday, August the 1st, and was considered a roaring good time--we had about 30 partiers creating something like 50 articles, and editing lots.

What are the rules?

Rules? This is a party! There are no rules!

Well, OK, maybe there are a couple rules:

• We'll have a Write-a-Thon the first Wednesday of every month.
• To participate, you only have to do two things: (1) start a new article (even just a stub will qualify, if not too short), and (2) make a substantive edit (not just a copyedit) to somebody else's new article. Then you can list your name here as a partier. Until then, you're just a porch-sitter, party-crasher, or total party poop.

Create an article, already!

See this page. We should start using this!

The Partiers

• Aleta wrote about influenza but is not a biologist so tried flower to make herself feel better, but is still out of her depth. Puttered in the garden but the weather is poor, so no solar power. Time to quit, but couldn't resist editing Tina Turner and Oklahoma, so of course I had to say something about Rodgers and Hammerstein. I now have a pounding headache and need antibiotics and analgesics, but this is a party after all, so I'll settle for alcohol. Can one of you bring along champagne or sherry??? Created an article about the crazy bowerbirds in my garden eating all the flowers; it must be the fault of the lunar eclipse.

• Supten started John Snow (physician) and edited influenza.

Porch sitters--article creators who didn't edit a new article

• Ian Johnson found himself up late in Europe with Tina Turner on Highway Number 19, and will have to just keep the porch clean until partying for real tomorrow. -- 17:43, 4 September 2007 (CDT)
• Todd Coles was enjoying the wind sweeping down the plains, so he started an article on his beloved Oklahoma.

The total party poops

Go ahead, admit it!

• I am a proud poop until tomorrow, when the party starts for me. --Larry Sanger 18:18, 4 September 2007 (CDT)
  • I am hard at work on CZ:Community Pages. You could help!!!
• Here I am, ready to... go hiking on the Latemar, a mountain of the Dolomites, before the snow cover my outcrops! Won't be here this time, but just suggested three potential articles... (or four?) --Nereo Preto 00:58, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

Previous shindigs

• August 1, 2007

See also

• Larry Sanger, Why the Write-a-Thon worked, Citizendium Blog, August 9, 2007
• Weekly Wiki
• Article of the Week
• New Article of the Week