Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/October 3, 2007
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, October 3. October 3 starts on October 2, 1200 UTC, in New Zealand, and ends on October 4, 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 1, 2007 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 please remember to include the CZ:The Article Checklist!), 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!
Check it out: Start an article!
The Partiers
Aleta, after discussions with the biology department, got things kicked off in the Land Down Under with Maple (or should that be Acer? Better redirect!). I've saved all my Acer Palmatum var. Painus in the Buttus from the drought, but now there are Gall wasps in my lemon! Husband wanted to know why dinner was late, so I may have a few choice words to say about marriage later!!! Aleta Curry 18:31, 2 October 2007 (CDT)
Porch sitters--article creators who didn't edit a new article
Party crashers--contributors who didn't create a new article
Matt was getting antsy while waiting for the party to heat up and kept Aleta from killing those Gall darn wasps. AH, Bummer, Matt just realized it is only Tuesday over here!
The total party poops
- Go ahead, admit it!
Questions
You ask--we answer. Ask anything. Keep it clean, now.
- I have a sinking feeling Gall wasp should be Gall Wasp, so a) am I right and b) if I move it, does it mess up that whole metadata page thingy? Aleta Curry 19:59, 2 October 2007 (CDT)
- Why is it that the average heterosexual male will lift something heavy for you without complaint, and generously fish an earring out of the toilet with his bare hand without flinching, but cannot put his dirty clothes in the laundry basket?
- Aleta Curry 19:59, 2 October 2007 (CDT)
Previous shindigs
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