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The Big Collaboration is a period when a non-specialist topic is the target of enhanced collaborative editing on the Citizendium. It started in August 2008 when Larry put Sports up as a Big Collaboration topic during the August Write-a-Thon.
Big Collaborations
- September 3, 2008:
Education: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e] - August 6, 2008:
Sports: Activity that involves skill and physical exertion, and is governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. [e]
Future Collaboration suggestions
- Add your suggestions!
- Art: The expression or application of human imagination and creative skill, usually presented in a visual form. [e]
- Article: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Article (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Biography: A narrative account of a person's life. [e]
- Bird: The class of animals (aves) that can be distinguished from all other living animals by the presence of feathers. [e]
- Book: A bound set of sheets containing written or printed materials, or space for such. [e]
- Camera: Device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. [e]
- Cartoon: Humorous or satirical drawing in journalism. [e]
Cat: A feline, particularly the domesticated feline, Felis catus, a small carnivorous mammal. [e]- Child: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Child (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Cinema: In its main sense, a theatre in which motion pictures are presented to a paying audience. [e]
- Computer: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. [e]
- Culture: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Culture (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Democracy: A form of government in which ultimate sovereignty rests with the people. [e]
Dog: Domesticated canine often kept as a pet or as a working animal and known as 'man's best friend'. [e]- Earth: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Earth (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Economy: (i) A complex interactive system that is engaged in the production and distribution of goods and services.; (ii) the careful use of money or other resources. [e]
- Environment: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Environment (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Exhibition: Add brief definition or description
- Family: (1) Persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship, including individuals placed for foster care. (2) The social organization of a household or housekeeping unit using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common. See nuclear family and extended family [e]
- Food: Any edible substance ingested (eaten) by living creatures for the purpose of obtaining energy and nutrients and so sustaining life. [e]
- Game: A structured or semi-structured contrived activity, primarily undertaken for enjoyment or, sometimes, practice. [e]
- Government: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. [e]
- History: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. [e]
- Hobby: An "activity done regularly for pleasure" (OED); may include pastime, avocation, para-profession or part-time occupation. [e]
- House: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See House (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Idea: Add brief definition or description
- Information assurance: The combination of computer security, communications security, auditing and administrative controls such as physical security and personnel security clearances [e]
- Intellectual property: Add brief definition or description
- Internet: International "network of networks" that connects computers together through the Internet Protocol Suite and supports applications like Email and the World Wide Web. [e]
- Joke: Add brief definition or description
- Journal: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Journal (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Law: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. [e]- Library: Collection of books and periodicals. [e]
- Literature: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. [e]
- Meal: Add brief definition or description
- Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Military doctrine: Add brief definition or description
- Money: A medium of exchange, that is to say an object which is widely accepted in exchange for goods; provides a cost-saving alternative to the option of the direct exchange (or "barter") of goods for goods. [e]
- Movie: Add brief definition or description
- Museum: An institution which displays collections of preserved materials for public consumption [e]
- Music: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm, harmonies and melodies. [e]
- Office: Add brief definition or description
- Paper: Add brief definition or description
- Pet: Add brief definition or description
- Photo: Add brief definition or description
- Research: Add brief definition or description
- Tax: Add brief definition or description
- Theatre: Add brief definition or description
- Travel: Add brief definition or description
- Weather: Add brief definition or description
- Work: Add brief definition or description
