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.

When?

Our first Write-a-Thon is taking place Wednesday, August 1. Any new article you create, and any edit to a new article that you make, when it's August 1 in your part of the world, will count.

August 1 starts on July 31, 1200 UTC, in New Zealand, and ends on August 2, 1000 UTC, in Hawaii.

What are the rules?

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

Well, OK, maybe there are a couple rules:

• If our first one goes all right, 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.

The Partiers

• Aleta "any excuse for a party" Curry. Edited ABBA, started Grevillea. Yeah, baby! Created A Christmas Carol and reading
• Supten created Hemispheric lateralization, edited Reading
• Ion Morega created Debian; edited Python programming language
• Larry Sanger created musical instrument and edited ABBA, A Christmas Carol, Reading (performance), and Household, and needs help with Musical instrument/Related
• Todd Coles - created Joe Louis, edited Treaty of Union (1707)
• Roger Lohmann created Household, edited Civil Society subpages

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

• Ian Johnson - created ABBA, edited Title - I will return later to edit Title, after other articles are added here.
• Ian Johnson created Gay bar, to re-establish a gay reputation after an initial macho foray with ABBA earlier today ;-) and he will return to edit something...eventually.
• James F. Perry: Created Treaty of Union (1707), edit to come who haven't edited other articles
• Nereo Preto created Rock (geology), and hopes to find the time to edit something!
• Anton Sweeney created World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, because what's a party without games. Or beer. Why do we have no beer? (That's a hint). After finding some beer, he may try and edit something else.
  • That's one huge article for a card game, Anton. ;-) Don't let it be said that CZ lacks articles about pop culture! (Which are good to have of course!) --Larry Sanger 08:53, 1 August 2007 (CDT)

Wait till I get started on Poker and Texas Hold 'Em :P (Though that won't be today!) Anton Sweeney 09:01, 1 August 2007 (CDT)

• David Hoffman created the Hebrew Bible, a perfect site for collaboration during a write-a-thon, since there's so much to fill in and everyone's an expert ;) Be kind to yours truly, David Hoffman 09:23, 1 August 2007 (CDT)

Party crashers--article editors who didn't create a new article

• Paul Derry - Rewrite of Adder (electronics), Good Morning Sunshines!
• Morten Juhl Johansen edited Open source software, added a bit to Python and started nagging about the structure of the Linux articles. Also, finally put something into a stub made a long time ago about Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov. Please comment on that text, by the way.

The total party poops

• Stephen Ewen party pooper was partying all by his lonesome, writing a how-to document just for new constables.  :-| But hey, it'll help, I promise!