Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/May 7, 2008
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 party hardy; to exchange ideas with people we might not "meet" otherwise.
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, February 6th, 2008. 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 during that time period will count, though to be a bona fide partier, you have to write your new articles when it's that day in your part of the world.
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 subpages template!), 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, sign in as a porch-sitter, party-crasher, or total party poop.
- Larry Sanger recommends (but does not require!) attention to:
Create an article, already!
Check it out: Start an article!
Now (this time anyway) easier than ever! Stubs are not only permitted they are encouraged!
The Partiers
- Request/Plea/On hands and knees: please consider working on Olympic Games/Olympic articles that are also in the Core Article Initiative!
;)--Robert W King 15:06, 5 February 2008 (CST)
Keen-as-mustard and jumped the gun
- Robert scratched a few lines down on Mohs' scale of hardness.
- My word, you're keen! Well done, Robert! Aleta Curry 14:46, 5 February 2008 (CST)
Porch sitters--article creators who didn't edit a new article
Donning some gloves to go with her skirt, Louise ducks in to say hullo to all the Write-a-Thon partiers for the day before having to dash off to her early morning capoeira class. And just for kicks and drinks, and keeping on the Brazilian theme, she offers all a caipirinha.Louise Valmoria 13:28, 5 February 2008 (CST)
- First partier! Go, Lou, go! Aleta Curry 14:46, 5 February 2008 (CST)
Party crashers--contributors who didn't create a new article
Shy Boys, absent-minded profs, and other modest creatures
The total party poops
- Go ahead, admit it!
Questions
It's a wrap!
Previous shindigs
Official libations
- Inaugural - beer!
- September - champagne
- October - we were refurbishing the bar and only had coffee!
- November - made up for last month with more vodka than was good for us and plenty of rum.
- December - eggnog and wine
- January - Whisky and the Cocktail of the Month, a pharisee
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