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.
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, November 7. November 7 starts on November 6, 1200 UTC, in New Zealand, and ends on November 8, 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
Derek Harkness got off to an early start and brought some vodka for everyone.
Aleta thought she was early, but found Derek already on the party floor (literally--must've been all the vodka!) Fortunately, Aleta had bananas, so what with those and the vodka, maybe Hayford will share his daiquiri receipt? Oh, wait--that takes rum--don't we have any rum??! (Aleta knows bananas are not normally party fare, but didn't want to hear Larry sing that song again, so Yes! We now have bananas--we have some bananas, todaaaaay!!!)
- I got about 6 kinds of rum at home: which kind do you want? As Don the Beachcomber described his Perfect Breakfast:
- One bunch bananas
- One bottle of rum
- One parrot
- The parrot is to eat the bananas
- Hayford Peirce 17:12, 6 November 2007 (CST)
Porch sitters--article creators who didn't edit a new article
Party crashers--contributors who didn't create a new article
The total party poops
- Go ahead, admit it!
Questions
You ask--we answer. Ask anything. Keep it clean, now.
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