Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/October 3, 2007

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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, September 5. September 5 starts on September 4, 1200 UTC, in New Zealand, and ends on September 6, 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 the 1st, 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

  • Yuval Langer started Nitroglycerin because he loves explosions, but knowing so little about it, he created a small-ish stub. He now needs your help. Yuval edited solar power. Also, he wouldn't mine you helping him with the Volhard titration he once created... Feeling hungry for spiritual well being he went to the hot dog article to add some Discordian trivia.
  • Ian Johnson found himself up late in Europe with Tina Turner on Highway Number 19, and will have to just keep the porch clean until partying for real tomorrow and joined the party over in Oklahoma.
  • Derek Harkness Kicking off with some food to keep those on the other side of the world going, I made some hot dogs then went all morbid and added Spanish Flu to influenza. As Aleta requested, I brough some champagne with me too. Spotted a lunar eclipse then noticed the time.
  • Denis Cavanagh went for a walk in the Irish Countryside, being quickly reminded of the Land League and its struggle for Irish Rural Land Reform. Then, later on in the day, reminded by his earlier walk in his native Monaghan (Though I did that another time) he remembered how he had heard once through his grandfather that the Ulster Volunteer Force once drilled openly there. Those were the days, eh?

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!
  • Here I am, ready to... go hiking on the Latemar, a mountain of the Dolomites, before the snow cover my outcrops! Won't be here this time, but just suggested three potential articles... (or four?) --Nereo Preto 00:58, 5 September 2007 (CDT) P.S.: but be sure next month I won't be in this list: look for me in the parties!!! --Nereo Preto 00:59, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

Previous shindigs

See also