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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.

== 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.
:*'''Ahem!'''--Notice there are TWO rules here, boys?  I'm going to move myself up to the top of the list if you don't '''edit''' something! [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 20:45, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
::er...I see you have to make a substantive edit to another ''new'' article.  Duh!  Well, that does make it harder...never mind....[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 23:58, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
:::Personally I reckon that the edit requirement makes for a limiter on the end result increase in new articles, and the new article aspect should be far more important as a day like today is a really good motivator to 'get to' starting the articles one has been 'putting off' for a while... --[[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]] 06:17, 1 August 2007 (CDT) 

== The Partiers ==
On Wednesday, list your name here like this:
* [[User:Ian Johnson|Ian Johnson]] - created [[ABBA]], edited [[Title]] - I will return later to edit [[Title]], after other articles are added here.
* [[user:Aleta_Curry|Aleta "any excuse for a party" Curry]].  Edited [[ABBA]], started [[Grevillea]].  Yeah, baby!
* [[User:Todd Coles|Todd Coles]] - created [[Joe Louis]], will edit something :)
* [[User:James F. Perry|James F. Perry]]: Created [[Treaty of Union (1707)]], edit to come
* [[user:Aleta_Curry|Aleta]] created [[A Christmas Carol]] and [[reading (performance)|reading]]
* [[User:Thomas Mandel|Thomas Mandel]] 00:45, 1 August 2007 (CDT)created [[Crop circles]]
* [[User:Paul Derry|Paul Derry]] - Rewrite of [[Adder (electronics)]], Good Morning Sunshines!
* [[User:Supten Sarbadhikari|Supten]] created [[Hemispheric lateralization]], edited [[Reading_%28performance%29|Reading]]
* [[User:Stephen Ewen|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!
* [[user:Ian Johnson|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.
* [[User:Ion Alexandru Morega|Ion Morega]] created [[Debian]]; edited [[Python_programming_language]]
* [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] created [[musical instrument]] and edited [[ABBA]]
* [[User:Nereo Preto|Nereo Preto]] created [[Rock (geology)]], and hopes to find the time to edit something!
* [[User:Morten Juhl Johansen|Morten Juhl Johansen]] edited [[Open source software]], added a bit to [[Python programming language|Python]] and started nagging about the structure of the [[Linux_(disambiguation)|Linux]] articles.
* [[User:Tomas Cespedes|Tomas Cespedes]] created [[Research Methodologies Approaches]] and will return to finished and edit another article soon...