P.S. Track the Write-a-Thon here: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Monthly_Write-a-Thon
(It's still quiet now, but it's not even Wednesday morning in Europe or the U.S.) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Larry Sanger > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:26 PM > To: 'Citizendium general project announcement list' > Subject: [Citizendium-l] The September Write-a-Thon is on! > > > All, > > The Write-a-Thon is happening right now, since it is > Wednesday (the first of the month) in many parts of the > world. The topic of the event is "My Favourite Band." You > probably have a favo(u)rite band, and we probably don't have > an article about it! So, honor your musical heros! > > If you don't know what the Write-a-Thon is, it's an online > party! It's our excuse to show up, at least once a month, to > support the cause--add to the world's wisdom, demonstrate a > better way for a wiki community to organize, show off your > knowledge, and above all to have fun! > > I have a slight variation on the monthly topic: bands you > loved as a youth, but which you are now embarrassed by. I > have one word for you...Styx. (Careful with that > disambiguation page, Eugene...aaahh!!!) Go ahead, own up to > it. Tears for Fears, Supertramp, the Monkees, Journey, Hall > and Oates, Village People, the Bangles... > > We are 53 articles away from 8,000 articles. In spite of the > usual summer slowness, we have continued to grow credibly! > Let's see if we can break 8,000 by the end of the Write-a-Thon. > > Anyway, I will be on hand tomorrow, doing my best to add > stubs (to push us over 8,000), which I never really seem to > be able to produce. My would-be stubs always seem to expand... > > A few other notes. We'll so finally be ramping up (really!) > our recruitment for Biology Week, September 22-28. That > should be very exciting, and I'll be working hard in the next > few weeks to make it a success. Also, I hope before too long > we will be launching a new MediaWiki extension that will > allow us to invite everyone with a Citizendium e-mail address > to sign up for a monthly statistics report. I think this is > going to tap into our deep roots and deep interest, as we saw > with the phenomenal influx of Citizens last November. > > Finally, I'd like to say that we'll soon be calling for a new > crop of constables. Please start thinking about whether > you'd be interested. We can use the help, especially with > Biology Week approaching. > > --Larry > > P.S. Hey, old hands--this would be a good time to welcome the > new and returned people who show up. > > _______________________________________________ > Citizendium-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l > _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
