All, Thirty people came to the party and said they wrote 40 new articles
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Monthly_Write-a-Thon and made many edits, but our New Pages log, http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Newpages shows that the total number of new articles during the whole New Zealand-to-Hawaii August 1 period easily topped 65. Exactly how many of the articles were created when it was August 1 in the creator's time zone? Don't know. Anyway, it was a very significant boost over our usual daily output--well over double the average Wednesday. And our total page edits were probably double our usual; mainspace edits alone are well over 500 in the last 24 hours alone. And I would like to point out that this work is entirely sans coping with vandalism or the other sorts of community disruption one sees on other wikis. Aleks Stos, math editor and compiler of statistics, and by the way a new constable, has crunched some numbers and says (pending further investigation) there are about four million words in Citizendium articles so far, with a median word count of 568--remarkably good, I'd say, for a new wiki. And far better, I'd like to point out, than Wikipedia's median after 10 months. It was a great little get-together. Count on the next one being held the first Wednesday of September (the 5th). --Larry P.S. Looking for more nominations for http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Article_of_the_Week _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
