Talk:Edit-a-thon

Hyphenated?

If I'd thought about it before reading this article (which I seem not to have), I would've said that it was spelt with no hyphens: "editathon". Wiktionary (wk:Category:English words suffixed with -athon) makes the hyphenated version seem less common. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it... :-) doesn't really bother me either way. Thanks! Sam Wilson 08:42, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

@Samwilson:, personally, I agree with you, but Edit-a-thon has 150,000 Google search results, while editathon only gets 35,600. Therefore, WP:COMMONNAME suggests that this article be titled with the former. However, the latter is mentioned in boldface in the lede section. Note also that hackathon is spelled sans hyphens. – voidxor ^{(talk | contrib)} 22:25, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@Samwilson and Voidxor: It was originally spelt without any hyphens; I'm not sure when the hyphens were added to the name. The title of the first editathon at The British Library in 2011 didn't feature any hyphens. (COI note: me and @Tango came up with the 'editathon' name, and I ran the first editathon in 2011). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:41, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

@Samwilson, Voidxor, Mike Peel, and Tango: When was the first wikipedia edit-a-thon? Was it the British Library event? It would be brilliant to have a "history" section

@Samwilson, Voidxor, Mike Peel, and Tango: A "history" section would be great! By the way, the British Library Event page does feature a hyphen at least once but only one between "Edit-athon." Does anyone know of any earlier edit-a-thons? --Fransplace 07:03, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

The very successful, but unorthodox, Wikipedia:GLAM/British Museum/Hoxne challenge was in June 2010. I'm not sure that was the first though. Johnbod (talk) 13:01, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

1. I would like to participate in one of these edit a thons for Black historical figures. Anyone interested in organizing one with me?§ —WillieHowardCO67 (talk • contribs) 09:59, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

@WillieHowardCO67: You may wish to check out AfroCrowd. Their website is https://afrocrowd.org/. Peaceray (talk) 01:57, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I will, thank you so much🙏 WillieHowardCO67 (talk) 01:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Video could be added to the page

video could be added to article

I am not sure, it's perhaps a bit too long and too specific for this article? EMsmile (talk) 03:17, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Updated to include virtual edit-a-thons

I have just updated the article to include more information on virtual edit-a-thons. Do people agree? (@User:Sadads) Also, do we prefer "virtual edit-a-thon" or "online edit-a-thon"? EMsmile (talk) 03:15, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

A quick Google search brought me to this page which makes me think it should be called online edit-a-thon but we would be using "virtual meeting rooms", for example. The antonym to virtual is "actual" which means "virtual" sounds like it's "not real". EMsmile (talk) 03:33, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Improve second sentence?

I really don't know what this second sentence means: "They often involve meetups, but can be distributed as well. ". Can someone help to rewrite it? Non-Wikipedians won't know what meetups are either. Also "can be distributed" is unclear. EMsmile (talk) 08:26, 3 September 2020 (UTC)