User:Chris Key/Sandbox/Alphabet Article Drive

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

Note: This is an unofficial drive and therefore is in my sandbox. Feel free to edit the page anyway. The Alphabet Article Drive will run from Friday 11th March and Thursday 18th March, and everyone is free to join in! The Alphabet Article Drive is now extended! Complete your edits and articles by 31st March!

Introduction

In the past couple of months edits at Citizendium have severely declined. We all spend a lot of time talking, and not a lot of time writing. The result: the Alphabet Article Drive - a way to try to get everyone back into doing a bit of writing, and hopefully have a bit of fun on the way!

It's as easy as ABC...

The drive will run between Friday 11th March and Thursday 18th March, however you can sign-up before this time. To sign-up simple claim a letter of the alphabet from the list below by adding your name. Only one person can claim each letter, unless we run out of letters in which case we shall go through the alphabet twice. Then, between Friday 11th March and Thursday 18th March, you need to:

• Create a new article that begins with your letter.
• Improve an existing article that begins with your letter.
• Branch out by creating or improving on an article that begins with your letter, but that isn't in an area that you usually write in.
• Tell us about it by linking to those articles below.

When you are done you might want to try letting someone who might be interested know about one or more of the articles. This might be an author in that area who might help one of the articles improve further, an Editor who might have some knowledge in the area, or even somebody who isn't a part of the project but might be interested in joining to help develop your article.

Let's try to have some fun!

The Alphabet

A

• Claimed by: Supten Sarbadhikari 07:28, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created: Alappuzha
• Article improved: Alphabet
• Branched out into: Artillery

B

• Claimed by: Eric Clevinger 20:01, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created: Bucket drumming
• Article improved: Bagel
• Branched out into: Bucket drumming

C

• Claimed by: Bruce M. Tindall
• Article created: Channel Islands (California)
• Article improved: Corvus (constellation)
• Branched out into: Georg Cantor

D

• Claimed by: Chris Key (will not meet deadline)
• Article created:
• Article improved:
• Branched out into:

E

• Claimed by: Johan A. Förberg 17:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created: Experiment
• Article improved:
• Branched out into:

F

• Claimed by: Milton Beychok 17:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created: Fractionation Research Inc. − was created at ca. 2:45 AM UTC, Friday March 11, 2011
• Article improved: Fractionation Research Inc. − created Definition, Talk and Related Articles subpages
• Branched out into: Flame hardening and Poker − moved "See also" links to "Related Articles" subpage where they belong. Also populated and/or re-formatted the "Related Articles" subpage.

G

• Claimed by: Aleta Curry 21:55, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created: Gordon Setter
• Article improved: Great Dane
• Branched out into: er....Gaul? grapefruit? Georgia on My Mind? still thinking....

Writing Gordon Setter made me realise we had not [[setter]s, so I fixed that. What's next, pointers? :) Aleta Curry 23:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

H

• Claimed by:Gareth Leng 17:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created:James Hutton
• Article improved:Hypothalamus
• Branched out into: Higgs boson
  • This tempted me to write bos'n, and possibly to write about the Higgins boat landing craft, so there could be a complementary Higgins bosun (even though the skipper of the boat might properly be called the cox'n, he'd probably be rated a boatswain. Navy stuff). Howard C. Berkowitz

I

• Claimed by: User:David E. Volk
• Article created: Inositol, Indole, ibuprofen
• Article improved: Isotope
• Branched out into: Isotopomer

J

• Claimed by:
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• Branched out into:

K

• Claimed by: Joe Quick
• Article created: Khipu
• Article improved: Knowledge, probably.
• Branched out into: Kitchen garden, maybe. Or maybe Kryptonite.

L

• Claimed by:
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• Branched out into:

M

• Claimed by: Nick Gardner
• Article created: Manchester school of economics - finished 12/3
• Article improved: Market - extensions to sections on economics and policy implications 18/3
• Branched out into: Mistakes (trespassing on the Psychology workgroup) - 1st draft completed 16/3

N

• Claimed by:
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O

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P

• Claimed by: Mary Cloud B. Ammons
• Article created:
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• Branched out into:

Q

• Claimed by: Martin Baldwin-Edwards
• Article created: Qatar
• Article improved: Quince
• Branched out into:

R

• Claimed by: Mary Ash
• Article created:
• Article improved: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Branched out into:

S

• Claimed by:Chunbum Park 03:43, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created:
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• Branched out into:

T

• Claimed by: Howard C. Berkowitz
• Article created: Thermite
• Article improved: Thermal imaging, although that will be subordinate to infrared sensing
• Branched out into: Tea ceremony

U

• Claimed by: Peter Schmitt (will not meet "deadline")
• Article created:
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• Branched out into:

V

• Claimed by:
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W

• Claimed by:Thomas Simmons
• Article created: James D. Watson
• Article improved:
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X

• Claimed by: Ro Thorpe
• Article created: Xerxes & Xaviera Xenophon
• Article improved: X
• Branched out into: XXX

Y

• Claimed by: Hayford Peirce 17:01, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created: Yuzu, 17 March 2011
• Article improved: Yarrow, did a little reformatting 18:37, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
• Branched out into: Yankee (disambiguation), 00:19, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Z

• Claimed by: --Daniel Mietchen 10:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
• Article created:
• Article improved:
• Branched out into: