editathon

A collaborative group session of contributing edits to a wiki.

Noun

  1. A collaborative group session of contributing edits to a wiki.
    • Usability and easiness are two key factors for users, as we noticed during the Ljubljana “editathon” and in individual and group test cases carried out. - 2014, Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Vittore Casarosa,...
    • In September 2018, we brought together a group of 12 young women living in a slum resettlement colony in Delhi's urban edge to participate in a Wikipedia editathon. - 2020, Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin,...
    • Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, was so impressed with the success of the India–Sweden Wikipedia editathon in 2017 that she announced the #WikiGap editathons in March 2018 in 54 of its embassies […] -...

Origin

From edit + -athon.

Forms

editathons edit-a-thon