Envirowiki:One sentence a week
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The idea of the One sentence a week campaign is to bring more editors to envirowiki by making general environmentalists realise how easy it is to edit and add content to envirowiki.
[edit] 1 Reasons
Currently envirowiki is perceived of as a place to submit whole articles (see for example[1][2][3]). While it's great to have lots of information, and to have comprehensive articles, it's a significantly harder thing to do to write a whole article compared to just adding chunks here and there. But wikis work best when lots of people add lots of small chunks of information at a time. See Wiki#How_wikis_expand.
[edit] 2 Draft mail-out
One sentence a week to save the environmental movement a whole lot of time and effort
You know those times when someone asks you to back up some environmental statistic you've got in your head, or when you need to get an overview of an environmental concept? Well envirowiki is the place to find that information. It already has a fair amount of useful knowledge, but it could do with a lot more. And if you (and everyone else) adds one sentence a week to the site, it will quickly become much more useful, saving environmentalists the world over from duplicating work on research.
Wikis don't operate like other media. Wiki articles aren't written all at once by one person, but in fits and starts, by many authors. In practice, this means that many small edits are sometimes much more valuable than one large edit. And smaller edits are easier too: instead of researching a whole topic, you can just add the info you already know, or add some facts from an article you've just read, and later on someone else can add other info on the same topic.
