Archive:Big Collaboration

The Big Collaboration is a period when a non-specialist topic is the target of enhanced collaborative editing on the Citizendium. It started in August 2008 when Larry put Sports up as a Big Collaboration topic during the August Write-a-Thon.

Big Collaborations

• September 3, 2008:  Education: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. ^[e]
• August 6, 2008:  Sports: Activity that involves skill and physical exertion, and is governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. ^[e]

Future Collaboration suggestions

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•  Art: The expression or application of human imagination and creative skill, usually presented in a visual form. ^[e]
• Article: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Article (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Biography: A narrative account of a person's life. ^[e]
•  Bird: The class of animals (aves) that can be distinguished from all other living animals by the presence of feathers. ^[e]
•  Book: A bound set of sheets containing written or printed materials, or space for such. ^[e]
•  Camera: Device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. ^[e]
•  Cat: A feline, particularly the domesticated feline, Felis catus, a small carnivorous mammal. ^[e]
• Child: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Child (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Cinema: In its main sense, a theatre in which motion pictures are presented to a paying audience. ^[e]
•  Computer: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. ^[e]
• Culture: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Culture (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Democracy: A form of government in which ultimate sovereignty rests with the people. ^[e]
•  Dog: Domesticated canine often kept as a pet or as a working animal and known as 'man's best friend'. ^[e]
• Earth: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Earth (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Economy: (i) A complex interactive system that is engaged in the production and distribution of goods and services.; (ii) the careful use of money or other resources. ^[e]
• Environment: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Environment (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Exhibition: Add brief definition or description
•  Family: (1) Persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship, including individuals placed for foster care. (2) The social organization of a household or housekeeping unit using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common. See nuclear family and extended family ^[e]
•  Food: Any edible substance ingested (eaten) by living creatures for the purpose of obtaining energy and nutrients and so sustaining life. ^[e]
•  Game: A structured or semi-structured contrived activity, primarily undertaken for enjoyment or, sometimes, practice. ^[e]
•  Government: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. ^[e]
•  History: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. ^[e]
•  Hobby: An "activity done regularly for pleasure" (OED); may include pastime, avocation, para-profession or part-time occupation. ^[e]
• House: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See House (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Idea: Add brief definition or description
•  Information assurance: The combination of computer security, communications security, auditing and administrative controls such as physical security and personnel security clearances ^[e]
• Intellectual property: Add brief definition or description
•  Internet: International "network of networks" that connects computers together through the Internet Protocol Suite and supports applications like Email and the World Wide Web. ^[e]
• Journal: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Journal (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Law: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. ^[e]
•  Library: Collection of books and periodicals. ^[e]
•  Literature: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. ^[e]
• Meal: Add brief definition or description
•  Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
•  Military doctrine: Add brief definition or description
•  Money: A medium of exchange, that is to say an object which is widely accepted in exchange for goods; provides a cost-saving alternative to the option of the direct exchange (or "barter") of goods for goods. ^[e]
• Movie: Add brief definition or description
•  Museum: An institution which displays collections of preserved materials for public consumption ^[e]
•  Music: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm, harmonies and melodies. ^[e]
• Office: Add brief definition or description
• Paper: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Paper (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Pet: Particularly cherished or indulged companion animal. ^[e]
• Photo: Add brief definition or description
•  Research: Add brief definition or description
• Tax: Add brief definition or description
•  Theatre: Add brief definition or description
• Travel: Add brief definition or description
• Weather: Add brief definition or description
•  Work: Add brief definition or description