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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Add your suggestions!

* 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]
* Cartoon: Humorous or satirical drawing in journalism. [e]
* Cat: A feline, particularly the domesticated feline, Felis catus, a small carnivorous mammal. [e]
* Century: Add brief definition or description
* 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]
* Day: Defined as 86,400 seconds, using the SI definition of second. [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.
* Era: Add brief definition or description
* 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]
* Golden ratio: An irrational mathematical constant -- equal to (1+√5)/2, or approximately 1.618 -- that is widely used in art, architecture, and design, for its aesthetic harmonious proportions. [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]
* Hour: Add brief definition or description
* 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]
* Joke: Add brief definition or description
* Judgement: Add brief definition or description
* 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]
* Line: 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 Line (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
* Literature: Add brief definition or description
* Meal: Add brief definition or description
* Medicine: Add brief definition or description
* Military doctrine: Add brief definition or description
* Millennium: Add brief definition or description
* Minute (unit): Add brief definition or description
* Money: Add brief definition or description
* Month: Add brief definition or description
* Movie: Add brief definition or description
* Museum: Add brief definition or description
* Music: Add brief definition or description
* Office: Add brief definition or description
* Paper: Add brief definition or description
* Park: Add brief definition or description
* Pet: Add brief definition or description
* Photo: Add brief definition or description
* Proportion: Add brief definition or description
* Ratio: Add brief definition or description
* Research: Add brief definition or description
* Second (unit): 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
* Week: Add brief definition or description
* Work: Add brief definition or description
* Year: Add brief definition or description