From sanger at citizendium.org  Thu May 15 12:57:03 2008
From: sanger at citizendium.org (Larry Sanger)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:57:03 -0400
Subject: [Cz-history] Should CZ hold a History Week?
Message-ID: <000e01c8b6b5$15bdb870$0202a8c0@D7WRQ591>

Hello Citizendium historians,

Do you like the idea of CZ holding a History Week?  This would be an
organized event in which, for a week, we would specifically encourage and
report upon the development of history articles.  It would be a
widely-announced *event* aimed to get lots of new historians on board.

If so, I need your help to make this happen--I can't do it all myself.  If
you like the idea, please express your support (and questions) here on the
list.  I am (now) on the list, which, I can report, has 26 subscribers.  I
can answer questions here if you have any.  But just saying, "Yes, this is a
good idea!" will help make it happen.

But we need more than people saying it's a good idea--we need people to do
quite a bit of work leading up to the week itself.  If we want History Week
to be a real *event*, we need to announce it far and wide.  (For one thing,
I'd like to get an announcement on as many of the H-Net lists as possible.)
If you can take responsibility for even *one little part* (like posting an
announcement, written by someone else, to a single mailing list, or
communicating with your local History Department), could you please put your
name here?

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Workgroup_Weeks#E-Z_sign-up

If beyond that you are ready to take the plunge and commit to something
specific, you could do that here?--

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:History_Workgroup/WorkgroupWeek

As you can see on that page, there are already three people who have
expressed some interest in helping with a History Week.  In fact, their
interest is why I'm writing to you.

If I get the sense that enough historians (and history buffs) are interested
in participating in this effort--we're practically there already--I will
work closely with you (particularly if it's the first Workgroup Week) and
make sure it really is a *big* event.  I have no doubt, by the way, that we
can, simply by doing the planned promotional activities, make it an enormous
event.  I predict that, during that week, we'll probably have two or three
times more active historians than anyone else, and the History Workgroup
will be greatly vitalized.

What do you say?

--Larry