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james edited wikipedia today!

Liked Seven Days of New Things Day 1: Editing Wikipedia, Sardines by an author (jamesg.blog)

The Challenge
A few days ago, I remarked the following to a community of which I am a member: « I need to do or learn something new. » This sentence codifies a feeling of unease about not having a novel challenge that I have had recently.
While I love doing new things, I often stay within the same com…

and it makes me very happy. btw, citation hunt works in french too. i had never thought of using it as a tool to get people to make their first edits − it’s very smart!

Evil Author Day is a great idea

Liked Have the Delete Your Drafts Day for Our Blogs, but also Evil Author Day by Sara Jakša (Sara Jakša)

And then I remembered about the Evil Author day. It is celebrated in some parts of the fanfiction community on the 15th of February. On this day people can post their unfinished stories and probably also other art, with full intention to never finish this.
I…

I love the idea of Evil Author Day! It would be much more satisfying than Delete Your Drafts day. Looking forward to offloading some stuff next February 15, and thanks for sharing, Sara!

Week notes are good

Liked Doing weeknotes (doingweeknotes.com)

One weeknote is just one week’s worth of effort, summarised. Useful! But an archive of dozens or hundreds of weeknotes, stretching back through time – months, perhaps years – is a fabulous repository of thoughts, ideas and decisions. It’s a time machine that helps the team themselves, or their bosses or stakeholders, look back over recent history to work out why and how things are as they are. Much, much more useful!

I’ve been doing weeknotes at work for over 5 years now and they really help me − in good times, I can brag. In worse times, I can look at my weekly recap and realize that it’s not empty, that my work still has values even on bad weeks. It has always helped. (It’s especially…