 | This page in a nutshell: For 5 days, starting July 18, 2009, Wikipedians were asked to voluntarily refrain from editing all non-article areas of Wikipedia, and instead dedicate themselves to creating, cleaning up, and building articles. |
The 1st Great Wikipedia Dramaout took place from July 18 to July 22, 2009. Similar to the Great American Smokeout, editors were asked to engage in a five-day period of abstinence from drama at Wikipedia, the most addictive and yet cancerous aspect of our community. During this five-day drama blackout, regular contributors to the non-article-space areas of Wikipedia ceased working in those areas for the length of the Dramaout and instead worked on article content. With the exception of areas deemed essential to improving articles directly, all participating editors voluntarily abstained from non-article edits.