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edit-a-thon

edit-a-thon is the alternative spelling of editathon.

Meaning of editathon

Noun

editathon (plural editathons)

  1. (Internet) A collaborative group session of contributing edits to a wiki.
    • Usability and easiness are two key factors for users, as we noticed during the Ljubljana “editathon” and in individual and group test cases carried out.2014, Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Vittore Casarosa, Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage, page 196

Forms of edit-a-thon

pluraledit-a-thons

Origin of edit-a-thon

From edit + -a-thon.

Questions about edit-a-thon

What is edit-a-thon the alternative spelling of?
Edit-a-thon is the alternative spelling of editathon.

Words near edit-a-thon in the dictionary

  1. edit warred
  2. edit warring
  3. edit warrior
  4. edit warriors
  5. edit wars
  6. edit-a-thon
  7. edit-a-thons
  8. edit-war
  9. edit-warred
  10. edit-warring
  11. edit-wars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edit-a-thon (page history and authors); editathon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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