A few federal workers gathered last month at a coffee shop in D.C. with the goal of helping other agencies make government available to citizens via mobile technology.

Specifically, they created content for the Making Mobile Gov Wiki.

The gathering, dubbed a “Wikithon,” was kind of like a hackathon for content, according to GSA’s Mobile Gov Blog. The idea was to gather practitioners together and jump start documenting mobile practices and expertise in agencies and create useful content for the Making Mobile Gov wiki. The Wikithon was also an opportunity for attendees to learn how to use the wiki tool, network with other mobile government leaders and learn about new practices and resources for their own agencies.

“We had put together a list of potential topics for folks to work on, but our intrepid Wikithoners came armed with their own ideas,” wrote Jacob Parcell, Manager, Mobile Programs.

For instance, Doug Joubert from the National Institutes of Health wrote on mHealth or Mobile Health. Mike Pulsifer from the Department of Labor came in with a bunch of content, uploaded it and headed back to his office. Virtual attendees, like Ryan Day from GSA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer in Kansas City, got in on the action. Altogether, we had a dozen attendees and created 20 pages of new wiki content.

Because of the event’s success, Wikithon #2 is planned for 2:30-5:00 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, upstairs at the coffee shop at 237 Pennsylvania Ave SE Washington, D.C. The event is sponsored by the Mobile Gov Community of Practice.