Archive:New Draft of the Week

The New Article of the Week is a chance to highlight a recently created Citizendium article that has just started down the road of becoming a Citizendium masterpiece. It is chosen each week by vote in a manner similar to that of its sister project, the Article of the Week.

Current nominees

This week's article will be selected at 19:00 (UTC) on Thursday, August 23.

Nominated article	Score	Supporters	Specialist supporters	Date created	Last date eligible

Previous winners

• Gay community - 16 August 2007
• Edward I - 9 August 2007

Rules and procedure

Eligibility

• The primary criterion of eligibility for a new article is that it must have been created no more than one month before the date of the next selection (Currently every Thursday).
• Articles must be ranked 1 or 2 (developed or developing).

Nomination

• To nominate an article, simply create a new row at the bottom of the current nominees list. Use the {{NAOTW row}} template. Alphabetize your nomination in relation to the other nominees with the same score.
• Any Citizen may nominate an article.
• No Citizen may have nominated more than one article listed under "current nominees" at a time.
• The article's nominator is indicated simply by the first name in the list of votes (see below).
• At least for now--while the project is still small--you may nominate and vote for articles of which you are a main author.
• An article can be the New Article of the Week only once. Nominated articles that have won this honor should be removed from the list and added to the list of previous winners.
• Comments on nominations should be made on the article's talk page.

Voting

• To vote, simply add your name and date next to an article title, after other nominations in the "Supporters" area, by signing ~~~~ (four tildes). (The date is necessary so that we can determine when the last vote was added.)
• You may vote for as many articles as you wish, and each vote counts separately, but you can only nominate one at a time; see above. You could, theoretically, vote for every nominated article on the page.
• Add your name in the "Specialist supporters" column only if you are an editor who is an expert about the topic in question. Your vote will be counted as three.

Ranking

• Nominations are listed by number of votes first, then alphabetically.
• Project Admins should make sure the votes are correctly tallied, but anyone may do this. Remember that "Specialist Votes" are worth three.

Deleting

• Any article will be deleted when it is past its "last date eligible". Don't worry if this happens to your article; consider nominating it as the Article of the Week.
• If an editor believes that a nominee in his or her area of expertise is ineligible (perhaps due to obvious and embarrassing problems) he or she may remove the article from consideration. The editor must indicate the reasons why he has done so on the nominated article's talk page.

Choosing the weekly winner

• Each Thursday (at 7 PM UTC; 2 PM EST; 11 AM PST; 4 AM Sydney), one of the program admins--the first one who has the honor--moves the article that is at the top of the list (i.e., the one with the most votes) to the front page, announces the winner on Citizendium-L and updates the "previous winning articles" section accordingly.
• If more than one article is tied for the highest score then the oldest article (the one that will become ineligible the soonest) is chosen. In the incredibly unlikely event that the two top articles have exactly the same creation time use the time for the second edit, and so on.
• If you are volunteering to change the article of the week on the front page, then say so above the "article nominees" table ("I'm doing the honors this time" -- Jane Doe) so that no one else does it.
• Since approved articles won't be eligible for New Article of the Week we don't need to label it as a "draft". All New Articles of the Week will be assumed to be drafts.

Administrators

For now I think the Administrators of this program should be the same as the admins for CZ:Article of the Week. The projects are very similar, so I don't see why at least at this early stage this shouldn't be the case.

Other periodical community content initiatives

• CZ:Article of the Week
• CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon
• CZ:Weekly Wiki