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The New Draft 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.
The next New Draft of the Week will be picked Thursday Jan. 2, 2009.
Current nominees
| Nominated article | Score | Supporters | Specialist supporters | Date created | Last date eligible |
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Previous winners
Punch card: A term for cards used for storing information. Herman Hollerith is credited with the invention of the media for storing information from the United States Census of 1890. [e] (17 Mar)- Jass–Belote card games: A group of trick-taking card games in which the Jack and Nine of trumps are the highest trumps. [e] (10 Mar)
Leptotes (orchid): A genus of orchids formed by nine small species that exist primarily in the dry jungles of South and Southeast Brazil. [e] (3 Mar)- Worm (computers): A form of malware that can spread, among networked computers, without human interaction. [e] (24 Feb)
- Joseph Black: (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide [e] (11 Feb 2009)
- Sympathetic magic: The cultural concept that a symbol, or small aspect, of a more powerful entity can, as desired by the user, invoke or compel that entity [e] (17 Jan 2009)
Dien Bien Phu: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [e] (25 Dec)
Blade Runner: 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, set in an imagined Los Angeles of 2019. [e] (25 Nov)- Piquet: A two-handed card game played with 32 cards that originated in France around 1500. [e] (18 Nov)
- Crash of 2008: the international banking crisis that followed the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. [e] (23 Oct)
- Information Management: Add brief definition or description (31 Aug)
- Battle of Gettysburg: A turning point in the American Civil War, July 1-3, 1863, on the outskirts of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. [e] (8 July)
- Drugs banned from the Olympics: Substances prohibited for use by athletes prior to, and during competing in the Olympics. [e] (1 July)
- Sea glass: Formed when broken pieces of glass from bottles, tableware, and other items that have been lost or discarded are worn down and rounded by tumbling in the waves along the shores of oceans and large lakes. [e] (24 June)
- Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin song): Landmark 1969 song recorded by Led Zeppelin for their eponymous debut album, which became an early centrepiece for the group's live performances. [e] (17 June)
- Hirohito: The 124th and longest-reigning Emperor of Japan, 1926-89. [e] (10 June)
- Henry Kissinger: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council [e] (3 June)
- Palatalization: An umbrella term for several processes of assimilation in phonetics and phonology, by which the articulation of a consonant is changed under the influence of a preceding or following front vowel or a palatal or palatalized consonant. [e] (27 May)
- Intelligence on the Korean War: The collection and analysis, primarily by the United States with South Korean help, of information that predicted the 1950 invasion of South Korea, and the plans and capabilities of the enemy once the war had started [e] (20 May)
- Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago: A predominantly black church located in south Chicago with upwards of 10,000 members, established in 1961. [e] (13 May)
- BIOS: Part of many modern computers responsible for basic functions such as controlling the keyboard or booting up an operating system. [e] (6 May)
- Miniature Fox Terrier: A small Australian vermin-routing terrier, developed from 19th Century Fox Terriers and Fox Terrier types. [e] (23 April)
- Joseph II: (1741–1790), Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Hapsburg (Austrian) territories who was the arch-embodiment of the Enlightenment spirit of the later 18th-century reforming monarchs. [e] (15 Apr)
- British and American English: A comparison between these two language variants in terms of vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation. [e] (7 Apr)
- Count Rumford: (1753–1814) An American born soldier, statesman, scientist, inventor and social reformer. [e] (1 April)
- Whale meat: The edible flesh of various species of whale. [e] (25 March)
- Naval guns: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e] (18 March)
- Sri Lanka: An island nation in South Asia, located 31 km off the south-east coast of India, formerly known as Ceylon . [e] (11 March)
- Led Zeppelin: English hard rock and blues group formed in 1968, known for their albums and stage shows. [e] (4 March)
- Martin Luther: German theologian and monk (1483-1546); led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds. [e] (20 February)
- Cosmology: A branch of astronomy and of metaphysics committed to the study of the universe as a whole, of the contents, structure, and evolution of the universe from the beginning of time to the future. [e] (4 February)
- Ernest Rutherford: (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937)The first person to split an atom. [e](28 January)
- Edinburgh: The capital of Scotland. [e] (21 January)
- Russian Revolution of 1905: The popular uprising that created an element of constitutional monarchy in Russia following Nicholas II's October Manifesto of 1905. [e] (8 January 2008)
- Phosphorus: Chemical element (Z=15) vital to life and widely used in fertilizers, detergents and pesticides. [e] (31 December)
- John Tyler: (1790–1862) Tenth U.S. President (from 1841 to 1845), responsible for the annexation of Texas leading up to the Mexican-American War. [e] (6 December)
- Banana: The fruit of a wide range of species in the Musa taxonomic genus. [e] (22 November)
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy: (1789 – 1857) prominent French mathematician, one of the pioneers of rigor in mathematics and complex analysis. [e] (15 November)
- B-17: Add brief definition or description - 8 November 2007
- Red Sea Urchin: A species of marine invertebrate belonging to the phylum Echinodermata or "spiny-skinned" animals. [e] - 1 November 2007
- Symphony: A large-scale musical composition, generally regarded as the central orchestral form. [e] - 25 October 2007
- Oxygen: A chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. [e] - 18 October 2007
- Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal: The history and design of the 17th century mausoleum complex. [e] - 11 October 2007
- Fossilization (palaeontology): The set of geological processes that convert organic remains into fossils. [e] - 4 October 2007
- Cradle of Humankind: A World Heritage site in South Africa, which comprises three localities containing numerous fossil-bearing caves. [e] - 27 September 2007
- John Adams: (1735-1826) Second U.S. President (from 1797 to 1801), attorney who successfully defended participants of the Boston Massacre of 1770, and a U.S. founding father. [e] - 20 September 2007
- Quakers: Protestant denomination founded among English Puritans in the 17th century by George Fox and characterized by pacifism and the belief that Christ works directly in the soul of the believer; known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. [e] - 13 September 2007
- Scarborough Castle: Add brief definition or description - 6 September 2007
- Jane Addams: Add brief definition or description - 30 August 2007
- Epidemiology: Add brief definition or description - 23 August 2007
- Gay community: Add brief definition or description - 16 August 2007
- Edward I: Add brief definition or description - 9 August 2007
Rules and procedure
Eligibility
- The primary criterion of eligibility for a new draft 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 a draft, simply create a new row at the bottom of the current nominees list. Use the {{}} template. Alphabetize your nomination in relation to the other nominees with the same score.
- Any Citizen may nominate a draft.
- 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 drafts of which you are a main author.
- An article can be the New Draft 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 drafts 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 draft 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 draft 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 Tuesday (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 drafts" section accordingly.
- If you are volunteering to change the New Draft 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.
In the event of a tie
Where two or more articles have achieved an equal number of votes, the following procedure shall be used to break the deadlock:
- Number of specialist supporters: the article with most specialist supporters goes through.
Should this fail to produce a winner:
- Alphabetical order: The article appearing first by English alphabetical order shall be named New Draft of the Week.
- The remaining winning articles are guaranteed this position in the following weeks, again in alphabetical order. No further voting would take place on these, which remain at the top of the table with notices to that effect.
- Further nominations and voting take place to determine future winning articles for the following weeks.
- Winning articles may be named New Draft of the Week beyond their last eligible date if their circumstances are so described above.
Administrators
The Administrators of this program are the same as the admins for CZ:Article of the Week.
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