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CZ:New Draft of the Week
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
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.
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Current nominees
The next "New Draft of the Week" will be selected at 19:00 (UTC) on Tuesday, 15 July 2008.
| Nominated article | Score | Supporters | Specialist supporters | Date created | Last date eligible |
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 Information Management | 3 | Joe Quick 21:30, 17 July 2008 (CDT); Meg Ireland 21:55, 7 August 2008 (CDT); Larry Sanger 22:11, 7 August 2008 (CDT) | July 17, 2008 | August 17, 2008 | |
| Diaper | 2 | Larry Sanger 23:12, 6 August 2008 (CDT); Charles Sandberg 23:15, 6 August 2008 (CDT) | July 25, 2008 | August 25, 2008
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Previous winners
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Battle of Gettysburg: A turning point in the American Civil War, July 1-3, 1863, on the outskirts of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. [e] (8 July)
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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): A landmark 1969 song recorded by Led Zeppelin for their eponymous début 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 statesman and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon; promoted realism and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam war. [e] (3 June)
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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 1861. [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 pronounciation. [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: Famous and influential English hard rock and blues group formed in 1968, known for their albums Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti, and songs "Stairway to Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love". [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)
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Phosphorus: Chemical element (Z=15) vital to life and widely used in fertilizers, detergents and pesticides. [e] (31 December)
- John Tyler: (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) A United States politician and the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845). [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: A heavy bomber that was the workhorse, along with the B-24, of America's strategic bombing of Germany in World War II. [e] - 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: Add brief definition or description - 11 October 2007
- Fossilization: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Fossilization (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. - 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) An American Founding Father, diplomat, and the second President of the United States from 1797-1801. [e] - 20 September 2007
- Quakers: A 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: Stone castle on the east coast of Yorkshire, England, built in the 1160s by Henry II; formally an important trading post and military installation, today a ruin owing to its decline in importance over the centuries and serious damage during the English Civil War. [e] - 6 September 2007
- Jane Addams: (1860-1935) A pioneer American settlement worker and founder of Hull House. [e] - 30 August 2007
- Epidemiology: The branch of demography that studies patterns of disease in human or animal populations. [e] - 23 August 2007
- Gay community: A socially constructed collective reference to those people in society who are homosexual, and who interact to some degree with other homosexual people. [e] - 16 August 2007
- Edward I: (1272-1307) English king who conquered Wales and attempted to conquer Scotland. [e] - 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 {{NAOTW row}} 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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