Archive:New Draft of the Week

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.

Current nominees
The next "New Draft of the Week" will be selected at 19:00 (UTC) on Tuesday, 28 October 2008.

Previous winners
(23 Oct) (31 Aug) (8 July) (1 July) (24 June) (17 June) (10 June) (3 June) (27 May) (20 May) (13 May) (6 May) (23 April) (15 Apr) (7 Apr) (1 April) (25 March) (18 March) (11 March) (4 March) (20 February) (4 February) (28 January) (21 January) (8 January 2008) (31 December) (6 December) (22 November) (15 November) - 8 November 2007 - 1 November 2007 - 25 October 2007 - 18 October 2007 - 11 October 2007 - 4 October 2007 - 27 September 2007 - 20 September 2007 - 13 September 2007 - 6 September 2007 - 30 August 2007 - 23 August 2007 - 16 August 2007 - 9 August 2007

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.

Other periodical community content initiatives

 * CZ:Article of the Week
 * CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon