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.

Add New Nominees Here
To add a new nominee or vote for an existing nominee, click edit for this section and follow the instructions

If you want to see how these nominees will look on the CZ home page (if selected as a winner), scroll down a little bit.

Recently created pages are listed on Special:NewPages. A cleaner list is available here.

Transclusion of the above nominees (to be done by an Administrator)

 * Transclude each of the nominees in the above "Table of Nominee" as per the instructions at Template:Featured Article Candidate.
 * Then add the transcluded article to the list in the next section below, using the Featured Article Candidate template.

View Current Transcluded Nominees (after they have been transcluded by an Administrator)
The next New Draft of the Week will be the article with the most votes at 1 AM UTC on Thursday, 1 April, 2010.

Current Winner (to be selected and implemented by an Administrator)
To change, click edit and follow the instructions, or see documentation at Featured Article.

Previous Winners
(September 3) (August 27) (August 20) (August 13} (August 5) (July 30) (July 23) (July 16) (July 9) (July 2) (June 25) (June 18) (June 11) (June 4) (21 May) (8 May) (14 Apr) (7 Apr) (31 Mar) (24 Mar) (17 Mar) (10 Mar) (3 Mar) (24 Feb) (11 Feb 2009) (17 Jan 2009) (25 Dec) (25 Nov) (18 Nov) (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

Rules

 * The primary criterion of eligibility for a new draft is that it must have been ranked as a status 1 or 2 (developed or developing), as documented in the History of the article's Metadate template, no more than one month before the date of the next selection (currently every Thursday).
 * 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.
 * 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.

Nomination
See above section "Add New Nominees Here".

Voting

 * To vote, add your name and date in the Supporters column next to an article title, after other supporters for that article, by signing . (The date is necessary so that we can determine when the last vote was added.) Your vote is alloted a score of 1.
 * 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 is alloted a score of 1 for articles that you created and 2 for articles that you did not create.
 * 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, but this would be pointless.

Ranking

 * The list of articles is sorted by number of votes first, then alphabetically.
 * Admins should make sure that the votes are correctly tallied, but anyone may do this. Note that "Specialist Votes" are worth 3 points.

Updating

 * Each Thursday, one of the admins listed below should move the winning article to the Current Winner section of this page, announce the winner on Citizendium-L and update the "previous winning drafts" section accordingly.
 * The winning article will be the article at the top of the list (ie the one with the most votes).
 * In the event of two or more having the same number of votes :
 * The article with the most specialist supporters is used. Should this fail to produce a winner, the article appearing first by English alphabetical order is used.


 * The remaining winning articles are guaranteed this position in the following weeks, again in alphabetical order. No further voting should 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.