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 the article with the most votes at 1 AM UTC on Thursday, 11 June 2009. I did the honors this time. Milton Beychok 07:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Recently created pages are listed on Special:NewPages.

Current Winner
To change, click edit and follow the instructions, or see documentation at Featured Article.

Previous Winners
(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 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).
 * 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

 * 1) Before nominating an article, you must make the changes listed at Template:Featured Article Candidate.
 * 2) Then, you can add the article to the list above using the Featured Article Candidate template.
 * 3) Add your article in the correct position in the list according to the rules below.

Voting
~ . (The date is necessary so that we can determine when the last vote was added.)
 * To vote, add your name and date in the Supporters column next to an article title, after other supporters for that article, by signing
 * 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.
 * 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.