CZ:Proposals/Editorial Council

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These are proposals that will go (or are now) before the Editorial Council.

Should we allow article specific subpages?

Summary: The proposal recommends that citizendium adds three new fields to the metadata template (tab1, tab2 and tab3) that can be used to specify a subpage that is not defined in the generic list of subpages. An example of this can be seen at Iron/Isotopes. The Isotopes subpage will only be used by a small fraction of clusters (typically elements). This information could live on the /Catlogs subpage but citizendium readers will find it far more intuitive if the tab actually says Isotopes rather than Catalogs.
Original proposer: Chris Day 23:25, 1 May 2008 (CDT) Next step: This is functional and can already be used by authors if they desire. The next step is to agree whether this is useful for readers and authors of citizendium.
Driver: Chris Day To be done by: May 21st
Complete proposal


Moving Forward on Obscenity

Summary: Our family-friendliness policy, as written, is unclear, and should be rewritten. Furthermore, we should move away from trying to self-censor, and work on setting CZ up so that schools, libraries and parents can filter content they find objectionable.
Original proposer: Brian P. Long 07:25, 25 April 2008 (CDT) Next step: Get more feedback
Driver: Brian P. Long To be done by: May 10
Notes: Also see 'Moving Forward on Obscenity', http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1640.0.html on the forums for more discussion about this issue.
Complete proposal


Disambiguation mechanics

Summary: This proposal argues that all disambiguation pages should be at titles of the form "foo (disambiguation)", with a redirect at all basic names which are being disambiguated; this will allow us to easily find articles which have been linked (erroneously) to the wrong meaning of "{foo}".
Original proposer: J. Noel Chiappa 09:33, 15 May 2008 (CDT) Next step: I would like to see debate on this to see what the community thinks of this; most people have been positive, but there might be some issues I haven't considered.
Driver: J. Noel Chiappa To be done by: May 30th (approximately)
Notes: A thread on the forums wandered into discussion of this topic here.
Complete proposal


Create a page for all notable genes in the human genome

Summary: We are interested in creating one page for all notable genes in the human genome. Each stub would be seeded using content which is harvested from publicly available sources. The resulting "Gene Wiki" would be a relatively unique resource compared to popular gene portals used by researchers and students. Given the expected number of created pages (5000-10000), an automated bot would be created/modified to perform the stub creation.
Original proposer: Andrew Su 14:43, 16 April 2008 (CDT) Next step: Discussion by community
Driver: Andrew Su To be done by: Complete in one month (May 15, 2008)?
Notes: The proposal was originally discussed on the forum ([1]), so additional details and context can be found there.
Complete proposal


Self-Correction Policy

Summary: The Citizendium should adopt a policy that requires that we list all factual errors in previous versions of our articles--including unapproved articles--at the bottom of an article. This is the same standard that newspapers and other legitimate periodicals use. We are clearly obligated to adopt the same policy. Doing so will earn us good will from the public and increase our credibility considerably.
Original proposer: Larry Sanger 08:57, 28 March 2008 (CDT) Next step: Submit to the Editorial Council for approval, hopefully by acclamation
Driver: Larry Sanger To be done by: May 1 or when the Editorial Council comes back online
Complete proposal


Citing CZ article by authors

Summary: An author X, who wants to cite a Citizendium article he contributed to, should do so in a form like "Authors and X (2008) Life ..." (summary written by Proposals Manager)
Original proposer: Lee R. Berger 01:44, 5 March 2008 (CST) Next step: Create Proposal
Driver: Lee R. Berger 01:44, 5 March 2008 (CST) To be done by: 5 March
Complete proposal


Medical Disclaimers

Summary: Add a disclaimer to drug and medical condition pages
Original proposer: David E. Volk 10:21, 9 March 2008 (CDT) Next step: Wait for new Editorial Council to be instated
Driver: David E. Volk To be done by: April 7, 2008
Complete proposal


Pilot to allow Citizens to take credit for pages

Summary: By popular demand, we would, to a limited extent, allow Citizens to take authorship credit of articles. This would (for now) take the form of a template placed at the bottom of the page, which would, in small and unobtrusive print, list the contributors to an article in alphabetical order. Contributors would add themselves. To avoid issues about what counts as an "important" edit, a person could take co-authorship credit for adding at least two sentences, and five people who have to be on the list before any names were displayed. We would try this out in just four workgroups (the template would be removed from articles in any other workgroup).
Original proposer: Larry Sanger 22:08, 12 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Submit to Editorial Council after new Council is empanelled
Driver: Larry Sanger To be done by: May 1 or when the Editorial Council comes back online
Complete proposal


Create workgroup style guides

Summary: To promote coherent style and subsections within each workgroup, aid new users with examples of equations, drawings and other how-to items
Original proposer: David E. Volk 11:33, 29 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Awaiting new Editorial Council vote
Driver: User:David E. Volk To be done by: April 7, 2008
Notes: The idea is to have a workgroup-specific style guides to aid authors and editors for consistency
Complete proposal


Proposals System Navigation (advanced users only)

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