CZ:Proposals/New

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. Names would appear only if there were three names in the list. To avoid issues about what counts as an "important" edit, a person could take co-authorship credit for the very smallest of edits (e.g., removing commas). We would try this out in just one or two workgroups (the template would be removed from articles in any other workgroup). Original proposer: Larry Sanger 22:08, 12 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Gather initial comments and revise proposal accordingly Driver: Larry Sanger To be done by: Feb. 19 Notes: This is pretty much the only version of this class of proposal that I can see myself supporting, at present.

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Should history articles be named with general terms first?

Summary: Should general article names be written as France, history as preferred to History of France or French History? The central points of contention is whether general articles (e.g France, history) should be called History of France or even French history. The idea is that the keyword should be first in an article such as this, with people searching for France in a general search will see a list of articles, e.g: France France, history France, politics France, literature etc. Original proposer: Denis Cavanagh 11:29, 8 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Fill in next step Driver: Driver needed (i.e., someone familiar with the proposals system who will move it through the system) To be done by: Fill in target date for next step Notes: This has been discussed before but deserves a fuller debate. I don't really have an opinion on the issue despite the history workgroup handily being my most active one.Denis Cavanagh 11:29, 8 February 2008 (CST)

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Enable external feedback

Summary: Each article should have a link for non-citizens to submit feedback. Feedback can be read and acted upon by any Citizen. To make the feedback system easier to use for both readers and Citizens, feedback can be in the form of a machine-readable proposed edit. Original proposer: Warren Schudy 13:34, 9 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Ensure proposal page summarizes community views Driver: Warren Schudy To be done by: Feb 20

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Article Content Request help

Summary: Article Content Request should exist in order for authors to request article assistance on particular topics within a subject. This is not intended to be a request for editorial review, rather, it is a system devised to empower citizens to help out on subjects that they might know about. It is meant to spur activity and input from those who might have knowledge in a discipline. Original proposer: --Robert W King 14:09, 11 February 2008 (CST) Next step: This should be in the username of driver field. Driver: Some User To be done by: Near future Notes: Theoretical page located at CZ:ACR using template:request.

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How should we classify and index recipes?

Summary: A new subpage type should be created CZ:Recipes. Anyone interested may take the lead in creating CZ:Recipes and then the Recipe subpage support should be added to the subpage system. The subpage may be bilaterally linked with the Cooking page. Original proposer: Hayford Peirce 16:50, 12 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Discussion and a firm decision after consensus is reached Driver: Supten Sarbadhikari To be done by: February 20, 2008. Notes: What should we do about listing, and/or cataloging, and/or indexing the recipes that I am beginning to put into various preexisting articles. Various people discussed this in the talk page of Bolognese sauce but nothing concrete appears to have come of that discussion. Even without any definitive policy being put into place in the near future, I will continue to add recipes to various articles. I imagine that it will not be difficult to catalog, or subpage them, or whatever, when the time comes. Hayford Peirce Discussion: CZ:Proposals/How_should_we_classify_and/or_list/index_recipes?

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CZ Community pages should be revised for simplicity

Summary: Part of what is keeping our "elitism shield" up is that many (if not all) of the community pages are overly complex in terms of what they describe. A campaign to heavily review and edit the pages will give us leaner, easy-to-comprehend documentation and improve our external appearance. Original proposer: --Robert W King 18:29, 12 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Discussion of pages to improve Driver: Driver needed (i.e., someone familiar with the proposals system who will move it through the system) To be done by: Fill in target date for next step

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