Archive:Article of the Week

What is the Article of the Week?

The Article of the Week is an article chosen by vote among Citizens as exemplifying various qualities we like to see in a Citizendium article; see our article standards.

Previous winning articles

• Biology (July 25)

Rules and procedure

Nomination

• To nominate an article, simply create a new row at the bottom of the current nominees list, above. Then alphabetize your nomination, making sure it is not placed above nominees with more votes that your nominee.
• The article's status must be 0 or 1, i.e., only "Advanced Articles" may be nominated.
• Any Citizen may nominate an article.
• 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 articles of which you are a main author.
• An article can be Article of the Week only once every six months. Nominated articles that have won top honors should be removed from the list.
• 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, 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 articles as you wish (but you can only nominate one at a time; see above).
• Add your name in the Specialist Vote 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 alphabetically at first, but then constantly re-ranked as different items garner different votes.

Deleting

• If the list of nominees should be kept to 20. The lowest-ranking nominations are culled each week after a vote, except that no nomination made within the past week
• Any editor may, simply by editing the nomination list (or the talk page), entirely cancel the nomination of any unapproved article in his or her area of expertise (if, for example, it contains obvious and embarrassing problems).

Choosing the weekly winner

• Each Monday, one of the program admins moves the article that is at the top of the list (i.e., the one with the highest score) to the front page, and announce it on Citizendium-L.
• If an article has not been approved yet, the article of the week is labelled "Draft of the Week."

Administrators

These are people who have volunteered to run this program. Their duties are (1) to ensure that this page remains "clean," e.g., as a given article garners more votes, its tally is accurately represented and it moves up the list, and (2) to place the winning article on the front page each Tuesday at 7 PM UTC (2 PM EST; 11 AM PST; 4 AM Sydney, sorry).

To become an administrator, you need not apply anywhere. Simply add your name below. Administrator duties are open to editors and authors alike.

Other periodical community content initiatives

• CZ:New Article of the Week
• CZ:Monthly Write-In