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Featured Article is an award given weekly to a high-quality Citizendium article.

Chunbum Park is the current Featured Articles maintainer.

Note on editing Featured Articles (8 August 2011)

You are encouraged to fix any errors you find in our Featured Articles. Do note however, that changes made to the current Feature at CZ:Featured article/Current do not automatically apply to the main article. The /Current page is blanked once a week to make room for the next Feature. For your contribution to be permanent, you need to make the change in the main article as well, i.e. the topmost link in the list below. Thank you. Johan Förberg

Formal policy

EC Decision D-2011-014, 28 February 2011:

The welcome page of the Citizendium shall display one or two featured articles.

If no other system of choosing and displaying articles is employed, then at least one article shall be chosen from our Approved articles on a rotating basis and shall thereafter be changed at least once a week.

Remark: This replaces the "Article of the Week" and the "New Draft of the Week" for the time being, or until another feature is installed.

Archive

List of previously featured articles.

Before May 4, 2011, there were two distinct categories of featured articles, which are archived separately.

Featured articles

  • Approved Article Pompeii [r]: A Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption A.D. 79. The city is now an important archaeological site. [e] (October 20 — 27, 2012)
  • Developing Article Potassium in nutrition and human health [r]: Role of dietary potassium and its associated bicarbonate-generating organic ions in human physiology and in preventive and therapeutic medicine. [e] (October 13 — 20, 2012)
  • Developing Article Pulmonary embolism [r]: Blocking of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by an embolus. [e] (October 6 — 13, 2012)
  • Developed Article Spanish missions in California [r]: A series of twenty-one religious outposts and associated support facilities established by Spaniards of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823, in order to spread the Catholic faith among the local Native American populations. [e] (September 30 — October 6, 2012)
  • Approved Article Set theory [r]: Mathematical theory that models collections of (mathematical) objects and studies their properties. [e] (September 24 — 30, 2012)
  • Developing Article Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e] (September 15 — 24, 2012)
  • Developing Article Acute coronary syndrome‎ [r]: Set of signs and symptoms related to the heart, due to myocardial ischemia. [e] (September 7 — 15, 2012)
  • Developing Article Emergence (biology) [r]: The exhibition of novel collective phenomena in living systems stemming from a complex organization of their many constituent parts. [e] (August 31 — September 7, 2012)
  • Developed Article Food reward [r]: The brain mechanisms involved in reinforcing feeding behaviour. [e] (August 24 — 31, 2012)
  • Approved Article NMR spectroscopy [r]: The use of electromagnetic radiation, in the presence of a magnetic field, to obtain information regarding transitions between different nuclear spin states of the nuclei present in the sample of interest. [e] (August 16 — 24, 2012)
  • Dokdo [r]:
  1. REDIRECT Dokdo (Takeshima)/Definition [e] (August 10 — 16, 2012)

Articles of the Week (before May 4, 2011)

New Drafts of the Week (before May 4, 2011)


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