Archive:New Draft of the Week

The New Article 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

Nominated article	Score	Supporters	Specialist supporters

Rules and procedure

Nomination

• To nominate an article, simply create a new row at the bottom of the current nominees list. Use the {{AOTW row}} template. Then alphabetize your nomination, making sure it is not placed above nominees with more votes that your nominee.
• 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 the New Article of the Week only once. 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 in the "Supporters" area, 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, 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.
• 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.

Ranking

• Nominations are listed by number of votes first, then alphabetically.
• Admins should make sure the votes are correctly tallied, but anyone may do this. Note that "Specialist Votes" are worth three.

Deleting

• If the list of nominees should be kept to 20 (or some similar reasonable number). Nominees that have very few supporters and which have not garnered any new supporters in the last, say, two weeks may be deleted to make room for new nominees. (We'll have to solidify this rule.)
• 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 Tuesday (at 7 PM UTC; 2 PM EST; 11 AM PST; 4 AM Sydney), one of the program admins--the first one who has the honor--moves the article that is at the top of the list (i.e., the one with the most votes) to the front page, announces the winner on Citizendium-L and updates the "previous winning articles" section accordingly.
• If you are volunteering to change the article of the week on the front page, then say so above the "article nominees" table ("I'm doing the honors this time" -- Jane Doe) so that no one else does it.
• Since approved articles won't be eligible for New Article of the Week we don't need to label it as a "draft". All New Articles of the Week will be assumed to be drafts.

Administrators

For now I think the Administrators of this program should be the same as the admins for CZ:Article of the Week. The projects are very similar, so I don't see why at least at this early stage this shouldn't be the case.

Other periodical community content initiatives

• CZ:Article of the Week
• CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon