Archive: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. It is chosen each week by vote in a manner similar to that of its sister project, the New Draft of the Week

Add New Nominees Here

To add a new nominee or vote for an existing nominee, click edit for this section and follow the instructions

Table of Nominees

Nominated article	Supporters	Specialist supporters	Score
New nominee name goes here

Transclusion of the above nominees (to be done by an Administrator)

• Transclude each of the nominees in the above "Table of Nominees" as per the instructions at Template:Featured Article Candidate.
• Then add the transcluded article to the list in the next section below, using the {{Featured Article Candidate}} template.

View Current Transcluded Nominees (after they have been transcluded by an Administrator)

The next article (or draft) of the week will be the article with the most votes at 1 AM UTC on Thursday, 28 October, 2010.

Text in this section is transcluded from the respective Citizendium entries and may change when these are edited.

Nominated article	Supporters	Specialist supporters	Score }}

Current Winner (to be selected and implemented by an Administrator)

To change, click edit and follow the instructions, or see documentation at {{Featured Article}}.

Previous Winners

•  Space (mathematics) [r]: A set with some added structure, which often form a hierarchy, i.e., one space may inherit all the characteristics of a parent space. ^[e]
•  World of Warcraft [r]: An online video game, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2004. ^[e]
•  Social capital [r]: Productive assets arising out of social relations, such as trust, cooperation, solidarity, social networks of relations and those beliefs, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production of goods. ^[e]
•  Richard Condon [r]: (1915 – 1996) A prolific and popular American political novelist whose satiric works were generally presented in the form of thrillers or semi-thrillers. ^[e]
•  Natural gas [r]: A gas consisting primarily of methane (CH₄) which is found as raw natural gas in underground reservoirs, as gas associated with underground reservoirs of petroleum crude oil, as undersea methane hydrates and as coalbed methane in underground coal mines. ^[e]
•  Stairway to Heaven [r]: 1971 song written and recorded by Led Zeppelin, which became their signature tune and a centrepiece for the group's live performances. ^[e]
•  Cryptography [r]: A field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science that is concerned with the security of information, typically the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of some message. ^[e]
•  English spellings [r]: Lists of English words showing pronunciation, and articles about letters. ^[e]
•  Folk saint [r]: A deceased person or spirit that is venerated as a saint but who has not been officially canonized by the Church. ^[e]
•  Led Zeppelin [r]: English hard rock and blues group formed in 1968, known for their albums and stage shows. ^[e]
•  Locality of reference [r]: A commonly observed pattern in memory accesses by a computer program over time. ^[e]
•  Rabbit [r]: Long-eared, short-tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. ^[e]
•  Scarborough Castle [r]: Ruined stone castle on the east coast of Yorkshire, England, begun in mid-twelfth century. ^[e] (September 3)
•  The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order [r]: A book, by Samuel Huntington, assuming a fundamental conflict between civilizations of different cultures, and discussing grand strategy to deal with this conflict ^[e] (August 27)
•  Mauna Kea [r]: One of the three main volcanic mountains on Hawaii, the biggest island in Hawaii (U.S. state). ^[e] (August 20)
•  Brute force attack [r]: An attempt to break a cipher by trying all possible keys; long enough keys make this impractical. ^[e] (August 13)
•  Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense ^[e] (August 5)
•  The Canterbury Tales [r]: Collection of stories in verse and prose by Geoffrey Chaucer. ^[e] (July 30)
•  Milpa agriculture [r]: A form of swidden agriculture that is practiced in Mesoamerica. Traditionally, a "milpa" plot is planted with maize, beans, and squash. ^[e] (July 23)
•  Domain Name System [r]: The Internet service which translates to and from IP addresses and domain names. ^[e] (July 16)
•  Scuticaria [r]: A genus of orchids, closely related to Bifrenaria, formed by nine showy species of cylindrical leaves, which exist in three isolated areas of South America. ^[e] (July 9)
• Torture [r]: Add brief definition or description (July 2)
•  Miltonia [r]: An orchid genus formed by nine showy epiphyte species and seven natural hybrids of Brazil, one species reaching Argentina and Paraguay. ^[e] (June 25)
•  Ancient Celtic music [r]: The music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity. ^[e] (June 18)
•  Bifrenaria [r]: A genus of orchids formed by circa twenty species of South America, some widely cultivated because of their large and colored flowers; divided in two distinct groups, one with large flowers and short inflorescences and the other with small flowers and long inflorescences. ^[e] (June 11)
•  Halobacterium NRC-1 [r]: A microorganism from the Archaea kingdom perfectly suited for life in highly saline environments giving biologists an ideal specimen for genetic studies. ^[e] (June 4)
•  Animal [r]: A multicellular organism that feeds on other organisms, and is distinguished from plants, fungi, and unicellular organisms. ^[e] (May 28)
•  Coal [r]: a combustible, black rock formed after millions of years of heat and pressure were applied to the decayed remains of plants and organic matter in what were then swamps. ^[e] (May 21)
•  Johannes Diderik van der Waals [r]: (1837 – 1923) Dutch scientist, proposed the van der Waals equation of state for gases. ^[e] (May 7)
•  Scientific method [r]: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. ^[e] (Apr 14)
• Korematsu v. United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description (Apr 7)
•  Orchid [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mar 31)
•  Oliver Cromwell [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mar 24)
•  Wisconsin v. Yoder [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mar 17)
•  Conventional coal-fired power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mar 10)
•  Battle of the Ia Drang [r]: Add brief definition or description (Mar 3)
•  Ether (physics) [r]: Add brief definition or description (Feb 24)
•  Large-scale trickle filters [r]: Add brief definition or description (11 Feb)
•  Homeopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description (28 Jan)
•  Microeconomics [r]: Add brief definition or description (14 Jan)
•  Speech Recognition [r]: Add brief definition or description (26 Nov)
•  Mashup [r]: Add brief definition or description (19 Nov)
•  Tux [r]: Add brief definition or description (14 Oct)
•  Hydrogen bond [r]: Add brief definition or description (7 Oct)
•  Lead [r]: Add brief definition or description (1 Sept)
•  DNA [r]: Add brief definition or description (8 July)
•  Augustin-Louis_Cauchy [r]: Add brief definition or description (1 July)
•  Vasco da Gama [r]: Add brief definition or description (24 June)
•  Phosphorus [r]: Add brief definition or description (17 June)
•  Crystal Palace [r]: Add brief definition or description (10 June)
•  Gross Domestic Product [r]: Add brief definition or description (3 June)
•  RNA interference [r]: Add brief definition or description (27 May)
•  Latino history [r]: Add brief definition or description (20 May)
•  Navy Grog [r]: Add brief definition or description (13 May)
•  Systems biology [r]: Add brief definition or description (6 May)
•  Steroid [r]: Add brief definition or description (22 Apr)
•  Lebanon [r]: Add brief definition or description (15 Apr)
•  Wheat [r]: Add brief definition or description (7 Apr)
•  Benjamin Franklin [r]: Add brief definition or description (1 Apr)
•  Coherer [r]: Add brief definition or description (25 Mar)
•  U.S. Civil War [r]: Add brief definition or description (18 Mar)
•  Life [r]: Add brief definition or description (11 Mar)
•  Petroleum refining processes [r]: Add brief definition or description (4 Mar)
•  Shirley Chisholm [r]: Add brief definition or description (20 Feb)
•  Telephone Newspaper [r]: Add brief definition or description (4 Feb)
•  Wristwatch [r]: Add brief definition or description (28 Jan)
•  Korean War of 1592-1598 [r]: Add brief definition or description (21 Jan)
•  Andrew Carnegie [r]: Add brief definition or description (11 January 2008)
• Bowling [r]: Add brief definition or description (31 December 2007)
•  Architecture [r]: Add brief definition or description (December 6)
•  Civil society [r]: Add brief definition or description November 29
•  Joan of Arc [r]: Add brief definition or description (November 22)
•  Chemistry [r]: Add brief definition or description (November 15)
•  Albert Gallatin [r]: Add brief definition or description (November 8)
•  Prime number [r]: Add brief definition or description (November 1)
•  Tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description (October 25)
•  Rottweiler [r]: Add brief definition or description (October 18)
•  Theodor Lohmann [r]: Add brief definition or description (October 9)
•  William Shakespeare [r]: Add brief definition or description (October 2)
•  Edward I [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 25)
•  El Tío [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 18)
•  Scotland Yard [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 11)
•  Kilt [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 4)
•  U.S. Electoral College [r]: Add brief definition or description (August 28)
•  Butler [r]: Add brief definition or description (August 21)
•  Tony Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description (August 14)
•  Northwest Passage [r]: Add brief definition or description (August 7)
•  Literature [r]: Add brief definition or description (July 31)
•  Biology [r]: Add brief definition or description (July 25)

Rules and Procedure

Rules

• 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.
• The list of nominees should be kept below 20, or thereabouts. Articles with very few supporters and which have not gained any new supporters in the last two weeks or so may be deleted to make room for new nominees.
• Any editor may entirely cancel the nomination of any unapproved article in his or her area of expertise if, for example, it contains obvious and embarrassing problems.

Voting

• To vote, add your name and date in the Supporters column next to an article title, after other supporters for that article, by signing <br />~~~~. (The date is necessary so that we can determine when the last vote was added.) Your vote is alloted a score of 1.
• 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 is alloted a score of 1 for articles which you created and a score of 2 for articles which you did not create.
• 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, but this would be pointless.

Ranking

• The list of articles is sorted by number of votes first, then alphabetically.
• Admins should make sure that the votes are correctly tallied, but anyone may do this. Note that "Specialist Votes" are worth 3 points.

Updating

• Each Thursday, one of the admins listed below should move the winning article to the Current Winner section of this page, announces the winner on Citizendium-L and updates the "previous winning articles" section accordingly.
• The winning article will be the article at the top of the list (ie the one with the most votes).
• In the event of two or more having the same number of votes :
  • The article with the most specialist supporters is used. Should this fail to produce a winner, the article appearing first by English alphabetical order is used.
    
  • The remaining winning articles are guaranteed this position in the following weeks, again in alphabetical order. No further voting would take place on these, which remain at the top of the table with notices to that effect. Further nominations and voting take place to determine future winning articles for the following weeks.

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

• Carl Jantzen
• Todd Coles
• David E. Volk
• Milton Beychok

See Also

• Archive:New Draft of the Week
• CZ:Markup tags for partial transclusion of selected text in an article
• CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon