Archive:New Draft of the Week

The New Draft 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.

Add New Nominees Here

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

Table of Nominees

Nominated article	Vote Score	Supporters	Specialist supporters	Date created
Diffraction	3	Boris Tsirelson	Howard C. Berkowitz	19 October 2010

If you want to see how these nominees will look on the CZ home page (if selected as a winner), scroll down a little bit.

Recently created pages are listed on Special:NewPages. A cleaner list is available here.

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

• Transclude each of the nominees in the above "Table of Nominee" 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 New Draft of the Week will be the article with the most votes at 1 AM UTC on Thursday, 4 November, 2010.

Nominated article	Supporters	Specialist supporters	Dates	Score
Schröder-Bernstein theorem/Draft: Add brief definition or description Schröder-Bernstein theorem/Draft (Read more...)	Daniel Mietchen 13:54, 22 October 2010 (UTC)		1

Current Winner

To be selected and implemented by an Administrator. To change, click edit and follow the instructions, or see documentation at {{Featured Article}}. Schröder-Bernstein theorem/Draft (Read more...)

Previous Winners

•  Multi-touch interface [r]: Set of interaction techniques which allow computer or mobile users to control graphical user interface with more than one finger at either application or system level. ^[e]
•  NoSQL [r]: A number of non-relational distributed database architectures, usually that store data as key-value pairs. ^[e]
•  Debt [r]: The outcome of an agreement between a person or organisation wishing to make immediate use of resources, and one wishing to defer their use. ^[e]
•  Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript [r]: Early 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. ^[e]
•  Ellipse [r]: Planar curve formed by the points whose distances to two given points add up to a given number. ^[e]
•  Aeneid [r]: An epic poem written by Virgil, which depicts the hero Aeneas fleeing from Troy (ancient city), journeying to Carthage, Sicily, and finally to Italy where after battling, he becomes the precursor of the city of Rome; a monumental work of major significance in Western literature. ^[e]
•  Tall tale [r]: A narrative, song or jest, transmitted orally or in writing, presenting an incredible, boastful or impossible story. ^[e]
•  Plane (geometry) [r]: In elementary geometry, a flat surface that entirely contains all straight lines passing through two of its points. ^[e]
•  Steam [r]: The vapor (or gaseous) phase of water (H₂O). ^[e]
•  Wasan [r]: Classical Japanese mathematics that flourished during the Edo Period from the 17th to mid-19th centuries. ^[e]
•  Racism in Australia [r]: The history of racism and restrictive immigration policies in the Commonwealth of Australia. ^[e]
• Think tank [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Les Paul [r]: (9 June 1915 – 13 August 2009) American innovator, inventor, musician and songwriter, who was notably a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar. ^[e]
•  Zionism [r]: The ideology that Jews should form a Jewish state in what is traced as the Biblical area of Palestine; there are many interpretations, including the boundaries of such a state and its criteria for citizenship ^[e] (September 3)
•  Earth's atmosphere [r]: An envelope of gas that surrounds the Earth and extends from the Earth's surface out thousands of kilometres, becoming increasingly thinner (less dense) with distance but always held in place by Earth's gravitational pull. ^[e] (August 27)
•  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain [r]: U.S. educator deeply bonded to Bowdoin College, from undergraduate to President; American Civil War general and recipient of the Medal of Honor; Governor of Maine ^[e] (August 20)
•  The Sporting Life (album) [r]: A 1994 studio album recorded by Diamanda Galás and John Paul Jones. ^[e] (August 13}
•  The Rolling Stones [r]: Famous and influential English blues rock group formed in 1962, known for their albums Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers, and songs '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' and 'Start Me Up'. ^[e] (August 5)
•  Euler angles [r]: three rotation angles that describe any rotation of a 3-dimensional object. ^[e] (July 30)
•  Chester Nimitz [r]: United States Navy admiral (1885-1966) who was Commander in Chief, Pacific and Pacific Ocean Areas in World War II ^[e] (July 23)
•  Heat [r]: A form of energy that flows spontaneously from hotter to colder bodies that are in thermal contact. ^[e] (July 16)
•  Continuum hypothesis [r]: A statement about the size of the continuum, i.e., the number of elements in the set of real numbers. ^[e] (July 9)
•  Hawaiian alphabet [r]: The form of writing used in the Hawaiian Language ^[e] (July 2)
•  Now and Zen [r]: A 1988 studio album recorded by Robert Plant, with guest contributions from Jimmy Page. ^[e] (June 25)
•  Wrench (tool) [r]: A fastening tool used to tighten or loosen threaded fasteners, with one end that makes firm contact with flat surfaces of the fastener, and the other end providing a means of applying force ^[e] (June 18)
•  Air preheater [r]: A general term to describe any device designed to preheat the combustion air used in a fuel-burning furnace for the purpose of increasing the thermal efficiency of the furnace. ^[e] (June 11)
•  2009 H1N1 influenza virus [r]: A contagious influenza A virus discovered in April 2009, commonly known as swine flu. ^[e] (June 4)
•  Gasoline [r]: A fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines derived from petroleum crude oil. ^[e] (21 May)
•  John Brock [r]: Fictional British secret agent who starred in three 1960s thrillers by Desmond Skirrow. ^[e] (8 May)
•  McGuffey Readers [r]: A set of highly influential school textbooks used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the elementary grades in the United States. ^[e] (14 Apr)
•  Vector rotation [r]: Add brief definition or description (7 Apr)
•  Leptin [r]: Add brief definition or description (31 Mar)
•  Kansas v. Crane [r]: Add brief definition or description (24 Mar)
•  Punch card [r]: Add brief definition or description (17 Mar)
•  Jass–Belote card games [r]: Add brief definition or description (10 Mar)
•  Leptotes (orchid) [r]: Add brief definition or description (3 Mar)
•  Worm (computers) [r]: Add brief definition or description (24 Feb)
•  Joseph Black [r]: Add brief definition or description (11 Feb 2009)
•  Sympathetic magic [r]: Add brief definition or description (17 Jan 2009)
•  Dien Bien Phu [r]: Add brief definition or description (25 Dec)
• Blade Runner [r]: Add brief definition or description (25 Nov)
•  Piquet [r]: Add brief definition or description (18 Nov)
•  Crash of 2008 [r]: Add brief definition or description (23 Oct)
•  Information Management [r]: Add brief definition or description (31 Aug)
•  Battle of Gettysburg [r]: Add brief definition or description (8 July)
•  Drugs banned from the Olympics [r]: Add brief definition or description (1 July)
•  Sea glass [r]: Add brief definition or description (24 June)
•  Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin song) [r]: Add brief definition or description (17 June)
•  Hirohito [r]: Add brief definition or description (10 June)
•  Henry Kissinger [r]: Add brief definition or description (3 June)
• Palatalization [r]: Add brief definition or description (27 May)
•  Intelligence on the Korean War [r]: Add brief definition or description (20 May)
•  Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago [r]: Add brief definition or description (13 May)
•  BIOS [r]: Add brief definition or description (6 May)
•  Miniature Fox Terrier [r]: Add brief definition or description (23 April)
•  Joseph II [r]: Add brief definition or description (15 Apr)
•  British and American English [r]: Add brief definition or description (7 Apr)
•  Count Rumford [r]: Add brief definition or description (1 April)
•  Whale meat [r]: Add brief definition or description (25 March)
•  Naval guns [r]: Add brief definition or description (18 March)
•  Sri Lanka [r]: Add brief definition or description (11 March)
•  Led Zeppelin [r]: Add brief definition or description (4 March)
•  Martin Luther [r]: Add brief definition or description (20 February)
•  Cosmology [r]: Add brief definition or description (4 February)
•  Ernest Rutherford [r]: Add brief definition or description(28 January)
•  Edinburgh [r]: Add brief definition or description (21 January)
•  Russian Revolution of 1905 [r]: Add brief definition or description (8 January 2008)
•  Phosphorus [r]: Add brief definition or description (31 December)
•  John Tyler [r]: Add brief definition or description (6 December)
•  Banana [r]: Add brief definition or description (22 November)
•  Augustin-Louis Cauchy [r]: Add brief definition or description (15 November)
• B-17 Flying Fortress (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description - 8 November 2007
•  Red Sea Urchin [r]: Add brief definition or description - 1 November 2007
•  Symphony [r]: Add brief definition or description - 25 October 2007
•  Oxygen [r]: Add brief definition or description - 18 October 2007
•  Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal [r]: Add brief definition or description - 11 October 2007
•  Fossilization (palaeontology) [r]: Add brief definition or description - 4 October 2007
•  Cradle of Humankind [r]: Add brief definition or description - 27 September 2007
•  John Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description - 20 September 2007
•  Quakers [r]: Add brief definition or description - 13 September 2007
•  Scarborough Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description - 6 September 2007
•  Jane Addams [r]: Add brief definition or description - 30 August 2007
•  Epidemiology [r]: Add brief definition or description - 23 August 2007
•  Gay community [r]: Add brief definition or description - 16 August 2007
•  Edward I [r]: Add brief definition or description - 9 August 2007

Rules and Procedure

Rules

• The primary criterion of eligibility for a new draft is that it must have been ranked as a status 1 or 2 (developed or developing), as documented in the History of the article's Metadate template, no more than one month before the date of the next selection (currently every Thursday).
• Any Citizen may nominate a draft.
• 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 drafts of which you are a main author.
• An article can be the New Draft of the Week only once. Nominated articles that have won this honor should be removed from the list and added to the list of previous winners.
• Comments on nominations should be made on the article's talk page.
• Any draft will be deleted when it is past its "last date eligible". Don't worry if this happens to your article; consider nominating it as the Article of the Week.
• If an editor believes that a nominee in his or her area of expertise is ineligible (perhaps due to obvious and embarrassing problems) he or she may remove the draft from consideration. The editor must indicate the reasons why he has done so on the nominated article's talk page.

Nomination

See above section "Add New Nominees Here".

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 that you created and 2 for articles that 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, announce the winner on Citizendium-L and update the "previous winning drafts" 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 should 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.
  • Winning articles may be named New Draft of the Week beyond their last eligible date if their circumstances are so described above.

Administrators

The Administrators of this program are the same as the admins for CZ:Article of the Week.

See Also

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