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The '''Space Collaboration of the Week''' is a collaborative effort to improve [[Space]]-related articles, in order to help them reach [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured article]] or [[WP:GA|good article]] standards, or simply to expand stubs into fully-fledged articles. Anyone, no matter what their level of knowledge about space, is welcome to lend a hand.  This topic is wide-ranging, from articles describing classes of astronomical objects, such as [[Comet]], [[Asteroid]], [[Globular cluster]], or [[Galaxy]], to articles describing astronomical concepts, like the [[Big Bang]], to articles describing individual objects or locations in space, like [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]], [[Io (moon)|Io]], or [[Valles Marineris]] on Mars, as well as articles describing the utilisation and exploration of space, such as articles about spacecraft, missions, astronauts and rockets.


==Goals==
This Collaboration of the week is designed to improve articles with space-related topics, ideally to at least [[WP:GA|Good-article]] status, if not [[WP:FA|Featured-article]] status. Important to this effort is the improvement of references used in articles, both making sure statements are cited, and improving quality of citations, from web-based references, to preferably peer-reviewed ones.  Secondly, the content of many articles need expanding, often to include more recent results.  Finally, the language and grammar of articles can be improved. The collaboration will also give effort to general improvement, such as expanding stubs into articles. 

These broad-based goals make collaboration necessary for broad or important topics.  Even if an editor is not well-versed in the collaboration of the week's topic, they can still improve the article through copyedits or improving the style, for example.

==Current Collaborations==
===2010===
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===2008===
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==Archive==
[[13 June]] [[2006]] - [[12 January]] [[2008]]: [[Mars]]
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==Selecting the next collaboration==
--##NOTE: - Let's keep the bureaucracy out of this until there is enough interest to justify it.##--

The selection process involves two steps: 


#'''Nomination:''' Every five weeks, Astronomy Collaboration of the Week will go through a nomination vote.  A collaborator may nominate or vote for up to five articles (minus outstanding votes from the previous nomination vote) during each voting period.  New nominations should be added at the end of the ''Candidates for collaboration'' section.  Insightful comments may assist others in casting their vote.  If an article is already nominated, you may a vote in support by adding <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> under the relevant article's support section in ''Candidates for collaboration''.  Any registered Wikipedian can vote on this page, regardless of their level of knowledge about the subject.
#'''Selection:''' The top five are selected by [[approval voting]]; opposition votes have no bearing.  The top vote getter will be the new Collaboration of the Week, while the second place article will be the next week's collaboration, and so forth.  The votes for those articles failing to make it into the top five will be carried over to the next nomination stage.
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== Installing a new collaboration ==

--now automated--

To change to a newly selected article:
# If appropriate, the old article should be referred to [[Wikipedia:Peer review|Peer review]] and later to [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|Featured article candidates]].
# Contact the Wikipedians who voted for the winning article in their talk pages.
# Add <nowiki>{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Space/Collaboration/Notice</nowiki>|''Week''|''Year''}} to the top of the COTW's article page. This expands to:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Space/Collaboration/Notice}}
**If the new article is intended to become a [[WP:FA|featured article]], add '''|type=FA''' to the template.
**If the new article is intended to become a [[WP:GA|good article]], add '''|type=GA''' to the template.
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== Nominating articles ==
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<tt><nowiki>===[[Article]]===
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<nowiki>Reason ~~~~</nowiki><br>
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# First, decide if it is necessary for the article to require a collaboration. Minor grammatical errors and other simple tasks can be done by one person. [[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold]]!
# Any space-related topic is eligible for nomination.
# If there is no collaboration for the current week, just add it. 
# Otherwise, list it below, and if no objections are noted, or there is a consensus to add it, then it will be listed as a collaboration. Use the format shown on the right
# Make a comment on the article's talk page about nominating it, and add '''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>Wikipedia:WikiProject Space/Collaboration/Notice|nomination}}''' to the top of the talk page.
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== Candidates for collaboration ==

===[[Observing the Moon]]===

Reason: This article is currently Start class and is lacking in several key aspects, the primary reason for this is lack of involvement from the Wikipedia community.--[[User:Pico del Teide|Pico del Teide]] ([[User talk:Pico del Teide|talk]]) 16:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

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*--[[User:Pico del Teide|Pico del Teide]] ([[User talk:Pico del Teide|talk]]) 16:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
*--[[Special:Contributions/90.198.184.215|90.198.184.215]] ([[User talk:90.198.184.215|talk]]) 17:16, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

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===[[Einstein Cross]]===
A stub class article. Since we're currently dealing with extragalactic objects, this would be great. Recommended by '''♫[[User:Deathgleaner|Death]][[User talk:Deathgleaner|gle]][[User:Deathgleaner/ProgramArc|an]][[User:Deathgleaner/HybridSandbox|er]]''' 03:41, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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*'''♫[[User:Deathgleaner|Death]][[User talk:Deathgleaner|gle]][[User:Deathgleaner/ProgramArc|an]][[User:Deathgleaner/HybridSandbox|er]]''' 03:41, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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==Interested Wikipedians==
# {{user|GW_Simulations}}
# {{user|TheDJ}}
# {{user|Silverwolf85}}

====Carried forward from ACOW====
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# {{user|Volcanopele}}
# {{user|Tuvas}}
# {{user|Reyk}}
# {{user|Koeppen}}
# {{user|Vsst}}