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Each week, Wikipedians nominate an article to become the collaboration of the week. The aim is to produce featured-standard articles, through widespread cooperative editing. This project aims to fill holes in Wikipedia, so only non-existent articles, or stubs may be nominated. If the article does not fit these guidelines, it should be placed on the Article Improvement Drive for further expansion and improvement.

The next project article is to be selected on Sunday, August 20, 2006. 00:00 UTC (Template:DAYSTOSUNDAY)
The current UTC time is 04:04, December 20, 2024.

Collaborations
Articles
Science and technology
Miscellaneous

How to nominate

Here is template for nominations: 

===[[ARTICLE]] (1 vote, stays until [[DATE ONE WEEK LATER]])===
:''Nominated [[MONTH DAY]], [[YEAR]]; needs at least 3 votes by [[DATE ONE WEEK LATER]], [[YEAR]]''

; Support:
# (sign with four tildes)

; Comments:
* (put your reason for nomination, sign again)

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  1. Copy and paste the template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. It is important to use UTC time; the current time and date now is 04:04, Friday, December 20, 2024 (UTC).
  2. Under "comments" section put explanation of what work is needed.
  3. After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article and put {{COTW}}{{to do}} on the top of the article's talk page.

Considerations

  • Please only nominate stubs (articles of two short paragraphs or less).
  • Giving good reasons will help others in supporting your nomination.
  • Articles should interest a wide number of people, so many can contribute to the article's improvement.
  • If you're thinking of renominating an article which has recently failed, consider waiting a month before renominating it.

How to vote

Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the subhead. Opposing votes are not counted; see approval voting.

  • Only registered users may vote, and their first edit must have been before the article was nominated.
  • Only support votes and comments should be added, as the articles are chosen by approval voting.
  • Only vote for articles that you will personally help to improve, either with research or with writing.
  • Do not vote for all of the nominations. If you do, your votes will be discounted, as people can't expect you to work on all of them.
  • The article with the most votes at selection time will become the next COTW.
  • Articles that fail to receive 3 votes per week from the time of nomination will be removed from this page.

You can vote for as many articles as you like. If, after you vote, the vote count equals the "needs at least xx votes by", then add 3 to "needs at least xx votes" and add a week to date in vote count and "needs at least xx votes by" notice.

Example. You encounter this situation and decide to vote:

===[[History of X]] (23 votes, stays until [[February 7]], [[2006]])===
:''Nominated [[December 8]], [[2005]]; needs at least 24 votes by [[February 7]], [[2006]]''

First you put "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of people who voted for that article and then change the vote count and date in following manner:

===[[History of X]] (24 votes, stays until [[February 14]], [[2006]])===
:''Nominated [[December 8]], [[2005]]; needs at least 28 votes by [[February 14]], [[2006]]''

Constant contributors to COTW can place {{User COTW}} onto their user pages. It looks like this:

This user participated in Collaboration of the week.




How the article is elected

The article with the most votes on each Sunday in 00:00 UTC is elected as "The current Article Improvement Drive article". If two or more articles have same number of votes, the oldest nominee wins.

How an article is removed from the list

Articles need three votes per week to stay on the list. If current date (December 20 2024) exceeds "stays until" date of particular article, unless that article has the most votes of all current nominations, that article entry is removed from this page and moved to failed nominations.

Nominations

Historical geography (4 votes, stays until August 16)

Nominated August 2, 2006; needs at least 6 votes by August 16, 2006
Support
  1. PDXblazers 06:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. jwandersTalk 16:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Ynhockey (Talk) 18:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. EamonnPKeane 14:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Very interesting field that is slowly gaining more importance in the academic world. This short stub does not do it justice.



Job security (1 vote, stays until August 16)

Nominated August 9, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by August 16, 2006
Support
  1. ZeWrestler Talk 19:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Oil tanker (2 votes, stays until August 19)

Nominated August 12, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by August 19, 2006
Support
  1. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 18:48, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Sauff 01:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Oil tankers are very important, especially in the modern economy. Yet it has no images, no headings and is virtually link free, baring the see also at the bottom, while the last 'paragraph' is completely out-of-place trivia about Condoleeza Rice. This article definitely needs improvement, and ideally from those with a little more knowledge than me about tankers. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 18:48, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cattle drives in the United States (1 vote, stays until 20 August)

Nominated 13 August, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by 20 August, 2006
Support
  1. Sean gorter{mind a chat?} e@ CVU
Comments

Mud

Nominated 14 August, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by 21 August, 2006
Support
  1. SP-KP 20:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  1. Pathetically stubby, but vast subject. Almost made it as our COTW a few weeks back, so re-nominating to see if we have more luck this time. SP-KP 20:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ship transport (1 vote, stays until DATE ONE WEEK LATER)

Nominated 15 August, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by 22 August, 2006
Support
  1. Yvwv 21:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • An important topic with just one screen of text.

 

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