Talk:Archive:Article of the Week

Article of the Week

Larry, Citizendium, etc al,

In addition to "holding up an article to the limelight" to show how good it is, can we have basically the opposite? Should we have a "focus article" of the week that we can collaborate on? Eric M Gearhart 12:09, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

Why not have both? Wikipedia has a Collaboration of the Week for certain WikiProjects; we could have wiki-wide improvement drives. Sean Allen 12:48, 25 July 2007 (CDT) Whoops, I mis-read your post. I think it'd be a great idea to have a focus article. (: Sean Allen 12:50, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

Well, that's solving a different problem and therefore there might be a better solution. The problem the Article of the Week solves is putting something attractive on the front page and rewarding people for producing our best work. A "Collaboration of the Week" would evidently be aimed at getting people to, well, work on articles. I agree that encouraging, in various creative ways, people to work on articles is the best way to motivate them, but I don't immediately see why choosing just one article for people to work on will actually do much more than get some of them working on that article. So...? --Larry Sanger 13:00, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

Red links in the front page looks rather odd. Can we ensure that at least the portion of the article of the week that is showcased in the Mainpage does not contain those? Supten 23:06, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

They don't bother me so much, because they encourage people to write articles on those subjects. But if you want to remove those links, or if you feel strongly about them, let's remove them. --Larry Sanger 23:29, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

Vote

Notice, dear Citizens, the Biology article featured on the Main Page. This illustrates the concept of the Article of the Week. We'd like to find out if there's enough interest in this and also in a Contributors of the Week thingie. Alternatively, consider the Creation of the Week New Article of the Week. Sign with three tildes (~~~) and let us know!

Interested in Article of the Week?

Please sign below if you are interested in, at the very least, voting on articles of the week.

1. Larry Sanger
2. Matthew Cornell Woods, Jr.
3. Eric M Gearhart
4. Greg Woodhouse
5. Michael Underwood
6. Sean Allen
7. Chris Day (talk)
8. David E. Volk
9. Jochen Wendebaum
10. Anthony.Sebastian
11. Aleksander Stos
12. Andrew Fleisher
13. Ruth Ifcher
14. Stephen Ewen
15. Thomas Mandel
16. Todd Coles
17. James F. Perry
18. Supten
19. John Stephenson
20. Nereo Preto
21. Gareth Leng
22. Stephen Tapril
23. Greg Heuer
24. Andrew Staroscik
25. JeromeDelacroix
26. Ian Johnson

Interested in Contributors of the Week?

Please sign below if you are interested in, at the very least, nominating a Contributor of the Week or a New Contributor of the Week.

1. Larry Sanger
2. Eric M Gearhart
3. Matthew Cornell Woods, Jr.
4. Jochen Wendebaum
5. Stephen Ewen
6. Todd Coles
7. Supten
8. John Stephenson
9. JeromeDelacroix
10. Greg Woodhouse

Interested in New Article of the Week?

Please sign below if you are interested in, at the very least, selecting a Creation of the Week.New Article of the Week

1. Aleksander Stos
2. Larry Sanger (if we can call it "New Article of the Week"--excellent idea)
3.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk)
4. John Stephenson
5. Matthew Cornell Woods, Jr.

Further comment

Feedback?

Well, what do you think of the rules here? --Larry Sanger 07:13, 30 July 2007 (CDT)

Clearing the votes

I agree with leaving the previous week's nominated, but unselected, articles on the voting template, but perhaps we should remove the votes from them to give people the opportunity to vote for a different article if they choose. I'd do it but don't want to overstep my bounds here. --Todd Coles 14:26, 31 July 2007 (CDT)