[Cz-editcouncil] FW: Article and contributors of the week

[Kashyapji]

a good idea. please go ahead

thanks
indra adhikari
kathmandu


On 7/21/07, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
>
> Discuss: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1093.0.html
>
> All,
>
> I think we need to place an Article of the Week on the front page.  So I
> propose that we start up an Article of the Week program.  I would also
> like to start Contributor of the Week and New Contributor of the Week
> programs.  I am going to assume I don't need to get approval for this
> from the Editorial Council; but, just in case, I am cc'ing them in case
> any of Editorial Council members would like the Council to discuss and
> vote on this.
>
> I think these should work well.  But perhaps you have some ideas of
> other such methods of honoring people and work?
>
> I can do the initial planning for this, but I lack the time to get it
> started myself.  So I am asking for volunteers to lead the charge.  If
> you're interested, go to
>
> http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1093.0.html
>
> and declare your interest in helping to organize these programs.  Note,
> at least on my proposal, only constables would be able to administer the
> contibutor of the week programs.  If no one is interested, the programs
> just won't happen.
>
> Here's how I propose these programs should work.
>
> (1) Create a wiki page, one for each program, in which the rules are
> explained, the current and former honorees are listed, and the program's
> admins are listed.  For the Article of the Week, there is another page
> in which nominations are made (see next point).
>
> (2) The rules for selecting the Article of the Week can be fairly
> simple.  Anyone may make a nomination.  At least for now--while the
> project is still small--you may nominate and vote for your own articles.
> Nominations are listed alphabetically at first, but then constantly
> re-ranked as different items garner different votes.  Moreover, no one
> may vote for an article, if he or she has done significant work on the
> article.  Each Monday, one of the program admins moves the article that
> is at the top of the list (i.e., the one with the highest score) to the
> front page, and announce it on Citizendium-L.
>
> (3) If an article has not been approved yet, the article of the week is
> labelled "Draft of the Week."  The status must be 1 or 2 (i.e., only
> "Advanced Articles" may be nominated).
>
> (4) The votes of editors who are voting for an article that is in their
> area of expertise ought to have weighted votes: I suggest that their
> votes are worth three.  Moreover, any editor may, simply by editing the
> nomination list, entirely cancel the nomination of any *unapproved*
> article in his or her area of expertise (if, for example, it contains
> obvious and embarrassing problems).
>
> (5) How would the "Contributor of the Week" and "New Contributor of the
> Week" winners be chosen?  I propose that the Constabulary keep a running
> tally of the contributors and new contributors of the week, since they
> can keep track of nominations on their own password-protected wiki.  I
> don't think we should vote openly for people on the main wiki; it is,
> obviously, not seemly that we should vote on and rank the merits of
> people in such a crass way.  So nominees are neither listed nor ranked
> on the main wiki.  Instead, we send our nominations to a special mailing
> list, operated by interested constables.  An unlimited number of people
> can be nominated by a person in a single mail, but a person may not
> nominate himself.  Then, on the (private) Constable Wiki, participating
> constables record votes in a way similar to the Article of the Week.  A
> nominated person needs at least three votes to receive the honor; this
> means that three different people need to nominate the same person
> *independently*, since no one will but constables will know who's been
> nominated so far.  I suggest that that really *is* an honor, far more
> than open (more gamable, politicizable) voting.  Note, constables are
> bound to secrecy not only about how many votes have been received, but
> also about who has been nominated.  Each Wednesday, the new winners are
> announced on Citizendium-L and the Project Home page.  Old winners are
> archived on the main wiki.
>
> (6) We say that the Contributor of the Week should be chosen based on
> this criterion: remarkable service to the Citizendium project, either in
> terms of content contributed, constable or other administrative work, or
> helping the project in some other important way.  Non-Citizens may be
> nominated; in that case, the honorific is Honorary Citizen of the Week.
>
> (7) We say that the New Contributor of the Week should be chosen on the
> basis of things we love about new contributors, such as large amounts of
> work ("diving right in"), boldness, getting involved right away.
>
> (8) I don't propose that editor votes count for any more than author
> votes, when it comes to selecting the contributors of the week.
>
> (9) Someone can be a New Contributor of the Week only once.  A person
> can be a Contributor of the Week only every n months; perhaps n=3;
> similarly with the Article of the Week, except that perhaps n=6.  n will
> increase as we gain more good articles and contributors.
>
> (10) I suggest that special subpages of CZ:COTW (for "Contributor of the
> Week"--do we want to write that out?) and of CZ:NCOTW be written
> honoring the person, explaining what we are honoring them for, and
> perhaps including a quotation or short interview.  But my suggestion is
> entirely contingent on whether we have a FIRM COMMITMENT from the
> participating Constables to write such pages on a weekly basis.
> Otherwise, we simply link to the person's user page.
>
> (11) Redesign the main page in order to include the article of the week.
> (Again, I invite you all to work on making the main page simpler and
> more elegant.  I've recently simplified it myself.  Still Needs Work.)
>
> (12) Post the Contributor of the Week and New Contributor of the Week on
> Project Home, which by the way is going to become increasingly
> important, as we have moved many links off the main page and the
> sidebar.  I would prefer not to list the contributors of the week on the
> front page, because we want to focus on content, not community, on the
> front page--and the honor of being a contributor of a week is of
> interest mainly to our community, not to the average non-contributing
> reader.
>
> (13) To be clear, anybody may sign up to be an admin of the Article of
> the Week program.  He may do so on the CZ:AOTW page itself (which does
> not yet exist yet, so don't go looking for it).
>
> Questions, objections, additions to the policy, and other discussion
> here:
>
> http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1093.0.html
>
> --Larry
>
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