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=== Featured articles ===
=== Featured articles ===
{{rpr|Fertility (demography)}} (October 14 — October 21, 2011)
{{rpr|Geometric series}} (October 8 — October 14, 2011)
{{rpr|Geometric series}} (October 8 — October 14, 2011)
{{rpr|Eurozone crisis}} (October 1 — October 8, 2011)
{{rpr|Eurozone crisis}} (October 1 — October 8, 2011)

Revision as of 19:37, 14 October 2011

Featured Article is an award given weekly to a high-quality Citizendium article.

Chunbum Park is the current Featured Articles maintainer.

Note on editing Featured Articles (8 August 2011)

You are encouraged to fix any errors you find in our Featured Articles. Do note however, that changes made to the current Feature at CZ:Featured article/Current do not automatically apply to the main article. The /Current page is blanked once a week to make room for the next Feature. For your contribution to be permanent, you need to make the change in the main article as well, i.e. the topmost link in the list below. Thank you. Johan Förberg

Formal policy

EC Decision D-2011-014, 28 February 2011:

The welcome page of the Citizendium shall display one or two featured articles.

If no other system of choosing and displaying articles is employed, then at least one article shall be chosen from our Approved articles on a rotating basis and shall thereafter be changed at least once a week.

Remark: This replaces the "Article of the Week" and the "New Draft of the Week" for the time being, or until another feature is installed.

Archive

List of previously featured articles.

Before May 4, 2011, there were two distinct categories of featured articles, which are archived separately.

Featured articles

  • Approved Article Fertility (demography) [r]: The demographic analysis of having babies. [e] (October 14 — October 21, 2011)
  • Developed Article Geometric series [r]: A series associated with a geometric sequence, i.e., consecutive terms have a constant ratio. [e] (October 8 — October 14, 2011)
  • Developed Article Eurozone crisis [r]: A financial crisis involving member countries of the Eurozone [e] (October 1 — October 8, 2011)
  • Developed Article Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 26 — October 1, 2011)
  • Cypherpunk [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 17 — September 26, 2011)
  • Developed Article Dirac delta function [r]: Sharply peaked function, generalization of the Kronecker delta; a distribution that maps a regular function onto a single function value. [e] (September 10 — September 17, 2011)
  • Lockheed SR-71 [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 2 — September 10, 2011)
  • Developed Article Clostridium difficile [r]: A bacteria species causing infectious diarhhea and pseudomembranous colitis. [e] (August 25 — September 2, 2011)
  • Developed Article Great Recession [r]: The disruption of economic activity that began with a downturn in 2007 and generated international repercussions that continued through 2012 and into 2013. [e] (August 19 — August 25, 2011)
  • Developed Article Alice Bailey [r]: Author of spiritual, occult, esoteric and religious themes; early popularizer of terms New Age and Age of Aquarius. [e] (August 13 — August 19, 2011)
  • Approved Article Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. [e] (August 7 — August 13, 2011)
  • Developed Article Miller effect [r]: The increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to a capacitance connected between two gain-related nodes. [e] (July 29 — August 7, 2011)
  • Developed Article Gut-brain signalling [r]: The interaction between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain. [e] (July 23 — 29, 2011)
  • Developed Article Neanderthal [r]: Extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia. [e] (July 13 — 23, 2011)
  • Developed Article Tennis [r]: A sport played on a hard-surfaced rectangular court, between either two players or two teams of two players each, in which the players attempt to strike a hollow rubber ball, using a stringed raquet, over a net into the opponent's half of the court. [e] (July 2 — 13, 2011)
  • Developed Article Apollo program [r]: A human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961–1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. [e] (June 26 — July 2, 2011)
  • Developing Article Semiconductor diode [r]: Two-terminal device that conducts current in only one direction, made of two or more layers of material, of which at least one is a semiconductor. [e] (June 17 — 26, 2011)
  • Developed Article Miller effect [r]: The increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to a capacitance connected between two gain-related nodes. [e] (June 11 — 17, 2011)
  • Approved Article Specific heat ratio [r]: The ratio of the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure, , to the specific heat at constant volume, , also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor. [e] (June 3 — 11 2011)
  • Approved Article Macromolecular chemistry [r]: The study of the physical, biological and chemical structure, properties, composition, and reaction mechanisms of macromolecules. [e] (May 27 — June 3, 2011)
  • Developed Article Tecum Umam [r]: Legendary defender of the Maya and national hero of Guatemala. [e] (May 21 — 27, 2011)
  • Developed Article Heterotaxis [r]: A genus of orchids formed by a group of about fourteen large epiphytic neotropical species of small flowers, which previously were considered part of genus Maxillaria. [e] (May 4 — 21, 2011)

Articles of the Week (before May 4, 2011)

New Drafts of the Week (before May 4, 2011)

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