Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia/Collaboration of the month
This is the Indigenous Peoples of Australia Collaboration of the Month (IPACM) page upon which articles falling within the WikiProject's scope are nominated and selected for active WikiProject members to focus their collaborative efforts, month by month.
During the collaboration or soon after, the article will hopefully attain or near featured standard. The collaboration also serves to give users a focus and something to be proud of.
Recent collaborations
[edit]Procedure
[edit]Anyone who is a registered user prepared to devote time to collaborate on an article, not just WikiProject members, can nominate an article and vote for articles already nominated.
The article is selected using approval voting. The first Sunday of each month, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for four weeks to potential contributors. The first winner will be selected on Sunday, 2 March, 2008, 20:00 (AEST)
- Nominations
New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page.
- Considerations for nominations
- Please only nominate Indigenous Australian articles (or topics) which need serious work. If you have an article in mind that is not related to Indigenous Australia please use Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive, which is not specific to Indigenous Australian articles.
- Giving reasons as to why an article should become the IPACM may assist others in casting their vote.
- Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
- Sources to find articles to nominate might include:
- Collaborations sometimes work better if people know how to help. Consider adding a {{todo}} template to the article's talk page, and identifying what you think needs doings for others to add to or fix.
- Voting
Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like. Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).
To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
Potential voters should consider when voting whether they are prepared to contribute to that article if it is selected. The IPACM can not be effective if people vote purely in the hopes that someone else will improve an article. The purpose is to draw together a group of interested people for a time.
- Tie-breakers
In case of a tie, the tied candidate that was nominated first will be selected.
- Pruning
Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they do not attract attention. An item will be allowed to remain up for voting two weeks per two votes it receives.
NOTE: If the turnover of collaborations slows down, the expiry dates should be taken with a pinch of salt for a while and allowed to relax to ensure popular choices are not pruned merely due to nobody actually selecting a new collaboration topic.
Items may also be removed if they are inappropriate for nomination (see Considerations... above)