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Spotlight is a process for article expansion whereby a number of editors get together online and all concentrate on simultaneously expanding a single article. The coordination of these activities takes place on #wikipedia-spotlight on the FreeNode IRC network (see the IRC tutorial for help with IRC). The first article undertaken by the Spotlight crew was Polar exploration. Look at how much the article improved in under two hours.

Present article is barbecue sauce.

Contents 1 Members 2 Project Coordinators 3 Current work 3.1 Rush 3.2 Current 3.2.1 Christopher Soghoian 3.2.2 Barbecue sauce 3.2.3 Fashion photography 3.2.4 Laval, Quebec 3.2.5 Aeschylus 3.3 Finishing 3.4 Peer Review 3.4.1 Polar exploration 3.4.2 Christopher Columbus 3.4.2.1 Also 4 Templates

[edit] Members

All wikipedia editors with access to IRC are welcome to participate. Visit #wikipedia-spotlight for more information.

[edit] Project Coordinators

• User:Danny
• User:Bastique
• User:Eagle 101

[edit] Current work

[edit] Rush

[edit] Current

[edit] Christopher Soghoian

Major expansion, was wrongfully searched by the FBI for publishing the Northwest Airlines security exploit. Well, we can't say wrongfully in the article (yet) anyways, but it needs help.

[edit] Barbecue sauce

• Fix US-centric bias – done
• Cite your sauces – some references added
• Expand History section

[edit] Fashion photography

Please list possible topics here

• History --- getting done
• Popular cameras --- be carefull with this... this is a primary source of spam and link spam.
• Techniques
• Popular locales, (e.g. Paris, Miami Beach)

[edit] Laval, Quebec

Needs serious help, indicate what below here.

[edit] Aeschylus

Article needs major expansion and more references. This is one of 18 Core Biographies that are in most dire need of help.

[edit] Finishing

[edit] Peer Review

[edit] Polar exploration

Here are some tasks you can do: Copyedit: general Wikify: somethings are wikified repeatedly, find them and eliminate them Cleanup: general formatting, especially dates

Also

• Perhaps removing some images, it's a little heavy on them.

[edit] Christopher Columbus

Here are some tasks you can do: Other: Cleanup Origin theories of Christopher Columbus and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

[edit] Also

• Origin theories of Christopher Columbus split from main article, unsourced stuff removed.
• Voyages of Christopher Columbus split from the main article, extremely detailed but needs work on prose.

[edit] Templates

Use {{spotlight}} on the talk page of articles being worked on to produce:

Wikipedia:Spotlight
This article is currently under the Spotlight. There may be several people working on the article, so beware of edit conflicts. If you wish to help, please join the editors in #wikipedia-spotlight on the FreeNode IRC network where the project is coordinated. (See the IRC tutorial for help with IRC)

Use {{spotlighted}} on articles that are finished with, supplying a date and a diff that shows the changes. Example: {{spotlighted|date=1st January 2000|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=cur&oldid=0}} produces:

This article was placed under the Spotlight, an IRC-coordinated collaborative editing project that focuses on article improvement, on 1st January 2000. Click here for a before-and-after comparison.