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Each month a Science Collaboration of the Month will be picked using this page. The aim is to feature an article by the end of the month using widespread cooperative editing. For a discussion on the correct format of science articles, please see WikiProject Science.

Carbon is the current science collaboration of the month.
Please help improve this article to featured article standard.
Last month's collaboration was Surface science - See improvements.

Stuck for nominees? Take a look at Science stubs or Requested articles in Applied sciences or Natural Sciences. Also check the /History, AID History and COTW History for articles that may have failed previously but are worthy of re-nomination, and Unreferenced Good Articles for articles that need citation work in particular.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every Tuesday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

If you want to participate in this project, you may add {{user scienceCOTM}} to your user page which will unfold to

This user participates in the Science Collaboration of the Month.



Collaborations

Core topics
Biography
Arts & entertainment

Alternative Music
James Bond
Novels
Games & sports

Baseball
Professional wrestling
Rugby union
Geography & places

Australia
India
Peru
Government & politics

Taxation
U.S. Congress
Religion

Anglicanism
Catholic
Education

Universities
Science & technology

Birds
Mammals
Mathematics
Medicine
Molecular and
Cellular Biology
Plants NEW!
Pharmacology
Robotics NEW!
Science
Space
U.S. Roads
Miscellaneous

Inactive collaborations

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Contents

[edit] Selection process

If there are more than five articles (5) candidates, nominations must get two votes every seven days to stay alive. Previous successful collaborations and unsuccessful nominations will be pruned and sent to /History. The first nomination to be pruned will be that which has the lowest number of votes among the expired nominees.

Users can add support for more than one nomination at a time. Users can only vote once for each nomination.

Collaborations will be selected every month by whichever one has the most votes. In the event of a tie, the earlier nomination wins.

[edit] History of SCOTM

The science collaboration of the month was originally started by Litefantastic on November 26, 2004. However, before an article could be selected, the project was unluckily deserted due to a lack of candidates and participants. On July 6, 2005, Toothpaste resurrected this project and the first collaboration was selected on July 20, 2005. A collaboration was selected approximately every week until June 28, 2006, when the collaboration became a monthly event with the aim of producing higher quality science articles.

[edit] List of past and present maintainers

  1. Toothpaste, July to December 2005
  2. Fenice, December 2005 to January 2006
  3. Samsara, January to March 2006
  4. Deryck Chan, March to May 2006
  5. Samsara, May to August 2006
  6. NCurse, August 2006 to present

[edit] How to nominate an article

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{SCOTW}} to the top of the article's talk page.

To add a new nomination, please:

  1. Copy the template below
  2. Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
  3. Replace "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
  4. Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
  5. Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
 ===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===   
 ====(1 vote), stays until [Date + 7 days]====
 :''Nominated <u>[[{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}]], [[{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}]]</u>, needs 2 votes by [Date + 7 days].''  
    
 ;Support 
 #~~~~
     
 ;Comments
 *[a short description explaining why the article should be the Science Collaboration of the month]

[edit] Nominations for the next SCOTM

The next SCOTM will be chosen on June 1, 2008.

[edit] Related collaborations

Restriction enzyme
The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is Restriction enzyme.
Please help to improve this article to featured article status.
Last month's collaboration was Flagellum.
The Neuroscience Collaboration of the Month for November is Brodmann area.
Please help improving this article to featured article standard
The current Medicine Collaboration of the Week is Physiotherapy.
Last week's collaboration was Long-term effects of alcohol.
  The current Computer Science Collaboration of the Week is — Computer security

(Change current CSCOTW)
The current Chemistry Collaboration of the Month is
Catalysis.
Every month a different chemistry-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked.
Please improve the article any way you can.

Group (mathematics)

The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Month is Group (mathematics).
Please help to improve this article towards featured article standard.
Last month's collaboration was Set

[edit] Trophies

Featured article
Good articles
See Wikipedia:Good articles

[edit] Maintenance instructions for this page

[edit] General

[edit] When an article is nominated

  • Make sure that {{SCOTM}} is displayed at the top of the article's talk page.
  • (Optional) Make sure that regular and recent contributors to the article are notified.

[edit] When an article is elected

  • Remove {{Current-SCOTM}} on the outgoing collaboration.
  • Move current content of {{Collab-science}} to /lastmonth and add the edit history diff from nomination to today's date.
  • Put the link to the new SCOTW on {{Collab-science}}.
  • Save everything.
  • Replace {{SCOTM}} with {{Current-SCOTM}} on the new collaboration; give it a clear edit summary, because you'll need to find it later!
  • Move the voting section for the article over to /History, indicating today's date in the new header. Also add the "see how it was improved" from /lastmonth
  • Adjust the "next selection" date. Science Collaborations are always selected on the 1st of each month.
  • Notify each wikipedian who voted for the collaboration by putting a {{subst:SCOTMvoter}} on their talk page.
  • Notify all regular contributors that did not vote for the article - they are listed in /regulars; you can use {{subst:SCOTMregular}} for the message body.
  • Make sure the recipient's name is not on /nomessage when you leave a message
  • (Optional) Notify each wikipedian who voted for the previous collaboration, and all who have since contributed to it, by putting a {{subst:SCOTMcontributor}} on their talk page. You may want to write three different messages: one for contributors who were not apparently originally aware of SCOTM, one for voters who contributed, and one for voters who did not find the time to contribute that particular week.
  • Leave a note on talk pages of related articles and WikiProjects.

[edit] When nominees fail their deadlines

  • When there are more than five articles (5) articles and one or more have overrun their deadline, those with the smallest number of votes get archived first, until all remaining articles reach their keeping standards or only five articles (5) candidates remain. The dropout entries are appended to /History#Unsuccessful nominations.

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