Wikipedia:Spotlight

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Even Wikipe-tan has had her turn in the spotlight!

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.

The article currently under the Spotlight is Artificial sunlight.

If you do not have access to IRC, add sections to the Spotlight sandbox.

It is recommended that you add yourself here.

1 Project Coordinators
2 Members
- 2.1 Userbox
3 Current work
4 Newsletter

[edit] Project Coordinators

[edit] Members

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

[edit] Userbox

Participants are welcome to add one of the following userboxes to their userpage: {{User Spotlight}} or {{User:Dendodge/Spotlight}}

[edit] Current work

[edit] Current article

Generally, one article per week is chosen by a coordinator, after discussion in the Spotlight IRC channel, to be placed under the Spotlight; however, this can vary when needed. The article currently under the Spotlight is listed below.

The article currently under the Spotlight is Artificial sunlight.

[edit] Recently concluded

Recently concluded Spotlight articles are listed below. As with all pages on Wikipedia, if you can improve it further, please do!

Page name	Date(s)	Edits	Before	After	Diff
Thirty Years' War	22-31 May 2008	166	Before	After	Diff
Kristallnacht	17-22 May 2008	180	Before	After	Diff
Recording studio	Project was inactive during this period
Dam	August 14, 2007	161	Before	after	Diff
Mao Zedong	August 01, 2007	50	Before	after	Diff
Gang	July 31, 2007	64	Before	after	Diff
Oil spill	July 29, 2007	21	Before	after	Diff
Underground Railroad	July 29, 2007	18	Before	after	Diff
History of Russia	July 25, 2007	337	Before	after	Diff
Third World	July 20, 2007	56	Before	after	Diff
First Lady	July 19, 2007	65	Before	after	Diff
William I of England	July 19, 2007	71	Before	after	Diff
Environmentally friendly	July 15, 2007	60	Before	after	Diff
Casino	July 09, 2007	18	Before	after	Diff
Balloon	May 11, 2007	71	Before	after	Diff
Legume	April 28, 2007	7	Before	after	Diff
Farm	April 22, 2007	74	Before	after	Diff
Shogun	April 18, 2007	69	Before	After	Diff
Poor Richard's Almanack	April 17, 2007	112	Before	After	Diff
Icelanders	April 16, 2007	241	Before	After	Diff
John Gow	April 16, 2007	96	Before	After	Diff
Coloring book	April 15, 2007	78	Before	After	Diff
Aelbert Cuyp	April 15, 2007	24	Before	After	Diff
Christopher Columbus	October 10, 2006	118	Before	After	Diff
Polar exploration	September 20, 2006	23	Before	After	Diff

[edit] Upcoming

Post all of your suggestions at Wikipedia talk:Spotlight/Suggestions. Every week, we pick a new project. We alternate between taking suggestions from the suggestion page and going down this list.

[edit] Newsletter

The Spotlight Newsletter Issue I (May 2008)
Articles The articles this month were: Artificial sunlight (31 May - 7 June)	Article improvement We improved: ⇥ 30 Years' War Changes to the project Errata Last issue, we gave the dates for 30 Years' War as 22-29 May. This is incorrect, as that was the focus article until 31. We apologise for the mistake.
Current proposals and discussions We have discussed making the project daily again, nothing has yet been decided
Awards and honours
Current article: Artificial sunlight Join us on IRC to help improve the article!
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