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'''These are proposals that will go (or are now) before the [[CZ:Editorial Council|Editorial Council]].''' | '''These are proposals that will go (or are now) before the [[CZ:Editorial Council|Editorial Council]].''' | ||
== Disambiguation mechanics == | |||
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|Brief descriptive title = Disambiguation mechanics | |||
|Summary of proposal = This proposal argues that all disambiguation pages should be at titles of the form "foo (disambiguation)", with a ''redirect'' at '''all''' basic names which are being disambiguated; this will allow us to easily find articles which have been linked (erroneously) to the wrong meaning of "{foo}". | |||
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 09:33, 15 May 2008 (CDT) | |||
|Username of driver = [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] | |||
|Next step = I would like to see debate on this to see what the community thinks of this; most people have been positive, but there might be some issues I haven't considered. | |||
|Target date for next step = May 30th (approximately) | |||
|Notes = A thread on the forums wandered into discussion of this topic [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php?topic=1595.msg14429#msg14429 here]. | |||
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== Create a page for all notable genes in the human genome == | == Create a page for all notable genes in the human genome == | ||
Revision as of 05:54, 9 June 2008
These are proposals that will go (or are now) before the Editorial Council.
Disambiguation mechanics
Summary: This proposal argues that all disambiguation pages should be at titles of the form "foo (disambiguation)", with a redirect at all basic names which are being disambiguated; this will allow us to easily find articles which have been linked (erroneously) to the wrong meaning of "{foo}".
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Create a page for all notable genes in the human genome
| Summary: We are interested in creating one page for all notable genes in the human genome. Each stub would be seeded using content which is harvested from publicly available sources. The resulting "Gene Wiki" would be a relatively unique resource compared to popular gene portals used by researchers and students. Given the expected number of created pages (5000-10000), an automated bot would be created/modified to perform the stub creation. | |
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Self-Correction Policy
Summary: The Citizendium should adopt a policy that requires that we list all factual errors in previous versions of our articles--including unapproved articles--at the bottom of an article. This is the same standard that newspapers and other legitimate periodicals use. We are clearly obligated to adopt the same policy. Doing so will earn us good will from the public and increase our credibility considerably.
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Citing CZ article by authors
Summary: An author X, who wants to cite a Citizendium article he contributed to, should do so in a form like "Authors and X (2008) Life ..." (summary written by Proposals Manager)
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Medical Disclaimers
Summary: Add a disclaimer to drug and medical condition pages
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Pilot to allow Citizens to take credit for pages
Summary: By popular demand, we would, to a limited extent, allow Citizens to take authorship credit of articles. This would (for now) take the form of a template placed at the bottom of the page, which would, in small and unobtrusive print, list the contributors to an article in alphabetical order. Contributors would add themselves. To avoid issues about what counts as an "important" edit, a person could take co-authorship credit for adding at least two sentences, and five people who have to be on the list before any names were displayed. We would try this out in just four workgroups (the template would be removed from articles in any other workgroup).
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Create workgroup style guides
Summary: To promote coherent style and subsections within each workgroup, aid new users with examples of equations, drawings and other how-to items
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