< CZ:ProposalsRevision as of 08:00, 9 June 2008 by imported>Jitse Niesen
These are proposals that will go (or are now) before the Editorial Council.
Should we allow article specific subpages?
Summary: The proposal recommends that citizendium adds three new fields to the metadata template (tab1, tab2 and tab3) that can be used to specify a subpage that is not defined in the generic list of subpages. An example of this can be seen at Iron/Isotopes. The Isotopes subpage will only be used by a small fraction of clusters (typically elements). This information could live on the /Catlogs subpage but citizendium readers will find it far more intuitive if the tab actually says Isotopes rather than Catalogs.
| Original proposer: Chris Day 23:25, 1 May 2008 (CDT) |
Next step: This is functional and can already be used by authors if they desire. The next step is to agree whether this is useful for readers and authors of citizendium.
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| Driver: Chris Day |
To be done by: May 21st
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Moving Forward on Obscenity
Summary: Our family-friendliness policy, as written, is unclear, and should be rewritten. Furthermore, we should move away from trying to self-censor, and work on setting CZ up so that schools, libraries and parents can filter content they find objectionable.
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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}".
| Original proposer: J. Noel Chiappa 09:33, 15 May 2008 (CDT) |
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.
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| Driver: J. Noel Chiappa |
To be done by: May 30th (approximately)
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| Notes: A thread on the forums wandered into discussion of this topic here.
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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.
| Original proposer: Andrew Su 14:43, 16 April 2008 (CDT) |
Next step: Discussion by community
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| Driver: Andrew Su |
To be done by: Complete in one month (May 15, 2008)?
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| Notes: The proposal was originally discussed on the forum ([1]), so additional details and context can be found there.
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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.
| Original proposer: Larry Sanger 08:57, 28 March 2008 (CDT) |
Next step: Submit to the Editorial Council for approval, hopefully by acclamation
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| Driver: Larry Sanger |
To be done by: May 1 or when the Editorial Council comes back online
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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)
| Original proposer: Lee R. Berger 01:44, 5 March 2008 (CST) |
Next step: Create Proposal
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| Driver: Lee R. Berger 01:44, 5 March 2008 (CST) |
To be done by: 5 March
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Medical Disclaimers
Summary: Add a disclaimer to drug and medical condition pages
| Original proposer: David E. Volk 10:21, 9 March 2008 (CDT) |
Next step: Wait for new Editorial Council to be instated
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| Driver: David E. Volk |
To be done by: April 7, 2008
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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).
| Original proposer: Larry Sanger 22:08, 12 February 2008 (CST) |
Next step: Submit to Editorial Council after new Council is empanelled
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| Driver: Larry Sanger |
To be done by: May 1 or when the Editorial Council comes back online
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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
| Original proposer: David E. Volk 11:33, 29 February 2008 (CST) |
Next step: Awaiting new Editorial Council vote
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| Driver: User:David E. Volk |
To be done by: April 7, 2008
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| Notes: The idea is to have a workgroup-specific style guides to aid authors and editors for consistency
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