...is the "Biology" article: http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Biology
The nomination was by Nancy Sculerati, with Gareth Leng and David Tribe concurring. My understanding is that Dr. Sculerati did much of the writing, and it is really an excellent article, a wonderful replacement for the relatively unreadable and pedantic Wikipedia article. As I told the contributors on the talk page: "This is an amazingly well-written article. It does not attempt to introduce every aspect of biology equally, but by being selective--focusing on the definition and scope of biology, and then surveying its main areas via its history--it does provide exactly what is wanted from an encyclopedia article about biology, namely, a general introduction that conveys a rough general understanding. A survey of the main areas--alphabetically, say--would convey more information about those areas, but would very probably not do nearly as good a job at introducing biology as a whole. So, thanks, folks, for helping prove the viability of the general premise behind CZ." So, according to the proposed approval process, described here, http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,331.0.html in lieu of a single editor approving an article of which he or she is not a main author, any set of three or more editors may approve a version of the article, even if they are all major authors of it. The latter condition was met, so I went ahead and did a whole series of things: (1) I created the {{ToApprove}} template. You can see an example on http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Biology But bear in mind that according to the rules, since the article has actually been approved, I should have removed that template. Well, I *will* remove it, but I'm just leaving it up there for you to get a look at it. (2) I created the {{Approved}} template. You can see this at: http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Biology (3) Note, as part of the above two templates, I created [[Category:{{{group}}} Approved]] and [[Category:{{{group}}} to Approve]]. In other words, there are now categories containing all the biology articles-to-approve, and all the biology articles that have been approved. Here: http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Biology_to_Approve http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Biology_Approved (Again, there shouldn't be anything in the former category now, but I'm just leaving the article there as an illustration.) (4) Since the above categories are useful to look at when one is looking at a workgroup, I've gone ahead and added two new columns to the workgroups table: http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium_Pilot:Discipline_Workgroups Note for mediawiki dweebs: most of the links in the new columns are red. If you want to help out by making them blue, use these templates: {{ToApprove cat|group=XYZ}} {{Approved cat|group=XYZ}} You might also cleverly make the relevant categories subcategories of (new) master "Approved Articles" and "Articles to Approve" categories. (I had to leave *something* for you to do. :-) ) (5) I moved the most recent version of the article to a /Draft page: http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Biology/Draft Note, this is not a true subpage, so we must hand-link back to the main page. We can't really have true subpages if we want to be backwards-compatible with Wikipedia, which permits articles like [[Face/Off]] that are not subpages of [[Face]]. This is OK because as a technical solution, the /Draft procedure is intended to be temporary anyway. (Erg, but how temporary?) (6) I placed the {{Approved}} template at the top of http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Biology And then pasted in the version of the article that was pointed to in the {{ToApprove}} template on the biology talk page. (7) Finally, as I happen to be a sysop, I then protected the main page article. Note, *I* won't be doing all this most of the time. I expect editors themselves to use the {{ToApprove}} and {{Approved}} templates, as appropriate, and other sysops (I think there are a half dozen of us) to protect the main pages as needed. I'll have to write up instructions for both editors and sysops--unless, of course, someone else would like to do me a favor and do that! We are still open to comments on this whole process, here: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,331.0.html --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
