...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


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