Every two weeks, an Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight will be picked using this page. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to Australia, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the period, from widespread cooperative editing.
The project aims to fill gaps about Australia in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of Australian articles on the Todo list on the Australian wikipedians' noticeboard (a full list can be found at the complete Todo list).
Anyone who is a registered user, not just Australians, can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles.
Every second Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for two weeks to potential contributors.
Previous winners that have gone on to become featured articles can be found at /Features .
All previous winners can be found at /History .
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed .
Selecting the next Collaboration of the Fortnight
The next winner will be selected on Sunday, May 1, 2005, 20:00 (AEST)
Voting
Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like. Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).
Only registered users should vote. Any Wikipedian can vote on this page. You do not have to be an Australian.
To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
Tie-breakers
In case of a tie, a special voting round will be launched for the next 24 hours. Users may only vote on one of the tied articles. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.
Nominations
New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the template.
If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{Australian COTW candidate|Thispage=Article name}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to:
If the article is selected as the ACOTW, the template {{Current Australian COTW}} should go at the top of the article page. This expands to:
Considerations for nominations
- Please only nominate Australian articles which don't currently exist or need serious work. – also see Aussie stubs). If you have an article that is not related to Australia please use Collaboration of the Week, which is not specific to Australian articles.
- Giving reasons as to why an article should become the ACOTW may assist others in casting their vote.
- Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
Pruning
Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they do not attract attention. An item will be allowed to remain up for voting two weeks per two votes it receives.
Items may also be removed if they are innapropriate for nomination (see Considerations... above)
Please see the talk page to discuss to changes in pruning policy.
Candidates for next week
Renominated December 13, 2004; needs 2 votes by December 27, 2004
Votes
- ZayZayEM 01:29, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Lujan 05:16, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Aberglas 05:12, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) aberglas I have done a fair bit of work on this important page. However there is a nasty revert war happening with user:ambi that needs to be addressed.
Comments
- A fascinating affair from my childhood. —Stormie 07:01, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
- Should this (and other Australian events) be titled by year? I saw a note about this pseudo-convention in the Port Arthur Massacre article.--ZayZayEM 01:29, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- The article says that the Ananda Marga Three (Anderson, Dunn and Alister) were imprisoned for the Hilton Bombing. They weren't even charged with it. Please see my note on the article's discussion page. alpheus
- So much sturm und drang, over so little. I would support making this page the subject of a collaboration, if only to get it out of into different hands, so this debate can be forgotten. --SilasM 09:15, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Renominated December 13, 2004; needs 2 votes by December 27, 2004
Votes
- ZayZayEM 01:29, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- T.PK 11:08, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Comments
Renominated December 13, 2004; needs 2 votes by December 27, 2004
Votes
- Chuq 20:46, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- T.PK 11:08, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Comments
- Good scope for improvement. The largest of Australia's Antarctic bases, and one that has recently had an air-strip built near it. Could serve as a template for our other bases when complete.
Renominated December 13, 2004; needs 2 votes by December 27, 2004
Votes
- ZayZayEM 12:23, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- T.PK 11:08, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Comments
- Possibly Australia's worst railway disaster with loads of information available around the net. I'm not positive this is the most common name for it, though.#Shermozle14:47, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
Aboriginal Australia
- Nominated December 16; needs 2 votes by December 30
Support:
- Shermozle 10:42, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- T.PK 11:08, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Comments:
- Project to refactor terminology referring to Aboriginal Australia. We have, Australian Aborigines, Australian Aboriginal artists , Australian Aboriginal communities , Aboriginal mythology. Is Australian Aborigine, and certainly just Aborigine, pejorative? I was under the impression that Aboriginal Australian was the preferred term.
- Topic does not exist? (see above). Perhaps a general Culture of Indigenous Australians to cover language, art, music, science and spirituality; also History of Indigenous Australians /History of Australia before European settlement --ZayZayEM 02:33, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
New nominations
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Nominated 18 April; needs 2 votes by 2 May.
Support: --AYArktos 09:48, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Comments:
- A period of significant change and geat influence on the present day make up of Australia
