Wikipedia:Join in

This is a new alternative to the traditions of WP:AID and WP:COTW. It is meant to be more relaxed and informal, so while it would be nice to get articles up to featured status, its main goal is to allow people to join in, knowing that there will be other editors active on the same article, which makes editing much more effective and fun!

/Active - For currently active collaborations.

/History - For completed collaborations.

/Removed - For removed nominations.

How it works

1. Nominate an article, stub or even red link that you would like to work on, saying why it is important to cover that topic, and how many fellow editors you would like to attract.
2. Anyone else interested can sign their name to show support.
3. Everyone signed up will be notified when the requested threshold number is reached, and you can all work on the article together. The collaboration entry will be listed in /Active until the collaboration slows down. The entry will then be archived.
4. An article will also be removed from the list if the nomination is three weeks old. (You should consider adjusting the threshold for this.)

This is designed to ensure that each article gets its fair amount of editors without focusing too much on any one article, and allows a rapid turnover of new articles to keep things fresh.

Beautifully simple. Here is a template for nominations:

==[[ARTICLE]]==
=== 1 person, needs #===
:''nominated'' [[DATE]]: Expires [[Date three weeks from now]]
::''Editor requires [#] of people to begin work.

; Join in
# (sign with four tildes) 

; Comments:
* (put your reason for nomination, sign again)

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New nominations go to the top of the nominations section.

Oregon State University

1 person, needs 5

nominated February 28, 2006: Expires March 21, 2006

Editor requires 5 of people to begin work.

Join in now!

1. VegaDark 04:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Comments

• Ok, guess I get to make the first nomination here. First of all, there is no athletics section. I made the athletics page over at Oregon State Beavers but haven't gotten around to making the athletics section on the OSU page that should obviously link there. OSU is one of only 2 Land, sea, space, and sun grant universities, and the only public one, so there is surely a lot more to say about it. The introduction and history could be rewritten and expanded immensely. The previous presidents list could be merged into the notable alumni section of the List of Oregon State University people page (also made by me), and the list of all degrees offered is probably out of date, and a lot more could be linked to the official OSU page on those topics. General cleanup and expansion is also welcome. I've made a ton of minor edits to this page but haven't had the time to do all the work I've listed above, would be great if someone wants to take this on with me. Also, feel free to suggest other additions/improvements on OSU's talk page. Thanks, VegaDark 04:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

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