User:Tom Morris/Collaboration of the Day proposal

As a way to encourage people to contribute to Wikipedia, I'd like to suggest that every day we have a 'collaboration of the day'.

The rules would be very simple:


 * 1) An article is eligible for Collaboration of the Day if:
 * 2) it has not been given Good Article or Featured Article status
 * 3) it has not been featured on Do You Know?
 * 4) the article has never been on Collaboration of the Day before
 * 5) Any article eligible can be nominated for Collaboration of the Day by either asking a CotD regular or by posting it on the CotD talk page.
 * 6) Nominated articles will be scheduled for CotD if:
 * 7) they are not spam or otherwise meet the criteria for speedy deletion
 * 8) * Editors are encouraged to place on them the appropriate tag.
 * 9) * Articles that are nominated for deletion through the AfD process are eligible for CotD: indeed, it is highly encouraged that AfD articles that are simply in need of improvement are put up for CotD
 * 10) they would benefit from having more editors work on them
 * 11) * Articles that are synoptic in nature are likely to benefit from collaboration in a way that very narrowly focussed articles on, say, an obscure yodelling album from the 1970s is unlikely to
 * 12) * If it possible for CotD to help an article reach GA, that is a definite reason to put them on CotD
 * 13) there is no current community of editors collaborating on them
 * 14) * For instance, the article on something like Intelligent design, due to the controversy inherent in the subject, is already being edited by a wide variety of users
 * 15) If articles pass nomination, they shall be scheduled in such a way that a diversity of topics and article types are maintained
 * 16) * Having a CotD for a particular piece of music is perfectly fine. Having a whole month with nothing but music CotDs is not acceptable: if you aren't interested in that topic, you are disenfranchised for the whole month. Ideally, if you aren't interested in a topic, it would be nice if there would be something the next day that does interest you.
 * 17) * Those administering CotD can be somewhat flexible about the application of this if the result of doing so makes things better than not doing so: e.g. if there is an Editathon or Wikipedia Academy type event going on off-wiki at a scheduled date, the facilitator of that event can schedule a collaboration specifically to coincide with that, even if it coincides with the diversity of topics requirement.
 * 18) Once an article passes nomination, it is listed on the schedule.
 * 19) If not enough articles have been nominated and listed on the schedule, the secret CotD cabal may choose some so long as they follow the general spirit of the rules.

Things CotD could possibly have:
 * an IRC chat: so people could discuss the topic in question
 * announcement mailing list
 * RSS feed
 * feeds on Twitter, identi.ca, Google Buzz etc.
 * inclusion in the article review boxes that are placed on Talk: (for PR, GA and FA reviews)