Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/Maintenance


 * If you believe that an article is too long for nomination, and would be better suited for the Article Improvement Drive, you can mark it with the notastub template (making sure to use subst), which will display:


 * If a nomination expires, edit this page and remove the text including it, and add this text to the bottom of Collaboration of the week/Removed.


 * When the time comes to update the current collaboration, follow these steps:
 * 1) remove the winning nomination from the list, and update the date that a future nomination will be selected, with an edit summary of  New article has been selected  (replace "new article" with the article name).
 * 2) edit the past collaboration page, and remove the COTWnow template from the top of the page.
 * 3) edit the past collaboration's talk page, and after removing any COTW-related tags it may have, add the template   .
 * 4) add COTWnow to the new collaboration.
 * 5) update cotw1 with the name of the new collaboration.
 * 6) update cotw2 with the name of the previous collaboration.
 * 7) perform a history diff between the date the COTWnow template was added, and when you removed it, copy the section of the URL starting with , and paste this in cotw3.
 * 8) update Community Portal/COTW with the introduction of the new collaboration, as appropriate.
 * 9) update Collaboration of the week/History with the new collaboration of the week.
 * 10) Optional: put {{subst:COTWvoter}} ~ on the talk pages of the people who voted for the winning nomination.