Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the month


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Each month a Science Collaboration of the Month (SCOTM) is chosen using this page. The goal is to improve an article to featured article quality by the end of the month using widespread cooperative editing. For a discussion on the correct format of science articles, please see WikiProject Science.

Stuck for nominees? Take a look at Science stubs or Requested articles in Applied sciences or Natural Sciences. Also check the /History, AID History and COTW History for articles that may have failed previously but are worthy of re-nomination, and Unreferenced Good Articles for articles that need citation work in particular.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Any user can nominate an article and vote for nominated articles.

If you want to participate in this project, feel free to add user scienceCOTM to your user page which creates:

Current proposals

 * Nominate articles for collaboration here. New nominations can be made at any time.
 * Please sign all entries with four tildes: ~.
 * After nominating an article, please place SCOTM at the header of the article's talk page, which informs users of the nomination here.
 * People then vote on which article to select; the article with the most votes become the next monthly collaboration.

August 2013
Proposals
 * Abyss Box  Bramble claw  x  16:37, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Votes

February 2013
Proposals
 * Science in the medieval Islamic world (relisted, since it was previously nominated, but not published). Northamerica1000(talk) 16:15, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Votes

January 2013
Proposals
 * Chemistry. Northamerica1000(talk) 17:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Votes
 * For the above. Northamerica1000(talk) 17:47, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Previous collaborations

 * See: Science collaboration of the month – History for an archived list of collaborations

October 2012
Proposals
 * Chemistry -It looks like hardly anyone is here. Oh well. If anyone is reading this, I propose we work on the article Chemistry (I'm currently a chemistry major). This is an important article, and I'm surprised it hasn't been promoted to good article status yet. I'll start working on it. If anyone wants to help, please do. -- FutureTrillionaire (talk) 13:42, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Votes
 * Support Chemistry for COTM (for January 2013 at this point). Northamerica1000(talk) 05:57, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Eh. You're welcome to edit the page if you want to. It's been a while. I'm not sure if I have the time do it though. -- FutureTrillionaire (talk) 23:01, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

September 2012
Proposals
 * Science in the medieval Islamic world. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:44, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

August 2012
Collaboration
 * Science in the Middle Ages. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:22, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Proposals
 * Science in the Middle Ages. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Votes
 * Science in the Middle Ages. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:15, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

July 2012
Collaboration
 * Materials science. — Northamerica1000(talk) 05:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposals
 * Applied science • Materials science •  Philosophy of science •  Science in the medieval Islamic world •  Science studies •  Science and technology in the Soviet Union — Northamerica1000(talk) 21:12, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Votes
 * Materials science. Northamerica1000(talk) 11:36, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

June 2012
Collaboration
 * Natural science. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:15, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposals
 * Natural science. Northamerica1000(talk) 14:30, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Votes
 * Natural science. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:51, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

May 2012
Collaboration

Science communication. Northamerica1000(talk) 07:13, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposals
 * History of science • Living Earth Simulator Project •  Popular science (the concept, not the magazine) •  Radio Research Laboratory— posted by Northamerica1000(talk) ) 08:57, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Science communication — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Mietchen (talk • contribs) 03:27, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Votes
 * Science communication. Northamerica1000(talk) 23:34, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

April 2012

 * List of scientific occupations – Goal is to improve the article to Featured list quality standards, per the Featured list criteria. This was posted by User:Northamerica1000 in lieu of no other proposals.

March 2012

 * Carbon (This was already in place, so it stayed for March)

September 2009

 * Conservation biology

Current maintenance instructions for this page

 * Place Current-SCOTM on the talk page for a newly-selected article.
 * When a new article is selected, please remove Current-SCOTM from the talk page of the previous collaboration.
 * Update the COTM template by filling in the last month's collaboration at /lastmonth and the current monthly collaboration at /current. This updates the template to reflect recent changes.

Trophies

 * Good articles
 * Alternation of generations (SCOTW from August 3 2005)
 * Nutrition (SCOTW from February 15, 2006)
 * Natural selection (SCOTW from February 20, 2006)
 * Orion Nebula (SCOTW from April 1, 2006)
 * Ammonia (SCOTW from April 24, 2006)
 * Human genome (SCOTM from September 1, 2006)


 * Featured articles
 * Atom (SCOTM from December 1, 2007)
 * Hydrogen (SCOTM from August 1, 2006)
 * Supernova (SCOTM from January 1, 2006)

History of SCOTM
The science collaboration of the month was originally started by Litefantastic on November 26, 2004. However, before an article could be selected, the project was unluckily deserted due to a lack of candidates and participants. On July 6, 2005, Toothpaste resurrected this project and the first collaboration was selected on July 20, 2005. A collaboration was selected approximately every week until June 28, 2006, when the collaboration became a monthly event with the aim of producing higher quality science articles. Monthly collaborations continued until the end of May 2008.


 * List of past and present maintainers
 * 1)  Toothpaste, July to December 2005
 * 2)  Fenice, December 2005 to January 2006
 * 3)  Samsara, January to March 2006
 * 4)  Deryck Chan, March to May 2006
 * 5)  Samsara, May to August 2006
 * 6)  NCurse, August 2006 to present

{|class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" !align="left" width="1500"|2009 nominations

(1 vote), stays until [Sept 13, 2009]

 * Nominated September 7, 2009, needs 2 votes by [Sept 13, 2009].


 * Support
 * 1) Thompsma (talk) 01:13, 7 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * [Conservation biology is a central theme and a highly important topic in context of the extinction crisis that is taking place. This article has received much attention in the past year, but it needs editing, reviewing, and a bit of clean-up. It would be great to direct some traffic toward this article.] Thompsma (talk) 01:13, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * }

{|class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" !align="left" width="1500"|Prior page instructions and procedures

Prior instructions for how to nominate

 * 1) Copy the template below
 * 2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
 * 3) Replace "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
 * 4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
 * 5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

===article name with double-brackets surrounding it=== ====(1 vote), stays until [Date + 7 days]==== :Nominated,  , needs 2 votes by [Date + 7 days].

;Support #~

;Comments *[a short description explaining why the article should be the Science Collaboration of the month]

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add to the top of the article's talk page.

Project's prior selection process
If there are more than candidates, nominations must get two votes every seven days to stay alive. Previous successful collaborations and unsuccessful nominations will be pruned and sent to /History. The first nomination to be pruned will be that which has the lowest number of votes among the expired nominees.

Users can add support for more than one nomination at a time. Users can only vote once for each nomination.

Collaborations will be selected every month by whichever one has the most votes. In the event of a tie, the earlier nomination wins.

Prior maintenance instructions

 * General
 * Check that number of votes in header is correct.
 * Check that deadlines have been updated in both lines.
 * (Optional) Check whether Template:IDRIVEtopic or Template:CurrentCOTM are indicating the "current" article to be a science topic. If so, add the template (IDRIVEtopic or CurrentCOTM, respectively) to the section.


 * When an article is nominated
 * Make sure that SCOTM is displayed at the top of the article's talk page.
 * (Optional) Make sure that regular and recent contributors to the article are notified.


 * When an article is elected
 * Remove Current-SCOTM on the outgoing collaboration.
 * Move current content of Collab-science to /lastmonth and add the edit history diff from nomination to today's date.
 * Put the link to the new SCOTW on Collab-science.
 * Save everything.
 * Replace SCOTM with Current-SCOTM on the new collaboration; give it a clear edit summary, because you'll need to find it later!
 * Move the voting section for the article over to /History, indicating today's date in the new header. Also add the "see how it was improved" from /lastmonth
 * Adjust the "next selection" date. Science Collaborations are always selected on the 1st of each month.
 * Notify each wikipedian who voted for the collaboration by putting a on their talk page.
 * Notify all regular contributors that did not vote for the article - they are listed in /regulars; you can use for the message body.
 * Make sure the recipient's name is not on /nomessage when you leave a message
 * (Optional) Notify each wikipedian who voted for the previous collaboration, and all who have since contributed to it, by putting a on their talk page. You may want to write three different messages: one for contributors who were not apparently originally aware of SCOTM, one for voters who contributed, and one for voters who did not find the time to contribute that particular week.
 * Leave a note on talk pages of related articles and WikiProjects.


 * When nominees fail their deadlines
 * When there are more than articles and one or more have overrun their deadline, those with the smallest number of votes get archived first, until all remaining articles reach their keeping standards or only  candidates remain. The dropout entries are appended to /History.


 * List of subpages
 * /History
 * /Prune to
 * /regulars
 * /nomessage
 * /lastmonth (last week's collaboration template)
 * /current (redirect to Collab-science
 * }