Wikipedia:WikiProject IRC collaboration

The IRC collaboration WikiProject focuses on using IRC to work on a chosen article to get it to the best possible standard. IRC collaboration is in real time, so users can discuss edits as they work - this gives the advantage of having a much more streamlined editing process. There will be one collaboration a month, and the main aim of the collaboration are to get the chosen article up to featured status. Non IRC members are more than happy to join the project and they may simply use the normal channels to discuss edits such as article talk pages, or members of IRC would be more than willing to help set users up on the channel. The major channel that will be used for collaboration is #wikipedia-en.

Participants
Any member of the project is free to join. When signing up, do so using * ~ and state whether or not you use IRC. If you don't use IRC, please state whether or not you would like help doing so and an experienced member of the project will help you set up the program.

Current participants

 * - Use IRC regularly.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  02:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - Same as Ryan. Master of Puppets   Call me MoP! ☺  02:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - Another reason to get pinged repeatedly. Yay! Dihydrogen Monoxide (party) 06:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - Yup. - Rjd0060 (talk) 01:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - I'm frequently on IRC as  or  . Greeves (talk • contribs) 04:01, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - I'm never on IRC, but my socks are..\o/..-- Cometstyles 14:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - only dabbled in IRC, but once it's set up it'll be on most of the time, via gaim/pidgin, I might exen be live once in a while... Lx 121 (talk) 12:07, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Neal (talk) 13:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC).
 * While I don't write articles, I'm very frequently on IRC, and I'd be glad to participate in such interesting project.  Snowolf How can I help? 22:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Will copy edit and I tried to get WP:Spotlight back up. Me   what do u want?  Your Hancock Please  20:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * On IRC as Midorihana. Midorihana   みどり  はな  11:04, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions
Please make suggestions for the next collaboration which will begin on 1 February 2008. A choice of three will be put forward to a vote 7 days before the start of the collaboration. Articles should be interesting and should be likely to attract a wide editing audience. Articles put forward should be capable of making featured status. Suggestions should be made using * - reason the article is a good collaboration topic. ~ in the section below.

Current suggestions

 * - an interesting article, of a high standard that many users, from wide backgrounds could contribute to.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  02:15, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm slowly working through it, rewriting and fixing up citations. Some content reorganization and such is necessary, I think. Master of Puppets   Call me MoP! ☺  02:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * - Global company that most editors will be familiar with. The article has a good amount of prose that needs to be organized, cited and rewritten in areas. BJ Talk 02:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * - An article that could use some work and most of us are familiar with. Greeves (talk • contribs) 04:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Vote
Below is a vote for next month's collaboration which begins on 1 February 2008. The vote has not begun yet.

IRC collaboration