Wikipedia:Spotlight

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Spotlight is a process by which a number of editors collaborate online and concentrate on improving a single article through the #wikipedia-spotlight channel on the freenode IRC network (see this tutorial for help with IRC). You can access the channel using freenode webchat or another IRC client.

The article that we currently have under the Spotlight is Marco Polo sheep.

Participants

Even Wikipe-tan has had her turn in the spotlight!

Please add your name to the list below. Users will be notified of upcoming projects and successful work, on their talk page.

• --Cubs197 (talk) 00:13, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• --Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 00:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• --Esoteric Rogue (talk) 00:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• –blurpeace ^(talk) 00:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Irunongames • play 00:54, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Steve Crossin ^{The clock is ticking....} 11:42, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Jamie^☆S93 16:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Antonio López ^(desu) 20:13, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 13:30, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
• --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 05:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
• Alex Douglas (talk) 08:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
• The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 21:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
• Wizardman 21:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Mrs. Peel (talk) 01:33, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
• Fleetflame (but don't bother to notify me)
• LouriePieterse 14:11, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
• Burningview (talk) 21:39, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
• I won't be overly active, but I might be of some use as a coordinator of the previous incarnation of this project. Dendodge _T\^C 19:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 23:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC) I like working on computer and movie articles.
• J Milburn (talk) 23:32, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
• [[Jackie-thai (talk) 17:18, 21 July 2009 (UTC)]]
• Rak-Tai (talk) 17:25, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• MacMed^talk_stalk 20:39, 21 July 2009 (UTC) _{why not?}
• [[Msuworld (talk) 17:18, 21 July 2009 (UTC)]]

Current article

We're currently looking at Marco Polo sheep.

We started work at 08:37 UTC on 16 July 2009, when it was a Stub class article; we hope to improve it to a B-class article - see the Wikipedia assessment system.

Proposed articles

Generally, one article per week is chosen from this list, through discussion in the Spotlight IRC channel. The following criteria are to be considered before posting an article. If an article doesn't fall under these criteria it will be removed from the list.

1. Articles that are assessed as Stub, Start or aren't assessed.
2. Have readily-accessible source information, e.g. reliable sources on the web, that are already listed in the talk page of the article.
3. Are not controversial and didn't have edit wars.
4. Haven't been heavily improved in recent time.

Suggestions

• Monkey The article has sources listed on the talk page.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 21:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
• Dry Ice
• LCD monitor
• GPU

Spotlit articles

Page name	Date(s)	Edits	Before	After	Diff
Marco Polo	05 July 2009-16 July 2009	634	Before	After	Diff
Marco Polo sheep	16 July 2009-? July 2009	ongoing	Before	In progress	In progress

Templates

• You'll know if your page is being looked at by Spotlight by the template on the top of the article and talk page, and the page will have the Wikipedia Spotlight category.
• The current article will be tagged with {{Spotlight}}, on the article page and the talk page. That template auto-detects which namespace it is in, and adds the appropriate text.
• After completion, {{Spotlighted|date}} will be placed on the talk page.
• When working on the article, please put {{Spotlight working|~~~~~}} within the section that you are working on.

Userbox

There are two userboxes that participents can add to their user pages. Adding these will place your name in the Wikipedia Spotlight contributors category.

{{User Spotlight}} This user contributed to Spotlight.

{{User:Dendodge/Spotlight}}

Barnstar

Anyone may award the spotlight barnstar to contributors, by placing {{subst:Spotlight Barnstar|put your comment here ~~~~}} on the talk page of the user to whom you wish to award it.

Archive

The previous incarnation of the project page has been archived to Wikipedia:Spotlight/Feb2009.