Forum:Proposal - REVISED Selection of Featured Articles

Proposal – REVISED Selection of Featured Articles

Proposal
Because there are major disagreements over taking the away the rights for users to vote for Featured Articles (see here), Vic and I have come up with a compromise proposal, utilizing the new feature of voting for Good Articles as a guide.

Each week, after Good Article voting takes place, the High Priests will set up another vote. This vote will include ONLY articles that are already of Good Article status. The reason that the vote will include only articles that already have GA status is because we want the newly elected GAs to be featured on the front page before being submitted for DL review. This vote will essentially be a nomination for Featured Article status, as the Decreton Lords will take the winner(s) of each week’s second vote and review it (or them). Then, the Decreton Lords will be the ones to vote to decide if it becomes a Featured Article or not.

Now, even though a GA may win this vote, it does not mean that it is guaranteed to become an FA. However, this does get rid of the proposal to get rid of the Decreton Lords handpicking FA nominations and instead allows the community to choose which articles they would like to see as FAs.

Now, I mentioned that GAs would be showcased on the main page. If this proposal gains enough support to pass, GAs will be featured where FAs are featured right now, aka. on the left side of the page. FAs will then be moved to the right side of the page, where the Navigation and In The News boxes are, and the Navigation and In The News boxes will be moved on top, ie. the Navigation box will appear on top of the GA showcase and the In The News box will appear on top of the FA showcase. The reason I propose setting it up like this is because people read from left to right, so it would signify that “you become a GA first, then an FA”. The GA showcase will be much the same as an FA showcase, including a picture and the intro paragraphs.

In a nutshell, the community will vote on which Good Articles, which are to be showcased on the main page, they want to nominate as Featured Articles before sending them to the Decreton Lords for review and a vote held only by the five Decreton Lords.

If this proposal is to become a policy, the voting policy (ie, 250 contributions/1 month, etc.) will still remain in tact.

I believe that this compromise is solid and I encourage everyone to give this the consideration it deserves. - Brandon Rhea 01:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Brandon Rhea 01:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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