Featured articles
I'd like to propose that we have some kind of "Featured article" on the front page, and that we aim to make it (when possible) an article about a geek woman or group of geek women doing awesome stuff. I say this because there's a perception out there that this wiki is predominantly negative -- perhaps because Timeline of incidents gets linked so widely while things like List of women in FLOSS, List of women in Science Fiction, List of women keynote presenters at technical conferences etc get linked less often -- so that might help counteract it.
Anyway, just thinking about it, we probably need to:
- come up with a list of candidates
- make sure their pages are well filled out and high quality
- design some kind of template that will work well on the front page
Anything else?
Standards for featured articles
To be a featured article, the article should...
- Be about a geek woman or group of geek women or organisation that supports geek women
- Have a picture
- Have at least a screenful of content (~500 words)
- Have good wiki-style, including:
- good page structure (sub-headings, etc)
- links to other related wiki pages (ideally not too many red links)
- inclusion in appropriate categories
Schedule of upcoming feature articles
At this stage, if you want a geek woman or a geek woman's organisation in the schedule, just fix it up (add a picture, make sure it's 3 or more paragraphs in length), add {{subst:Nominate featured article}} at the top of the article and stick it in here! Check Category:Proposed feature article for ideas.
- 1 June 2012: Anita Borg (arbitary, we just need one decided)
- 1 September 2012: Ada Lovelace Day (assuming it is scheduled for 7 October again) or Organization for Transformative Works (which has their major funding drive in October)
- 1 December 2012: Undecided
- 1 March 2013: Undecided
- 1 June 2013: Undecided
- 1 September 2013: Undecided
- 1 December 2013: Undecided
Making the changeover
- Edit the front page to remove the previous feature and add the new one. Include an excerpt from the article, a picture from the article, and a link to the article.
- Add {{subst:Record featured article}} to the top of the featured page article on the day of the switch (and remove the "Proposed" template if any).
Choose the next featured article
Make a suggestion
Add {{subst:Nominate featured article}} to the top of an article to suggest it as a featured article. It will add the appropriate category automatically.
Current suggestions
For a list of all proposed feature articles, see Category:Proposed feature article.
Discussion
The LinuxChix miniconf has been our featured article for nearly 2 years! I'm just going to arbitarily put Grace Hopper Celebration up and probably rotate them every so often just to keep them moving. If people have actual suggestions for which should be the next one, put them here. Thayvian 01:26, October 5, 2011 (UTC)
- or rather, actual opinions. Thayvian 01:54, October 5, 2011 (UTC)
OK, I am doing a JFDI kind of thing here. Let's have 4 featured articles a year. Switch dates are 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 December. Features for specific events should ideally be close to the actual event (eg, if Ada Lovelace Day says on 7 October, it would make a good candidate for the 1 September changeover). I'll put up a schedule for a few years, just put an article in there if you want it in! Thayvian 03:15, October 5, 2011 (UTC)
Past featured articles
- WisCon (April 5, 2012)
- Denise Paolucci (December 5, 2011)
- Grace Hopper Celebration (October 5, 2011)
- LinuxChix miniconf (November 11, 2009)
See also: Category:Featured article