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=Instructions=
=Instructions=
'''To start a new proposal or issue,''' please give us six short pieces of information:
'''To start a new proposal or issue,''' simply click [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Proposals/New&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Proposal_blank this edit link] - it is recommended that you right-click the link, and select 'open in new window' to open it in a new window, so that you can continue to be able to read the instructions here in the old window. That link will provide an edit window containing a blank copy of the template which needs to be filled out in order to create a new proposal section here. Enter the details in the template, using the instructions below, and press save! That's it — it's very easy.


# <code>Brief descriptive title</code>. The exact same title you used on [[CZ:Proposals/Titles|this page]]. '''Note,''' this goes in the <code>== Heading ==</code>, too.
Here's how to fill it out:
# <code>Brief descriptive title</code>. Make this brief, because it will be part of a page title. If you are raising an issue (ask for a decision among two or more options), please word the title as a question. '''Note:''' this exact same text goes in the <code>Subject/headline</code> box, too.
# <code>Summary of proposal</code>.  Limited to 100 words.
# <code>Summary of proposal</code>.  Limited to 100 words.
# <code>Name and date of original proposer:''' write four tildes <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>
# <code>Name and date of original proposer</code>: write four tildes <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>
# <code>Username of [[CZ:Proposals/Policy#The_proposal_driver|driver]]</code>. If you, write three tildes <code><nowiki>~~~</nowiki></code>; if someone else, specify.  This is the person who makes sure the proposal moves along from step to step in its development.  If the "driver" is left blank, and no one volunteers to be driver, your proposal may be moved to the "discarded" queue.  The driver should get familiar with [[CZ:Proposals/Policy|the proposals system policy page]].
# <code>Username of [[Archive:Proposals/Policy#The proposal driver|driver]]</code>. If you, write three tildes <code><nowiki>~~~</nowiki></code>; if someone else, specify.  This is the person who makes sure the proposal moves along from step to step in its development.  If the "driver" is left blank, and no one volunteers to be driver, your proposal may be moved to the "discarded" queue.  The driver should get familiar with [[Archive:Proposals/Policy|the proposals system policy page]].
# <code>Next step. </code>  The next thing you need to do to move the proposal toward reality.  Not sure what to write?  [[CZ:Proposals/Policy#Keeping_the_proposal_moving_along|Hints here]].
# <code>Next step. </code>  The next thing you need to do to move the proposal toward reality.  Not sure what to write?  [[Archive:Proposals/Policy#Keeping the proposal moving along|Hints here]].
# <code>Target date for next step</code>.  A date the driver commits to, for completing the next step.  If you drop the ball, the proposal may become [[CZ:Proposals/Driverless|driverless]].
# <code>Target date for next step</code>.  A date the driver commits to, for completing the next step.  If you drop the ball, the proposal may become [[CZ:Proposals/Driverless|driverless]].
# (Optional) <code>Notes</code>.  Brief salient remarks.  Bear in mind the bulk of the info about the proposal doesn't go here but on the (much bigger) proposal page.  A handy link to the proposal page will pop up after you save the template.
# (Optional) <code>Notes</code>.  Brief salient remarks.  Bear in mind the bulk of the info about the proposal doesn't go here but on the (much bigger) proposal page.  A handy link to the proposal page will pop up after you save the template.


Put this information in this blank template:
'''Optional next step for proposers.''' This is optional, and you can leave it to the [[Archive:Proposals/Policy#The proposal driver|driver]]. Follow the "complete proposal" link you'll find at the bottom of your new proposal box. On that page, you can elaborate the proposal or issue, link to pre-existing discussions, and generally say whatever you think needs to be said in order to get the proposal adopted (or the issue decided) and implemented. That's generally where to follow the progress of your proposal. ([[Archive:Proposals/Policy|Guidelines are available]].)
<pre>
== Brief descriptive title ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title =
|Summary of proposal =
|Name and date of original proposer =
|Username of driver =
|Next step =
|Target date for next step =
|Notes = 
}}
</pre>


Simply copy and paste that at the bottom of this page, fill it out, and save. Then you've finished creating your new proposal/issue!
=New proposals=
<big>Looking for your proposal, which used to be here?  Check the [[CZ:Proposals/All|list of all proposals]].</big>


'''Optional next step for proposers.''' This is optional, and you can leave it to the [[CZ:Proposals/Policy#The_proposal_driver|driver]].  Follow the "complete proposal" link you'll find at the bottom of your new proposal box.  On that page, you can elaborate the proposal or issue, link to pre-existing discussions, and generally say whatever you think needs to be said in order to get the proposal adopted (or the issue decided) and implemented.  That's generally where to follow the progress of your proposal.  ([[CZ:Proposals/Policy|Guidelines are available]].)
If a proposal here does not have a "driver," it may be moved to [[CZ:Proposals/Driverless|the driverless proposals queue]] a week after being proposed.


= New proposals =
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== Pilot to allow Citizens to take credit for pages ==
{{Proposals navigation}}
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Pilot to allow Citizens to take credit for pages
|Summary of proposal = By popular demand, we would, to a limited extent, allow Citizens to take authorship credit of articles.  This would (for now) take the form of a template placed at the bottom of the page, which would, in small and unobtrusive print, list the contributors to an article in alphabetical order.  Contributors would add themselves.  Names would appear ''only if'' there were three names in the list. To avoid issues about what counts as an "important" edit, a person could take co-authorship credit for the very smallest of edits (e.g., removing commas).  We would try this out in just one or two workgroups (the template would be removed from articles in any other workgroup).
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 22:08, 12 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]]
|Next step = Gather initial comments and revise proposal accordingly
|Target date for next step = Feb. 19
|Notes = This is pretty much the only version of this class of proposal that I can see myself supporting, at present.
}}


== Extension:FormatDates ==


== Should history articles be named with general terms first? ==
{{proposal
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Should history articles be named with general terms first?
|Brief descriptive title = Add the FormatDates extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FormatDates).
|Summary of proposal = Should general article names be written as [[France, history]] as preferred to [[History of France]] or [[French History]]?  The central points of contention is whether general articles (e.g [[France, history]]) should be called [[History of France]] or even [[French history]]. The idea is that the keyword should be first in an article such as this, with people searching for [[France]] in a general search will see a list of articles, e.g:
|Summary of proposal = It's very annoying the way some dates on CZ are in UK format (3rd May 2009 or 03/05/2009), some in US format (May 3, 2009 or 05/03/2009), and some in "international" format (2009-05-03). The use of the FormatDates extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FormatDates) would solve this problem.
*[[France]]
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Caesar Schinas|Caesar Schinas]] 13:31, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
*[[France, history]]
*[[France, politics]]
*[[France, literature]]
etc.  
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Denis Cavanagh|Denis Cavanagh]] 11:29, 8 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver =  
|Username of driver =  
|Next step =  
|Next step =  
|Target date for next step =  
|Target date for next step =  
|Notes= This has been discussed before but deserves a fuller debate. I don't really have an opinion on the issue despite the history workgroup handily being my most active one.[[User:Denis Cavanagh|Denis Cavanagh]] 11:29, 8 February 2008 (CST)
}}
==Enable external feedback==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Enable external feedback
|Summary of proposal = Each article should have a link for non-citizens to submit feedback. Feedback can be read and acted upon by any Citizen. To make the feedback system easier to use for both readers and Citizens, feedback can be in the form of a machine-readable proposed edit.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Warren Schudy|Warren Schudy]] 13:34, 9 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Warren Schudy|Warren Schudy]]
|Next step = Ensure proposal page summarizes community views
|Target date for next step = Feb 20
|Notes =  
|Notes =  
}}
}}


==Article Content Request help==
== Add Java applet support ==
 
{{proposal
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Article Content Request help
|Brief descriptive title = Java applet support
|Summary of proposal= [[CZ:ACR|Article Content Request]] should exist in order for authors to request article assistance on particular topics within a subject.  This is '''not''' intended to be a request for editorial review, rather, it is a system devised to empower citizens to help out on subjects that they might know about.  It is meant to spur activity and input from those who might have knowledge in a discipline.
|Summary of proposal = Allow to upload and use Java applets in articles
|Name and date of original proposer= --[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 14:09, 11 February 2008 (CST)
|Name and date of original proposer = Audrius Meskauskas
|Username of driver = Some User
|Username of driver = [[User:Audrius Meskauskas|Audrius Meskauskas]] 11:23, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
|Next step = This should be in the username of driver field.
|Next step = Implement Wiki language extensions, allowing to embed Java applet into article. Allow to upload .jar files into repository.
|Target date for next step= Near future
|Target date for next step =  
|Notes = Theoretical page located at [[CZ:ACR]] using [[template:request]].
|Notes =
}}
 
== How should we classify and index recipes? ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = How should we classify and index recipes?
|Summary of proposal = A new subpage type should be created [[CZ:Recipes]]. Anyone interested may take the lead in creating CZ:Recipes and then  the Recipe subpage support should be added to the subpage system. The subpage may be bilaterally linked with the [[Cooking]] page.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 16:50, 12 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Supten Sarbadhikari|Supten Sarbadhikari]]
|Next step = Discussion and a firm decision after consensus is reached
|Target date for next step = February 20, 2008.
|Notes = What should we do about listing, and/or cataloging, and/or indexing the recipes that I am beginning to put into various preexisting articles. Various people discussed this in the talk page of [[Bolognese sauce]] but nothing concrete appears to have come of that discussion. Even without any definitive policy being put into place in the near future, I will continue to add recipes to various articles. I imagine that it will not be difficult to catalog, or subpage them, or whatever, when the time comes. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]]
}}
}}


== CZ Community pages should be revised for simplicity ==
{{proposal
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = CZ Community pages should be revised for simplicity
|Brief descriptive title = Trending Citizendium Growth
|Summary of proposal = Part of what is keeping our "elitism shield" up is that many (if not all) of the community pages are overly complex in terms of what they describe.  A campaign to heavily review and edit the pages will give us leaner, easy-to-comprehend documentation and improve our external appearance.
|Summary of proposal = Provide an automated tool to graph the gorwth of  
|Name and date of original proposer = --[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 18:29, 12 February 2008 (CST)
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Graham Proud|Graham Proud]] 12:40, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
|Username of driver =  
|Username of driver = [[User:Graham Proud|Graham Proud]]
|Next step = Discussion of pages to improve
|Next step = I have no idea how to implement this!
|Target date for next step =  
|Target date for next step =  
|Notes=  
|Notes =
}}
}}


== Change to reversion policy ==
{{proposal
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Change to reversion policy
|Brief descriptive title = Enforce One Style for Professional Web Presence
|Summary of proposal = [[CZ:Professionalism#Reversion and deletion as unprofessional behaviors]] says ''deletion of others' work without explanation is clearly unprofessional, and deletion of more than 50 words can result in a warning, followed by a ban.'', and similary discourages reverting of edits without explanation. The proposal is to rewrite the section to emphasize that it is the lack of explanation which is the offence, not the mere act of reverting or deleting others' work.
|Summary of proposal = Enforce 1 skin, 1 set of approved, complimentary colors
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Anthony Argyriou|Anthony Argyriou]] 14:14, 13 February 2008 (CST)
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 16:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
|Username of driver = [[Anthony Argyriou]]
|Username of driver = [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 16:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
|Next step = Editorial Council?
|Next step = Drive to write proposal; awaiting CZ input
|Target date for next step =  
|Target date for next step = Nov. 15, 2009
|Notes = This stems from [[User talk:Larry Sanger#possible cause of slow growth|a discussion about the growth of Citizendium]].  
|Notes =   
}}
}}
{{Proposals navigation}}

Latest revision as of 02:01, 8 March 2024

Instructions

To start a new proposal or issue, simply click this edit link - it is recommended that you right-click the link, and select 'open in new window' to open it in a new window, so that you can continue to be able to read the instructions here in the old window. That link will provide an edit window containing a blank copy of the template which needs to be filled out in order to create a new proposal section here. Enter the details in the template, using the instructions below, and press save! That's it — it's very easy.

Here's how to fill it out:

  1. Brief descriptive title. Make this brief, because it will be part of a page title. If you are raising an issue (ask for a decision among two or more options), please word the title as a question. Note: this exact same text goes in the Subject/headline box, too.
  2. Summary of proposal. Limited to 100 words.
  3. Name and date of original proposer: write four tildes ~~~~
  4. Username of driver. If you, write three tildes ~~~; if someone else, specify. This is the person who makes sure the proposal moves along from step to step in its development. If the "driver" is left blank, and no one volunteers to be driver, your proposal may be moved to the "discarded" queue. The driver should get familiar with the proposals system policy page.
  5. Next step. The next thing you need to do to move the proposal toward reality. Not sure what to write? Hints here.
  6. Target date for next step. A date the driver commits to, for completing the next step. If you drop the ball, the proposal may become driverless.
  7. (Optional) Notes. Brief salient remarks. Bear in mind the bulk of the info about the proposal doesn't go here but on the (much bigger) proposal page. A handy link to the proposal page will pop up after you save the template.

Optional next step for proposers. This is optional, and you can leave it to the driver. Follow the "complete proposal" link you'll find at the bottom of your new proposal box. On that page, you can elaborate the proposal or issue, link to pre-existing discussions, and generally say whatever you think needs to be said in order to get the proposal adopted (or the issue decided) and implemented. That's generally where to follow the progress of your proposal. (Guidelines are available.)

New proposals

Looking for your proposal, which used to be here? Check the list of all proposals.

If a proposal here does not have a "driver," it may be moved to the driverless proposals queue a week after being proposed.

Proposals System Navigation (advanced users only)

Proposal lists (some planned pages are still blank):

Extension:FormatDates

Summary: It's very annoying the way some dates on CZ are in UK format (3rd May 2009 or 03/05/2009), some in US format (May 3, 2009 or 05/03/2009), and some in "international" format (2009-05-03). The use of the FormatDates extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FormatDates) would solve this problem.
Original proposer: Caesar Schinas 13:31, 3 May 2009 (UTC) Next step: Fill in next step
Driver: Driver needed (i.e., someone familiar with the proposals system who will move it through the system) To be done by: Fill in target date for next step
To the proposer: please read the proposals system policy page if you want to fill out a complete proposal, not just this summary. If you don't, please ask around for someone (a "driver") to take over your proposal!
Start complete proposal


Add Java applet support

Summary: Allow to upload and use Java applets in articles
Original proposer: Audrius Meskauskas Next step: Implement Wiki language extensions, allowing to embed Java applet into article. Allow to upload .jar files into repository.
Driver: Audrius Meskauskas 11:23, 30 September 2009 (UTC) To be done by: Fill in target date for next step
Complete proposal


Summary: Provide an automated tool to graph the gorwth of
Original proposer: Graham Proud 12:40, 17 October 2009 (UTC) Next step: I have no idea how to implement this!
Driver: Graham Proud To be done by: Fill in target date for next step
To the proposer: please read the proposals system policy page if you want to fill out a complete proposal, not just this summary. If you don't, please ask around for someone (a "driver") to take over your proposal!
Start complete proposal


Summary: Enforce 1 skin, 1 set of approved, complimentary colors
Original proposer: David E. Volk 16:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC) Next step: Drive to write proposal; awaiting CZ input
Driver: David E. Volk 16:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC) To be done by: Nov. 15, 2009
Complete proposal
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