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This Collaboration of the Month (COTM) by WikiProject Universities is a collaboration effort in order to improve higher education articles on Wikipedia. This collaboration project was originally established as a Collaboration of the Fortnight by Jameson L. Tai in November 2007. However, after the collaboration project drew less activity from editors, the project was suspended in May 2008. The new Collaboration of the Month program began in November 2008, with its first improvement drive kicking off in December 2008.

Current

The current University Collaborations of the Month are
Ohio State University
&
Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University

Every month two B-, C- or Start-Class higher education-related articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold!
This COTM is organized by WikiProject Higher Education. (vote for future collaborations or see past collaborations)
This collaboration is effective: May 20, 2011 — June 20, 2011 until someone updates it.
Pick the next WikiProject Higher Education COTM!


How to help

What we're looking for:
  • Upgrading B-Class articles to GA-Class
  1. Referencing and citation
  2. Coverage and accuracy
  3. Structure
  4. Grammar
  5. Supporting materials
  6. Neutral point-of-view
  7. Well-structured and written
  8. Well-Rounded Coverage of University/Subject area
  9. (See GA/FA requirements)
  • General guidelines
  1. Help verify/supply new sources
  2. Update figures. (Enrollment figures and number of awards fluctuate every semester/year. It drastically affects the accuracy of this encyclopedia to make sure the data displayed in the article is up-to-date.
  3. Check to see if the article is following the suggested WikiProject Universities article structure breakdown
  4. Make sure the article is NOT an advertisement. The last thing we need is a misplaced online university trying to solicit to students through our services. If it is written like an advertisement, fix it. If you cannot, notify us on the appropriate subject header on this talk page.
  5. Remove any instances of academic boosterism.
  6. Be Bold
And most importantly...
  • Have fun!

COTM Article Selection

Every calendar month, there shall be an article that this Collaboration project will improve. Selection process shall be as follows:

  • The second of three articles shall be selected randomly from the B-Class University articles list. The objective of this selection is to improve the selected B-Class University article so that it will be proposed to Good Article Nominations or Featured Article Review.

Each calendar month, a list of ten (10) B-class articles will be chosen out of Category:B-Class Universities articles, in which editors will then vote on these topics. The top two voted topics (not selected) will be retained to the next COTM if more than four (4) editors are in support of collaborating on the subject.

A designated moderator, currently set (by default) to User:Jamesontai, will be assigned to operate the COTM. Moderator assignments will be fixed until a need for changing the moderator is needed and a consensus to reassign the position has been reached.

Nomination Instructions

Instructions for moderator for article selection.


How to vote

To vote, you have to be a registered and established user with at least one contribution that is not a vote. Anyone who does so is encouraged to make at least one edit per vote or nomination to one of our currently chosen articles. Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the subhead. Opposing votes are not counted; see approval voting. You can vote for as many articles as you like. Additionally you can give a comment in the comment section; use terms such as appalling and shocking sparingly, remember that every editor that has ever edited a nominated article did so to the best of his of her ability.

How the article is selected

Article with the most votes on the 20th of every month will be selected as the following month's COTM topic. If two articles have same number of votes, the older article (judged by earliest edit in article history) wins.

Nominations

3 votes, Nominated
Support
  1. Dabackgammonator (talk) 18:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 21:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Esrever (klaT) 22:14, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
0 votes, Nominated
Support
Comments
0 votes, Nominated
Support
Comments
2 votes, Nominated
Support
  1. Madcoverboy (talk) 02:23, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Benjaminx (talk) 14:12, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
1 vote, Nominated
Support
  1. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 21:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
1 vote, Nominated
Support
  1. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 21:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
1 vote, Nominated
Support
  1. Dabackgammonator (talk) 22:30, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
0 votes, Nominated
Support
Comments
3 votes, Nominated
Support
  1. Samwisep86 (talk) 21:49, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 21:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Madcoverboy (talk) 02:22, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
0 votes, Nominated
Support
Comments

Previous Collaborations Chronicle

WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Fortnight Project

Edition Dates Article(s)
Editor Nominated Topic B-Class Improvement Drive Start/Stub Improvement Drive
I Dec 072007 ~ Dec 202007 University California State University, East Bay Beijing Institute of Technology
II Dec 212007 ~ Jan 032008 Harvard University Boston University Syracuse University
III Jan 042008 ~ Jan 172008 Florida Institute of Technology Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Norfolk State University
IV Jan 182008 ~ Jan 312008 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute California Institute of Technology Berklee College of Music
V Feb 012008 ~ Feb 142008 University of Kent University of Colorado at Boulder University of California, San Francisco
VI Feb 152008 ~ Feb 282008 University of Phoenix United States Military Academy Rollins College
Feb 292008 ~ Mar 132008 Spring Break
VII Mar 142008 ~ Mar 222008 King's College London Clemson University University of Hong Kong
VIII Mar 282008 ~ Apr 102008 Kennesaw State University Columbia University Chulalongkorn University
IX Apr 182008 ~ May 012008 East Carolina University Mills College Jamia Millia Islamia

WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Month Project

Edition Dates Article
I Dec 012008 ~ Dec 312008 University

Active COTM Editors

To add your name into this section, please type in # ~~~~ to the bottom of the list. I will contact people on the following list of COTF updates, questions, urgent issues, and RfCs on the COTF program.

  1. - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 05:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Esrever (klaT) 06:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Madcoverboy (talk) 13:17, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Noetic Sage 19:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Timrollpickering (talk) 01:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Samwisep86 (talk) 21:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Dabackgammonator (talk) 22:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Templates

  • {{UniversitiesCOTM}} puts the COTF announcement as shown at the top of this page.

{{WikiProject Universities}} includes the ability to denote an article as being a nominated, current, or past COTF. Add the following syntax to the article's {{WikiProject Universities}} template on its talk page:

  • Nominated COTM: {{WikiProject Universities|collaboration-nom=yes}}
  • Current COTM: {{WikiProject Universities|collaboration-now=yes}}
  • Past COTM: {{WikiProject Universities|collaboration-past=[[October 4]]-[[October 18]], [[2007]].}}

Defunct templates

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