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Every two weeks, an Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight will be picked using this page. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to Australia, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the period, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps about Australia in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of Australian articles on the Todo list on the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard (a full list can be found at the complete Todo list). Anyone who is a registered user, not just Australians, can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles.

Every second Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for two weeks to potential contributors.


The current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight is Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Every fortnight a different Australia-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked.
Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

Previous winners that have gone on to become featured articles can be found at /Features.
All previous winners can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.


Collaborations

Weekly:

Fortnightly:

Monthly:


Contents

Selecting the next Collaboration of the Fortnight

The next winner will be selected on Sunday, November 13, 2005, 20:00 (AEST)

Voting

Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like. Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

Only registered users should vote. Any Wikipedian can vote on this page. You do not have to be an Australian.

To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.

Tie-breakers

In case of a tie, a special voting round will be launched for the next 24 hours. Users may only vote on one of the tied articles. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.

Nominations

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the template.

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{Australian COTW candidate|Thispage=Article name}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to:

This article has been nominated as a possible Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight. To add your support, go to its listing.


Considerations for nominations

  • Please only nominate Australian articles which don't currently exist or need serious work. – also see Aussie stubs). If you have an article that is not related to Australia please use Collaboration of the Week, which is not specific to Australian articles.
  • Giving reasons as to why an article should become the ACOTW may assist others in casting their vote.
  • Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?

Selection

If the article is selected as the ACOTF, enter the article's complete title at Template:ACOTF article. The template {{Current Australian COTF}} should then be placed at the top of the selected article's page. This expands to:

This is the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight! Please help improve it to featured article standard.

When the article is no longer ACOTF, please add the following template to the talk page: {{past acotf|date|year}}

Pruning

Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they do not attract attention. An item will be allowed to remain up for voting two weeks per two votes it receives.

Items may also be removed if they are inappropriate for nomination (see Considerations... above)

Please see the talk page to discuss to changes in pruning policy.

Current candidates

Click here to add a new nomination

Rabbit-proof fence

Nominated on October 17; needs 6 votes by November 28 to remain listed.

Support:

  1. Ambi 10:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Agnte 11:29, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Razol2 14:13, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. bainer (talk) 03:52, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Diceman 15:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Cnwb 22:07, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  7. Iantalk 15:07, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • The fence, not the film. It's a pitiful stub, and could make for an interesting project, covering both the history of its construction and its pitiful failure. Ambi 10:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Phew - for a second I thought people were nominating the movie! El T 16:30, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • All the various fences right?
  • I think this should be a joint collaboration with the Dingo Fence article. There definitely needs to be some information about the logistics of constructing fences of these lengths. Diceman 15:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Bushranger

Nominated on 29 October 2005; needs 2 votes by 12 November 2005 to remain listed.

Support:

  1. Astrokey44 02:12, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Cnwb 22:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

Channel 31

Nominated on October 17; needs 4 votes by November 14.

Support:

  1. Ambi 10:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Brisvegas 10:57, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Diceman 12:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Felix the Cassowary (ɑe hɪː jɐ) 10:34, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  5. Jenny MacKinnon 01:27, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • This is pretty stubby, and we've got virtually nothing on community broadcasting in Australia. It applies to several states, and I think it'd be an interesting change from the sort of articles we've been covering lately. Plus, I'd just love to be able to write about fishcam on Wikipedia.Ambi 10:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union

Nominated on October 20; needs 4 votes by November 17 to remain listed.

Support:

  1. Agnte 13:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Ambi 17:14, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Cnwb 22:06, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • It's just a stub article at the moment. There's a lot of history with this group, early years, connections to drug importation & internal violence, the royal comission, and the eventual disbanding of the Union. Agnte 13:54, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Sydney Olympic Park

Nominated on October 30; needs 4 votes by November 27 to remain listed.

Support:

  1. Chuq 05:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Ambi 05:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. --J L C Leung 08:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  4. Brisvegas 10:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • A tiny stub article that didn't exist until a few days ago, about an area which was the focus of most of the world's population just a few years ago! There is so much that can be written here; the industrial history of the area, the brand new buildings and structures (eg. solar lights) for the games, the infrastructure to the area, and the development of the area since the games (eg. residential development and Olympic themed sculptures). -- Chuq 05:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The MCG should and will go first, but this is probably the second most important sporting facility in the country; I'm amazed we didn't have anything on it until so recently. Ambi 05:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Now that the MCG is featured, let's go with that...then maybe the Rabbit Fence, then Sydney Olympic Park, and then the SCG. --J L C Leung 08:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Sydney Cricket Ground

Nominated on 1 November, needs 2 votes by 15 November to remain listed.

Support:

  1. J L C Leung 22:40, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  2. Chuq 01:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Now that we're working on the MCG, it's time to touch up the SCG as well. --J L C Leung 22:40, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I'll support so long as Sydney Olympic Park goes first :) Sister article Sydney Cricket Ground Trust should be a part of this COTF as well. -- Chuq 01:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Australian Aboriginal flag

Nominated on 2 November; needs 2 votes by 16 November to remain listed.

Support:

  1. Cyberjunkie | Talk 04:05, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
  2. Brisvegas 10:50, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
  3. Harro5 05:37, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
  4. Cnwb 05:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
  5. El T 13:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Such a significant representation of Australian culture certainly deserves a comprehensive treatment. Brisvegas 10:50, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
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