Wikipedia:Zen Collaboration of the Month

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The current Zen Collaboration is San Francisco Zen Center.
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The Zen Collaboration of the Month exists to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Zen Buddhism topics. There are various areas of weakness at present - in terms of breadth, for instance, there is very scant coverage of famous Zen Masters (there's no biography of Tenryū, for example) and in depth, Zen topics are not represented at all in the lists of Good or Featured Articles. 'Those who know do not speak' may be a good motto for a sage, but it isn't for an encyclopedia editor!

Please list articles for improvement under the two broad categories 'stubs to expand' into full articles or 'articles to polish' to featured article standard (see this page for detailed guidelines on the various different standards). You can also nominate stubs you would like to see created (or go ahead and create the stub!)

All volunteers are welcome, in particular it would be useful to have some Chinese, Japanese and other Asian speakers involved in the collaboration who can help translating texts from those languages into English.

Contents

[edit] This month's article

Don't forget to vote in the Zen Collaboration. Poll closes in 1 week!.


Collaborations

Article Creation and
Improvement Drive

Article Referencing Drive
Core topics
Good articles
Join in!
Maintenance
Spanish translation

Arts & entertainment

Anime and Manga
Architecture
Cinema
Comics
Novels

Games & sports

Football (soccer)
Formula One
Gaming (stubs)
Rugby union

Geography & places
Africa Australia 
Canada  India
Indonesia  NZ
USA  Vancouver
Government & politics

Military history
U.S. Congress

Religion

Catholic
Hinduism
Judaism
Orthodox Judaism Rabbis
Mormon
Zen

Science & technology

Airports new
Cetaceans
Chemistry
Dentistry
Dinosaurs
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Molecular and
Cellular Biology

Neuroscience
Science
Sharks

Miscellaneous

Numismatics
Inactive collaborations

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The next article will be November's article which will be chosen this month.


[edit] Previous articles

Date Article Votes Edits Improvement
1 July 17, 2006August 31, 2006 Article name 2 0 Improvement

An archive of past nominations is also available.

[edit] Editing tips

How to create a redirect.

Sandbox 1 S F Zen Center

Sandbox 2 Empty

[edit] Submitting articles for Featured or Good Article status

Good and featured article criteria.

Submit candidates here.

[edit] Voting for Zen Collaboration of the month

[edit] Current Leader

The current leader with the most potential contributors (?) is 'no leader' (no contest to tie). Rentwa 09:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Voting Procedure

To vote, either:

  • nominate a new article under one of the categories below, or
  • add your name to an existing article as a potential contributor.

You can nominate and volunteer to contribute to as many articles as you want.

If you are nominating a new article, please add the template below to the top of the corresponding talk page.

To help people decide how to vote it would help if you could say what you think the existing weaknesses are and what improvements could be made.

At the end of each month the article with the most potential contributors will be chosen for the following month's collaboration. In the event of a tie, the article nominated first will win. Please don't attempt to make negative votes.

There are various pages you can check for candidates, the obvious starting point is the list of open tasks here.

[edit] Stubs to expand

[edit] Articles to polish

[edit] Stubs needed

[edit] Template

Please add to top of the Talk page of the article you are voting for.

This article has been nominated for Zen Collaboration of the Month.

[edit] History

The Zen collaboration was begun by Rentwa (who isn't a model Buddhist) on 3rd September 2006.