Wikipedia:Macintosh collaboration.html



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This collaboration is an offshoot of WikiProject Macintosh in its quest to provide "...detailed and concise information in [articles] relating to the Apple Macintosh and Apple Computer". The goal of separating the collaboration was directed at (1) standardization by the use of the term "collaboration", (2) the ability to allow Wikipedians to participate without making a formal commitment such as to a WikiProject, and (3) to advertise this collaboration and attract potentially interested Wikipedians.

There is a short list of articles that have broad enough subjects to really become good, featured-status articles. We will work through all of these until they become featured, with no time limit on how long the article is the current collaboration. After these select articles are satisfactory, nominations will begin and the articles will stay the collaboration for a time limit to be agreed upon at a later date.

The current collaboration is Apple II family

Old collaborations

In chronological order. Articles may be listed twice if they were the collaboration twice. Key: is a Featured article, ? is a Featured article candidate. You can also give a short summary in parenthesis.

1. Apple Macintosh (, technically the WikiProject's improvement focus)
2. Apple Computer (went on to another article in; this one was getting stale)
3. Steve Jobs (improved, not FA yet, but close)

Current nominations

The title is misleading: these are the select articles that will be worked through before formal voting on smaller articles occurs. Consensus will decide which becomes the collaboration when the current one is sent off to the FAC page. No particular order is required. The list follows, alphabetized.

• History of Apple Computer
• iMac
• iPod
• iTunes
• Mac OS X

• Support Windows XP is featured, why not Mac OS X?Paul^C/_T+ 08:18, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Macintosh Finder
• Steve Wozniak

Discussion

An old, abandoned page served a purpose similar to this one but was a subpage of WikiProject Macintosh. That page used a formal vote system, rather than consensus, but the two votes that were cast both nominated Steve Jobs:

• Support for next one. I like all the others but this is probably the most important of them. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Agree with others. — Wackymacs 21:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

That's the explanation for the favoritism given by the parentheses above.--HereToHelp (talk) 00:38, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

He's now been moved up for the actual collaboration.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 23:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Future Nominations

We should strive to work through the above list of articles before moving on to others, especially because the system has not been determined. So far, it is agreed that there will be a time limit, the articles cannot be featured, and should come from a pool of topics conveniently maintained by WikiProject Macintosh. There most likely will be formal voting.

Discussion

Discuss the nominations here, or how to work out the system of nominations here. The latter will eventually be recorded on the talk page.

Templates

{{Currentmaccotw}} is for the talk page of the current collaboration. {{Formermaccotw}} is for the talk pages of former collaborations. They add the article to Cat:Macintosh collaboration. To use them, put the following on the talk page:

{{currentmaccotw|date that it started being the collaboration}}

OR

{{formermaccotw|date that it started being the collaboration|date that it ended}}

Also: Wikipedia:Macintosh collaboration/current needs to be updated to reflect the current collaboration. So does the section above on past collaborations.