Wikipedia:Spotlight

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This project has been mostly replaced by Today's articles for improvement.

This page in a nutshell: Spotlight is meant to highlight an article for one week, and attempt to improve it via live discussion in our IRC channel.

Shortcut WP:SPOTWP:SPOT

Spotlight was a process by which a number of editors collaborated online and concentrated on improving a single article through IRC. The project's history can be observed through its newsletter.

The article currently under the Spotlight is at [[Wikipedia:Spotlight/suggestions|Suggested articles]].

Please add your name to the participants here, and suggest articles here.

Spotlight articles

Page name	Start Date	End Date	Edits	Before	After	Diff
Trauma (medicine)	September 10, 2010	September 25, 2010	107	Before	After	Diff
Aengus Finucane	October 10, 2009	October 15, 2009	35	N/A	After	Diff
Oil	September 19, 2009	October 10, 2009	54	Before	After	Diff
Battle of the Nobles	August 24, 2009	September 19, 2009	21	Before	After	Diff
Monkey	August 13, 2009	August 20, 2009	22	Before	After	Diff
USS Massachusetts (BB-59)	August 1, 2009	August 13, 2009	111	Before	After	Diff
Dry ice	July 24, 2009	August 1, 2009	333	Before	After	Diff
Marco Polo sheep	July 16, 2009	July 24, 2009	249	Before	After	Diff
Marco Polo	July 5, 2009	July 16, 2009	634	Before	After	Diff
Richard Montgomery	September 3, 2008	October 15, 2008	185	Before	After	Diff
Academy Award	August 26, 2008	September 2, 2008	55	Before	After	Diff
John Jay	August 19, 2008	August 26, 2008	224	Before	After	Diff
Biafra	August 15, 2008	August 19, 2008	180	Before	After	Diff
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette	August 11, 2008	August 15, 2008	566	Before	After	Diff
Recording studio	August 7, 2008	August 11, 2008	19	Before	After	Diff
Play_(theatre)	June 14, 2008	August 7, 2008	45	Before	After	Diff
Michelangelo	June 9, 2008	June 16, 2008	27	Before	After	Diff
Artificial sunlight	May 31, 2008	June 9, 2008	68	Before	After	Diff
Thirty Years' War	May 22, 2008	May 31, 2008	166	Before	After	Diff
Kristallnacht	May 17, 2008	May 22, 2008	180	Before	After	Diff
Dam	August 14, 2007		161	Before	After	Diff
Mao Zedong	August 1, 2007		50	Before	After	Diff
Gang	July 31, 2007		64	Before	After	Diff
Oil spill	July 29, 2007		21	Before	After	Diff
Underground Railroad	July 29, 2007		18	Before	After	Diff
History of Russia	July 25, 2007		337	Before	After	Diff
Third World	July 20, 2007		56	Before	After	Diff
First Lady	July 19, 2007		65	Before	After	Diff
William I of England	July 19, 2007		71	Before	After	Diff
Environmentally friendly	July 15, 2007		60	Before	After	Diff
Casino	July 09, 2007		18	Before	After	Diff
Balloon	May 11, 2007		71	Before	After	Diff
Legume	April 28, 2007		7	Before	After	Diff
Farm	April 22, 2007		74	Before	After	Diff
Shogun	April 18, 2007		69	Before	After	Diff
Poor Richard's Almanack	April 17, 2007		112	Before	After	Diff
Icelanders	April 16, 2007		241	Before	After	Diff
John Gow	April 16, 2007		96	Before	After	Diff
Coloring book	April 15, 2007		78	Before	After	Diff
Aelbert Cuyp	April 15, 2007		24	Before	After	Diff
Christopher Columbus	October 10, 2006		118	Before	After	Diff
Polar exploration	September 20, 2006		23	Before	After	Diff

Templates

• You'll know if your page is being looked at by Spotlight by the template on the top of the talk page, and the page will have the Wikipedia Spotlight category.
• The current article will be tagged with {{Spotlight}} on the talk page. That template auto-detects which namespace it is in, and adds the appropriate text.
• After completion, {{Spotlighted|date}} will be placed on the talk page.
• When working on the article, please put {{Spotlight working|~~~~~}} within the section that you are working on.

Userbox

There is a userbox that participants can add to their user pages. Adding this will place your name in the Wikipedia Spotlight contributors category.

{{User Spotlight}} This user contributed to Spotlight.