Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations

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Please do not nominate anything here until this is discussed.

Here, we determine which entries will compose the next offline Release Version, as part of the overall project of producing a fixed version of Wikipedia. This could be released on CD, DVD, paper, or some combination. Nominations here are ongoing, for whichever version is planned next, and nominations will be moved over to the next version page when it becomes available. Links that have a strikethrough are unavailable/defunct at present.

~~In order to nominate groups of articles, use the set nominations page.~~
Featured articles are automatically nominated and reviewed on the ~~FA Review page~~.
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics are automatically nominated and reviewed on the ~~Core Topics Review page~~.
Articles on countries are automatically included.

These entries will be selected based on importance and quality.

[edit] Nomination categories

[edit] Eligibility for inclusion in the next Release Version

See the release criteria. Being a test release, the number of articles is expected to be fairly small.

Entries that are nominated will then be considered for inclusion on releases of Wikipedia the next offline release version of Wikipedia, as outlined below. Previous offline releases include:

Test Version, 2000 articles, released in January 2006.
Wikipedia:Version 0.5 (CD not yet released, but general nominations now closed)

If you nominate something you have worked on, note it as a self-nomination. You may wish to receive feedback from your WikiProject before nominating an article here, or you may wish to list it at Wikipedia:Peer review. If the article is of high quality, you may want to nominate it for Featured article status.

[edit] The approval process

The approval process is designed to be simple, as is appropriate for a test release. Approval will simply involve one member of the editorial team reviewing the article using the criteria outlined above. The reviewer must not have been a major contributor to the article. You may sign up as a reviewer for the team here. If there are quality objections raised, the nomination will be removed from this list and ~~archived~~. Once the objections have been addressed, you are encouraged to renominate the article. Articles deemed by the team to fail only on the criterion of "importance" will be listed at the ~~held nominations~~ page, for consideration in later releases. Articles that are approved will automatically be submitted for nomination at Wikipedia 1.0 (still under development).

[edit] Disputes

~~If you disagree the decision to include or exclude an article, please use the disputes page.~~

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[edit] For reviewers of currently nominated articles

Reviews should only be done by members of the review team (if you want to help sign up here).
The reviewer should not have been a significant contributor to the article under review.
Long-standing nominations are a higher priority than more recently added ones.

[edit] Pass

If the article under review meets the criteria for approval:

Remove it from the list.

~~# Replace {{0.5 nom}} with {{V0.5|class=XX|category=YY}} on its talk page. See {{V0.5}} for details of classes and categories.~~

~~List the article on Wikipedia:Version 0.5 under the appropriate section.~~

[edit] Fail on importance only

If the article is of acceptable quality, but on a topic outside the scope of the latest release:

~~Remove {{0.5 nom}} from its talk page.~~
Leave a comment on the article's talk page explaining that the article has been removed to the "held nominations" page and will be considered for a later release. One comment template is {{0.5 held}}, which only requires a header and signature.
~~Move the nomination to the held nominations page.~~

[edit] Fail on quality

If the article fails to meet the criteria because of quality issues:

~~Remove {{0.5 nom}} from its talk page.~~
Please leave a clear reason on the article's talk page.
~~Remove the nomination from the nomination list and place it in the archive.~~

[edit] Nomination procedure

Check to make sure it is not already on the previous Release Version.
List it below at the bottom of the "Nominations", in the relevant section, by using "# {{article|NAME OF ARTICLE}} ~~~~"

~~# Place {{0.5 nom}} on the talk page of the nominated article.~~