Wikipedia talk:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive/Closure discussion

Closure Discussion

I'm wanting to start a discussion on closing ACID, that is, putting a {{Historical}} tag at the top and removing the links from Community Portal and similar pages. I expect this suggestion will garner a fair amount of discussion, so won't actually take any action for at least two weeks.--jwanders^Talk 00:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Support

• Support I have discussed this above. Zginder ^{(talk) (Contrib)} 02:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support I hate to say it but this once active project has slowly degraded. In fact, I do not think this discussion will even get much attention since nobody goes to this page. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 23:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support - It was really great in its heyday, but now it seems to do nothing much. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support - Seems to have been replaced by more topic-specific collaboration projects. Kaldari (talk) 21:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support A lot of Wikiprojects and Portals are running their own improvement drives. This isn't really needed any more, and the lack of activity confirms that - • The Giant Puffin • 22:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support For the last 6 months there has been very little activity with improving the chosen articles, and even on nominating them. Nergaal (talk) 23:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support with condition Tag it as historical but if a large amount of interest shows up later (who knows, 5 or 10 years from now) and wants to revive it, then just remove the historical tag and start it again. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Seems to be inactive now, but leave the option to revive it later on if any users become interested. --TBC!?! 00:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Maybe instead of choosing an article every week, we select an article only when X no. of votes are reached. In that way, we can have enough people to actually call it a collaboration.--165.21.154.90 (talk) 12:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

If this is closed, I would like a message placed near the top of the page mentioning the other collaborations and that work still needs to be done on many of the articles that were collaborations here. Zginder ^{(talk) (Contrib)} 17:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I think that we should close it right after this week's article since it has already been changed over. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 20:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Has it been tried to advertise this project and the need to save it? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

This project has its own space on the Community Portal. There has been a request at the Signpost for a report on the project, but it has never gone through. The problem is that editors prefer to stick to their own articles instead of randomly going from article to article. For those who do, though, even they usually stick to one topic by switching from article to article within one WikiProject. There is little hope for the revival of this project. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 19:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Some of the other collaboration projects are not in much better shape. Topics are getting selected with a consensus of 1-3 editors, so naturally there is little participation. Collaboration may be going out the window.—RJH (talk) 18:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

With the closing of ACID the Golden age of Wikipedian Collaboration comes to an end. Zginder ^{(talk) (Contrib)} 19:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Amen.--TBC!?! 00:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Here here. Who know's what the future will bring as collaborations go. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 05:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

The end of the Golden Age, eh? I'm glad to have been part of it. Some day, historians who study Wikipedia will look back to a marvelous time where people took time out of their busy lives and contributed to this project. A time when collaboration was active and vital to Wikipedia. A time when editors were jack-of-all trades, fighting vandals by day and improving Wikipedia by night. While I am sad to see that the time has passed, I look with hope towards the future of this project. --Sharkface217 23:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)