Talk:Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics/task force

Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics — task force

As the bidding process for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics was concluded, I would like to ask a task force to make Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics a Featured topic. It involves eight articles divided in four categories (1 overview article, 1 host city article, 3 candidate city articles, and 3 applicant city articles) according to its format and amount of information provided in the internet. Three existing articles (1 aspirant city article and 2 postulant city articles) will not be include in the topic as they are unrecognized bids by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The main goal is to get those articles to achieve the criteria of a Featured article. However, this should be a gradual process achieving each quality level until the highest.

Current situation

Article	Category	Quality	Importance
Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Overview	B	Top
Baku bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Applicant city	Start	Low
Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Candidate city	GA	Mid
Doha bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Applicant city	Start	Low
Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Candidate city	C	Mid
Prague bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Applicant city	Start	Low
Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Host city	A	High
Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	Candidate city	C	Mid

Dubai bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and San Francisco bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics will not be included in the topic, as stated above.

For an efficient standardization of the articles, structure schemas were created for each category, meeting the quality requirements and providing the best format of organization to the reader. The host city category was created due to the larger amount of information and sources (The Rio de Janeiro bid committee website is still working, while the websites of the other candidatures were closed). Those schemas can be found in each talk page of the articles (You can see here: Baku, Chicago, Doha, Madrid, Prague, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo). The overview article do not have a scheme yet. Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics is a current Featured article candidate and is open for reviews. Olympics Barnstars will be awarded to the most significant contributors.

Progress

Article	Score
Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Baku bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Doha bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Prague bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100

The contributors can follow the progress of the articles here, through a scoring system. The score index is composed of 70% of "Quality scale" and 30% of "Technical issues". The table of values can be seen below.

Quality scale		Technical issues
Score	Criteria	Score	Criteria
10	For Stub-Class articles.	10	For articles with fixed external links and dablinks.
20	For Start-Class articles.	10	For articles with fixed templates and infoboxes.
30	For C-Class articles.	10	For articles with fixed images and alternative texts.
40	For B-Class articles.
50	For GA-Class articles.
60	For A-Class articles.
70	For FA-Class articles.

After making it a Featured topic, all articles should appear on Today's featured article. Please follow the instructions presented above and check the Good article criteria, the Featured article criteria, and the Featured topic criteria. Get also a creative feedback with a Wikipedia:Peer review. If you wish to join this task force, please sign below.

Contributors

1. Felipe Menegaz 03:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC) — Coordinator