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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.

Spotlight is a process by which a number of editors collaborate online and concentrate on improving a single article through the #wikipedia-spotlight channel on the freenode IRC network (see this tutorial for help with IRC). You can access the channel using freenode webchat or another IRC client. The project's history can be observed through its newsletter.

The article currently under the Spotlight is at Suggested articles.

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

[edit] Spotlight articles

Month	Page name	Dates	Edits	Before	After	Diff
July	Marco Polo	5 July 2009 – 16 July 2009	634	Before	After	Diff
	Marco Polo sheep	16 July 2009 – 24 July 2009	249	Before	After	Diff
	Dry ice	24 July 2009 – 1 August 2009	333	Before	After	Diff
August	USS Massachusetts (BB-59)	1 August 2009 – 13 August 2009	111	Before	After	Diff
	Monkey	13 August 2009 – 20 August 2009	22	Before	After	Diff
September	Battle of the Nobles	24 August 2009 – 19 September 2009	21	Before	After	Diff
	Oil	19 September 2009 – 10 October 2009	54	Before	After	Diff
October	Aengus Finucane	10 October 2009 – 15 October 2009	35	Before—no article	After	Diff

[edit] 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.

[edit] Userbox

There are two userboxes that participants can add to their user pages. Adding these will place your name in the Wikipedia Spotlight contributors category.

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

{{User:Dendodge/Spotlight}} This user is a contributor to the Wikipedia Spotlight collaboration drive, participating through the project's IRC channel.

[edit] Barnstar

Anyone may award the Spotlight barnstar to contributors, by placing {{subst:Spotlight Barnstar|put your comment here ~~~~}} on the talk page of the user to whom you wish to award it.

[edit] Archive

The previous incarnation of the project page has been archived to Wikipedia:Spotlight/Feb2009.