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2013
November
The Federal Courts Project on Judgepedia is improving its page on the History of the Supreme Court and you can help! What famous Supreme Court cases should be included on that page? What were the major cases of the former Chief Justices' Courts?
To contribute, simply email your suggestions to email the Federal Courts Director!
September and October
Election season is right around the corner for Louisiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington! Judicial elections in general are often overlooked--odd-year elections even more so. It's often hard for voters to find information on their local judges, so Judgepedia has made it our mission to provide voters with the most thorough and accurate judicial elections coverage possible.
If you have information on a judicial candidate, please let us know by filling out this form. If you are a candidate yourself, you can fill out this form.
August
Our goal is to eliminate errors from Judgepedia and you can help! We work hard every day to bring you the most accurate and up-to-date information about the judges and courts in the nation, but sometimes we make mistakes along the way. This month, we're asking for your help in identifying those errors.
For any error you see on Judgepedia, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org with a link to the page and a brief description of the error. We'll respond to thank you and let you know when the change has been made. If you're comfortable, you can even make the change yourself; just check out registering with Ballotpedia to get started.
Don't be shy - let us know what we need to fix!
July
This month's project involves the federal Bankruptcy Court Project. Many of the bankruptcy judge pages on Judgepedia still need basic biographical information, but you can help! For this month's collaboration, just submit a link that contains any of the following info: year of appointment, year of re-appointment, schools attended, career before joining the court, awards received or organizations of which the judge is a member.
By helping with this basic research, we can quickly improve the caliber of these profile pages. To find a list of current bankruptcy judges, see the Federal bankruptcy judge page and flip through the state tabs.
If you have any questions about this project, leave them on this talk page or email them to editor@ballotpedia.org.
June
Judgepedia is starting the summer with an Images Collaboration of the Month! Behold The Graphic Traffic Report, a fun way to track images submitted to JP each month. This report will show you which state submitted the most images and how all images sent to JP are spread across the nation. Our project is truly a collaborative nationwide and we hope you'll join in the fun.
The wiki would never be complete without the many visual aides and cues that you use as you browse through the site. If Judgepedia has helped you, you can return the favor by improving our image collection. Submit an image of a courthouse on your summer vacation or one in your neighborhood. If you have a friend or family member who is a judge, snap a picture (with permission!) and send it to us. The great part about this project is that everyone can join in: a judge on the way into the courthouse for work, a tourist marveling at local architecture, a citizen passing by a campaign sign, and more!
Regardless of your image, just email it to submitphoto@judgepedia.org. From there, our Image Coordinator will upload it with whatever attribution you prefer. At the end of June, we'll see which state will be declared our top State of the Nation for the first month!
May
This month, we're hunting down information on state trial court judges! Often, little is known about these judges, though their decisions can have a big impact on communities.
Judgepedia plans to complete thorough research on all of the 11,000+ judges of general jurisdiction trial courts by the end of 2013. This will provide much-needed information for voters in 2014. Currently, we have about 5,000 of these judges that still need to be researched. That's where you come in! For this month's collaboration, we are asking our readers to contribute their own research links on judges in their state. This is a chance for you to learn about your own government officials while also helping others to be informed.
April
The Collaboration of the Month is back! After a hiatus, we are happy to reinstate coordinated monthly volunteer projects on Judgepedia.
The staff at Judgepedia has been working hard in the last year to stamp out errors before they are created, using a mixture of techniques to ensure accuracy across the wiki. Before we can move fully into the next phase, we need to fix our legacy errors, problem pages that have been sitting on the wiki for some time. One category of legacy error ties into our collaboration of the month in April.
Notable cases are an integral part of our judges and court pages, providing a glimpse into previous rulings and major issues that have come before the courts. Because of the nature of legal system, wherein a case is brought before the court with a ruling delivered months or years later, notable cases have been added to judge pages without a ruling.
Recently, the federal courts team did an audit of pages to identify how many pages were affected by this. The result was a list of about 80 pages that need updates.
2010
One of the big goals for 2010 was to greatly expand Judgepedia's coverage of judicial elections. There were also plans to fill out judicial profiles for all of the currently serving federal magistrate judges and federal bankruptcy judges. If there is more that you would like to see on Judgepedia, let us know here.
May 2010
A project dedicated to exploring Tribal Courts in the US is in the works.
April 2010
A new category tree to help sort out judicial elections is in the works; take a look at the top of it here.
March 2010
Federal magistrate judge and federal bankruptcy judge judge profiles are complete!
February 2010
Profiles of all currently serving federal bankruptcy judges began.
January 2010
Work has begun on filling out judicial profiles for all of the currently serving federal magistrate judges.
2009
Lots of great work was done all over Judgepedia in 2009. Notably, our coverage of judges at the trial level in all 50 states has expanded to include (at minimum) a sprout page for the over 15,000 judges of those courts and a visual overhaul of much of the site.
October 2009
To expand and improve the The Judicial Update by including new templates, more news, and better organization of the news articles.
September 2009
In September, we began really organizing our approach to trial courts. That focus has lead to the Trial Courts Project which several users are plugging away at.
August 2009
August is the month of the calendar project. Several users are working to develop a complete timeline of the federal and state level judicial history of the United States.
July 2009
A lot of time and energy in July was spent on polishing articles about federal judges nominated by Barack Obama. The star of this effort is the page on Sonia Sotomayor.
June 2009
In June of 2009 we continued to focus on the intermediate appellate courts project.
May 2009
For May 2009, the monthly collaboration is concerned with getting the judicial articles from each state's Constitution onto Judgepedia.
April 2009
The community collaboration for the month of April is continuing work on the intermediate appellate courts project. Each week will focus on a different part of the project:
- Week One: Placing project templates on discussion pages.
- Progress: 11 out of 40 complete. (4/1/09)
- Progress: 28 out of 40 complete. (4/2/09)
- Progress: 40 out of 40 complete. (4/3/09)
- Week Two: Fleshing out intermediate appellate court judge pages following the writing guidelines for the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals and the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
- Progress: Done! (4/9/09)
- Week Three: Fleshing out intermediate appellate court judge pages following the writing guidelines for the Alaska Court of Appeals, Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arkansas Court of Appeals.
- Progress: Alaska is done. (4/14/09)
- Progress: Arkansas and Arizona are done. (4/17/09)
- I worked on Daniel Barker and Lawrence Winthrop.
- Ann Timmer, Patrick Irvine, Michael Brown, John Gemmill, Philip Hall, Diane Johnsen, Donn Kessler, Patricia Norris, Patricia Orozco and Margaret Downie are also done. (4/16/09)
- I worked on Daniel Barker and Lawrence Winthrop.
- This link has 2004 retention results for Patrick Irvine, Philip Hall, Jon Thompson and John Pelander
- 2008 retention election results (go to p. 14)
- 2006 retention results, p. 13
- 2002 retention results, p. 12
- 2000 retentions, p. 13
- 1998 retentions, p. 12
- 1996, p. 17
- Week Four: Fleshing out intermediate appellate court judge pages following the writing guidelines for the California Courts of Appeal.
- Progress: California First District Court of Appeal Divisions 1, 2 and 3 are done. (4/21/09)
- Progress: California First District Court of Appeal Divisions 4 and 5 are done. (4/24/09)
- Progress: California Sixth District Court of Appeal is done. (4/24/09)
March 2009
The community collaboration for the month of March is working on the intermediate appellate courts project. Each week will focus on a different part of the project:
- Week One: Creating & placing templates
- Progress: four out of forty templates are cleaned up and placed. (As of 3/12/09.)
- Progress: five out of forty templates are cleaned up and placed. (As of 3/17/09.)
- Progress: 12 out of forty templates are cleaned up and placed. (As of 3/19/09.)
- Week Two: Putting the pages in the correct categories
- Progress: Ten out of forty courts have their intermediate court and judge pages in the correct categories. (As of 3/12/09.)
- Progress: 33 out of 40 courts have their intermediate court and judge pages in the correct categories. (As of 3/13/09.)
- Progress: 34 out of 40 courts have their intermediate court and judge pages in the correct categories. (As of 3/17/09.)
- Progress: Complete!
- Week Three & Four: Finish up templates from week one.
- Progress: Complete! All 40 of the intermediate appellate judge templates have been standardized and placed.
2008
December 2008
The energy in December seems to be around making articles about federal judges.
The template at the bottom of this page about "Federal judges as nominated by different U.S. presidents" is a good place to start to see the overall shape of this project.
Some specific ways to help:
- Add pictures of former U.S. presidents to any pages in the list below that don't already have one.
- If you see that there are no judges listed on the page of one of the presidents listed below, start adding articles about that president's nominees to the federal bench.
