Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Kerala/archive2

Kerala

Comments and suggestions to improve this portal to featured status are welcome. Thanks!--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 05:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Wow.. that's a very original layout. It could use a bit of work to get to featured status, but otherwise I don't see how it will fail. My suggestions:
  • Removing excessive capitals from titles, it can make it really difficult to read for some people.
  • Why are there two archive pages for the selected pictures and articles? I suggest removing Portal:Kerala/SC Summary, and instead pointing the "archive" link to the section's own archive.
  • Excessive wording: "Nominate as a Selected Picture" > "Nominate".
  • Centralize the title of the introduction.
  • Create a suggestions page for the "Did you know" section. That section should also be renamed to "Did you know..." Michaelas10 (Talk) 10:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Good work on quickly dealing with most of these suggestions, further comments:
      • Remove the "Communist insignia" under the image on the news sections, the fact that it is an insignia is already mentioned in the text.
      • Remove the spacing between the date and the ":" in the news section.
      • Make all the text under the seperation line of the "Selected article" and "Selected picture" bold, and give similar seperation lines to the "Did you know..." and news section.
      • {{Kerala tasks}} is a redirect, change the link in the "Open tasks" section. The section overall requires expansion in some of its parts if possible. Also, "Kerala related" > "Kerala-related".
    • That's it I guess. Good luck! Michaelas10 (Talk) 11:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the comments on the original design.

I'm done with most of the suggestions above. Please see. I'm yet to expand the "open tasks" section, (which will be done when IST reads a more godly hour). The comment under the picture in the "News" section was added after an editor requested so at PR. So I'm in a dilemma right now. Should I keep it or remove it? Help!--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 20:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm suggesting to remove it because it is moves the image to the center of the section and such captions do not normally exist on portals. But this isn't too serious really. Michaelas10 (Talk) 20:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I've rid the news section of the caption. It didn't serve much purpose anyway.--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 15:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

• Very nice. This is just from a first impression. How about getting rid of the external "edit" link icons? Rfrisbie^talk 02:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Done.Thanks!--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 15:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Looks great. Just after taking a glance. The link to Chief Ministers of Kerala in your topics is a redirect it needs to link to the actual article.--WilsBadKarma ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Fixed. Thank you!--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 15:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

There are still two external links in the open tasks section (history & watch) that need to be removed. --WilsBadKarma ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 04:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Oops! Missed 'em. Fixed now. Thanks!--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 08:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

• A quick comment: in the News section, you might want to combine the last two lines, "Current events on Wikinews" and "Archive" and make them one line. Very nice job with this portal! —sd31415 (sign here) 11:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Okay. :-) thunderboltz^(Deepu) 15:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

• Since the colors are so light, it's hard to tell exactly what's going on, but it looks like the intro text is pushing beyond its box border on the right, the box bottom border hangs a right in the middle of the left edge, and the background is light blue instead of white like the other boxes. Is this "on purpose"? :-) Rfrisbie^talk 16:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • This look different in Firefox so it probably has something to do with RSS CSS. Trying different versions of the script will eventually fix it. Michaelas10 (Talk) 16:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Yikes! Thanks for catching that. It has been fixed now. Yes, it was a CSS problem. The <div> tags in the {{Shortcut}} template interfered with the code, making it appear differently on IE.--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 08:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
      • It looked sort of cool the other way too, but you would have had to figure out how to screw up all the other sections to make it look consistent! ;-) Rfrisbie^talk 14:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Some more improvements

A very nice portal. There are some more points listed below that could be useful in improvement.

• Adding one or two more lines in Intro would be appericiable.
• Add references to the every news.
• Addng other than geography portal could be better. Some more closely related to religion, government, like Portal:Government of India. Remove Portal:West Bengal, I do not think it is very closely related.
• Remove image gallery commons link from the list of topics. It has already been covered in associated wikimedia.
• Rearrange the categories in the section.
• Could Wikipedia in Malayalam move down to Topics section? Shyam ^(T/C) 19:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the review.
    • I've kept away from adding to the intro section as it would severely damage the layout of the portal, with text jumping below the map on the left. Do you think there is a lack of clarity as to what the portal is about at present?
    • I've added references for most of the news items, and will keep adding one for every new entry.
    • I've added the GoI portal to the list now.
    • Image gallery link has been removed.
    • Categories have been re-arranged alphabetically.
    • Reg. "Wikipedia in Malayalam", I put it there to use as a space adjuster so that the portal doesnt look odd when articles of varying length are displayed in the "selected article" space. If I move it down, then a void would appear on one of the sides of the two rows of the portal.--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 19:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)