Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Philippines/archive1

Portal:Philippines

I've updated this portal, with help from other Filipino Wikipedians. It has been updated regularly for two months running. I thought I may give featured status a shot. --Howard the Duck 09:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

• A good start, I'd say. Here are some minor issues with the Portal.
  • Create archives of Selected Pictures.
  • Mention the period for which the article/image appeared on the portal page in the archives.
  • Use correct copyright tags for images appearing on the portal page (Manila639 1899.jpg has obsolete tag).
  • I have made few improvements to the portal. Please also review them. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Here are my comments:
      • Oh, yes, I forgot about that. I'll be doing that.
      • The history tab will be helpful here. Will do that. UPDATE: I created the archive already. --Howard the Duck 12:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
      • I updated the tag. I dunno if it was the correct tag, though.
      • I personally dislike bullets on the DYKs but since you added them already, I'll let them stay that way.
    • --Howard the Duck 12:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• AFAIK, the DYKs appearing on the Portal page need not be featured on the WP's main page. If you find a DYK good enough for the portal, which was denied a place on the WP'smain page, you can still add it. Just make sure that they are preferably from new/recently expanded articles. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Yeah, but it would seem prettier if the DYKs mentioned are from the DYK at the Main Page, to match the selected article which is recently featured on the main page (late June). But is it really necessary that the DYKs at portals come from new or newly unstubbed articles? --Howard the Duck 13:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Not necessarily; while that's what most portals do, I've seen some cases where the DYK content is queued up in advance like the other selected content is. Kirill Lokshin 13:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
      • I agree with Kirill. It is usual for portals to feature only recently created/expanded content, though this is not a compulsion. As I said above, if possible, preferably stick to this method. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 15:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
        • Anyway, the DYKs are relatively new (since they were featured as DYKs at the Main Page), and several new Philippines-related articles are either spam or are very bad. I'll change the note at the above, though. --Howard the Duck 16:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Some further comments:

• The news section also needs an archive.
• The layout of the selected picture is somewhat unusual; I would suggest centering the image to avoid the large chunk of whitespace next to it.
• There's no list of major topics.

Other than that, this looks pretty good. Kirill Lokshin 13:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

• Replies:
  • I've created the archive.
  • I changed the layout at the selected picture.
  • This will take a bit longer. Perhaps tomorrow this will be finished.
    • How about changing the categories section into a topics section? --Howard the Duck 14:57, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
      • You could combine the two, but it's generally a good idea to list both major topic articles and the main categories for the area. Kirill Lokshin 15:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
        • I added it. --Howard the Duck 15:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• --Howard the Duck
• Comments The news section seems extrodinarilly long and the wikiprojects sectoin shouldn't need an explanation. The selected articles and pics, I'm concerned about the rotation and updating of these. And another "selected" section would help to display more content. Joe I 01:24, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm working on a "Selected biography" if that'll help. Also, I'll be cutting down on the news section. I can understand about the rotation of the content, though; several of them stayed there for over a year. I'll be rotating them monthly. This shouldn't be a big issue, really, as some new portals got featured even though they were newly created. Also, I think the explanations at the WikiProjects are nice; not everybody knows what "Encantadia" is. --Howard the Duck 02:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

• • Provisional support Rotate the content, (Portal:Scouting does it monthly too), count this as support. Rlevse 11:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)