Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Archive/April 2011
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I have been making this a portal, and now, I would like to know how to ameliorate it to reach featured portal status. ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 20:12, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
- Comments from Fetchcomms
- Using "ameliorate" there sounds awkward. Granted, it's often misused to mean "alleviate", but still, I usually hear "ameliorate" used in the context of improving problems.
- If you only have two tabs at the top, don't bother with having them at all.
- DYK has way too few entries and does not need to use the word "Bolivia" in every sentence—just Bolivia-related (or it would get very boring). The hooks should be longer, there should be multiple rotations, etc., too.
- The "Selected article" box has a sub-box that contains a rating—ugly, out of place, and useless. We don't need to see the rating in the portal.
- That said, you should stick to all FA/GA-level articles if there are enough (10+?) to sustain the portal.
- Yellow portal background is way too bright and glaring. Hurts my eyes.
- "Things to do" very incomplete and not updated.
- Surely there are more than two related WikiProjects? Are there projects for nearby countries? etc.
- "Selected picture" choices need better captions.
- Every image should have alt text.
- You don't need (or want) one box for each sister project link. Putting them all in one box is better than having multiple boxes that cause clutter.
- Needs "In the news" and "Recognized content" sections.
- "Navigation" does not need to be in a box; "Topics" box looks out of place at the top.
- Perhaps you could sustain a "Selected biographies" box to augment the article box?
- Make it visually engaging. That's the second-most important part, after showcasing content.
- Perhaps someone at the Bolivia WikiProject could provide some Bolivia-specific advice on what important content might be good to have on the portal?
/ƒETCHCOMMS/ 04:32, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
- It's like saying issue instead of problem.
- NavBar in Intro
- Removed rating
- Added the 2 GA to portal
- Thinking about more DYK
- Lighter yellow
- ITN added, recognized content?
- Other wikiprojects link to related portals so why?
- Seperate boxes for WM merged in one
- 1 selected article is good
- I will be putting a message for that.
- ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 15:24, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
- You don't need to include notes/refs in the selected articles.
- Use Wikinews Importer Bot (talk · contribs) for the news, unless you plan to manually update it yourself.
- Black text hard to read on dark green header bars.
- If you have only one related WikiProject, then having a big box for it is useless. But you should fill it with other related WikiProjects. I don't understand your comment "Other wikiprojects link to related portals so why?".
- Why is ITN stuck at the bottom? Why does it need to be so wide?
- The selected article pictures are way too big. The portal needs to work in smaller screens (at least 1024x768).
- It's unbalanced; the left side is longer than the right side.
- /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 18:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Done removed notes from Selected article 3.
- How to get Wikinews Importer Bot to work for Portal:Bolivia?
- Then what colo(u)r?
- What I said in other terms is that the related portals are pretty much the same thing. I will be reformating the wikiprojects box.
- The images are small.
- Will be fixed with the RWP box.
- ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 12:28, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
- Read the directions.
- Uh, something that makes it easier to read and more accessible?
- /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 18:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- How do you know if I read it. It was an error at wikinews that was preventing it. It is fixed.
- ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 18:21, 28 April 2011 (UTC)