Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Peer review/Portal:Kerala

Portal:Kerala

The portal has undergone a good amount of development recently. I welcome suggestions for its further improvement on the path to featured status. I'm particularly bad at my artistic abilities and hence would be grateful if someone could suggest a better colour scheme for the portal too. Also, it is necessary for me to mention that the "selected picture" and "selected articles" on the portal are automatically rotated using in-built code. I'm all ears to the criticism of this system too. Thank you for your time.--thunderboltz ^(Deepu) 13:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The editors have done a really nice job on Portal:Kerala. Especially, the templates are brilliant. But, did I miss the mention of WikiProject on Kerala. I am sure a project on Kerala exists. Infact, here it is - Wikipedia:WikiProject Kerala. I feel, it would've been better if it were mentioned somewhere, especially below the "Wikipedia in Malayalam" template. Another thing, I feel should be there, is a bit about the history of Kerala in the main section. Some one or two lines may do. Other than that, it's a really nice job. --N R S | ^T/_M\^B 13:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

↔Thank you! I've added some more data to the introduction section of the portal. Take and look. A link to the Kerala WikiProject already existed on the portal under the OPEN TASKS box. It was pointing to the Kerala noticeboard, by which the WikiProject used to known as until recently.--thunderboltz ^(Deepu) 17:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Very cool! Is it really necessary to use multiple boxes though? If it is how about aligning them better... for example make SELECTED PICTURE and NEWS start at the same horizontal line? --h y dka t 14:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

↔We have no option but to use multiple boxes, I'm afraid. Else editing the sections as well as rotating content would become very cumbersome. About the alignment, it can be made possible, but the problem is that it would leave large void spaces in between the boxes if a Selected article with very little text (or too much text) comes up. So I though it best to let the boxes arrange themselves. Maybe I should reduce the distance between the boxes?--thunderboltz ^(Deepu) 17:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! I see some refreshing changes have been made to the portal recently. Nice job. Guess I can flick some of the ideas for WP:KAR on which I'm working. Sarvagnya 16:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

↔Thank you! Nice to know people hop into the portal namespace now and then. Feel free to mercilessly rip off any and all the content on the page. Wikipedia is a free world! (And I've abused this freedom quite a bit to get the Kerala portal to its present shape). So tit for tat. :) --thunderboltz ^(Deepu) 17:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Overall it looks good, just a few minor issues.
- Archives need to be created for Selected article and picture queue.
- Open tasks need to be expanded. Currently it is empty.
- The vertical gap between the boxes need to be reduced.
- One subjective take on the DYK section. Try to reduce the number of DYKs on the Main Page. Not only it becomes too cumbersome to read, infrequent updates (as expected from this topic) would make a larger DYK section look a lot more stale than it is. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:01, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the issue with the boxes and DYKs. I'm still working on the archiving issue. This is a slight problem since the articles are chosen automatically through in-built code.--thunderboltz ^(Deepu) 11:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job. Would do better with a list of important articles covered by the portal. ॐ Kris (☎ talk | contribs) 18:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! The articles covered by the portal are given here. This page is linked from Portal:Kerala/Selected articles and Portal:Kerala/Selected pictures.--thunderboltz ^(Deepu) 11:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]