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[edit] Portal:World War I

I have been working on this for some time, and, after a peer review, I feel that it is ready to be nominated for FP. All comments/criticisms welcome, and I wil do my best to respond in a timely fashion. Carom 21:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

The portal peer review can be found here Cheers — WilsBadKarma (Talk) 01:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

CommentSupport A very good portal just a few points before changing to support

  • Featured content -> Featured content, Related content -> Related content, Associated Wikimedia -> Associated Wikimedia
  • Photo credits are usually placed between the image and the caption to break it up a bit.
  • I would suggest that the selected equipment images be a little larger, they are very hard to see at their present size.

besides that very good. Hossen27 04:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

  • I've increased the selected equpiment images to 100px - do they need to be larger, or is that sufficient? Carom 16:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Also, I'm not sure about the photo credits - some portals seem to put them below the caption (Portal: War), others above (Portal:Military of Australia). Is there any kinf of consensus on which is preferable? Carom 20:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I think the pictures in both the Selected equipment and event should be larger 125px to 15px, the amount of text is sufficient for that size image. The location of the photo credit is more of a personal preference not a requirement (i think). Hossen27 01:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Done. Images in selected equipment/events increased to 150px. Carom 16:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Probably. I'm not a template wiz, but I'll see if I can't work something out...Carom 16:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm the one that created the random portal component with nominate and I'm currently working to add the variable, I'll have something running in the next few hours.Cheers — WilsBadKarma (Talk) 21:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment there's a fair amount of white space between the {{browsebar}} and introductory box – please eliminate it. Also, it should be "Related portals" not "Related content".--cj | talk 12:07, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. Carom 16:19, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a few things:

  • Related portals, they don't need portal after the name. There is also Portal:World War II, which should go in.
  • Why does the wikimedia box not have all the sister wiki's within it?
  • Needs a category section.
  • I would suggest making the pics in the event and equipment boxes slightly larger. Black and white is alot harder to tell what's going on. 150 should be fine.
  • Selected pics captions need atleast one link each.

But, fairly good so far. :) Joe I 22:36, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Ok, it looks like Hossen27 took care of your first point. On the second point: surprisingly, not all the sister projects have content related to WWI, and it was requested at the peer review that I remove the links to the projects that have no content. When they do have content, the links can be added. I'll work on your other points on Sunday, hopefully. Carom 06:16, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Done, unless you have any concerns about how I implemented the category section. Carom 21:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Support Looks good. I do have a problem with the wikimedia box being decimated. The individual viewer should be able to decide if that sister wiki has what they are looking for or not. They can't do that if no links are supplied. All assosiated wikimedia boxes, on every portal, should have all sister wiki links available. Makes for ease of use and consistency. Oh, and the "Show new selections" should be centered, using <div style="text-align:center; margin:-7px; padding-bottom:12px;">{{purge|'''Show new selections'''}} </div> .  :) Joe I 03:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's a fair point. However, keep in mind that some of the sister projects will likely never have content related to WWI - it's simply not a topic that generates content under their purview. I'll do some digging around and see if I can justify linking to some of the other sister projects, but I think that ultimately, it makes more sense to exclude some of them then it does to keep them. Carom 04:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Looking at it a little more closely, there is content on WikiBooks and WikiSource, but it hasn't been collected under a "World War I" heading, so it's difficult to link to directly - in order to capture the true range of the resources available, it would be neccesary to link to a large number of (currently) unconnected pages. I'm not involved with either of those projects, so I don't know if this apparent disorganization is due to the way they are structured, or if it's simply a matter of "no-one has got to it yet." Any thoughts? If the content can be easily linked to, I'm more than happy to add it to the portal; if it cannot, I'm not entirely sure what to do.
WikiNews and WikiSpecies do not have content related to World War I, nor are the likely to, so it doesn't make any sense to add them. Carom 06:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Done. The WikiBooks and WikiSource links currently go to a page that says "there is no page by this name," but there is a prominent link to "search for this term in other pages," so users should be able to locate whatever content is available. Carom 18:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: I fixed it using <div style="text-align:center; padding-bottom:12px;">{{purge|'''Show new selections'''}}</div> because for some reason your code wasn't showing up correctly on Firefox. S.D. ¿п? § 12:30, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support: A good portal looks nice and, in my opinion, has a nice color scheme. However, you might want to fix the Wikimedia box as Joe suggested. Happy editing, S.D. ¿п? § 04:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

  • Done. Carom 18:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Support Looks great, you have a few redirects in the topics section but thats more a personal quirk and isn't that big of a deal. Cheers — WilsBadKarma (Talk) 18:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment Support Yay for World War I and its peace, man! Yah! General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) (at war here (screams in the background)) 02:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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