Portal talk:American Civil War/Queue

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The American Civil War portal Queue is for managing dynamic sections that will change automatically throughout the year. This talk page is for hashing out the problems. The main discussion area is at Portal talk:American Civil War.

[edit] New portal contents as of April 2008

During discussion for featured portal status, it was decided that "Selected article" subsection be switched to "Selected event." After that change, the following sections comprise the American Civil War portal as of April 6, 2008.

[edit] Static sections

These sections generally stay the same:

  1. Portal:American Civil War/box-header
  2. Portal:American Civil War/Intro
  3. Portal:American Civil War/Things you can do
  4. Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War topics

[edit] Dynamic sections

These sections should change periodically. Refer to the MediaWiki Handbook for more insight into how to use variables such as {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} to automatically switch to the next month in the Queue.

Weekly selections:

  1. Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history
  2. Portal:American Civil War/Selected biography
  3. Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture

Monthly selections:

  1. Portal:American Civil War/Featured article
  2. Portal:American Civil War/Did you know
  3. Portal:American Civil War/Selected event
  4. Portal:American Civil War/Grand Parade of the States