Portal talk:History/Archive 1

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[edit] Improvement Drive

The following history topics are currently nominated on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive: History of chemistry, Napoleonic Wars, Constantinople]], History and Spice trade.You can support these articles with your vote if you want them to be improved!--Fenice 11:25, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yet another improvement drive

The article History of Southeast Asia is currently a candidate for Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive. You can support the nomination with your vote there. __earth (Talk) 17:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need volunteers to maintain portal

Why hasn't this been updated in so long? We need volunteers to maintain this portal. We especially need a featured section that isn't permanently Julius Caesar.

I can help a little.

Any volunteers?

Nick 02:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I changed the selected article section to Italian Renaissance! Cheers!
Nick 10:23, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


You know when a portal is in decay when the "requests" are all blue links :) --Technosphere83 12:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Core topics -- Version 1.0

Hello. I'm part of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics working toward a release version of Wikipedia (on paper or CD).

If you're interested in helping, these are some related articles we plan to include:

If you think these are ready, please let us know. You can see our proposed initial quality standards or learn more about the overall project.

Thanks. Maurreen 21:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured articles

I noticed that this portal puts the featured articles into subpages such as, Portal:History/Featured article/April, 2006. In March, I added to my watchlist all the portal pages that are linked on the Main Page and their subpages (linked with the small "edit" buttons), to monitor for vandalism. I just now noticed the monthly featured article subpage was different than the one I put on my watchlist in March. Because of that, vandalism to Portal:History/Featured article/April, 2006 went unnoticed for 24 hours. I'd rather not have to come back each month to add new subpages, so would anyone object if the featured article stay in Portal:History/Featured article and not further subpages? Once they are archived, then I'm fine with moving them into the dated subpages. -Aude (talk | contribs) 19:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Unless someone is prepared to undertake this extra maintenance, then no. This sort of rotational/queue system, used also on the Main Page, is now common on portals. Perhaps the only way to mitigate this is to semiprotect the subpages on the main portals - something I've done in several places because I'm usually the only one monitoring them and I can't do that 24/7.--cj | talk 04:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Take a look at how Current events are managed. That's what I had in mind, where at the end of the month they move it to the monthly archive page. I don't have to go back at the beginning of each month and readd the Current events page to my watchlist. Maybe it's not the best solution for the portals, though. I think all the small "edit" links are problematic and too tempting to vandals. Semiprotection could work in this case. I looked over the past month's edit history for Portal:History, as an example, and all the anonymous edits appear to be vandalism. Though on Portal:Geography, there were two anons. that added interwiki links. -Aude (talk | contribs) 14:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I'll just add that the History portal seems to be vandalized much more than any of the others, surely for the same reason that articles like French Revolution are constant targets. It seems to relate to what's on the school syllabus. Maybe sprotect is warranted in such cases of excessive vandalism, as the history portal seems to be. -Aude (talk | contribs) 20:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

At this moment, the short article main page on Yagan concludes with the following line: "To date, the head remains unburied. later on he would be ass raped by a chinese spider monkey." I am supposing that this was vandalism.

[edit] Renaming "History of the world" to "Human History"

Please discuss and vote at Talk:History_of_the_world#Name_ambiguity Thank you, __ Maysara 14:43, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] June selections

FYI, the selected article and selected picture need to be chosen for June. I will check back later today, and if selections still need to be made, I'll do them. But, I normally haven't been involved with this portal. -Aude (talk | contribs) 14:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

These are taken care of for June. -Aude (talk | contribs) 00:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject: creating an historical atlas and improving historical maps

Perhaps such a project already exists. If not, then i hereby ask people who want to join to send me a message.

At the moment i am trying to make maps using GIMP. I produced one map ( see Lucius Paullus), but the problem is that i can't change colours using GIMP.

I like to make maps where texts link to Wikipedia articles, just like the map of Germany in the 2006_FIFA_World_Cup article.

I want to create maps that all link to sources (atlases and books) and give them a quality tag when the map is good. Also, i like to make alternative maps in order to show difference of opinion about the borders of countries and different ways of portraiting a certain historical situation. Theme maps could be made showing the aproximate size of the populations, religions, official religions, the presence of all kinds of culture.

An idea is to make maps for statesmen and generals, to show how the borders of countries changed and what famous conquests and battles occurred during throughout their career.

The great thing about accurate maps is that they could be more accesible then a text and that it is simpler to get factual accuracy. In a text, the words can always be in a different order. The Geographical order is more solid.

I hope to get to some kind of organization within the project. Many projects on Wikipedia failed, because of the lack of discipline of the contributors. For me discipline is only a method to create quality, i don't have any political sympathy towards it.--Daanschr 10:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where to nominate articles to be selected

What page do I go to nominate an article? I would like History of Louisville, Kentucky to be considered. It is already a "good" article. Thanks. —  Stevie is the man!  Talk | Work 17:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)