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[edit] Portal:Iceland

Greetings, portal peer reviewers! The Iceland Portal currently has 12 selected articles (most either featured or good article status), 13 selected pictures, 11 selected biographies, 10 DYK hooks (all mentioned content randomized with {{Random portal component}} and {{Random subpage}}). The images shown in the introduction are also randomized, and the news section has recent headlines. I would greatly appreciate feedback on the portal. Thanks for your time! Happy editing, [sd] 04:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

  • It's excellent, much better than the Portal:Iceland I stopped editing months ago :-P. In fact, I think I should adopt the randomizer to other portals, coz it's a practical solution for most of them that hardly see their selected content renovated. Anyway, I think that everything's perfect and this could be a good candidate for featured status. Could have a "Quote" section though, but I think that's a not an essential presence. Kudos to User:Sd31415 for his excellent work. Húsönd 04:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Happy new year, Husond, and thanks! I agree a quote section would be good, but Wikiquote seems to have little about Iceland. I have a question — should a selected quotes section have quotes said by Icelanders or quotes about Iceland as a country? Cheers, [sd] 04:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Happy New Year for you too. Yeah, quotes could be scarce indeed, but I guess both quotes by Icelanders and quotes about Iceland would do. Regards, Húsönd 04:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Y Done. I've created a Selected quotes section with 10 quotes about Iceland. — [sd] 05:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Overall, a really good portal! :) In fact, I think the only thing I can suggest is to reduce the dates in the News section from January 4, 2008 to something like Jan 4: only. I like how the picture in the side of the Introduction changes from Flag to Coat of Arms and to the location map, a nice idea. I think this will do well at a FPOC. Spebi 21:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your comments! Y Done — the format of the dates has been changed from January 4, 2008 to Jan 4. The idea of the images in the introduction rotating came from the Electronics Portal. Best regards, [sd] 23:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Comments.
  • Polish up that gold star! ;-)
  • When in doubt, add more images! Main topics could use one or two. I would show the featured picture in the box where it's listed. If I could change one thing, I would use the Selected quotes style used in Portal:Sustainable development for the images. It's also somewhat easier to balance out columns when the variable lengths quotes box spans the full page.
  • I've added an image to the Main topics section and have shown the featured picture in the Featured and good content section. I've also used the Selected quotes style you mentioned. [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  • I've also put a newspaper icon in the Current news section. [sd] 13:19, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  • "Current news" is a "baby puppy." :-) "News" would be sufficient.
  • Y Done. [sd] 15:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  • :) Okay, I'll remember that from now on. Thanks for the good comments! The portal has really improved. Cheers, [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

RichardF (talk) 04:48, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

  • The Selected panorama section and its images look fine to me. When in doubt, my motto is let someone else delete it. RichardF (talk) 14:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Comments

Overall, great job!

  1. Could use at least an additional five randomized hooks in the Did you know section.
    Y Done. [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  2. Have you considered using the new bot, User:Wikinews Importer Bot, in the In the news section?
    The bot's great, but the Iceland Portal on Wikinews isn't regularly updated (the latest story there is from October). [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  3. Categories section could use some sort of creative little related icon in the upper right corner.
    Y Done. [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  4. Main topics section, same as Categories section, could use creative icon.
    Y Done. Is it creative enough? :) [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  5. Associated Wikimedia could be reformatted with bottom text below each entry, per example Portal:Religion.
    Y Done. [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  6. Related portals section could be expanded to include Portal:Norway, Portal:Scotland, Portal:Ireland.
    Y Done. [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  7. Featured and good content -- Show the featured pictures using <gallery></gallery>.
    Y Done. I added the image using [[Image:Iceland Grimsvoetn 1972-B.jpg|75px]] because the gallery took up too much space. Thanks for all your helpful comments! Cheers, [sd] 13:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  • That's all I got for now. Cirt (talk) 05:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC).
    • Wow, great work, quick responses to my comments! I may take another look later, but I can't really find anything else glaring to improve on at the moment. Cirt (talk) 13:47, 6 January 2008 (UTC).
  • Well, not exactly quick. Thanks for your comments, [sd] 13:51, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comments - A good portal. But I just have a few things to voice.
  1. How come the Die Another Day selected article doesn't have a picture. Could this one be used?
    I've added the image. [sd] 15:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  2. I'm not sure about the Read more... in the Selected Quote section, I'm sure it can be overlooked if it has only one entry. (Which I think is already mentioned)
    I've changed it back to the previous format (linking to the person). [sd] 15:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  3. Could the Related Portals section be made smaller? There is a good number in there at the moment (which is good), but just reducing the size of images can make the box smaller.
    The size of most images is 80px, same as other featured portals, like the North West England and Basque Portals. I would put them on one line, but that wouldn't fit in some resolutions. [sd] 15:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  4. Could the Selected Quote section be moved somewhere else, currently there seems to a big gap between the biography and panorama?
    I've archived some news, which helped. [sd] 15:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  5. And one last thing, could the portal be reduced itself anyway?, it's seems slightly lengthy at the moment. Rudget. 14:14, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
    The largest section was Main topics, I've shortened that quite a bit. Thanks for your comments—much appreciated! [sd] 15:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
    No problem. If you ever need any more reviewing, get in touch. :) Rudget. 15:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
    Will do. Thanks again, [sd] 20:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)