Portal talk:Psychology

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To-do list for Portal:Psychology: edit · history · watch · refresh
Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status

List includes recommendations with replies/status.

  • Add picture captions.
    • No change. All images have "mouseover" captions, a common design on featured portals.
  • Add more quotes.
    • Done. Several quotes by notable psychologists added to archive.
  • Add image credit to selected pictures.
    • Done. All selected images credited.
  • Place "Archive/Nominations..." on same side of each box for consistency.
    • Done. All A/N links align left.

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[edit] Tasks

I'd say it needs a lot of work. It hasn't been updated in probably months now. The question is, how many people actually view it? I check back once a day, but it hasn't really moved anywhere, haha...

So, uh, what needs to be done here, specifically? I haven't done much work on Portals.--Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme 03:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm new to the Portals game too, but take a look at the featured portals for inspiration. Portal:Constructed languages is a nice one. I think we should start WikiProject Psychology to coordinate things, write to-do-lists, pick some "selected articles" etc. /skagedal[talk] 10:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cosmetic Changes

I've played around with some cosmetic changes, mainly so this doesn't look exactly like half the portals on WP created with the default template. It's still far from perfect, but I'm hoping it's at least better than the original -- if not, more aesthetically inclined users can have a go or we can just revert to the original appearance. Thoughts?

Zeligf 05:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Wow, the colour looks a LOT better now. I think the biggest problem is content, not layout. The featured articles have been there for months and months now.

I like the changes. It would be nice to have a transparent version of Image:Psi.PNG, I tried making one but apparently my GIMP skills aren't what they should be... Btw, the WikiProject is "live" now... we'll see what happens. :) /skagedal... 20:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I just recently discovered this portal so I don't know how it was before. I just have tvo suggestions. Number one I find the brain pic a bit... well... ugly :) It is so brown and dull compared to the colorful pictures beside it. Is there another one that might be suitable, something more "cartoonish, "e.g. a man with a thought bubble? Second, I'd like to mention that there doesn't seem to be an easy way for a user like me to modify the contents of the portal. I could do it at the mind and brain portal, though. --Heida Maria 21:30, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I ought to add that I'd like the background to be just plain white, I somehow find it a bit difficult to read black text on a blue background. --Heida Maria 21:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
There actually is an edit link to the very right of each of the boxes title bar, but it's almost impossible to see! :) So yes, the color scheme really needs to change. I asked at Portal talk:Box-header if there is a way to change the color of the edit link, otherwise (or maybe even if), we should change the background color of the title bar. I also agree it would be nice with an image for the mind and brain portal more similar in style to the others. /skagedal... 06:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
A link to the Nuvola icons. Maybe we can use some of these. --Heida Maria 13:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Psychology Wiki

The Psychology Wiki is a Wikia project, meaning that it is run by Wikia Inc, associated to Wikimedia foundation who run Wikipedia. You can think of the project as a daughter of the wikipedia site.

We are a large wiki in terms of content but small in terms of contributors. We have various plans to promote ourselves through wikipedia, and through psychology on and off the internet, but some more promotion amongst people already familiar with Wiki editing would be very advantageous.

The Psychology Wiki differs from Wikipedia psychology articles in that:

  • 1) It is intended to contain all of the discipline of psychology, like a giant meta-textbook, rather than an Encyclopedia.
  • 2) It will therefore go into much greater technical detail than one would have in an encyclopedia. It will have full academic referencing.
  • 3) It will have user experiences relating to psychology issues on seperate user pages, protected by admins, allowing POV to be expressed on these pages only. The rest of the wiki is NPOV, but expression of personal experience is nessesary and desireable on our wiki.
  • 4) It will have course content pages from academic and clinical courses with links to internal wiki articles.
  • 5) It will be a place for researchers to discuss latest papers etc...
The Psychology Wiki.
The Psychology Wiki.

PS All wiki editors should be aware of the psychological phenomena of Social Loafing. It effects new Wikis with few contributors especially.

Here are some useful pages on our site

We just need more contributors to make it work! Mostly Zen 23:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biological or Physiological or Neuroscience

It seems to be very popular these days to rename anything to do with brain biology or physiology to neuroscience. In part, this is just to make it look new, but in another part it is also to unify different disciplines which don't fit into the physiology or biology umbrella term (such as psychology in a way).

I'm just wondering what you guys think about changing the link "Biological" to perhaps "Neuroscience" or even "Neuropsychology".

Just a thought. dr.alf 08:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi dr.alf! My reaction to this is that biological psychology is a slightly different subject than neuroscience or neuropsychology, encompassing all biological aspects of behavior such as the impact of the whole organism (endocrine system, etc.), evolutionary aspects and genetics, etc., when neuropsychology and neuroscience is specifically concerned with the nervous system. I see that the article on biological psychology doesn't really reflect this, but that article is a bit underdeveloped... It's probably so that the terms are often used interchangeably, and the neuro-sciences are where all the action is, but at least at my university "biological psychology" is still taught.. /skagedal... 12:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Skagedal,
I know there was a reason for neuropsychology replacing biological/physiological psychology, but can't remember it of the top of my head. After thinking about it, I think we should keep it biological psychology and we can always change it after the whole portal is fine-tuned.
dr.alf 06:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal directory

I added this portal under "Science and mathematics", I guess "People & Society" or even "Philosophy & Religion" would have been possible too, but I thought this was the best choice. /skagedal... 12:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured content

I've just changed the featured content. In the future, how often should we cycle our featured content? Other portals vary from every day (which I think is too frequently for us, given the amount of quality articles we have to draw on) to once every month (too infrequently?). I think part of it depends on what kind of traffic the portal is getting - is there any way to get statistics like page views per day for the portal? Otherwise, my feeling is that once every one or two weeks is sensible. Zeligf 23:13, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree that once every one or two weeks is sensible, at least for the time being (we could change the smaller sections, e.g. quotes and "Did you know", more frequently). Maybe the portal will attract more contributors now there is a link to it from the main psychology article. --Heida Maria 23:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Okay - I added a note in each of the 3 "selected content" boxes saying they should be updated around March 20... so I guess we'll do every 2 weeks or so for now. --Zeligf 16:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colors

I'd like to get rid of this pastel blueish-green color in the background but I don't know how. Can someone teach me, if it is possible at all? --Heida Maria 20:47, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I kind of accomplished this by copying and pasting code from another portal (the Australian portal, actually), but as you can see, the effect isn't perfect. All WP pages have that pastel background color, and so while you can mask it with a box like this one, I don't know if you can remove it completely. Anyway, this is the code I inserted:
{| width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="10" style="background:white; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:white;" | width="55%" valign="top" style="padding: 0; margin:0;" |
I honestly don't even know what it all means, only that you can obviously change the color for "background" or "border-color" by typing in another color (or its hexadecimal code) into the right slot. Hope this helps a bit. --Zeligf 04:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks :) I added a page border and it looks fine now, I think. --Heida Maria 11:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Psychology of science

Could someone take a look on this newly created article? Pavel Vozenilek 23:28, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks ok to me. Psychology of Science is a young field, but worthy of an article. Besides, it appears that the article was created/edited by one of the foremost experts in the area. -Nicktalk 01:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured portal tips

Please add any tips here on how this page can be improved to Featured portal status. Thanks. Rfrisbietalk 15:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Picutre captions should be added, and I have questions whether the Quotes section will have enough potential candidates. Can't really think of anything else right now. Will come back later for a more thorough examination. Badbilltucker 16:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
What Bill says, but apart from that - I can't really think of anything it might need. I'm rather new to this portal business! I'll go through some featured portals and do a more thorough comparison. riana_dzasta 16:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
OK, I honestly can't think of anything else to recommend. It's really great - comprehensive, attractive, well-maintained. I think it should get featured status very easily. riana_dzasta 16:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Looks good. The selected picture needs an image credit, and the "Archive/Nominations" link should be on the same side on all boxes, for consistency; but, other than that, I don't see anything that needs fixing. Kirill Lokshin 21:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Looks to me like you've done a great job! It's definitely ready for a featured portal review. Sorry that I didn't help out on it; I'm not really good at designing creative layouts. Fortunately, it looks like it has turned out just fine. —Cswrye 17:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Community psychology

Can I ask why this portal/project has ignored Community Psychology? As a Master's candidate in Community Social Psychology, I am a bit disheartened to not see my discipline mentioned in the portal, and not on the side-bar template either. CP/CSP is a recognized discipline by the APA, Div 27. Though it is also a part of the community portal, its rightful place, IMO, belongs in the Psych Portal.--Azathar 16:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't even know what Community Psychology is :-/ I guess this is just a subfield that is too small... --Heida Maria 22:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
There are 54 APA divisions, and not all of them can be listed on the sidebar or on the portal header. -Nicktalk 22:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
True, but CP is one of the busier ones, working to make changes within "community" (can be defined in multiple ways, from 2 ppl to the planet). Also, none of the sidebar categories fully define CP as well.--C.J. (talk • contribs) 20:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Difference between psychwiki.com and The psychology wiki?

Can anyone tell me the difference between psychwiki.com and The psychology wiki. --Janarius 16:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deep trance meditation

Could someone take a look here? The article is on {{prod}} because of no sources. TIA Pavel Vozenilek 20:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New award found

neurons
neurons

What awarding users with this? --Emperor Walter Humala · ( talk? · help! ) 20:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Layout help?

I modeled a page at Portal:Scientology after your portal's layout, but could not get the image caption to display. Actually, it looks like your caption is also not displaying for the Milgram experiment featured article on your portal. Does anyone know how to fix this? For the page w/out caption display showing up, see Portal:Scientology/Selected article/3. Thanks. Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 23:37, 30 October 2007 (UTC).

I'll take a look, but I'm on a slow wikischedule. We can have future conversations about it at that portal's talk page. RichardF 00:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 00:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Laughter

I hope this is the right place to ask for an expert to add something to an article. Someone at a reference desk asked about inappropriate laughter, so I had a look at the Laughter article. The only thing mentioned there is inappropriate laughter due to a medical condition. Could someone please add an explanation for inappropriate fits of laughter in sad situations. (I guess it's something like a Freudian slip.) Thanks. --Lisa4edit (talk) 05:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)