Portal talk:Thailand

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[edit] Thailand news

How should the Thailand news be handled? I started out doing it with monthly updates, but have slackened. Perhaps it could contain the ongoing most significant stories of the year? --Wisekwai 21:11, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think we should update that at least once a month. Doesn't have to be much. Just two or three items is better than nothing. Then when it gets too long, just cut and paste the older ones to the archive --Melanochromis 05:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thailand portal revamped

I reorganized the whole portal and added a couple of new features. Here are something you can help with the portal:

  • Nominate selected article and selected picture. Then at the end of the month you can post the ones with the most votes. And also moved the old ones to archive.
  • Added more news and "did you know..." but don't forget to transfer the old ones to archive too.
  • If you are good with coding, you can help adding more features or polishing the existing ones.
  • If you are a dedicated wikipedian, you can set up the Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand. This WikiProject will be associated with Thailand portal and should help each other a lot.

Cheers. --Melanochromis 05:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ThailandPortal Template

This is a template for Thailand portal to congratulate and say thank you to editors of articles that appear in the portal. Please use this template for articles selected for: the "Selected article" and "Selected picture" To use this, just post the template in the discussion section of the article. Then you must fill in the following:

  • 1) portal section that the article appears,
  • 2) the month, and
  • 3) the year.

For example, the template that says Thailandportal|Selected article_(test)|December|2006 will appear as:

thailand portal Thailand appears on Thailand Portal as the "Selected article_(test)" of December 2006.

Enjoy!! --Melanochromis 06:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC)--

[edit] Saprang Kalayanamitr Good Article evaluation

The Saprang Kalayanamitr article is currently up for Good Article evaluation. If you are interested and know something of the man, please evaluate the article according to the good article criteria and then pass or fail the article as outlined on the candidates page. Patiwat 14:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Congrats! I just finished reading it. The references especially are very impressive. --Melanochromis 23:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Introducing "Selected List" section

I have created this section out of User:Wisekwai's idea. Might not be a conventional kind of portal section but we think it's worth trying. Here's the discussions from our talk pages;

The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Related to the Portal, one thing I was thinking about was to create another featured element to the portal: Featured lists, rather than listing the lists. It would be a great way to highlight some of the better Thailand-related lists and also encourage their improvement. Even if the lists themselves don't yet include images, it would be pretty straightforward to find Commons images to illustrate the highlighted list, such as national parks, shopping malls, etc. What do you think? — WiseKwai 11:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Re:List. That's an interesting idea and I think it might help motivate editors to improve the Thailand-related lists. Maybe the name "Selected list of the month" would be better than "Featured list" as most of the lists we are going to present won't be featured lists. The real problem is the monthly update. Do we have a lot of good lists? I'm a bit afraid by the fourth or fifth month we'd have ran out of lists of good quality especially if there're no new lists coming in. This is exactly the problem I had with Portal:Cambodia which ran out of good articles and pictures, and I ended using so-so stuff that I wasn't pround of. But we can give still it a try first anyway. I think it's worth trying. I will go ahead and set up the section soon, maybe today, if you don't mind. --Melanochromis 19:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
"Selected list" is a better word choice. If you're willing to set it up and try it, that would be awesome. I'll try to keep my eye out for lists that are worthy of promotion. — WiseKwai 12:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I have created the list and added to portal. We'll see if it works. --Melanochromis 07:35, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.


Note: the Category:Thailand-related lists was added to the Categories section. If some day there's a need to revert back to the old format, the old "lists" section can be found here and here. Cheers, --Melanochromis 07:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some changes, issues with non-free images

I tweaked the code for the randomization enabled version, added/archived some news, and inserted free images here and here where non-free images had been removed. I had created another selected article for Hem Vejakorn, because I thought it to be a nice article, but I backed out of that because it also has a non-free image, and I couldn't locate a free one to go in its place. It seems prudent to use only free-content images in the portal. Tim Shuba 21:07, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thailand WikiProject

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand is off the ground; all editors interested in improving Thailand-related content please add your names in the list of participants. Badagnani (talk) 07:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)