Talk:World Architecture Festival

Expanded and sourced

I have expanded and sourced the article with what I have found. More can be found obviously, the festival is quite good at getting press coverage, but the press coverage rarely gives more than what seems to be a press release from the festival (or some flowery statements of a happening and not much fact). The festival homepage is not very informative on history and facts. The World Buildings Directory is a good source for the project, but a few projects are not updated from shortlisted to winner (There is a discrepancy between some of the project pages and the winnerlists). The histories from the different years does not contain the same type of information every year, this is due to the sources (for instance the director is not mentioned every year and the company behind (i2i only in 2013). I have only included information that I found a source for. To some extent the histories can be critizied for looking like marketing, but I have tried to enclose facts only. I am not shure if the list of winners should be a separate article or stay at the bottom of the article. The list now contains notes with links to every project in the World Buildings Directory (because I personally like to have the opportunity to look at them, does create a very long list of notes though, but the notes now recreates the list of winners as presented by the festival). I would appreciate some criticism before continuing as I plan to translate the article to Norwegian. Since all sources were in English it was easier to start off in English in stead of in Norwegian (and then translate back to English).  ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  09:20, 14 July 2013 (UTC) Additional comment. There seems to be some discrepancies in the spelling of the names of the projects. The spelling of Oslo Opera House on their own home page is different from the spelling on the project page which is Oslo Operahouse. In this case this could well be due to some Norwegians correcting the spelling some time after the project was submitted and the original spelling beeing Norwenglish. Quite a few of the projects are spelled with capital letters only and this is probably due the World Buildings Directory not beeing consistent in the way they spell the project names. I have stayed rigidly with the spelling given in the source.  ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  09:59, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I am in the process of finding articles to link to. I have linked 2008 and in the process found more pictures. I have researched 2009 and found another 8 pictures. The later years will fare likewise i suspect. This means too many pictures to feature on the right hand side of the text, i. e. too much open space between the text and the list. It seems that the solution must be picture galleries below each year, although the pictures then will be very small. As it progresses I tend to belive the best solution will be to make the list of winners to a separate article (maybe World Architecture Festival (List of Winners) ?). The list makes the article heavy to work with, it takes a long time to load and it is a challenge to store changes. VisualEditor would have been nice to use, but with a borderline 3G connection (sometimes 2G and well on the wrong side of the border) it was impossible to save changes. Many THANKS to ELEKHH^T for looking at the article and changing my Norwenglish.  ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  18:22, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Given the large number of awards, I think it is a good idea to split out the the list of award recipients and leave only the illustrations for the Building of the Year in this article. Perhaps it could be named List of World Architecture Festival winners, in line with similar lists. --ELEKHH^T 00:12, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, agree, done. Included the award winners in the article since this is a much shorter list. Not quite sure what to do about the pictures.  ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  11:18, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

I think galleries work for now as we only have images for few of the winners, but having 30+ images for each year would be too much. So as we get more images I would be inclined to move them to the list, by adding an image column, as here. --ELEKHH^T 00:22, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Agree, galleries in the article is a nice way to collect them, but obviously going to be too many. I did like the previous presentation a lot better, but then there has to be a select few images. The list is by now such a big document that it loads very slowly with bad connections. I am loath to expand the list further, especially as at lot of pictures will in itself slow the loading down. BUT I did like Le_Corbusier list very much. It really gave a nice presentation of the pictures. Is it possible that the solution is a separate article showing all the pictures I can find: (Gallery of World Architecture Festival winners)? This new article could be a select copy of List of World Architecture Festival winners (as a sortable list), but without the winners where no picture is found, (the list should not have another column, but the references could be moved to the project name column and the empty one filled with pictures) OR a new article could be a gallery, but a gallery with rather larger pictures (not the tiny ones in the ordinary gallery) like this gallery? Maybe I should create an examble in my sandbox, think i will.  ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  20:36, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Created an example here. I could even find out how to add flags to the list. Possible solutions:

1. Add pictures to the list. The list might take time to download. The list looks a lot better, and flags were even better (or maybe to colourful?)
2. Add a separate article with pictures Gallery of World Architecture Festival winners. Makes it possible to create galleries with larger pictures and also let some of them have more space sidewise below the gallery. Here it will be possible to let some projects have more than one picture, like the Hungerbergbahn.
3. Add galleries to the article itself, but not below each year but between the text and the notes. The galleries should have bigger pictures than the article has now, and they should be collected at the bottom, except a select few on the right hand side of the text.

Opinions? -- ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  20:14, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Think I have found almost all the existing articles that can be linked to, and pictures. Expanded the size of the pictures in the galleries a little bit. The layout is ok on a pad and even passable on my mobile phone. What's left to do?  ツ^ツ Dyveldi  ☯  12:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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