Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Kansas/archive1

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Portal:Kansas

I'm hoping to get this portal to featured status, and the featured portal candidates page suggested this as the first step. Any and all advice on getting this portal to featured status would be appreciated. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 05:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

We had too many people gaming the featured portal system by maintaining the portal only until the portal gained featured status. Right after that, they achieved their goals and no longer maintain it. This is why I suggest you to implement rotating contents. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:06, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with portals...how do I implement rotating contents? Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 07:14, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Simple. You use the {{Random portal component}} template. Use |header=<header> for the title (for example, selected article), |subpage=<subpage of content>, |max=<max # of content> (for example 6 different featured images), and |seed=<seed> if you want to bias it to a particular result. Automatically works with boxheader/boxfooter templates and gives totally random results. For example, Featured pictures are located at Portal:Portal/Featured pictures, and are based on Portal:Portal/Featured pictures/Layout. Let's say there are 7 of them, up to Portal:Portal/Featured pictures/7. Then max=7, subpage=Featured picture, header=Selected picture. ResMar 03:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

I found that the portal already used the random component template, so I just went ahead and added more content to the subpages. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 18:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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