Portal talk:American Civil War/Queue/Archive 1

The American Civil War portal Queue is for managing dynamic sections that will change automatically throughout the year. This talk page is for hashing out the problems. The main discussion area is at Portal talk:American Civil War.

We also have the Newsroom, which is to manage Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War news.

Section talk pages
These sections generally stay the same:
 * 1) Portal talk:American Civil War/box-header
 * 2) Portal talk:American Civil War/Intro
 * 3) Portal talk:American Civil War/Things you can do
 * 4) Portal talk:American Civil War/American Civil War topics
 * 5) Portal talk:American Civil War/Related portals

Initial weekly selections:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War news
 * 2) Portal:American Civil War/Selected biography
 * 3) Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture

Initial monthly selections:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/Did you know
 * 2) Portal:American Civil War/Selected article
 * 3) Portal:American Civil War/Grand Parade of the States

Initial quarterly selections:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/Featured article

I've adjusted the queue map above to reflect the more accurate representation
I heard much feedback about how long the page was getting so I got back to workable basics. I've corrected the above map. Is the next step to adjust the queue map on the portal/queue page? Is there an automated process? If not, I'll adjust manually. BusterD 23:55, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * While I'm asking questions, could you load an article or two into place, say, the third quarter FA (Abraham Lincoln) and maybe an image or two, so I can see what's happening? So what is done is individual article clippings are loaded onto the queue and then that automates the dynamic content. Groovy. Once the queue is rebuilt to fit its final configuration and I understand what that looks like, I'll start filling in through the first of the year. BusterD 00:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, hey BusterD. Thanks for taking interest in doing dynamics on the ACW Portal. The scheme I'm thinking of uses the variables, (0..53) and July (01..12) . I'm thinking we can just set it up like a ring that lines up with anniversaries of events on the American Civil War timeline (Which may not exist yet, unfortunately). Once we build a whole year's worth in, it'll run the ring changing weekly/monthly year after year. That way, we wont have to archive anything except maybe ACW News.


 * We should probably first compile lists of possible selections so we can determin how often to change them. For example, If we only have three featured articles, we might set them up to change each month and repeat the sequence each quarter. The Grand Parade of the States on the other hand has 23 articles to date, that we can draw from. We could actually  change those daily. See Portal talk:American Civil War/Grand Parade of the States. Please stay tuned... &bull; CQ 13:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This has been sitting while real life has intruded. I'll be on this presently. Revised today. Will trim queue to match. BusterD 21:15, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal sections
The following sections comprise the American Civil War portal as of September, 2007.

Static sections
These sections generally stay the same:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/box-header
 * 2) Portal:American Civil War/Intro
 * 3) Portal:American Civil War/Things you can do
 * 4) Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War topics
 * 5) Portal:American Civil War/Related portals

Dynamic sections
These sections should change periodically. Refer to the MediaWiki Handbook for more insight into how to use variables such as July to automatically switch to the next month in the Queue.

Initial weekly selections:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War news
 * 2) Portal:American Civil War/Selected biography
 * 3) Portal:American Civil War/Selected picture

Initial monthly selections:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/Did you know
 * 2) Portal:American Civil War/Selected article
 * 3) Portal:American Civil War/Grand Parade of the States

Initial quarterly selections:
 * 1) Portal:American Civil War/Featured article

On September 3, 2007, Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history took the place of Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War news as a weekly selection and Portal:American Civil War/Related portals was removed in favor of the MilHist portal template.

In January 2008, Portal:American Civil War/Featured article became a monthly section; this automation was turned on February 24, 2008.