Portal talk:Latvia

Relaunch of Sorts
Well, there's the first try at cleaning up. After working up the master portal page with endless &lt;div&gt;s and CSS style definitions, it was clear that tables would be clearer and simpler--and Wiki supports them.

I thought the Popular Front article looked interesting, so I featured that, contributed one of my own pictures to Wikipedia (now freely licensed to all), and pulled together the did you know historical info and some current news items. Hopefully this is a start, adding to Peteris Cedrins' successful efforts to get this project going. Peters 08:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Stuck the updated inserted dates in the individual files... don't need to muck with the main page unless adding a section or adding a permanent link reference in a box-bottom section Peters 08:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the fine work! A very minor, er, aesthetic suggestion -- the color chosen for the boxes causes the flag to blend into the background... I would suggest another color (dark gray?).


 * Your choice of the Popular Front article is very timely (though I think the article needs some editing and will try to get to that), since we are now marking the fifteenth anniversary of the barricades, and that brought an idea to mind -- how about a box for important dates in Latvian history in the current month, or something like that? --Pēteris Cedriņš 21:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


 * An excellent list of suggestions for contributions! Peters 02:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * As a computer semi-illiterate, I cannot figure out how to link to categories -- the Catgory:Latvia link (in the things to do) is now broken... help?! --Pēteris Cedriņš 12:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * For external links that include the http... [link-spec blank-char whatever words you want to appear with no OR bar anywhere]
 * But it's not an external link. You try it, please! I can't get a link to work ("Category:Latvia," in the "Things You Can Do" box.). --Pēteris Cedriņš 18:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I took the OR bar out yesterday, the link is working for me. Peters 03:17, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Paldies, Peter -- arī man beidzot pieleca! The portal is looking better, too -- good work! --Pēteris Cedriņš 03:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I redid the category syntax one more time to conform to Wiki syntax Peters 06:23, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't thrilled with Romanr's additions to "did you know" and current Latvia life, it seems we want something more positive than a tally of Latvia's inhabitants leaving to pick mushrooms, et al. That said, I did some hunting and did not find anything regarding the EU's specific impact on Latvia. I decided to take the EU statistics and start another section, be it positive or negative, of facts related to Latvia, post EU membership. Peters 02:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems the "extra" white border around thumbnails only happens with the default skin. More research than I'm prepared to do! Peters 03:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Keeping up to date
I have a lot of stuff going on, that said, I've adapted some tools to be able to keep the news items up to date more frequently. Still need some help in featured articles... perhaps we can propose a list and then update every couple of weeks. --Pēters J. Vecrumba 06:47, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * How about simply noting articles that suit for the prupose here ? Kārlis Ulmanis seems well written. However important dates for "Latvia Dates" section probably should be gethered for whole year. I think I could try to help to keep this up to date (at least I have a bit of time now) Xil/talk 22:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Did you know and EU sections
I think it would be better if this portal had funfacts in "did you know" section as most such sections do - besides the fact that dry statistic is boring, think what message it gives: Before the war Latvia was a great country, now it's also ought to be great, but for some reason even Latvians don't want to live there. Xil/talk 18:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Hovhannes Bagramyan
Career after World War II: commanding operations against nationalist partisans in Lithuania and Latvia.

Any comments from the other side?Xx236 12:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What comments exactly do you want ? Isn't there enough information in Forest brothers article ? Xil/talk 13:14, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * there is no Forest brothers name in the article, it has been replaced by nationalist partisans.
 * The Forest brothers article doesn't inform about Bagramyan's activities in Latvia.Xx236 13:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point the article indeed should clarify that it is the same thing. Information on these fights is obscure, all I realy now is that Russians sweeped woods (not sure if that realy is the right name of the thing - it involves nummber of soldiers walking close to each other trough area and searching for guerrillas) and, I supose, killed of the forest brothers they encountered. As Bagramyan commanded Baltic Military District until 1954, I supose, all Soviet army did at the time was his activities in Latvia. My encyclopedia gives very short byographical data and there are only 8 Google results in latvian about him, from what I see in google (some orders signed by him latest dated 1950) he seems to be more preoccupied with accommodation of military and clearing of mines and other such ammunition Xil/talk 14:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Portal Update
I'm going to make queue which will update portal automaticly - obviously no one has time, desire or whatever to regulary do it manualy. At the moment I've allready have made queue of featured pictures for first 24 weeks of the year (all pictures are either from commons or from previous updates, by the way). Just so you know in which direction to throw rocks if you have troubles with this Xil/talk 01:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I queued pictures to update weekly and previous contents of "Latvia dates" section to update monthly. The rest of months (previous updates are for four months - January, March, May and October) obviously need to be filled in and I think Featured articles also should be queued - suggestions (for contents) are welcomed Xil/talk 15:06, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I made Featured articles to update monthly and filled queue until August with articles that have appeared on Main page as DYK Xil/talk 18:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * List of contents is available at Portal:Latvia/Content Xil/talk 11:10, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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