Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:France


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Portal:France
I am nominating Portal:France for Featured Portal status for the following reasons: - NYArtsnWords (talk) 17:39, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The portal's article, person and image of the month features have been consistently maintained since September 2005.
 * The portal went through a portal peer review this past summer (see Portal peer review/France/archive1).
 * The news updates section (which was probably the weakest area previously) has been recently revamped and is being better maintained.
 * Comment Do you think the Topics section too long? I feel overwhelmed to see 2-3 web pages long of topics. OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Response: Visually, I don't know if the France portal's topics section feels excessively long compared to, say, the dense one page topics section at Portal:London, a featured portal... especially given the fact that the France portal will obviously have more geography topics, etc. I could perhaps remove/shorten the section on heads of government/state and/or the map.  It should be noted that rather than have a separate France category tree section (like the London portal), we have tried to bring the categories and topics sections together. - NYArtsnWords (talk) 22:03, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Support esp. since the news section is now getting a regular supply of stories. I think however that:
 * The categories should be in a category tree
 * It should be organised into 3 parts (like Portal:Zimbabwe or Portal:European Union) Chris DHDR 18:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Response: The issue of the three-part tab style came up in our peer review. As I said then, I am not sure that wiki users are familiar enough yet with the tabs style and I worry that, for uninitiated users, putting "projects" etc. in tabs (like on the Zimbabwe portal) isn't tantamount to just burying them (there are few enough people doing France-related articles and consulting the France Portal or Wiki Project France to hide the "task board" and list of projects!).  I could imagine, however, that the geography/administrative divisions sections might be put in a tab.  Doing tabs style would also be a major over-haul, and I fear that it might send the portal back to peer review, rather than building off of the recent peer review.  As for a category tree, that is relatively easy to do, although I admit that I have a preference for keeping the categories and the topics together as they are now (which seems logical to me). - NYArtsnWords (talk) 20:18, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Further Response: I have put in tabs and put the administrative and geographic section in their own subpage, while putting a (new) category tree and the topics section in another section. Hope that resolves issues.- NYArtsnWords (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * thanks, Perfect Chris DHDR 19:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Support, perfect. feydey 17:42, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - WikiProject section with WikiProject France + others? &mdash; Rudget contributions 10:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Response: Done. I added a Wikiproject France navbar below the "task board". - NYArtsnWords 16:00, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Support - now looks good enough for FPO status. &mdash; Rudget contributions 16:04, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks better now, I'll support OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:35, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Who decides how and when content is changed/updated/switched out for different content? This portal could use some implementation with Random portal component, so that more of these updating tasks are automatic and easier.  Cirt (talk) 01:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC).
 * Response: Content on article/person/picture of the month is changed monthly. Since the portal's inception, I have personally maintained these features (criteria for person of the month are listed under the archive).  News and DYK is currently updated regularly by members of WikiProject France.  Implementation with Random portal component would be helpful if there was a greater number of feature or good quality articles/images on French topics than are currently available (see statistics on  WikiProject France).  Ideally, WikiProject France could eventually take over maintenance of the portal (including nomination of content), but the WP is not yet, I fear, active enough to insure this. - NYArtsnWords (talk) 04:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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