Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:New Zealand

Portal:New Zealand
Self-nom. User:Cyberjunkie created this portal in May 2005, but I have been the major maintainer ever since. Cyberjunkie is still involved, mainly on the layout side, and several other people are regular contributors.

We've had a weekly "Selected article" and a weekly "Selected picture" since the end of May 2005. We've had a frequently changing DYK section over the same period of time, and the ITN section is normally updated at least once a week. In mid-January 2006, a queue system was implemented to automatically change the selected picture and article each week.

There are very few featured articles on New Zealand (those that exist are Giano's articles on 19th century architects), and so our selected articles and pictures have not for the most part been Featured. We don't have a rule that DYK nominations must be for newly created articles. For the most part, we try to have ITN give a bold reference to an article updated with the news item, but we allow ITN stories which don't have such an article. We have a policy of no redlinks on the portal page other than in the "Things you can do" section.

We don't have a formal relationship with WikiProject New Zealand, but we overlap a little bit in the "Things you can do" section.

I believe the New Zealand portal is an example of the best Wikipedia has to offer.-gadfium 19:49, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment I don't see a way for users to make nominations to the selections. How is this handled? I know this isn't a requirement, but I'm curious how portals without a mechanism for this handle it.Rlevse 19:56, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Nominations are handled informally on the talk page. See Portal_talk:New_Zealand, and if you want more history, Portal talk:New Zealand/Archive01.-gadfium 20:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Rlevse 23:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Brian | (Talk) 01:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Brisvegas 11:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support brilliant work by Gadfium. --cj | talk 04:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Outstanding work. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  15:43, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support --Ter e nce Ong 08:20, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose sure this article looks good, but it doesn't have a section for amny of the topics about new zeland. The catagories section links to catagories that make little sense.  Sure the features of this portal are great, but the whole reason for portals is to make it easier to find what you want.  This portal just seems to be new zeland featured content, not the catagorization of new zeland.  Tobyk777 06:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for. If you want to find out more about New Zealand, then your first stop is certainly the New Zealand article, which is listed twice in the "introduction" and again under "Wikiprojects". The "categories" section is supposed to give you listing of articles related to New Zealand under useful headings. If there are headings you think are more useful, please suggest some. The "Wikiprojects" section includes the various places on Wikipedia where the writing of articles about New Zealand are co-ordinated.-gadfium 08:21, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Unless Toby can further clarify his objection, I think it can be discounted as inactionable.--cj | talk 04:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I can clarify it. Many portals have sections titled: "Topics in ---" This is an essential section.  this portal does not have this, and the catagories section leads to too general of catagories to find any specfifc info.  Tobyk777 06:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I've thrown together a draft topics section at Portal_talk:New_Zealand. I'll wait a couple of days for feedback and then add it to the portal.-gadfium 08:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment Actually at the moment there isn't such a guide line and an portal has been featured without it.However I made a proposition to make more requirements so that portals can be more than a "pretty" front and more usefull see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_is_a_featured_portal at the bottom.However there wasn't much participationin the discussion or changes made.--Technosphere83 15:15, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I've now added a topics section to the portal page. Toby, does that address your issue sufficiently?-gadfium 08:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * My objection has been adressed. Changae vote to 'Support'.  Tobyk777 07:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)