Wikipedia talk:Portal peer review/Archive 1

Shortcut
Isn't a more appropriate shortcut WP:PORPR or WP:PORTPR? WP:PPR, what one would expect, goes to the picture peer review, and the difference between that and this is picture/portal, not peer review. Sorry, I know this is so trivial compared to what I could be doing with my time on Wikipedia, but I just thought I'd mention it. Nice idea, by the way. --Fbv65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 07:10, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * This shortcut is similar to the featured portal candidate's shortcut, WP:FPCAN, in that it uses the first three letters of the last word. — S .D.   ¿п?  11:50, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay then. Whatever suits it best. --Fbv65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 03:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Random subpage template
This request for peer review isn't about a portal, per se, but about a template that can be used in portals, Random subpage. It's designed for sections like "Did you know..." that include a list of items that can be rotated. The template can be used for a type of "randomized block design" – single items from blocks (consecutively numbered groups) of subpages can be selected to build lists with a specific number of items, one for each template entry. The template works by selecting a numbered subpage from a range of subpages whose "start"ing and "end"ing members can be specified. Using multiple copies of the template with non-overlapping start and end subpage values allows for the random display of an unduplicated list. An example of implementing this list rotation method is at Portal:Religion/Did you know. Your comments on how this works, or more examples of its use would be greatly appreciated. Rfrisbietalk 14:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It's currently being used at the West Bengal portal's Did you know... section and its working great! Thanks for the template, Rfrisbie. Happy editing,  S .D.   ¿п?  § 04:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool. I see you have another one in the works as well...with more to come I'm sure. :-) Rfrisbie 05:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering how I could
Do any of you know how I could set up logos and text related to portals pretty much the way the Religions portal has it up; in relation to related portals. If anyone could just do it for me, since I'm pretty much cut and paste when it comes to high tech stuff, or else paste it to my talk page and I'll paste and delete it from there. I just want the Judaism, Occult, and Spirituality portals in the link. By the way if you want to go directly to my portal it's Portal:Kabbalah. Lighthead 21:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews Importer Bot
Thanks to Misza13, the Wikinews Importer Bot now is available to automatically import certain dynamically-generated Wikinews pages into Wikipedia portals. See the pages that link to User:Wikinews Importer Bot for a growing list of examples. Check it out! RichardF (talk) 18:01, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Peer review template
Starting around February 1, User:GimmeBot is going to be handling archiving for featured portal candidates. That will include archiving portal peer reviews. I've been wanting to implement a different system for the peer review templates. Basically, you would subst: something like PPR on the talk page, and it would create a tranclusion of the form, similar to AfD-style subpage numbering. GA/R already uses a template based on my model. It should simplify matters both for users, who never have to move pages around or figure out a new subpage, and for the archiving bot. Would WP:PPREV be ok with this? Gimmetrow 08:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Editors ask for a review by putting on the talk page. The template figures out the subpage. Hope this helps. Gimmetrow 22:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Stagnated peer reviews
I notice that there are a number of portal peer reviews that have been waiting a while for some feedback. I'll try to get to a few of these. If you have put a portal up for portal peer review and you are not getting feedback after a sufficient amount of time has passed, you might try: Hope that helps. Cirt (talk) 10:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Posting a notice to the talkpages of relevant WikiProjects with a link to the portal peer review subpage.
 * 2) Soliciting feedback from a couple of the editors listed at List of portal peer review volunteers.

Userbox
User:UBX/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Portal_peer_review_ub

In an effort to spread the word à la Wikipedia, I've created a userbox for any interested reviewers.

Portal:R&B and Soul Music
Tried a beginning of this portal, but a lot of the article pages use fair use images, and then even though the article is being referred to on the portal, the robot takes the image away. Is there any advice for what to try? 70.64.182.182 (talk) 17:48, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:Portal guidelines
Is that page suitable as a style guideline for portals? Are there other pages that disagree with it that might be more useful? - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 16:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Archiving old reviews
There are many old requests clogging up the review page, and to reduce this, I'd like to propose having a bot archive all requests older than a month of two. Cirt suggested 3 months, but if there happen to be more open reviews than usual, this could always be changed to one or two months (depending also on the amount of comments left).  • ɔ   ʃ   →  23:13, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good idea. At the moment the page feels stagnant & offputting. Could the bot be set to go on latest comment, rather than the date peer review was requested? Espresso Addict (talk) 08:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think it can be configured to do so.  — fetch ·  comms   05:35, 18 May 2010 (UTC)