Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Biography

Portal:Biography

I would eventually like to see all the portals linked in the {{browsebar}} and from the Main Page reach featured status.

Over the past month, I have worked on Portal:Biography:

1. To make it more useful, by:
   1. Revising the categories.
   2. Updating the "Tasks" box.
   3. Adding new features ("On this day" and "Quote of the week").
2. Tweaked the layout to make it more attractive and display the content in a logical manner.
3. Keep it well-maintained.
   1. The "Selected article" is on a weekly schedule.
   2. For the "Selected picture", there are enough pictures to make the updates more frequently than monthly, but not enough to stock it weekly. Thus, this feature is updated 2-3 times a month, manually.
   3. DYK is updated regularly, manually.
   4. On this day is stocked up ahead of time, and automatically updates.
   5. Quotes are stocked up through the end of the year.

I'm the sole maintainer, but the maintenance workload for this portal is fairly minimal and manageable. When I go on holiday/vacation, it's no problem to make sure the features are stocked up. --Aude (talk | contribs) 15:16, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

• Minor object:
  • The distinction between "selected" and "featured" needs to be clarified. Are the articles being selected exclusively from the linked list of FAs? How about the pictures (there should be enough FP portraits to make a decent attempt at it, but this may not be what you're doing)?
  • The "Quote of the week" section needs an archive. Also, is there any more sensible place in WikiQuote to link to than the front page?
  • Having a separate box for {{portals}} seems to be a bit of overkill, no?

  Overall, though, this is an excellent portal, and I'll be happy to support once the above issues are fixed. Kirill Lokshin 00:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• The articles here are all officially featured articles.
• There are not enough featured pictures (non-fair use) of people on Wikipedia, so while I try to select those, sometimes I select featured commons pictures. Even with those, I'm not sure there are enough. At some point may have to pick something that is not featured.
• Added the quotes archive.
• Wikiquotes does have a quote of the day, but not sure it's any better to link there than the main page.
• Agree 100% about the box around the portals template. It's gone.

Thanks for the feedback. --Aude (talk contribs) 00:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay. I think the article box should be labeled "Featured articles" then; other than that, everything seems fine. Kirill Lokshin 01:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 01:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Great! Support from me, then. Kirill Lokshin 01:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks great; support. I've made a few minor changes, which of course can be changed back if they are disliked. Also, one suggestion: links to biography style guides in the Things you can do box. Another possibility: links to the current selected biographies in other portals (selected scientist from science, selected inventor from technology, selected biologist from biology, selected philosopher from philosophy, etc.). If you could get the other portal maintainers to create subpages that simply list the name the current portal bio (as is done with collaborations, for use on the community portal), that would make it maintenance-free for the biography portal maintainer.--ragesoss 22:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Your "minor" changes look fine to me. I also like both your suggestions. --Aude (talk contribs) 23:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Support - Nice :) Joe I 18:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)