Portal talk:American Civil War/Archive 1

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Improvement and maintenance

I think we should go ahead and fill in the red links above and maybe start a Portal:American Civil War/Queue page for dynamic content. Can we recruit more participants maybe? • CQ 13:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm done fiddling. Now it's time to create archives and build the queue. if you go to my portal subpage you can see some of the content I've prequalified. Once we announce to the task force this is constructed, we can probably draw more attention. BusterD 23:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Joining

Hello guys. I'm Sean and I'd like to join the American Civil War Task Force, if I may. I have been studying the war for most of my life, and I am a Civil War re-enactor from the state of Georgia (1st.Battalion Invalid Corps, Company D). If there is anything I can do to help please feel free to ask.--Lord Balin 10:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome and you're certainly welcome to help here on the portal pages. I'm about to turn automation on here at the portal, so that means that work added should be put into the portal queue. See the map for better understanding. Right now what needs to be done is to write some new "Did you know" copy, and place it in appropriate queue boxes. If you're interested, reply here and I'll walk you through that process in the next day or two. Another task which keeps escaping me is writing new News links. Other than that, I have a fair idea of what will go where and why. Thanks a ton for offering assistance, I will definitely ask for some. BusterD 13:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

After a long pause in building, this page is no longer under construction

Woohoo! Please keep content war reversions to the actual page space, not the temporary frame which offers the content for expanded view. Other than that, please enjoy and feel free to edit, suggest and comment. BusterD 14:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Portal peer review

Portal:American Civil War

This portal was constructed last year, and after a lengthy wikibreak on the part of this editor was finally automated in August. The portal is now fully automatic with the exception of the "featured article" box; I haven't figured out "CURRENTQUARTER" variable. I may make that a monthly queue item now that the number of ACW FA's has increased and the rate of new content-area FAs has increased significantly. The portal draws content heavily on the article ratings listed in the American Civil War Task Force, and utilizes the TF's announcement template and a custom ACW Menu template as "What you can do" and "ACW Topics" list respectfully. The only red links are those contained in the "Requested articles" section of the "What you can do" section. I'd love a tiny bit of help with the colors in the ACW Menu template to get the header and left side bar colors exactly right. I also have squeezed the "Did you know" section down in size a bit to compensate for the average length of the "This week..." section. Would love to see some more editors on the page and queue. BusterD 23:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I changed the colors, see if You like. In "Did you know..." start the lines with "...that". feydey 07:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

That looks nice and thanks. I like the portal colors exactly the way they were, but the {{American Civil War menu}} suffered when we switched the underlying template to the Mil Hist one. On that menu, ideally the header should match the surrounding light gray space (now blue space) and the left hand subhead bar should be identical to the Union subsubheads. BusterD 11:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I switched it back; we played with colors quite a bit, and box header is where we want it. BusterD 12:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)