Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Hong Kong/archive1

Portal:Hong Kong

I have recently revamped this portal using the box skeleton and I feel it provides a wealth of information. The news section is regularly updated. Ideogram 17:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object:
- ~~No archives for the "Selected picture", "News", and "Did you know" sections.~~
  As far as I can tell, no other featured Geography portal has News archives. Ideogram 19:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  In general, any section with updating content should have an archive of some sort. Deficiencies in some of the other portals don't really change this point. Kirill Lokshin 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  Portal:New Zealand and Portal:Oceania feed their news content into Current events in Oceania, and also into 2006 in New Zealand/2006 in Oceania, although these are updated infrequently. I see that there is a Current events in Hong Kong and Macao which has languished for lack of updates, and Chinese current events likewise.-gadfium 20:27, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  We are now feeding news content into Current events in Hong Kong (moved from Current events in Hong Kong and Macao) --Ideogram 19:41, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  
  I have created the archive links although there is nothing in the archives yet. Ideogram 23:55, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~No image credit for the selected picture.~~
  What does this mean? Do I need a caption indicating who took it? Ideogram 19:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  See {{POTD}}. Kirill Lokshin 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  Done. Ideogram 20:24, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  
  For image credits, is the creator's commons name sufficient, or do I need their full real name? Ideogram 23:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  I think their commons name is sufficient; if they give their real name on the description page, you can use that, but I wouldn't bother digging too deeply for it. Just link the name to their user page on Commons. Kirill Lokshin 18:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~Centering in the "Things you can do" box is broken by the image on the right.~~
  Well, it is centered, it's just centered in the space not taken by the icon. Ideogram 19:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  It doesn't look centered, though. You might want to consider removing the icon if you can't work around it, as it really doesn't add anything of value. Kirill Lokshin 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  Done. Ideogram 20:24, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Most importantly, the major rotating content sections have only been created today. The portal cannot be featured without either auto-rotating content or a substantial history of regular manual updates. Kirill Lokshin 17:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  How do I create auto-rotating content? Ideogram 19:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  Create subpages like Portal:Hong Kong/Selected article/July 2006 (for monthly updates; other schedules are also possible, and examples can be pulled off the other featured portals) and then transclude them on the portal page by using {{Portal:Hong Kong/Selected article/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}. Kirill Lokshin 19:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  I have created auto-rotating "Selected article"s and will soon have auto-rotating "Selected picture"s. I can't create auto-rotating "Did you know"s since I personally don't know that much about Hong Kong, I just spruced up the look-and-feel. Ideogram 18:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  That's fine. Most "Did you know" sections are done by hand, anyways; so long as the other content has some provision in place for future updates, this shouldn't be an issue. Kirill Lokshin 18:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the issues seem to have been resolved. My major remaining complaint is that the archives don't seem to have been created. Now that there is auto-rotating content in place, it should be fairly easy to create the needed archive pages (which would transclude all of the auto-rotation subpages). Kirill Lokshin 22:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object - No archives. Jo e I 08:57, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]