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[add comment] [edit] Items to include [12 February 2009]Articles are a confusing lot. They are those pages that don't have a "namespace" associated with it and appear under (Main) in the recent changes log. Anything that doesn't go under one of the other namespaces would go here. Types of pages that are classified as "articles":
[add comment] [edit] Helping Out [4 March 2009]From Dallan at the Watercooler:
I should point out that this is JUST the sort of "organizing" project that I would love to do. ;-) -- jillaine 14:23, 12 February 2009 (EST) And gratefully, this is just the sort of project User:Jillaine is now doing! See User:Jillaine/Article Project. If Jillaine wants to, this could be a good project to enlist others' help on the portal page.--Dallan 14:53, 23 February 2009 (EST) And yes, I would like to have this category project be a way that people could help out. Jennifer, I see that you took out the "Opportunities to Help" or "Volunteer" or whatever it was called box. I don't feel quite ready for prime time on the Article categorization project yet to invite people to help. I'd like to set it up better so it makes it easy for people to help. I also want to get some admin feedback on the categories I'm coming up with. (Dallan's given his initial input. I'd like some other folks. Cuz, you know, I get myself into trouble if I go my own way here.) -- jillaine 15:39, 4 March 2009 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Need Sample Article Page [7 March 2009]While I probably should be flattered from the fact that you choose to use one of my pages as an "example", despite the image shown, what you ended up linking to was the Southwest Virginia Project page---which is actually a portal, though you didn't have that as namespace when it was created. Q 12:40, 4 March 2009 (EST) Bill's right. That's not a sample article page. We should find another one. And highlight his SW VA project on the Community portal as a featured Portal. But Bill, I bet you have a good sample article page buried in your SW VA portal somewhere. -- jillaine 15:36, 4 March 2009 (EST)
I chose to go with the Maple Sugar article, and added that over on the portal page. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Regarding highlighting the SW VA project on the Community portal, I'm going to venture to say that there would be no easy way to move this to the Portal namespace! Is everyone ok keeping it as is and linking it to the Community Portal? It looks like you've also added the Category:Portal link to the page - nice.--Jennifer (JBS66) 08:21, 7 March 2009 (EST) I briefly considered converting it to "Portal" namespace---or at least the "Gateway" article. Since the backlinks to the Gateway are embedded in a template, all I would need to do would be to copy the gateway to Portal Namespace, and then change the template accordingly. I decided NOT to do that because the look and feel of the SWVP (portal though it may be) is quite different from the other portals. I didn't want to introduce a discordant note in something that was just getting off the ground. I'm happy just including it in the category page, at least for now. However, I suspect that many more such projects will develop, similar in intent to the SWVP and The Great Migration Project. Most of the current crop of portals are administrative types (e.g., links to article namespace, source namespace, etc. There will probably be a few more of those administrative portals added as time goes by, but the big potential is with the geographic and event specific type. It may be useful to establish two or three distinct sets of portals---one of an administrative nature, one focused on "How to" portals , and one focused on Georgraphy (SWVP) and Event (Great Migration) portals. Q 10:16, 7 March 2009 (EST) |