Wikipedia:Portal peer review

Wikipedia's portal peer review process exposes portals to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality portals that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a featured portal candidate. This is not academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and portals that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other. For feedback on portals that are less developed, use the portal's talk page first. At present, there are 163 featured portals, of a total of 1121 portals on Wikipedia.	The path to a featured portal Start a new portal Develop the portal Check against the featured portal criteria Get creative feedback ← Featured portal candidates Featured portals
Nomination procedure Anyone can request a portal peer review. The best way to get lots of reviews is to reply promptly and appreciatively on this page to any comments. If you post a request, please do not discourage reviewers by ignoring their efforts. To add a nomination: Place {{subst:PPR}} at the top of the portal's talk page, creating a portal peer review notice to notify other editors of the review. Within the notice, click "request has been made" to open a new discussion page. Paste {{subst:PPRnom|portal name= |text= }} at the top, with the name of the portal in the "portal name" parameter, and then note the kind of comments/contributions you want, and/or the sections of the portal you think need reviewing in the "text" parameter. Signature is automatically appended. Save the new page. Edit this page here, pasting {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME/archive1}} at the top of the list of nominees. Optional steps: Start a new section on the portal's talk page using ==Portal peer review== Paste {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME}} into that section. Add {{todo}} at the top of the portal's talk page, then save the page. Edit and paste the following into the to do list. Summarize recommendations and replies as they occur: [[Image:Evolution-tasks.png|left]] '''<big>Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status</big>''' List includes recommendations with replies/status. <br clear="both"> Your review may be more successful if you politely request feedback on the discussion pages of related articles, portals, and/or send messages to Wikipedians who have contributed to the same or a related field, including the list of portal peer review volunteers. How to respond to a request Review one of the portals listed below. If you think something is wrong—e.g., portal length, the introduction, poor grammar/spelling, missing topics—post a comment in the portal's section on this page. Feel free to correct the portal yourself. Please consider noting your edits here to keep others informed about the portal's progress. How to remove a request You may remove to the current archive any inactive listings or listings older than one month; inappropriate or abandoned listings (where the nominator has not replied to comments); portals that have become featured portal candidates. After removing the listing, contributors should: replace the {{portalpeerreview}} tag on the portal's talk page with {{Oldportalpeerreview|archive=1}} (replacing "=1" with the archive number of the peer review if it is not the first) How to resubmit a request If your request has been removed, please feel free to renominate it for portal peer review at a later time: Place {{subst:PPR}} at the top of the portal's talk page as described above Place {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME/archiveN}} (where N is the review number) at the top of the list of nominees below. Archive: Current – May 2013 Purge server cache

Requests

Portal:Yorkshire

I am requesting a peer review because I wish to get Yorkshire up to Featured Portal status. It currently has 11 DYK sets, 3 lists (all featured), 18 biographies (13 of which are Good or Featured), and 25 selected articles (all Good or Featured). Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 19:50, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Portal:New Spain

Hello. I would like to nominate this article potentially for a Featured Portal, but I haven't been able to figure out the process properly. I hoping to have a few people review it in order for to find out what exactly needs to be done before this portal can become a legitimate candidate for FP status. I feel I have enough articles to keep a consistent rotation (7 total GA & FA articles), and some related articles that can be used as featured content, but need to figure out how to rotate the material, among other issues. Thank you for taking your time to read this, and please contact me as soon as you can. LeftAire (talk) 22:34, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Comments from Sven Manguard

1. None of your "Selected ______" sections rotate because the random portal component is set to max=1. I'm seeing a total of two articles, three biographies, two images, and two locations. You're going to want 20 articles and 15-20 bios, images, and locations, ideally all of FA and GA quality.
2. You've got a Selected Panorama section with only one image, which really isn't a panorama. I suggest getting rid of the section and folding the image into your selected pictures section.
3. There are 21 related portals and only three related WikiProjects. I think you need to add in the WikiProjects for all of the items that you've included in the related portals, at the very least.
4. The image is way too large in the selected article section.

This portal isn't ready to be put up for Featured Portal nomination, you need to flush it out. I advise you look at portals that are already featured to see how Featured Portals should look. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:40, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

I disagree about your third point. It makes sense to include only WikiProjects related to the subject of the portal, but Related Portals can include even marginally similar ones. For example, Portal:Napoleonic Wars links at the top to all sorts of war-related portals, but only to the most applicable WikiProjects. -- Ypnypn (talk) 20:01, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Comments from Lionratz

1. Have a standardized layout template for the Selected articles, Selected pictures and selected Biographies sections to make all the entries look the same. The selected article list should look something like this or this, while each individual entry should be listed in their own respective subpages like this, this and this. You can refer to the layout template that I used in the Singapore Portal here.
2. The colour is too glaring. Try to use a darker shade of yellow if possible.
3. The related portals sections should be reformatted to have easier maintenance and look nicer (see the film portal.
4. Add Did You Know and In this Month sections to the portal (see Portal:Norway)

These are other basic stuff to watch out for. Good luck in your work!--Lionratz (talk) 12:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Jainism

I would like to nominate this portal for Featured Portal. Please provide suggestions on how to make this portal ready for it. Rahuljain2307 (talk) 17:57, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Comments from Sven Manguard

I apologize in advance for how long and intimidating this list is going to be.

1. There are only six selected articles. There really ought to be 20, using FA and GA quality articles whenever possible.
2. There are only six selected biographies. Like selected articles, there really ought to be 15 to 20, using FA and GA quality articles whenever possible.
3. There are only six selected pictures. There really out to be 15 to 20, using English Wikipedia FPs, Commons FPs, QIs, and VIs whenever possible. If there's a shortage, you still need to make sure that the images are of high quality.
4. One of the selected images is used as an image in a selected article. You can use very similar images, but using the same one multiple times isn't advisable, because it doesn't look good if the same image winds up on the front of the portal in multiple sections at the same time.
5. If you're going to do a selected scripture section, you really need to have more than one to select from. At least 10, although as with everything else, 20 is the goal.
6. I think you should take the DYK section and break it down into sets of five, that rotate out randomly like 'selected _____' sections do.
7. You need to make sure that all of the items within a section (i.e. all of the articles within selected articles or all of the biographies in selected biographies) are roughly the same size. That way, the portal is the same shape when items switch out.
8. You should try and keep the images in the corners of the 'selected _____' sections the same size, also because it helps the portal keep shape. You can have the images in Selected Articles larger than those in Selected Biographies, but all of the articles within the Selected Articles section should be the same size.

I know this seems like a lot, but once you get in a rhythm, it goes by very quickly. You can build up a portal to a high level in about a week and a half, and from there, it's just a matter of polish to take it to FPO status. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:02, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Millennium

This is my first foray into portals but I'd like to bring it to FPO status if possible. This is a portal for the short-lived television series Millennium, and as such has a relatively small scope. However, I'm confident that I'll be able to bring most, if not all, articles within the subject to GA status or better, so every article featured in the cycles will be of good quality. At present there are ~25 articles being rotated automatically through the selected article and selected DYK boxes, while open tasks towards the bottom point out where the remaining articles needing help are. As I'm working within the wikicup this year a lot of my contributions will be articles within this scope so both of the selected content boxes will feature continually updated content until I've run through them all; which should see ~80 articles in total. I've kept the image adornments within a theme, using the ouroboros symbol favoured by the series' Millennium Group characters, although I'm open to expanding upon this if the theme seems too restrictive or repetitive. I've not included a full "selected picture" section as there aren't many free images directly related to the series, and those that are tend to be already used within the "selected article" blurbs. I'm also open to cutting down the number of related portals, I just jammed in as many as I felt were roughly connected. Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered here. GRAPPLE X 03:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC) GRAPPLE X 03:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

• Comments

• A selected biography section would be useful.

  I was planning to keep the selections to articles which have reached GA-class or better, which rules out a lot of the stub-class biographies associated with the series; Chris Carter (screenwriter), Glen Morgan, James Wong (producer), Chip Johannessen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott, etc. Some of the bios—Lance Henriksen and Terry O'Quinn mostly—are of better quality though. I'd definitely work such a selection in once I've managed to get sufficient work done on it but at the minute I'm not really convinced. Though it would be a good idea for me to get to work on those articles much sooner to get it going then. GRAPPLE X 10:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

  That would take a lot of work, yes. Even five would be nice though. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:23, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

• Wikilink episode titles in the selected articles box

  Done. GRAPPLE X 10:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

• Can't think of anything major right now, but I'm worried that you'd have trouble at FPOC because of the small subject matter. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:39, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

  That's a fair point; I haven't had an exhaustive look but it seems that P:BO is the featured portal with the smallest scope—the accompanying wikiproject covers approximately 330 article-space pages. Episodes, season, characters, crew, and any other miscellany that works its way in there all combined this would probably reach half of that at maximum. If the scope is deemed too small then there's nothing I can really do about that but I still plan on being as exhaustive as I can to help that along. GRAPPLE X 10:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

  Indeed. Hard to base a portal around a small subject. :-( — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:23, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

  Perhaps maybe an The X-Files portal would be useful, since it is not created yet. JJ98 (Talk / Contribs) 20:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions and recommendations

1. Randomize image display and reformat the Intro section, see model at Portal:Norway.

   Aside from the images for the selected article, the image display is randomised; the DYK section is tied to a random ouroboros or similar symbol. I may try my hand at creating a few more as they're generally basic symbols (which is desirable, as the series dwells heavily on symbolism). GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

2. Reformat Things you can do section to make it look a bit nicer, see model at Portal:Internet.

   I've widened it, placed it on a row by itself. Its former space is occupied by a quote now. GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

3. Reformat Highlighted content display, see model at Portal:Film.

   Not really sure what you mean here, as the film portal has a much larger variety of articles (biographies, lists, etc, which this one doesn't really have). GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

4. Reformat Topics section, expand it a lot more, and create original display, see model at Portal:Television.

   Not sure what this is referring to; do you mean the list of "Highlighted content" or something else? GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

5. Add a Selected quote section, like Portal:Supreme Court of the United States.

   Good idea. I've added a section with random quotes; each one has been used in an episode of the series as an opening legend. GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

6. Add a Selected picture section, see model at Portal:Russia.

   This is going to be difficult as there aren't many free images which work devoid of context for this one; a few of some of the cast and crew are all we have (a few of Lance Henriksen and Chris Carter). Given that they're all older white men—and therefore don't show much variety—I don't know if it's going to work as well as would be hoped. GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

7. Add an In this month section, see model at Portal:Theatre.

   I could be amenable to this but aside from cast and crew birthdays, episode air dates and perhaps "in universe" dates, I don't know what would actually be useful to add. GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

8. Add an Associated Wikimedia section, see model at Portal:Comedy.

   Aside from Wikiquote there's not really anything to add (nothing at wikisource, not enough images to justify a useful commons cat, etc)

Hope that's helpful, — Cirt (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

To be honest, I think the field here is too narrow for a lot of these suggestions, as the portals you've cited are for huge fields like film, theatre or sovereign nations, rather than this small field. I've been able to act on some of them though, and I think it's looking better as a result, so thanks helping me expand out another section here. GRAPPLE X 00:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Okay, no worries, I mean I respectfully disagree on a few of the responses, there might be some areas to pursue in the future (for example if there's no page yet on a sister project ... create one!) but after all, the above are just suggestions, so no problems either way. :) — Cirt (talk) 01:10, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

All I could think that could be created would be a commons category, unless there's other sister projects I'm overlooking (wikisource is out as scripts are the only real things to be presented there and they're not free; news is next to non-existent for wikinews, etc). If I've overlooked something you think would be viable I'm happy to work on it. GRAPPLE X 01:15, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah that sounds like a good idea :) — Cirt (talk) 03:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Took me a while but I created a commons category ( Media related to Millennium (TV series) at Wikimedia Commons). It currently contains other categories more than anything as I wasn't sure if placing files in the category would be okay if I was already using it to place the other categories those files are in. That sentence confused me. GRAPPLE X 21:07, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Buenos Aires

I am requesting a peer review for this portal as I am interested in nominating it to be a Featured Portal. Bleff (talk) 02:48, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions and recommendations

1. Randomize image display and reformat the Intro section, see model at Portal:Norway.
2. Randomize and reformat Did you know section, see model at Portal:Theatre.
3. Reformat Things you can do section to make it look a bit nicer, see model at Portal:Internet.
4. Reformat Related portals for easier maintenance using template, see model at Portal:Arts.
5. Add in Featured content display, see model at Portal:Film.
6. Reformat Topics section, removing use of template and instead create original display, see model at Portal:Television.

Hope that's helpful, — Cirt (talk) 02:54, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Sailing

I think that the Portal it's now complete (7, but soon will be 10) articles and biographies runs. I create the Portal to meet a specific need at the WikiProject Sailing, and just I have a feedback. Kasper2006 (talk) 18:30, 22 April 2012 (UTC) --Kasper2006 (talk) 18:30, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

I think you would need to add more selections than 10, since thee benchmark is 20. Anyways, a Did You Know? or Current news section could help. e^xtra999 (talk) 15:35, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Tnx for your suggest. I hope to resolve it in next days. --Kasper2006 (talk) 15:56, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Has that suggestion been responded to and addressed? — Cirt (talk) 01:11, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Any chance of a status update on this? I'd be willing to look it over, but I'm not going to do that unless I know that the project hasn't been abandoned. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:08, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

All your help is welcome. I am willing to work with you to bring you groped portal between FP. Alone there was riusciuto, I was discouraged, but if there is anyone else who helps me, it can take on new life. --Kasper2006 (talk) 07:44, 23 January 2013 (UTC)