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I don't like this black and white design. It's so dark and not friendly at all. Would anybody mind changing it to, well, whatever but not black. [1] 19:45, 25. Oct 2005 (CEST)
Gold with red border doesn't look good. The table should only have one real colour as background. Either red or gold. 83.109.190.10 19:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there any German Wikipedians noticeboard or a place to reach many German speaking wikipedians? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:45, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Are the selected article and picture listed here to be taken from Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Featured pictures only? It seems like a good idea. Angr/ talk 06:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I found the following featured pictures that may be of interest to this Portal. There may well be others.
Angr/ talk 06:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Here [2] is a list of Germany-related featured articles from the toolserver. I found (after removing some House of Hanover people):
The disadvantage of using only featured articles is that this creates some overlap with the Main Page. The obvious advantage is quality control. The list shows we need to work to get some more post-1945 topics up to featured status.
Other portals do not always use featured articles. I will investigate more about the rules used here tomorrow. If you dislike my choice of articles, just use something else, I won't mind. Kusma (討論) 07:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
perhaps we should follow the Main page layout and not have all the sections on on the portal on all days. Or, in the alternative, we could reduce the sections in size (on screen) so that the need for scrolling will be minimal, at least for users with 1280x1024 resolution? - yes, that's what I have, but since I'm notoriously behind on technology that should almost be standard of what users look at.- ;-) any thoughts? -- Mmounties 07:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Any suggestions how we should handle this? How often, do we vote, or do we just do as we please? After removing a couple more articles from Portal:Germany/Selected articles and pictures (the most borderline one I removed was Warsaw Uprising but I think that one should rather be on the Poland portal than here), I count 22 articles, of which only Volkswagen Type 2 and Paragraph 175 are post-WW2. Probably we should try to find some more somewhat recent topics to use here. Personally, I would like to see a "modern" article combined with an "old" picture or vice versa. For a start, I propose the following procedure: we change the selected article and picture on the 1st of each month, after deciding here about a week earlier. We could either discuss or vote on the next article; as long as there's not many of us here, discussion will probably do.
My personal suggestions for March are:
Of course we can also change to better content than Cologne and the Reichstag right away, but keeping Cologne during Carnival also has some merit. Any thoughts? Kusma (討論) 02:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mmounties ( talk • contribs) 06:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just been bold again and made some decisions for March: Portal:Germany/Featured article/March 2006 (electoral princes) and Portal:Germany/Featured picture/March 2006 (Musiktheater im Revier). Feel free to change these to other articles, but please don't change the image sizes without further discussion -- the image sizes are hard to get right for all screen resolutions and all browsers. Kusma (討論) 03:23, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
I suggest to change the language as follows:
This would remove the reference to anniveresaries as we don't have that section on the page and modify the language on the line about Featured Article. I wasn't clear whether we want to only talk about the Portal:Germany or also include the Main Page. If we want to include the Main Page then perhaps the 4th item should read: Nominate and collaborate on a future Featured article and Featured picture. -- Mmounties 23:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I put an auto-updating Anniversaries section on the page. (Well, it will be auto-updating once I have written the 366 pages necessary). Questions:
I would also like to hear ideas what else could be / should not be on the Portal page. Kusma (討論) 04:15, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
A long two cents, I know. I'll keep my eyes open for other features we might want to include in the future. Thanks, Kusma, for taking the initiative. Our Portal is growing into something really good. -- Mmounties 20:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
We should make sure there are links to the Portal page from as many categories and articles as makes sense. Should we use an image for the Portal link?
The standard {{portal|Germany}} produces:
A choice with the German coat of arms would be {{portal|Germany|Coat of Arms of Germany.svg}}, which produces
Any thoughts or ideas for a better picture? Kusma (討論) 20:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
We'll need new selected articles soon. Here are my suggestions (taken from our repository at Portal:Germany/Selected articles and pictures):
Are there other (better) suggestions? I admit I didn't follow my plan of having a modern article and an old picture or vice versa. We need more modern Featured articles for that, or need to lower our quality requirements (if we do that, we could also move to a faster update schedule, but then I'll really have to rename all the pages that still say "Featured article"). Kusma (討論) 11:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
For me its a little bit un specific and sounds like selbst beweihräucherung wich is not OK for a country which did not do this we ar big and powerfull thing since 1945. Power as:
So the power is limited more than that of others!-- Stone 07:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Would this fit anywhere on the portal page? Wikipedia:Overview of Germany project pages Saint| swithin 08:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
How about instead of doing the old/new thing this month, we pair up the newly featured article Sanssouci with the featured picture Image:PotsdamSanssouciChineseHouse.jpg? Angr ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I think we should use a biography article this time, we haven't used any of these. How about Albert Einstein, using Image:Albert Einstein (Nobel).png?
As for the picture, I suggest we don't use any of the castles and churches, we have had enough of "old" architecture in May, but use Image:SonyCenterAtNight.jpg. Any comments? Kusma (討論) 17:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Is the "Did you know?" section for this portal generated internally, or does it simply pull Germany-related "Did you know?" entries from the main page? — BrianSmithson 12:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I think we should lose the dates and names on the section of the Portal itself; details like these and the bragging should be done at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. What my suggestion looks like can be seen (with tomorrow's Anniversaries) at the usual test page: Portal:Germany/Test3. If nobody disagrees violently, I'd like to adopt this for the main portal page. Kusma (討論) 19:25, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
July is approaching rapidly. How about Featured article Cathedral of Magdeburg, using Image:Cathedral of Magdeburg Inside.jpg and Featured picture on dewiki Image:Leuchtturm Arngast.jpg? As we just had a biography, I'd like to wait for at least another month before even suggesting recently featured Georg Forster. Kusma (討論) 01:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
How about Georg Forster, using Image:Georg Forster.jpg as selected article and the castle of Wernigerode as selected picture ( Image:WernigerodeCastleWinter.jpg)?
Georg Forster is a Featured article and Wernigerode Castle is a Featured picture on Commons. Kusma (討論) 09:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
This time I can't really make up my mind. Zeppelin and Paragraph 175 would be possible candidates... (non-bio, newer than 18th century are my constraints for this month) ... anybody else want to decide or suggest something else? For the image, I like Image:MarxEngels 4a.jpg (Featured on de:) but as usual am open for any good suggestion. Kusma (討論) 11:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
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I don't like this black and white design. It's so dark and not friendly at all. Would anybody mind changing it to, well, whatever but not black. [1] 19:45, 25. Oct 2005 (CEST)
Gold with red border doesn't look good. The table should only have one real colour as background. Either red or gold. 83.109.190.10 19:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there any German Wikipedians noticeboard or a place to reach many German speaking wikipedians? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:45, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Are the selected article and picture listed here to be taken from Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Featured pictures only? It seems like a good idea. Angr/ talk 06:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I found the following featured pictures that may be of interest to this Portal. There may well be others.
Angr/ talk 06:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Here [2] is a list of Germany-related featured articles from the toolserver. I found (after removing some House of Hanover people):
The disadvantage of using only featured articles is that this creates some overlap with the Main Page. The obvious advantage is quality control. The list shows we need to work to get some more post-1945 topics up to featured status.
Other portals do not always use featured articles. I will investigate more about the rules used here tomorrow. If you dislike my choice of articles, just use something else, I won't mind. Kusma (討論) 07:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
perhaps we should follow the Main page layout and not have all the sections on on the portal on all days. Or, in the alternative, we could reduce the sections in size (on screen) so that the need for scrolling will be minimal, at least for users with 1280x1024 resolution? - yes, that's what I have, but since I'm notoriously behind on technology that should almost be standard of what users look at.- ;-) any thoughts? -- Mmounties 07:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Any suggestions how we should handle this? How often, do we vote, or do we just do as we please? After removing a couple more articles from Portal:Germany/Selected articles and pictures (the most borderline one I removed was Warsaw Uprising but I think that one should rather be on the Poland portal than here), I count 22 articles, of which only Volkswagen Type 2 and Paragraph 175 are post-WW2. Probably we should try to find some more somewhat recent topics to use here. Personally, I would like to see a "modern" article combined with an "old" picture or vice versa. For a start, I propose the following procedure: we change the selected article and picture on the 1st of each month, after deciding here about a week earlier. We could either discuss or vote on the next article; as long as there's not many of us here, discussion will probably do.
My personal suggestions for March are:
Of course we can also change to better content than Cologne and the Reichstag right away, but keeping Cologne during Carnival also has some merit. Any thoughts? Kusma (討論) 02:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mmounties ( talk • contribs) 06:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just been bold again and made some decisions for March: Portal:Germany/Featured article/March 2006 (electoral princes) and Portal:Germany/Featured picture/March 2006 (Musiktheater im Revier). Feel free to change these to other articles, but please don't change the image sizes without further discussion -- the image sizes are hard to get right for all screen resolutions and all browsers. Kusma (討論) 03:23, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
I suggest to change the language as follows:
This would remove the reference to anniveresaries as we don't have that section on the page and modify the language on the line about Featured Article. I wasn't clear whether we want to only talk about the Portal:Germany or also include the Main Page. If we want to include the Main Page then perhaps the 4th item should read: Nominate and collaborate on a future Featured article and Featured picture. -- Mmounties 23:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I put an auto-updating Anniversaries section on the page. (Well, it will be auto-updating once I have written the 366 pages necessary). Questions:
I would also like to hear ideas what else could be / should not be on the Portal page. Kusma (討論) 04:15, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
A long two cents, I know. I'll keep my eyes open for other features we might want to include in the future. Thanks, Kusma, for taking the initiative. Our Portal is growing into something really good. -- Mmounties 20:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
We should make sure there are links to the Portal page from as many categories and articles as makes sense. Should we use an image for the Portal link?
The standard {{portal|Germany}} produces:
A choice with the German coat of arms would be {{portal|Germany|Coat of Arms of Germany.svg}}, which produces
Any thoughts or ideas for a better picture? Kusma (討論) 20:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
We'll need new selected articles soon. Here are my suggestions (taken from our repository at Portal:Germany/Selected articles and pictures):
Are there other (better) suggestions? I admit I didn't follow my plan of having a modern article and an old picture or vice versa. We need more modern Featured articles for that, or need to lower our quality requirements (if we do that, we could also move to a faster update schedule, but then I'll really have to rename all the pages that still say "Featured article"). Kusma (討論) 11:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
For me its a little bit un specific and sounds like selbst beweihräucherung wich is not OK for a country which did not do this we ar big and powerfull thing since 1945. Power as:
So the power is limited more than that of others!-- Stone 07:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Would this fit anywhere on the portal page? Wikipedia:Overview of Germany project pages Saint| swithin 08:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
How about instead of doing the old/new thing this month, we pair up the newly featured article Sanssouci with the featured picture Image:PotsdamSanssouciChineseHouse.jpg? Angr ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I think we should use a biography article this time, we haven't used any of these. How about Albert Einstein, using Image:Albert Einstein (Nobel).png?
As for the picture, I suggest we don't use any of the castles and churches, we have had enough of "old" architecture in May, but use Image:SonyCenterAtNight.jpg. Any comments? Kusma (討論) 17:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Is the "Did you know?" section for this portal generated internally, or does it simply pull Germany-related "Did you know?" entries from the main page? — BrianSmithson 12:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I think we should lose the dates and names on the section of the Portal itself; details like these and the bragging should be done at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. What my suggestion looks like can be seen (with tomorrow's Anniversaries) at the usual test page: Portal:Germany/Test3. If nobody disagrees violently, I'd like to adopt this for the main portal page. Kusma (討論) 19:25, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
July is approaching rapidly. How about Featured article Cathedral of Magdeburg, using Image:Cathedral of Magdeburg Inside.jpg and Featured picture on dewiki Image:Leuchtturm Arngast.jpg? As we just had a biography, I'd like to wait for at least another month before even suggesting recently featured Georg Forster. Kusma (討論) 01:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
How about Georg Forster, using Image:Georg Forster.jpg as selected article and the castle of Wernigerode as selected picture ( Image:WernigerodeCastleWinter.jpg)?
Georg Forster is a Featured article and Wernigerode Castle is a Featured picture on Commons. Kusma (討論) 09:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
This time I can't really make up my mind. Zeppelin and Paragraph 175 would be possible candidates... (non-bio, newer than 18th century are my constraints for this month) ... anybody else want to decide or suggest something else? For the image, I like Image:MarxEngels 4a.jpg (Featured on de:) but as usual am open for any good suggestion. Kusma (討論) 11:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)