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ARRGH! Can someone who knows something about these crazy boxes please help sort some of this out? I decided that there was no way NYC deserved its own portal if London didn't have one, but it turns out they're quite difficult to get the hang of... Deano 09:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for all the corrections - the whole thing was littered with them! Too much copy-pasting methinks! I was getting a bit stressed near the end coz I finished the Topic list at about 4pm and clicked "Save", but Wiki was down (again) and I lost everything. 4 hours work disappeared! Anyway, I've done it again now... its pretty long though...
Going back to your points-
A couple of new things - I think we should attempt to clarify some short-term goals that need looking at - in terms of just getting the portal up to standard. After that we've got to start looking at making all the other stuff work too, but I reckon sorting out the portal would be quite good. Interestingly, Portal:Scotland (why is there no England?) is quite good!
Oh and finally, I got fed up of typing the whole thing out every time, so (for now), you can use the shortcut P:L to go staight to the Portal.
Deano 19:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Yeah just ignore that - its Wiki being slow. It used to take about 10 mins in the morning before changes on the link-pages actually showed up on the Portal. By the way, I've moved the night photo of the HoP from the main article to the featured article, and just stuck in a randon replacement of London from the ISS. Deano 20:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
"I don't want to wreck the layout now, since you've evened it up nicely" WELL... about that... I may have just wrecked it again by adding some text about our featured picture. On the UK Portal page they'd done it like that, so I thought what-the-hey! Well it could be a blessing it disguise - there's now the perfect amount of space for you to stick a CC link in...
Incidentally, I think I've got the whole thing on my watchlist as the original creator - every edit to every section has flashed at me so far so I think that should be okay. But yeah, vandalism is gonna be a pain. Never mind - where there's pain there's gain!
Deano 22:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
It looks fine, love the red! Could probably do with a description of the image at the top though - what exactly is it? --
Francs
2000
21:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
It's a picture of London from the International Space Station. But yeah I'll stick a caption in. Deano 21:42, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
What exactly do you mean when you say "You can make a sub-page for them or put them on the talk page maybe"? I'm confused! Deano 22:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
AH! That's wicked - thanks for doing that! Another piece of the jiqsaw slots into place! Deano 13:54, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Well I have learned more about how to do fussy layout things that I had been meaning to do for a while. Just removed the section edit links from the Things you can do box, very obscure. Hey its already looking better than New York. The airport picture is broekn though now - better fix it. Justinc 23:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
It's looking really cool, I like the fact that it's quite different from the average portal. The extended DYK about London Bridge is a great idea. the wub "?!" 23:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
What are the colours of London??? We need to decide a three-tone colour scheme for text/fill/border... I reckon red and white looks quite good for the fill/text but Texas are doing it three-toned are theirs looks pretty good! If we're feeling seriously crazy then we can go 5-toned and have background colours for the text boxes... but that is going seriously crazy... Deano 23:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Check out Web colors. Can't go wrong! Deano 23:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I've left it in "lemon shiffon" - #fffacd - a pale yellow/gold. You may have noticed the period when it was "gold" - #ffd700 - which looked pretty impressive although quite contraversial. If there is a definite remedy for the white borders and fills, then I'd suggest going with the outright gold. It has serious class-factor! Having said that, white may well be the way to go. Cut the crap. I'll change it back to that for now. Deano 23:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Ooh, shiny. --
Francs
2000
18:54, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Room for one quote under the wikiquote box... cant get the boxes to centre though. Justinc 00:34, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I can make a version of the map with a transparent background if that would help? Morwen - Talk 11:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I like the image on p. 29 of todays Guardian - doesnt show the Borough borders, but shows the locations. Must work out how to do SVG... Justinc 21:05, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Basically I've added a link to Wikisource:London along with the other sister projects. However, that makes the box a bit too big, and I (innocently) thought it'd look better if the "Other Projects" box went the entire width of the page (above "Topics"), and the sister-proj links were side by side.
I tried to do that, and failed. Miserably. They won't budge from the right hand side of their box. Check out Portal:London/Other Projects and have a look at the history to see what I mean.
Anyway, I've reverted it back now. But if anyone knows how to put them side by side then I reckon that'll look better. Deano 17:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up... I decided to (proverbially speaking) fight fire with fire... by radically changing the box format... Basically I decided that the "London topics" box was far too cumbersome... so I am going to attempt to break it down into subject areas... and given that Transport is such a beloved topic for us, there was no better way to start! So I've taken all the transport stuff out of the bottom template and created a new one for our transport box. That also meant removing the old TfL template, which I was not a great fan of anyway. Of course, this made the whole box a lot bigger, so I moved it down to the bottom. This lead to all kinds of box-lining-up issues, so I played around moving boxes all over the place for a while. The obvious was to move the Olympics box, but the page looks quite bare without the beautiful London 2012 logo at its intro... so I kept that where it is. You can probably figure out the movements yourself! Deano 21:38, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Yeah that looked wrong to me too... I just followed the Wikipedia instructions from WP:P and that's what came out! Who knows?! Deano 17:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking we decided on having a new featured article (and picture) once a week? If so, we are due an update tomorrow... any suggestions? The obvious ones are the famous sights... Tower Bridge or the London Eye... but they're all obvious - I reckon we need something foreigners won't know about but is still interesting and comprehensive...
Perhaps we can copy other portals whereby there is a system of electing articles to be featured... In fact, several other portals have a Collaborative Project of the Week and a ~~Wikipedians Noticeboard... should we set these up? Deano 20:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
How about now? We're coming on one month...
Deano
23:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Well as you will have noticed, jguk - creator of Portal:Cricket - has made some alterations to the format of this portal. I personally was slightly surprised at the amount that was removed... but then what do I know?
Over at WP:P we are trying to reach a consensus about how portals should work... this could be a major issue as I believe the style of this portal as of my last edit was better than that of present (sorry jguk!)... I believe that portals should be given a significant degree of autonomy to make themselves more appropriate for their content, and to save from boredom...
Anyway, views are needed - do we revert back to our old format and I'll hold the fort at WP:P... or do you think it is indeed an improvement? I won't be changing anything until we reach a consensus here.
Deano 23:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay I've reverted it back - I think I am going to demand autonomy for portals to follow their own structure (within limits) if we do manage to establish a clear portal criteria. For the purposes of everything more-or-less lining up, I have left both "Did you knows" for now - we can solve that later. However, it is made much more difficult by the reluctance of the sister-project boxes to horizontally line up (i.e. appear on the same line)... does anyone know how to solve this? Also, I noticed the main London page now has a link to wikibooks - we should probably whack that in too... Deano 17:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I think there was some change in mediawiki and div no longer needs a close or something. Its messed up the page - will have a look at it, but I am not sure whats up, so help needed. Justinc 00:52, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Not sure if I should be adding this here precisely, but please move or remove if I've erred. I just wanted to give a word of congratulations on an attractive and inspiring Portal page. The "blue background" border box looks great, and the "London Topics" template you put together is a brilliant idea. Since two days I am putting together a "Paris Portal" so I hope you won't mind if I use the latter idea there as well - what a great way to keep with the "wiki look" in saving tons of space! I thought it best to let you know ahead of time and give credit where it's due : )
Thanks and take care you all,
ThePromenader 11:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I propose adding a new box all about defining London and it's myriad of aliases and sub-division. I'm presuming that anyone who reads this will ignore it, and I'm really typing it just so that I remember it next time I log on... but if anyone wants to beat me to it then I will be over the moon! DJR ( Talk) 23:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Well have a look at London#Defining London. The term "London" doesn't really refer to anything in particular - it's more a concept that an actual entity. The only thing that officially exists under the name "London" is the region... My suggestion is to disambiguate the term a little on within the Portal. DJR ( Talk) 15:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
The Whitechapel Idea Store has been nominated for a Stirling Prize. If anyone's in the area, would it be possible to get a picture upload for my article? Many thanks. -- Mcginnly | Natter 10:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Here's a suggestion for a logo to represent the London Portal that we could use on templates such as Template:pl-sa, and possibly on the main portal page as well. It's based on the classic design for the City of Westminster's street signs: London Portal takes the place of the street name (well, you have streets with names like London Wall, so why not London Portal?), the shortcut P:L for the postcode and where the real thing has City of Westminster (or Borough of Kensington & Chelsea etc.), this could have Wikiproject of London.
The only imaging program I have at my disposal (measly MS Paint) isn't quite up to the job; you can see my best attempt above. Could somebody with a better image-making package please make a better job of it? It would be especially good if we could get the same font as they use on the real signs; the best match I've been able to find is Franklin Gothic Demi Condensed (the font I used for the image above) but at reduced sizes it blurs into illegibility. Wham! Bam! Thank you, Ham 10:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a collaboration page on here? One main thing i am asking is is anyone willing to help with maintaining Moorgate and make sure it doesn't fall from grace (i.e. lose Featured status)...? Simply south 15:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've created an imagemap in my userspace for the borough map on the main portal - see here. Any comments? (yes, I know that as of this post I've only got upto Wandsworth) Will ( I hope they cannot see, I AM THE GREAT DESTROYER!) 02:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
What about creating a new "News" section containing London news? Main sources could include BBC London etc.-- Wolf talk | हिन्दी | বাংলা 17:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am wondering if somebody can help. I am looking to see if there's any pictures available or if one can be taken of a building (if it exists anymore). It is a building called India House at 65 Cromwell Avenue, Highgate. It's a historic building for the Indian independence movement. Would much appreciate any help. rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I've updated the portal mainpage today. I said I would try to do it about monthly, well it dragged on - but the previous update took over six months. Pls, pls, (pretty pls) suggest and vote on this content. It's important, as it's the shop window of the project. Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 10:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
This hasn't been updated for yonks - there's two in the current page design. This is principally for new articles, or one's that have been heavily extended. I'll try to get to grips with updating it; but we'll need people to add suggestions a la WP:DYK, when they create new articles.
I think the current month's suggestions cycle through into the second section at the moment. I'd like to suggest that we replace one with London people; and use it to feature biographies of people who have been born in London, or have had a significant effect on the capital. Any thoughts on the sections? Kbthompson ( talk) 20:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Kbthompson ( talk) 23:49, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
The portal has been updated today. Please let me know if there are any problems. Kbthompson ( talk) 10:11, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I shall be away for the May update. I have found a way to automate the process and will go with that - but please, please can someone ensure that it worked! Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 12:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The red font for the portal page seems odd and distracting. Is there a reason for it? Gimmetrow 05:17, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
The July update is now in place, please see:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions! Kbthompson ( talk) 14:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
I shall try to get this done over the weekend. Can I ask that someone keep an eye to ensure it gets done. I have a medical issue that may mean I am admitted to hospital; in which case I won't be able to undertake my normal duties! Kbthompson ( talk) 10:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
As I said, little time, but the August update is now in place, please see:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions! Kbthompson ( talk) 10:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Seeing the criticisms above, I decided to be bold and try a new colour scheme out. The red and gold is based on the Routemaster trim and the silver-grey on the argent dragons on the City of London arms (rather than London's skies!). But hopefully it's not too fustian for all that. Hope no-one objects? Ham 17:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I continue to have little time, but the September update is now in place, please see:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions!
I am likely to be in hospital for most of September. As a consequence, it is likely that I will miss the October update. If the worst comes to the worst, just copy the previous month over the next one! Kbthompson ( talk) 10:37, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I continue to have little time, but the October updates will appear here:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions!
My little operation now seems to be scheduled for mid-late October ... Kbthompson ( talk) 10:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I have run out of time - prob back in a month:
So, still same subjects - just to ensure that there's something there. Please feel free to update the pages from the pool with something fresh. All the best Kbthompson ( talk) 09:47, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Really, please, please vote for articles and pix. Suggestions for London related quotes and DYK's exceptionally welcome. cheers (and merry Xmas) Kbthompson ( talk) 19:50, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I've begun the update by copying over last months, the process should be completed this weekend (Showcase pix already done by SS - tx). There will come a time when we run out of nominations for each category; so please vote for your favourite existing nomination; or make your own. In particular, we need a themed London related DYK - do please give consideration to adding your suggestions. Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 14:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Again, the showcase pix was already done by SS - tx. There will come a time when we run out of nominations for each category; so please vote for your favourite existing nomination; or make your own. In particular, we need a themed London related DYK - do please give consideration to adding your suggestions. Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 14:54, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
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ARRGH! Can someone who knows something about these crazy boxes please help sort some of this out? I decided that there was no way NYC deserved its own portal if London didn't have one, but it turns out they're quite difficult to get the hang of... Deano 09:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for all the corrections - the whole thing was littered with them! Too much copy-pasting methinks! I was getting a bit stressed near the end coz I finished the Topic list at about 4pm and clicked "Save", but Wiki was down (again) and I lost everything. 4 hours work disappeared! Anyway, I've done it again now... its pretty long though...
Going back to your points-
A couple of new things - I think we should attempt to clarify some short-term goals that need looking at - in terms of just getting the portal up to standard. After that we've got to start looking at making all the other stuff work too, but I reckon sorting out the portal would be quite good. Interestingly, Portal:Scotland (why is there no England?) is quite good!
Oh and finally, I got fed up of typing the whole thing out every time, so (for now), you can use the shortcut P:L to go staight to the Portal.
Deano 19:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Yeah just ignore that - its Wiki being slow. It used to take about 10 mins in the morning before changes on the link-pages actually showed up on the Portal. By the way, I've moved the night photo of the HoP from the main article to the featured article, and just stuck in a randon replacement of London from the ISS. Deano 20:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
"I don't want to wreck the layout now, since you've evened it up nicely" WELL... about that... I may have just wrecked it again by adding some text about our featured picture. On the UK Portal page they'd done it like that, so I thought what-the-hey! Well it could be a blessing it disguise - there's now the perfect amount of space for you to stick a CC link in...
Incidentally, I think I've got the whole thing on my watchlist as the original creator - every edit to every section has flashed at me so far so I think that should be okay. But yeah, vandalism is gonna be a pain. Never mind - where there's pain there's gain!
Deano 22:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
It looks fine, love the red! Could probably do with a description of the image at the top though - what exactly is it? --
Francs
2000
21:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
It's a picture of London from the International Space Station. But yeah I'll stick a caption in. Deano 21:42, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
What exactly do you mean when you say "You can make a sub-page for them or put them on the talk page maybe"? I'm confused! Deano 22:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
AH! That's wicked - thanks for doing that! Another piece of the jiqsaw slots into place! Deano 13:54, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Well I have learned more about how to do fussy layout things that I had been meaning to do for a while. Just removed the section edit links from the Things you can do box, very obscure. Hey its already looking better than New York. The airport picture is broekn though now - better fix it. Justinc 23:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
It's looking really cool, I like the fact that it's quite different from the average portal. The extended DYK about London Bridge is a great idea. the wub "?!" 23:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
What are the colours of London??? We need to decide a three-tone colour scheme for text/fill/border... I reckon red and white looks quite good for the fill/text but Texas are doing it three-toned are theirs looks pretty good! If we're feeling seriously crazy then we can go 5-toned and have background colours for the text boxes... but that is going seriously crazy... Deano 23:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Check out Web colors. Can't go wrong! Deano 23:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I've left it in "lemon shiffon" - #fffacd - a pale yellow/gold. You may have noticed the period when it was "gold" - #ffd700 - which looked pretty impressive although quite contraversial. If there is a definite remedy for the white borders and fills, then I'd suggest going with the outright gold. It has serious class-factor! Having said that, white may well be the way to go. Cut the crap. I'll change it back to that for now. Deano 23:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Ooh, shiny. --
Francs
2000
18:54, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Room for one quote under the wikiquote box... cant get the boxes to centre though. Justinc 00:34, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I can make a version of the map with a transparent background if that would help? Morwen - Talk 11:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I like the image on p. 29 of todays Guardian - doesnt show the Borough borders, but shows the locations. Must work out how to do SVG... Justinc 21:05, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Basically I've added a link to Wikisource:London along with the other sister projects. However, that makes the box a bit too big, and I (innocently) thought it'd look better if the "Other Projects" box went the entire width of the page (above "Topics"), and the sister-proj links were side by side.
I tried to do that, and failed. Miserably. They won't budge from the right hand side of their box. Check out Portal:London/Other Projects and have a look at the history to see what I mean.
Anyway, I've reverted it back now. But if anyone knows how to put them side by side then I reckon that'll look better. Deano 17:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up... I decided to (proverbially speaking) fight fire with fire... by radically changing the box format... Basically I decided that the "London topics" box was far too cumbersome... so I am going to attempt to break it down into subject areas... and given that Transport is such a beloved topic for us, there was no better way to start! So I've taken all the transport stuff out of the bottom template and created a new one for our transport box. That also meant removing the old TfL template, which I was not a great fan of anyway. Of course, this made the whole box a lot bigger, so I moved it down to the bottom. This lead to all kinds of box-lining-up issues, so I played around moving boxes all over the place for a while. The obvious was to move the Olympics box, but the page looks quite bare without the beautiful London 2012 logo at its intro... so I kept that where it is. You can probably figure out the movements yourself! Deano 21:38, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Yeah that looked wrong to me too... I just followed the Wikipedia instructions from WP:P and that's what came out! Who knows?! Deano 17:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking we decided on having a new featured article (and picture) once a week? If so, we are due an update tomorrow... any suggestions? The obvious ones are the famous sights... Tower Bridge or the London Eye... but they're all obvious - I reckon we need something foreigners won't know about but is still interesting and comprehensive...
Perhaps we can copy other portals whereby there is a system of electing articles to be featured... In fact, several other portals have a Collaborative Project of the Week and a ~~Wikipedians Noticeboard... should we set these up? Deano 20:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
How about now? We're coming on one month...
Deano
23:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Well as you will have noticed, jguk - creator of Portal:Cricket - has made some alterations to the format of this portal. I personally was slightly surprised at the amount that was removed... but then what do I know?
Over at WP:P we are trying to reach a consensus about how portals should work... this could be a major issue as I believe the style of this portal as of my last edit was better than that of present (sorry jguk!)... I believe that portals should be given a significant degree of autonomy to make themselves more appropriate for their content, and to save from boredom...
Anyway, views are needed - do we revert back to our old format and I'll hold the fort at WP:P... or do you think it is indeed an improvement? I won't be changing anything until we reach a consensus here.
Deano 23:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Okay I've reverted it back - I think I am going to demand autonomy for portals to follow their own structure (within limits) if we do manage to establish a clear portal criteria. For the purposes of everything more-or-less lining up, I have left both "Did you knows" for now - we can solve that later. However, it is made much more difficult by the reluctance of the sister-project boxes to horizontally line up (i.e. appear on the same line)... does anyone know how to solve this? Also, I noticed the main London page now has a link to wikibooks - we should probably whack that in too... Deano 17:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I think there was some change in mediawiki and div no longer needs a close or something. Its messed up the page - will have a look at it, but I am not sure whats up, so help needed. Justinc 00:52, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Not sure if I should be adding this here precisely, but please move or remove if I've erred. I just wanted to give a word of congratulations on an attractive and inspiring Portal page. The "blue background" border box looks great, and the "London Topics" template you put together is a brilliant idea. Since two days I am putting together a "Paris Portal" so I hope you won't mind if I use the latter idea there as well - what a great way to keep with the "wiki look" in saving tons of space! I thought it best to let you know ahead of time and give credit where it's due : )
Thanks and take care you all,
ThePromenader 11:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I propose adding a new box all about defining London and it's myriad of aliases and sub-division. I'm presuming that anyone who reads this will ignore it, and I'm really typing it just so that I remember it next time I log on... but if anyone wants to beat me to it then I will be over the moon! DJR ( Talk) 23:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Well have a look at London#Defining London. The term "London" doesn't really refer to anything in particular - it's more a concept that an actual entity. The only thing that officially exists under the name "London" is the region... My suggestion is to disambiguate the term a little on within the Portal. DJR ( Talk) 15:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
The Whitechapel Idea Store has been nominated for a Stirling Prize. If anyone's in the area, would it be possible to get a picture upload for my article? Many thanks. -- Mcginnly | Natter 10:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Here's a suggestion for a logo to represent the London Portal that we could use on templates such as Template:pl-sa, and possibly on the main portal page as well. It's based on the classic design for the City of Westminster's street signs: London Portal takes the place of the street name (well, you have streets with names like London Wall, so why not London Portal?), the shortcut P:L for the postcode and where the real thing has City of Westminster (or Borough of Kensington & Chelsea etc.), this could have Wikiproject of London.
The only imaging program I have at my disposal (measly MS Paint) isn't quite up to the job; you can see my best attempt above. Could somebody with a better image-making package please make a better job of it? It would be especially good if we could get the same font as they use on the real signs; the best match I've been able to find is Franklin Gothic Demi Condensed (the font I used for the image above) but at reduced sizes it blurs into illegibility. Wham! Bam! Thank you, Ham 10:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a collaboration page on here? One main thing i am asking is is anyone willing to help with maintaining Moorgate and make sure it doesn't fall from grace (i.e. lose Featured status)...? Simply south 15:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've created an imagemap in my userspace for the borough map on the main portal - see here. Any comments? (yes, I know that as of this post I've only got upto Wandsworth) Will ( I hope they cannot see, I AM THE GREAT DESTROYER!) 02:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
What about creating a new "News" section containing London news? Main sources could include BBC London etc.-- Wolf talk | हिन्दी | বাংলা 17:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am wondering if somebody can help. I am looking to see if there's any pictures available or if one can be taken of a building (if it exists anymore). It is a building called India House at 65 Cromwell Avenue, Highgate. It's a historic building for the Indian independence movement. Would much appreciate any help. rueben_lys ( talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I've updated the portal mainpage today. I said I would try to do it about monthly, well it dragged on - but the previous update took over six months. Pls, pls, (pretty pls) suggest and vote on this content. It's important, as it's the shop window of the project. Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 10:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
This hasn't been updated for yonks - there's two in the current page design. This is principally for new articles, or one's that have been heavily extended. I'll try to get to grips with updating it; but we'll need people to add suggestions a la WP:DYK, when they create new articles.
I think the current month's suggestions cycle through into the second section at the moment. I'd like to suggest that we replace one with London people; and use it to feature biographies of people who have been born in London, or have had a significant effect on the capital. Any thoughts on the sections? Kbthompson ( talk) 20:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Kbthompson ( talk) 23:49, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
The portal has been updated today. Please let me know if there are any problems. Kbthompson ( talk) 10:11, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I shall be away for the May update. I have found a way to automate the process and will go with that - but please, please can someone ensure that it worked! Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 12:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The red font for the portal page seems odd and distracting. Is there a reason for it? Gimmetrow 05:17, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
The July update is now in place, please see:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions! Kbthompson ( talk) 14:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
I shall try to get this done over the weekend. Can I ask that someone keep an eye to ensure it gets done. I have a medical issue that may mean I am admitted to hospital; in which case I won't be able to undertake my normal duties! Kbthompson ( talk) 10:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
As I said, little time, but the August update is now in place, please see:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions! Kbthompson ( talk) 10:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Seeing the criticisms above, I decided to be bold and try a new colour scheme out. The red and gold is based on the Routemaster trim and the silver-grey on the argent dragons on the City of London arms (rather than London's skies!). But hopefully it's not too fustian for all that. Hope no-one objects? Ham 17:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I continue to have little time, but the September update is now in place, please see:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions!
I am likely to be in hospital for most of September. As a consequence, it is likely that I will miss the October update. If the worst comes to the worst, just copy the previous month over the next one! Kbthompson ( talk) 10:37, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I continue to have little time, but the October updates will appear here:
Please do take the time to vote on the content - if you don't I will make arbitrary decisions!
My little operation now seems to be scheduled for mid-late October ... Kbthompson ( talk) 10:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I have run out of time - prob back in a month:
So, still same subjects - just to ensure that there's something there. Please feel free to update the pages from the pool with something fresh. All the best Kbthompson ( talk) 09:47, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Really, please, please vote for articles and pix. Suggestions for London related quotes and DYK's exceptionally welcome. cheers (and merry Xmas) Kbthompson ( talk) 19:50, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I've begun the update by copying over last months, the process should be completed this weekend (Showcase pix already done by SS - tx). There will come a time when we run out of nominations for each category; so please vote for your favourite existing nomination; or make your own. In particular, we need a themed London related DYK - do please give consideration to adding your suggestions. Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 14:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Again, the showcase pix was already done by SS - tx. There will come a time when we run out of nominations for each category; so please vote for your favourite existing nomination; or make your own. In particular, we need a themed London related DYK - do please give consideration to adding your suggestions. Thanks Kbthompson ( talk) 14:54, 1 February 2010 (UTC)