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I've gone in and added some more Featured sounds. We now have probably all of the ones we really should, though I left out one or two I probably could have included, because I thought that they maybe weren't quite so good as some of the others, like the Wagner recording. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
The use of bolding of dates at subsections Opera news and In this month doesn't look great and should be removed back to just regular text as previous. Cirt ( talk) 23:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
I've been expanding the available content over the last few days. This the current state of play:
- Voceditenore ( talk) 15:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Since no one has objected, I'm going to ask Cirt to add a "New content" section to showcase quality work from the OP monthly collaborations. I would suggest keeping this section static and manually changing it from time to time. The articles for this section needn't be formally assessed as B class, but they should be reasonably well referenced and not have any clean-up tags on them. Once it's created, I'm going to put Pelléas et Mélisande in there. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Re the title... I think Shoemaker's right about it not quite fitting expansions/revamps similar to Pelléas. I'm not sure what else we could call it. "Recent additions" has the same problem. Another alternative, is to use the "New content" for decent recently created articles that come from the OP Composer of the Month collaborations. They tend to be on relatively unknown operas, which makes them interesting, and their appearance in the portal, could encourage further expansion. Examples from the March CoM are Mese mariano and Déjanire. Yet another alternative is not to have it all for now. But then something has to be done about the big empty space currently in the portal beneath "In this month". Thoughts? Voceditenore ( talk) 09:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I've added a Le Cid featured picture - I presume no-one's going to object to Massenet. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
If we wanted this to be a featured portal, what's left to do? It does seem that we've at least managed to get all the content sorted fairly well - selected articles and biographies are all pretty solid, the Selected pictures are, in fact, all featured pictures, and I think the sounds are all featured too, though there may be one or two that aren't. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 04:13, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay we have 20 sets of 3 DYK hooks per set. Cirt ( talk) 10:10, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at this caption? I don't think I've got it very right, but the thing is, it's more spectacle than plot, so I'm not sure what to say. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 10:26, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
If this image gets featured when I'm done with the cleanup (and presuming that Jephtha (Handel) is near enough an opera for our purposes), would it be appropriate to link it and the operatic treatment on our portal, even though the image was intended to illustrate Flavius Josephus' retelling of the bible?
In short, are featured images that illustrate source material appropriate for use here to link to the operas themselves? Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 05:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Not one of mine, but
...will make an excellent addition when it passes. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 10:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Come to think of it, I really should restore his recording of Vesti la giubba. I kinda went off sound editing when Featured sounds died - we could try and revitalise it again. And it'd help a bit, sinc eI've kind of gone off the Featured Picture process due to rampant idiocy there. (Victorian images should be removed from articles on Victorians for being too Victorian my hairy arse...) Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 11:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
I've just added
Portal:Opera/Selected article/21.
Johann Strauss II was recently promoted to GA.
Voceditenore (
talk)
12:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Whoops! I mean selected biography - here 'tis: Portal:Opera/Selected biography/14 Voceditenore ( talk) 12:53, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The images from the following "Selected articles" show up fine on the archive page. But when they are rotated into the portal, the bottom half of the image disappears:
Has anyone else noticed this? Can it be fixed? Voceditenore ( talk) 09:47, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Someone else on the Opera Project who uses IE7 has the same problem with the images that I do. See here. It's very puzzling. Voceditenore ( talk) 15:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I've talked with Cirt, and, in response to that, started setting this up. I haven't taken it live at the moment, but if everyone's happy, add your names, then we can update the date and take it live. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 13:31, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Portal:Opera/Selected picture/14. It's an FP on Commons. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:38, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I think this one ought to go. ( Portal:Opera/Selected article/12). I had mentioned this before somewhere in the archives. Beijing opera is not part of the Western tradition. It's a completely different genre. It would be like having Rock opera there. We need to find a replacement article. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Think I have a handle on FPs of these =) More in a couple weeks. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 21:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Today I added: Portal:Opera/Selected picture/15, Portal:Opera/Selected picture/16, and Portal:Opera/Selected picture/17. All are FPs on Commons. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, I think I can get more opera FPs. Some of them are Gilbert without Sullivan, and others are sullivan without Gilbert. That counts as not Gilbert and Sullivan, right?
Ohh, and there's also Falstaff Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 19:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
For your information: Template talk:Portal#Image for Portal:Opera. Giovanni Eteronni ( talk) 20:05, 1 September 2014 (UTC).
Today I would like to make two changes to the portal features, but wouldn't know how. Selected article: "Twice Through the Heart is a musical work by the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, variously described as a dramatic scena, as a monodrama, as a song cycle": it needs at least a full stop at the end, better some "and" before the last item, and how about some connection to opera? DYK: Three operas, two of them the nice quirky ones by Smerus. How about spreading them a bit, and have more variety, such as one opera, one singer, one other (librettist, conductor, company ...)? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:26, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
I've gone in and added some more Featured sounds. We now have probably all of the ones we really should, though I left out one or two I probably could have included, because I thought that they maybe weren't quite so good as some of the others, like the Wagner recording. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
The use of bolding of dates at subsections Opera news and In this month doesn't look great and should be removed back to just regular text as previous. Cirt ( talk) 23:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
I've been expanding the available content over the last few days. This the current state of play:
- Voceditenore ( talk) 15:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Since no one has objected, I'm going to ask Cirt to add a "New content" section to showcase quality work from the OP monthly collaborations. I would suggest keeping this section static and manually changing it from time to time. The articles for this section needn't be formally assessed as B class, but they should be reasonably well referenced and not have any clean-up tags on them. Once it's created, I'm going to put Pelléas et Mélisande in there. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Re the title... I think Shoemaker's right about it not quite fitting expansions/revamps similar to Pelléas. I'm not sure what else we could call it. "Recent additions" has the same problem. Another alternative, is to use the "New content" for decent recently created articles that come from the OP Composer of the Month collaborations. They tend to be on relatively unknown operas, which makes them interesting, and their appearance in the portal, could encourage further expansion. Examples from the March CoM are Mese mariano and Déjanire. Yet another alternative is not to have it all for now. But then something has to be done about the big empty space currently in the portal beneath "In this month". Thoughts? Voceditenore ( talk) 09:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I've added a Le Cid featured picture - I presume no-one's going to object to Massenet. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
If we wanted this to be a featured portal, what's left to do? It does seem that we've at least managed to get all the content sorted fairly well - selected articles and biographies are all pretty solid, the Selected pictures are, in fact, all featured pictures, and I think the sounds are all featured too, though there may be one or two that aren't. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 04:13, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay we have 20 sets of 3 DYK hooks per set. Cirt ( talk) 10:10, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at this caption? I don't think I've got it very right, but the thing is, it's more spectacle than plot, so I'm not sure what to say. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 10:26, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
If this image gets featured when I'm done with the cleanup (and presuming that Jephtha (Handel) is near enough an opera for our purposes), would it be appropriate to link it and the operatic treatment on our portal, even though the image was intended to illustrate Flavius Josephus' retelling of the bible?
In short, are featured images that illustrate source material appropriate for use here to link to the operas themselves? Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 05:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Not one of mine, but
...will make an excellent addition when it passes. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 10:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Come to think of it, I really should restore his recording of Vesti la giubba. I kinda went off sound editing when Featured sounds died - we could try and revitalise it again. And it'd help a bit, sinc eI've kind of gone off the Featured Picture process due to rampant idiocy there. (Victorian images should be removed from articles on Victorians for being too Victorian my hairy arse...) Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 11:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
I've just added
Portal:Opera/Selected article/21.
Johann Strauss II was recently promoted to GA.
Voceditenore (
talk)
12:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Whoops! I mean selected biography - here 'tis: Portal:Opera/Selected biography/14 Voceditenore ( talk) 12:53, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The images from the following "Selected articles" show up fine on the archive page. But when they are rotated into the portal, the bottom half of the image disappears:
Has anyone else noticed this? Can it be fixed? Voceditenore ( talk) 09:47, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Someone else on the Opera Project who uses IE7 has the same problem with the images that I do. See here. It's very puzzling. Voceditenore ( talk) 15:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I've talked with Cirt, and, in response to that, started setting this up. I haven't taken it live at the moment, but if everyone's happy, add your names, then we can update the date and take it live. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 13:31, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Portal:Opera/Selected picture/14. It's an FP on Commons. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:38, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I think this one ought to go. ( Portal:Opera/Selected article/12). I had mentioned this before somewhere in the archives. Beijing opera is not part of the Western tradition. It's a completely different genre. It would be like having Rock opera there. We need to find a replacement article. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Think I have a handle on FPs of these =) More in a couple weeks. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 21:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Today I added: Portal:Opera/Selected picture/15, Portal:Opera/Selected picture/16, and Portal:Opera/Selected picture/17. All are FPs on Commons. Voceditenore ( talk) 07:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, I think I can get more opera FPs. Some of them are Gilbert without Sullivan, and others are sullivan without Gilbert. That counts as not Gilbert and Sullivan, right?
Ohh, and there's also Falstaff Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 19:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
For your information: Template talk:Portal#Image for Portal:Opera. Giovanni Eteronni ( talk) 20:05, 1 September 2014 (UTC).
Today I would like to make two changes to the portal features, but wouldn't know how. Selected article: "Twice Through the Heart is a musical work by the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, variously described as a dramatic scena, as a monodrama, as a song cycle": it needs at least a full stop at the end, better some "and" before the last item, and how about some connection to opera? DYK: Three operas, two of them the nice quirky ones by Smerus. How about spreading them a bit, and have more variety, such as one opera, one singer, one other (librettist, conductor, company ...)? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:26, 18 October 2016 (UTC)