Wikipedia:Portal peer review

[edit] Requests

[edit] Portal:Queensland

Seeking general improvements needed to raise the portal's standard Shiftchange (talk) 09:31, 26 January 2011 (UTC) - Shiftchange

Just a suggestion, perhaps you can add some links to Wikipedia:Books? That could fill in that gap at the bottom. Other than that, IMO it's a fine looking portal. And it's interesting too, I love learning about other places and this portal really held my interest. (sorry this isn't an actual peer review, I'm not much of a portal editor, I just enjoy browsing them.) -- œ^™ 11:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Renewable energy

Portal peer review requested please, to provide feedback on what we have done so far, and what else we could do to improve things... Johnfos (talk) 00:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Images

• Comment Most pictures seem to be not captioned (that 'hovering text') which is a criteria of a featured portal. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 07:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Clarification please: The selected pictures all have captions, so you are not referring to these, right. You're referring to the small images (typically 180px) that appear mainly with the selected articles, and you are wanting mouseover captions for these... as we have for Portal:Renewable energy/Selected article/14... Sounds fine to me. Johnfos (talk) 06:24, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I was referring to that, and most pictures from 6 onwards don't seem to have them, no articles, biographies..... It is a criteria also, see criteria 4. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 02:19, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to go in and make the necessary improvements to captions... Johnfos (talk) 23:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

• We need to add photo credit in the selected pictures also. Please do it, --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 00:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Photo credit is provided if clicking on the image. Whether it needs to be provided in the image caption is an open question, most portals do however. --Elekhh (talk) 02:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Selected articles

I'm actually more interested in getting together a collection of about 20 good solid selected articles. Suggestions for additional articles are welcome. Johnfos (talk) 00:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

The Geysers. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 03:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Good choice -- added at Portal:Renewable energy/Selected article/15... Johnfos (talk) 04:09, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, more to come later. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 09:15, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

• As I raised before, I think we need more articles (and images) on small scale renewable energy systems, for better balance. We could also present an article on policy, such as Mandatory renewable energy targets. --Elekhh (talk) 02:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

I certainly hear what you are saying about small scale renewable energy systems, and added the Solar water heating article in response to your original comment on this. But it is difficult to find more quality articles on small scale systems. Johnfos (talk) 21:42, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Even though Selected articles should have a relevant image, I have added Mandatory renewable energy target, per your suggestion. The Renewable energy commercialization article (SA 12) also covers aspects of policy. Johnfos (talk) 21:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK

The advantage of a fixed pool of selected content which is displayed randomly is that it requires little maintenance. However this system does not encourage viewers to return to the page. Currently most sections (Selected article, picture, biography, DYK, quotations) are based on this system, while only the News section provides new content. I think in order to keep the portal interesting for editors it might be good to replace the DYK with a nomination based system where new articles or significantly expanded articles can be featured. The criteria and format could be similar with the main page DYK, but with smaller thresholds (i.e. 1,000 words new article, 3x expansion). For better page organisation the DYK would fit than better on the right hand side below the News, while the quotations would fit better below the biography section. Any thoughts? --Elekhh (talk) 02:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

I've gotten quite used to the current portal layout and think that overall it is looking quite good. So, I have to admit, your suggestion doesn't grab me. But what do others think? Johnfos (talk) 21:35, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Coverage and balance

This comment has been made: "currently 11 of 19 selected images are about solar energy > need better balance". But only 4 of the 15 selected articles are about solar. So I think, across the portal, the coverage and balance is actually quite good. Johnfos (talk) 21:38, 8 October 2010 (UTC)