User talk:Gphoto/Archive1

Welcome!

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Portal:Photography

Hi :) I'm afraid I had to remove your portal from Portal:Browse, as that page is only for listing portals once they are completed. You should check out Wikipedia:Portal, particularly the guidelines, for further info on improving and finishing your portal. You could also add a request for additional contributors at the Bulletin board (Wikipedia:Community Portal). Thanks. --Quiddity 03:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice. I am new around here and I am trying my best to help out. I will read through the links you showed me. -Gphoto 13:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) As someone here said, you have to make 50 mistakes before you'll know your way around :) --Quiddity 19:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal review

Hi how are you? Welcome to Wikipedia. WP:RFF probably is not the place to ask for portal feedback. ACtually I don't know any place for that. So, I will give you feedback via talk pages, is that alright? But I need to go to school now, so, maybe tonight. Good luck and take care -- Imoeng 23:28, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -Gphoto 23:30, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hows it going? So here it is. I think the portal is already nice, it has a good start, well done. I also have an experience of making a portal, I made the Indonesia portal and luckily it reached featured portal. So I am going to help you to reach that too! The main thing is, since the portal is about photography, try to exploit it, by using heaps of nice photograph to lighten the portal. I really like the clouds and the blue marble, nice selections! Here are some possible improvements.

Try to expand the intro a little bit more, probably one or two sentences about the history of photography, so it does not look skinny.
About the layout, I cannot see the frame for each box, so its like blended with the background, try to figure that out.
Avoid red links, for the archives, just fill the page with something. My point is, avoid red links.
In the Project box, try to put some picture, cause it is very strange just to put one word there. Or maybe you can put it in "What you can do" box.

That is all for now, you can also copy things I have done for the portal I've created. In fact, copy everything! :P If you want, I can teach you will article schedule, so it changes automatically every period of time. For any question, please ask it on my talk page, so I will notice it. Cheers -- Imoeng 09:28, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is really nice! And thank you for taking my suggestions :) I like the introduction, really, it is not too long and not too short, the info is also very good. I also like to topics box, and the fact that you have gathered all the topics is really awesome. Here are some points.

There is an inline citation in the selected article, which I suggest you should remove it.
You need to add photo credit in the selected picture section. Use <small> Photo credit: ABC </small>.
In the photography topics section, "forensic photography" is a red link, you might want to fix that.
Lastly, the Associated Wikipedia box overlaps the topic box. I don't know whether it is just my browser or what, but you could check it :)

So, yeah, its done, congratulation, its really nice!! Now if you want to reach Featured Portal, I think you should implement the auto-rotation system, do you want me to assist you or you are alright? Cheers -- Imoeng 17:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to lighten the shade of grey used, I find the black-on-grey very hard to read. It looks really great though. I've added it back to Portal:Browse, and added it (along with yourself as the creator/maintainer) at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory. Great work :) --Quiddity 20:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Again, congratulation for the completion, and now it is back to Portal:Browse. Also thanks for the barnstar, I really appreciate it :)

So basically, you need to choose the period of rotation, daily? monthly? or weekly. Or even fortnight, it is absolutely up to you. If I am correct, this week is the 42nd week (I must check that). So, you need to gather some articles, pictures and other stuff you want to rotate and put each one of them into a corresponding date, got it? Here are the steps.

Select a selected article
Make a summary from the article (just like you have done)
Put this summary into a new page, called Portal:Photography/AOTW/42, 2006. Again, that is the format for Portal:Indonesia, it is up to you to follow that or make your own format. If you want monthly rotation, just put it in the current month, like Portal:Photography/AOTW/October, 2006.
In the selected article box/section, put {{Portal:Photography/AOTW/{{CURRENTWEEK}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}, so that everything on the summary page will be shown the same on the portal page.
Repeat this process many times until you have had enough :P
So when the 43rd week comes, the article will rotate itself to the corresponding week.

Okay, I will let you go and digest these first, :D, again, please do not hesitate to wake me up in the middle of a night, hehehhee. Btw you might want to see Portal:Indonesia/ST_List. It is the collection of all selected things. It is not necessary, but somewhat useful. Good luck and take care -- Imoeng 20:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, sorry to check your contributions. But LoST is a GREAT name!! I should have thought about that, ahahahha. Good luck, I can see you've implemented it correctly. Cheers -- Imoeng 12:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Kindness Campaign!

Just my way of saying thanks to newcomers to the Kindness Campaign... a delicious home-baked chocolate chip cookie! Yum. :D ♥ Kylu (talk • contribs • email • logs • count)

Portal

Hi Gphoto, how are you going? And hows the portal going? It is nice already mate, good job! Now if you need some help, just drop me a line. Cheers -- Imoeng 20:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello how are you? The portal is looking awesome! And I am sure it will pass WP:FPO. I have changed it slightly, that if you press the edit buttons for the selected article and biography, you will edit the respective week's article. Also one more thing, it is rather odd when you put picture thumbnails and the captions inside the selected article and biography. It is not wrong, but I find it wastes the space inside the box. Apart from that, it is really cool. Congrats! Imo eng 20:46, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I really really sorry about the objection, but hey, the WP:PID was objected as well. I have made some improvements, tell me what you think. Cheers -- Imo eng 09:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. By the way, I was thinking to make a shortcut to the portal. What do you think about P:PHOTO or WP:PHOTO or WP:PHOTOGRAPHY or P:PHOTOGRAPHY. LOL - Imo eng 12:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think I will make WP:PHOTO and WP:PHOTOGRAPHY, just for formalities :P Cheers -- Imo eng 12:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Umm, btw, could you use the previous heading, cause it wills save space, cheers :P. About the to-do list, I reckon it is because the WikiProject Photography is inactive. You can always create it yourself, and it feels better at the end of the nomination :D. So is there anything I can help? Cheers -- Imo eng 12:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can copy Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask and change the entries, if you want. I think that is the best option. Cheers -- Imo eng 12:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, you are not bothering me, that is alright :D. There are some ways to ask for more input, but the most conventional way is to "spam" users' talk pages. Have you made some friends (connections) here? You can always ask from anyone. The other thing is to tell Esperanza, but I see you haven't joined it. Why don't you spam users' talk pages while I ask it at Esperanza? I need to watch The Simpsons now :P. Cheers -- Imo eng 01:06, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have "improved" the way related portals box looks, hope you don't mind. I also hope that you don't get bothered or mad because I keep involved in the portal improvement, I just want the portal looks cool :D. Cheers -- Imo eng 19:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Umm, click the main portal edit, and change the header links. I'll do it, no problem :D. Cheers -- Imo eng 01:13, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done! :D Cheers -- Imo eng 01:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I reckon everything has been addressed. Now the chance of getting the status is very very high!! Cheers -- Imo eng 01:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: FP candidate photography

The upper limit that I'd recommend would be 600px, which should allow it to look more-or-less reasonable on an 800px monitor; anything larger than that is likely to break the overall layout. Hope that helps! Kirill Lokshin 02:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Status

Oh, it is pretty complicated. You need to create a monobook, User:Gphoto/monobook.js. Then visit User:Topaz and search for the code. Copy all the code, and then refresh your page. And you are done. Cheers -- Imo eng 01:30, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Btw do you have msn? It would be easier. Cheers -- Imo eng 01:30, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You helped choose Mark Twain as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Mark Twain was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

_→AzaToth 00:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Medicine Collaboration of the Week

Thank you for your support of the Medicine Collaboration of the Week.
This week Food allergy was selected.
Hope you can help…

NCurs e _work 11:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Random

Hi how are you? Yes, I think it is alright, as there is no policy states that. However maybe if you go random, it will be somewhat strange. Maybe ask people you have met before. Cheers -- Imo eng 21:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Better, and it is great! Okay talk to you later, need to go to schoo. Cheers -- Imo eng 21:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photos

WHOAAA!! Are those your own work? Oh my God! What a beauty, you are a really talented photographer! I will nominate some of them to WP:FP. You remind me of User:Fir0002, pretty much the same age as you and have tons of amazing pics. I don't know about photography much, but I like the bowl of olives pic. Greatness! Cheers -- Imo eng 22:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Award

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your continued service to Wikipedia. Good job!Sharkface217 21:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured portal

Hi how are you? I suggest you wait until tomorrow, when it will be really 14 days (two weeks). Also I suggest you to contact Kirill and ask him. Usually, he is the one who tags portals with FPO template. Good luck! (You don't need luck though :) Cheers -- Imo eng 06:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it's usually cyberjunkie that tags them; I just fill in when he's not around. ;-)

In any case, the featured portal process is very low-traffic, so nomination times are quite long to compensate for that. It's not uncommon for a nomination to take three or four weeks before it's closed. Kirill Lokshin 05:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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