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:A news item for the main page? Good idea Michael. I've added it. Eventually we'll probably want to devise some sort of system for adding recent news (maybe there's a Google News aggregator for the search term "Portland, Oregon" we could use) but manually adding news articles as we feel like it is probably fine for now. -[[User:Kotra|kotra]] ([[User talk:Kotra|talk]]) 09:17, 23 December 2009 (UTC) | :A news item for the main page? Good idea Michael. I've added it. Eventually we'll probably want to devise some sort of system for adding recent news (maybe there's a Google News aggregator for the search term "Portland, Oregon" we could use) but manually adding news articles as we feel like it is probably fine for now. -[[User:Kotra|kotra]] ([[User talk:Kotra|talk]]) 09:17, 23 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
::Hmm. We have both a "Recent Developments" section and a "News" section that seem to be both used for Portland-related news. I think the "Recent Developments" section was originally supposed to be updates on the workings of the wiki. I propose we eliminate it for now since it's not being used for that purpose. I've just gone ahead and done that but feel free to revert if you disagree. -[[User:Kotra|kotra]] ([[User talk:Kotra|talk]]) 05:09, 25 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
:: Also I wonder if it would be a good idea to transclude the [[News]] page into the News section, by typing <nowiki>{{:News}}</nowiki>, like this: | |||
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::That way whenever we update the [[News]] page it automatically shows up on the main page too. The idea is that we wouldn't have to update it in both places. -[[User:Kotra|kotra]] ([[User talk:Kotra|talk]]) 05:09, 25 December 2009 (UTC) |
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Looking for discussions that used to be here? All discussions not related to the main page (PortlandWiki) have been moved to PortlandWiki talk:Community Portal.
Main page drafts
The current homepage is good for us wiki-folk in the planning stages, but it's sort of plain and not very appealing, aesthetically. I think we should put up a more user-friendly main page before we "launch" the wiki. Therefore, I've come up with a very basic draft: Portland Wiki/Draft 1. It's mostly to get some ideas and structure down.
What do you folks think? We should come up with more drafts/ideas to choose from, if people are willing. -Kotra 20:57, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Draft 2
Mark Dilley and Dave Myers set up a draft main page yesterday. I think it's a good start, looks nice, clean, functional. It looks a little too derivative of other wikis to me though... people will look at it and think "oh, it's just like Wikipedia" or such. So I would suggest at least some cosmetic changes. How should we proceed with making changes? I think discussion is important here especially in this early stage so we don't step on each others' toes. -Kotra 17:14, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
- Oh! Sorry, my toes are fine by the way. I meant just in case. -Kotra 05:13, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with Kotra - that the page looks to Wikipedia like - please, anyone feel free to work on it. ~~ MarkDilley
Move planning somewhere else?
Would it be appropriate to move all the wiki planning stuff on this talk page and the main page somewhere else, like a PortlandWiki:Planning page or the PortlandWiki:Community Portal page linked in the navigation box on the left? In the more prominent wikis I think normally this page is reserved for discussion having to do with the main page. -Kotra 21:01, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- Since the stuff on the main page has been moved to PortlandWiki:Community Portal, my vote is to move the stuff unrelated to the main page on this talk page to PortlandWiki talk:Community Portal. -Kotra 17:24, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
- I agree about moving it. there is an overwhelming amount of information and it might be helpful to break it out a little. --Psychomia 22:39, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Ok, I've moved all the stuff about planning and the wiki to PortlandWiki talk:Community Portal, leaving just the stuff about the main page, PortlandWiki, and this page (Talk:PortlandWiki) here. Anyone feel free to revert me or comment here if this is undesirable! -kotra 21:33, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
WELCOME TO SUNNY PORTLAND?!?!?!?!?
SO MANY LOLS IT"S NOT FUNNY! :) Michael (talk)
- Just helping out Portland's public image! We can always use more cold, wet, disappointed tourists. -kotra (talk) 22:35, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126116110490784900
- A news item for the main page? Good idea Michael. I've added it. Eventually we'll probably want to devise some sort of system for adding recent news (maybe there's a Google News aggregator for the search term "Portland, Oregon" we could use) but manually adding news articles as we feel like it is probably fine for now. -kotra (talk) 09:17, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- Hmm. We have both a "Recent Developments" section and a "News" section that seem to be both used for Portland-related news. I think the "Recent Developments" section was originally supposed to be updates on the workings of the wiki. I propose we eliminate it for now since it's not being used for that purpose. I've just gone ahead and done that but feel free to revert if you disagree. -kotra (talk) 05:09, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- Also I wonder if it would be a good idea to transclude the News page into the News section, by typing {{:News}}, like this:
http://www.kptv.com/story/15771751/occupy-portland-responds-to-unfavorable-crime-statistics
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