Portal talk:San Francisco Bay Area

message: The content in this portal seems to have stopped being updated in 2007, for the most part. i just updated some of it (my first effort at editing a portal). if anyone else wants to contribute, thats great. we are definitely not ready to bring back "voting" for any of the content, if its only 1 or 2 people editing here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Moribund portal

message: for consideration in about 3 months (april 2013)
*James L. Patton (7 jan 2013) ADDED April 2013
*Christmas in the Park (San Jose) (30 dec 2012)
*James Walker Benét (9 jan 2013)
*Marion Irvine, an actual dyk jan 2013
*Kate Dillon Levin jan 2013
*Cheryl Cohen-Greene jan 2013
*Travis Kalanick jan 2013
*Government of Solano County, California jan 2013
*Ace Cider jan 2013
*Irving Saraf jan 2013
*Fruitvale (film) jan 2013
*Semifreddi's Bakery jan 2013
*Sarah Stierch, wikipedian, jan 2013
*SFJAZZ Center, jan 2013
*Bing Concert Hall jan 2013
*Japanese Historical Text Initiative feb 2013
*Tom Lantos Tunnels feb 2o13 ADDED in april 2013
*2013 Santa Cruz shooting mar 2013, services held in san jose
*Live at Keystone mar 2013 ADDED april 2013
*Michelle Maykin mar 2013
*Twomey Cellars mar 2013 ADDED april 2013
*Daniel Baron mar 2013
:Hey, if i keep up a list like this, we could return to multiple DYK's here. Which i just did for April 2013, as there a few of very high quality.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:20, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: 2013 new articles

message: We should just cycle through :Category:FM-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles first. thats a few years.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:49, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: heres a great image worth featuring, probably could be a featured image officually: :File:Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon.JPGMercurywoodrose (talk) 06:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Featured april 2013. so i broke my own rule.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:11, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The Portal:California uses a randomizer function for selected articles, images, etc. While our backlog of selected articles is poor, we could easily set the randomizer to choose from among the Featured Media. I may try to parse this and do it. I think it means adding ALL the FM to the "archives" page for images, lots of work formatting, etc.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 16:47, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: *:File:1967 Mantra-Rock Dance Avalon poster.jpg
*:File:2010 mavericks competition.jpg
*:File:Agassiz statue Mwc00715.jpg
*:File:Albino Alligator 2008.jpg feb 2014
*:File:Alcatraz03182006.jpg -panorama, wouldnt fit
*:File:CampanileMtTamalpiasSunset-original.jpg
*:File:Devastation in San Bruno.jpg
*:File:Fort Baker and Angel Island.jpg -panorama, wouldnt fit
*:File:Fort Mason Center and Downtown San Francisco.jpg -panorama, wouldnt fit
*:File:GGB reflection in raindrops.jpg gg bridge, 1 of 3 (artistic, though, not representational)
*:File:Ggb by night.jpg gg bridge, 1 of 3
*:File:GoldenGateBridge BakerBeach MC.jpg gg bridge, 1 of 3
*:File:Hawk eating prey.jpg
*:File:Mission Santa Clara.jpg jan 2013
*:File:SFO at night.jpg dec 2006
*:File:SanFrancisco1851a.jpg -sf historic, 1 of 4
*:File:SanFranciscoharbor1851c sharp.jpg sf historic, 1 of 4
*:File:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg nov 2011, sf historic, 1 of 4
*:File:Sfearthquake3b.jpg -sf historic, 1 of 4
*:File:Vineyards of Napa Valley panorama.jpg -panorama, wouldnt fit
*ALL ADDED AS OF JUNE 2014
if we consider the files of similar types (3 of the bridge, 4 of the earthquake) as "1 for each general type" (ie use each one 1/3 or 1/4 as often), we then have 11 images to rotate through, with 5 not used yet: not enough. so, we need to collect a list of other images to add eventually to cycle through.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:43, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Current list of FM

message: Added selected biography.99.101.139.189 (talk) 20:23, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Which logically means that the selected article will not be a biography.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 16:44, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Lots of GA ranked articles to choose from that are sfba related.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:39, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography

message: New articles, from late march through june 2013. I may add 2, 3, or 4 DYK's if we have enough. 5 bold articles were added july 2013.
*Zelma Long march
*Stephen Porter Dunn march
*Kent Harrington march
*Nata Piaskowski mar
*Chictopia mar
*William Poy Lee mar
*South San Francisco Hillside Sign april
*Golden Gate Park windmills april
*Second Church of Christ, Scientist (San Francisco, California) april
*San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department april
*RAE Systems april
*Selden Connor Gile april
*Pure Jerry: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, California, February 28, 1986 april
*Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978 april
*Jack Harker april
*Luther Burbank Rose Parade and Festival april
*A Boy and His Atom may
*Eric Krenz may
*Peninsula Temple Sholom may
*Stanley Saitowitz may
*Vacaville tree pruners' strike may
*Santa Clara Cannery Strike may
*Henry Walton (American painter) may (thru may 29th)
*Brit Morin june
*Brit + Co. june
*Santa Clara Cannery Strike june
*Vacaville tree pruners' strike june
*The Humboldt Bank Building june
*Candy Dawson Boyd june
*San Francisco in the 1970s june
*Stanford Graduate School of Education thru june 23
* Vasco Caves Regional Preserve july
*Asiana Airlines Flight 214 july
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:54, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New article nominations

message: The Wikiquote link leads to the collection of SF quotes: there is no SFBA page. Here are some other pages which have SFBA related quotes:
*Huey Newton
*Jerry Brown, We The People quotes, one added in 2013
*Elaine Brown
*"The Play"
*Theresa Sparks
*Mario Savio quote added july 2013
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:20, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotes

message: I replaced the quote, new articles, selected image, selected bio. another contributor replaced the selected article, right on my schedule, which is nice but not necessary, as i dont own the format here. thanks for the good work, and please, anyone can add their own timeline for changing articles to this portal, add randomization, choose their own articles if they are at least close in spirit to other portal guidelines. I am no expert, i just dont want this to be a moribund portal.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: July 2013

message: Use 2-4 of the new articles above, add new biography, new quote, new select article, new image.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Work towards new material in October 2013

message: New articles started since the last batch above:
*Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine nov - not well organized
*Merrill Newman nov - blp1e, no pic
*Richard B. Norgaard nov - not balanced
*California Grand Casino nov skimpy
*Steven Page (murderer) nov blp1e
*Thomas Ayres (artist) nov not directly tied to sfba much
*340 Fremont Street oct skimpy
*Google barges oct good, will add
*Isaac Friedlander nov good, will add
===Work towards new material, contd===
*Circle Magazine (upgraded recently, not new), good now
*Crystal Lee feb, too recent, not very notable (nice photo though)
*Terrific Street jan, unreviewed.
I dont think im going to upgrade every 3 months. maybe every 4. its february now, ill try for end of month, maybe. last set was placed in late october, so we have nov, dec, jan so far, if i wait till feb its 4 months. i may start now, as i started late before.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:03, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Work towards new material january 2014

message: *Circle Magazine (upgraded recently, not new), good now
*Crystal Lee feb, too recent, not very notable (nice photo though)
*Terrific Street jan, unreviewed.
I dont think im going to upgrade every 3 months. maybe every 4. its february now, ill try for end of month, maybe. last set was placed in late october, so we have nov, dec, jan so far, if i wait till feb its 4 months. i may start now, as i started late before.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:03, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Work towards new material, contd

message: I figured out the random function. all archives are now a list of the full set of selections. no more updating any section EXCEPT DYK. I do NOT want to rotate through DYKs, as long as i can find 1-4 new articles every few months to feature here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:49, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Random!

message: we ahve about 4 fm panoramas, and more at the commons, to add a new section. Ive added the new panel, and highlighted have been added to the archive:
*:File:San Francisco with two bridges and the low fog.jpg
*:File:California Sea Lions at Pier 39 August 7 2009.jpg
*:File:Foggy morning at Lake Merced.jpg
*:File:Pano of Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco from Twin Peaks 1 1.jpg not great
*:File:Preparation for schooner race.jpg
*:File:Marin Headlands with Rodeo Beach.jpg
*:File:A beachcomber is touching a dead whale washed ashore at Ocean beach edit 1.jpg
*:File:Pillar Point Harbor.jpg
*:File:San Francisco with approaching fog.jpg
*:File:SanFrancisco from TwinPeaks dusk MC.jpg
*:File:San Francisco Panorama from Twin Peaks 2013.jpg just ok
*:File:Seal Rocks and Cliff House big.jpg
*:File:Foggy morning at Twin Peaks.jpg murky
*:File:San Francisco through GGB.jpg odd
*:File:San Francisco from Pier 7 September 2013 panorama edit.jpg
*:File:Vineyards in Napa Valley 7.jpg
*:File:Arched Rock as seen from Goat Rock Beach.jpg not a panorama,  select pic 52
*:File:Crissy Field beach and Golden Gate Bridge.jpg
===not fm===
*:File:San Francisco at Sunset Panorama.jpg at california portal
*:File:Lake Berryessa.jpg at cali portal boring
*:File:CABeniciaCapitolSenateCh.jpg at cali portal low res, not great
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Panoramas

message: *:File:San Francisco at Sunset Panorama.jpg at california portal
*:File:Lake Berryessa.jpg at cali portal boring
*:File:CABeniciaCapitolSenateCh.jpg at cali portal low res, not great
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: not fm

message: I may do dyk's whenever i have at least 2. I have shortened the taglines to fit convention. I dont want to rotate dyk's, that seems weird, to see old selections of new articles. I have instead added an "previous DYK" section, and given each batch, by month, their own page. the current dyk's will be given the next page in that series, and the main page will have new dyk's, either when we get 3, or if its been 3 months, whichever comes first. i found the DYK's used at the cali portal that are sfba related, added them to the listMercurywoodrose (talk) 03:52, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: DYK's for next batch

message: Wikipedia:Portal peer review/San Francisco Bay Area/archive1
portal ukraine has a selected painting, some portals put a banner at the top. Portal:Texas has a spotlight city. portal bangladesh has a cityMercurywoodrose (talk) 17:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I just added a selected historical image (for paintings, old photos, old drawings), and a selected city. they currently have only 1 image to choose from, so random doesnt do anything yet. i will transfer all the historic images from selected images, and add more cities. the separate page on cities will simply list all start class or higher cities in alphabetical order. i may or may not leave the big 3 at the top.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Portal peer review

message: Collection is unfortunately inevitably biased towards San Francisco. i tried to find other photos, but there are so many great SF shots, i couldnt help add them. I went through the entire commons category tree, skipping only a few sections, such as the endless historic building images, many of which are ordinary. please add more of the other regions if you find them. they dont have to be perfect, just show a unique feature of the area.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 16:38, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: for either august (actually, the august slate was moved to july) or october (now can be a monthly feature, so august it is):
*Oorja Fuel Cells
*Guy Diehl
*Drakes Bay Oyster Company
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New dyk

message: Bay area by year. I will add years chronologically in reverse order. i am back to 1984 now. I am sure i can find at least one item for each year going back to 1848.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:32, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. every year from 1846 to present. room for more items in many earlier years.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:08, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

text: Done. added all the significant events.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:08, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New features

message: *All FA, GA, and many B articles are now listed, of high or top importance to the SFBA task force, and also many of mid importance.
*Selected articles: 101
*Selected biographies: 58
*Selected cities: 29
*Selected images: 198
*Recently in the Bay Area: up to date as of July 2014. as new ones are added, older ones can drop off and be added to the 2014 page, which is already in the random selection, showing all the older items (2 at this point)
*The Bay Area by year: every year from 1846 to early 2014 (170 years) has at least 2 listings, almost all with at least 3. 1 page showing events prior to 1846. each item is an article or article subsection, no "news" reports a la wikinews, which i don't like putting here. this is a WP/Commons portal.
*Selected historical images: 177
*Did you know: current listing was posted this month, scheduled items available for next month
*Previous did you knows: 35 sets, all the DYK's that have appeared on the main page, or the California DYK, or here, that i could find, grouped by month or so that they first appeared.
*Selected periodic events: 40
*Quotes: 33
*Selected panoramas: 49
*There are probably a few more B class articles to include, and lots more pictures are possible (i think i may have hit a max: 200 is a lot of random images to cycle through). 
*Regions box has a good sampling of all the major areas in the Bay area.
*The intro article is updated fairly often
*The subpage on cities is a sortable list copied from a list article. It can easily be updated as new census data is published.
*The subpage on quality content was manually created from the California quality content page, as i have not figured out if a task force can have such a list automatically generated.
*TO DO: place the portal tag on all the articles referenced at this portal. I have not been consistent with this. There are lots more to tag.
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Status report

message: in petaluma. add small article or section, add to 2014. 50.193.19.66 (talk) 17:22, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: done.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 23:55, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: In the news

message: Videos:
*:File:San Francisco Earthquake aftermath, 1906.ogg
*:File:Teddy Roosevelt, San Francisco, 1903.ogg
*:File:Rattlesnake Dance.ogg
*:File:Pfnswiki.ogg
*:File:Imperial-japanese-navy-cruiser-chitose-1898.ogg
*:File:Hotel vendome.ogv
*:File:Exploded gas tanks us mint.ogv
*:File:Crestmoor immolated, San Bruno gas explosion.ogv no, poor quality
*:File:California Sea Lions MVI 4560.ogv
*:File:Cablecar 7 turntable.ogg
*:File:Bongo Board female models newsreel ca. 1955.ogv
*:File:Arrest in chinatown.ogv
*:File:Army pack train bringing supplies.ogv
*:File:City at night.webm
*:File:Faetopia.webm
*:File:Lombard street (the crookedest street).webm
*:File:Statue of Buddha.webm
*:File:Water flowing from fountain.webm
*:File:Cable Car.webm
*:File:California Windmills 4493.ogv
and audio:
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*some of the above music files not added as redundant UC songs. 1 or 2  of those added
all addeed unless indicatedMercurywoodrose (talk) 15:00, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New section?

message: *Selected articles: 103
*Selected biographies: 62
*Selected cities: 29
*Selected images: 210
*Recently in the Bay Area: up to date as of January 2015.
*Selected historical images: 200
*Did you know: current listing was posted this month, scheduled items available for next month
*Previous did you knows: 35 sets, all the DYK's that have appeared on the main page, or the California DYK, or here, that i could find, grouped by month or so that they first appeared.
*Selected periodic events: 40
*Quotes: 61
*Multimedia files: 25
*Selected panoramas: 52
*TO DO: place the portal tag on all the articles referenced at this portal. I have not been consistent with this. There are lots more to tag.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:19, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Status report

message: 108.94.2.49 (talk) 14:54, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: added.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:22, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: New event for 2015

message: weird. i may have different inclusion criteria, but if not, there seems to be fewer newsworthy events in the Bay Area since May. i didnt include the various free speech stuff, cause they seemed like nothing burgers. nothing actually happened here of any import. you can add them if you like, but it will sound a little...pathetic.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:11, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: current events

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message: Is this place to make SF Transportation consensus? or where is that wiki project for specific city? Colton Meltzer (talk) 00:18, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  This place for consensus 

message: i keep this up. i am no longer willing to. sort of triggered by the gilroy killings. just dont want to place it in the timeline. im done. wake me up when we get rid of guns.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:12, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: events int he bay area

message: The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 15:21, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to delete all portals   

message: This portal is not rendering properly, because it has too many expensive Lua function calls.  This is not a software bug but requires that we simplify the portal.  Please can someone who knows the topic suggest which parts could be trimmed down without significant loss?  Thanks, Certes (talk) 16:41, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expensive function calls 

message: Two quick comments:
# On my monitor and with my eyes, the blue on brown heading: "CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA" is unreadable. You may want to adjust the color scheme to make the heading more accessible. (Also, making this heading sentence case may make it more readable.) 
# Same issue with color scheme on the recognized content tab
# I'd guess that the land area numbers are square miles and square kilometers. You may want to consider adding specific headers.
76.14.122.5 (talk) 22:24, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the comments.  I've edited the portal and hope this improves the headings. Certes (talk) 22:57, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks much better. Thank you. 76.14.122.5 (talk) 22:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Cities]] 

message: have to say i still cant believe i got so into doing work on this portal. glad its not all been deleted. i tell everyone to try editing WP. its a blast if you get into it. thanks for the memories. i havent returned to editing, but still might. a new home computer would help. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 00:25, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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thread_title: wow