Portal talk:New Zealand/Archive 2

message: :Can we have Military history of New Zealand or ANZAC Day (or similar) up, on the week of the 25th April ? Brian | (Talk) 10:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. The ANZAC day article seems to have only Australian pictures, so I'm going for Military History, but there'll be another opportunity next year for ANZAC Day. I was thinking of using the NZ forces in Iraq picture to illustrate military history; would that be a problem? We had Battle of Gallipoli as the selected article in August last year.-gadfium 18:57, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All now in the queue.-gadfium 08:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Selected article suggestions

message: *:Image:Mmp-poster.jpg (Electoral reform in New Zealand)
::This is a fair use image, and also is primarily text. Should it qualify as a selected picture?-gadfium 09:29, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point about fair use, forgot about that!  Which probably means it can't be used.  But I don't think being primarily text should rule anything out.  It is, afterall, featured pictured not featured oh-golly-doesn't-that-look-beautiful!  --Midnighttonight 09:37, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like others' opinions about text images becoming selected images for this portal, and also about using "fair use" images. I'm willing to use fair use images to illustrate a news story, but I don't think they should become selected images.-gadfium 04:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Selected picture suggestions

message: This article is due to be the selected article on the portal page next week. Which picture should we use to illustrate it? Some of the contenders are:
*:Image:Goodbye Pork Pie Poster.jpg
*:The article describes Goodbye Pork Pie as the coming-of-age of New Zealand cinema, and it's fairly well known in NZ, but probably not well known overseas.
*:Image:One Were Warriors.jpg
*:Another movie fairly well known, probably better known outside NZ than GPP. Distictively NZ.
*:Image:LOTRROTKmovie.jpg
*:Very well known internationally and used to promote NZ tourism, but isn't actually set in the country we know.
*:Image:Kongcomparison.jpg
*:Topical, but probably not associated with NZ to most people overseas.
*Others? The Piano? The Whale Rider?
Please comment on which picture you'd like to see.
I'd also like some photos for the Cuisine of New Zealand article. I'm serious about putting up :Image:Vegemiteontoast large.jpg if no one can provide a better picture.-gadfium 18:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the idea of :Image:Goodbye Pork Pie Poster.jpg- as it was NZ's first notable film, but whale rider, will also be fine, as it was a world hit. Brian | (Talk) 07:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I would go with The Whale Rider--Konstable 10:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The Whale Rider. It is distinctively New Zealand, and well-known. ~ ~ Papeschr 12:05, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cinema of New Zealand]] illustration

message: I've put a queue system in place for the selected article (and will shortly put it in place for the featured picture). Wikipedia will automatically update these articles at midnight on Saturday UTC (1 pm Sunday local time)Sunday UTC (1 pm Monday local time), assuming I've set it up correctly. Rotation of items in DYK will still need to be done manually, and I'm not quite game to try and set up an automatic update of ITN a month in advance.-gadfium 04:30, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia believes it's still week 3. Maybe it uses a Monday-based week, although it counts Sunday as the zeroth day.-gadfium 00:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Queue implemented for New Zealand Portal

message: Would any one mind if I put a link to the wikinews portal (n:Portal:New Zealand) on the portal page? (eg next to the Maori Wikipedia link) Brian | (Talk) 00:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We already have that link in the current events pane. It shouldn't be in both places, but I have no objection if it gets moved next to the Maori Wikipedia link.-gadfium 05:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about repacing the "Other connected wikipedia" with:
I left wikiquote, and wikionary out has they don't have New Zealand cats (etc) Ihe template is in my userspace (User:Brian New Zealand/nzp) if it gets used will have to be moved :) and the Related Wikimedia removed and put on the portal has a title Brian | (Talk) 11:23, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Brian, I think your suggestion is excellent and it would like to see the links at the bottom of the page. I am ready to start contributing a lot of pictures and images from now on and it would make it easier for me (and no doubt others) to find those resources by having those links - also I think it looks more polished than the one link we have now :) Tom Webb 21:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this proposal has been here for a few days without opposition, I suggest Brian goes ahead and makes the changes.-gadfium 22:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved it to Portal:New Zealand/Related WikiMedia, and have made the changes. Feel free to "polish" it Brian | (Talk) 00:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikinews New Zealand Portal 

message: As I suggested in the section above, I plan to drop notes on the talk page of the user who contributed the photo used in selected pictures, and the user who made the major contribution to the article in selected articles. I've now done this for the current selections: see User_talk:Sperling#New_Zealand_portal and User_talk:Robin_Patterson#New_Zealand_portal. For future messages, please suggest improved wordings here.
I was also planning to drop a note for items we use in DYK, but the newest item was added by Grutness, who's one of the maintainers of this portal, and I would have felt funny leaving him such a note. Please also suggest suitable wordings for DYK notes here. The message used for the front page DYK, which inspired this strategy from me, is as -gadfium 07:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've dropped a note for the New Zealand mud snail used in DYK at User talk:Phantombantam. I've thanked User:Lisiate for Michael Joseph Savage, and User:Geocachernemesis for the current picture (although he hasn't edited since mid September). I won't bother listing future courtesy notes here.-gadfium 23:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Courtesy notes

message: I've put down some thoughts about this proposed portal at Portal talk:Oceania. Please come and comment.-gadfium 05:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Portal:Oceania

message: Can someone get me a better picture for the Music of New Zealand article? I think I'll remove the article from the list of proposed selections until it has one.-gadfium 22:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture wanted for Music of New Zealand

message: I was wondering about adding little logos to the thing at the top of the page:
to get something like this:
Any objections, suggestions, hints? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Papeschr (talk • contribs) .
:It's been discussed before, but I recall that there was a problem getting it to work properly with different screen resolutions. Obviously (if I'm remembering correctly) that problem's been solved. I'm happy for this version to be substituted.-gadfium 07:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have icons for all the things or only those shown?  --Midnighttonight 08:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

text: If someone can round up the graphics, perhaps they could show us a proposed version here.-gadfium 02:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, I have no graphics, I was fishing for some from the community. - Papeschr 04:53, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  browsebar with graphics 

message: We are the current Portal of the Week, at Portal:Browse. The Portal of the Week is updated irregularly, so we may be there for longer than a week.-gadfium 18:35, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Portal of the Week