Wikipedia talk:Goings-on

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I've templatized the Goings-on page. It is now a condensed version of the community portal, yet has the same content it has traditionally had. I did this because the announcement section here had run dry, since everybody has been posting their announcements on the Community Portal, due to its high visibility and easy accessibility. Archiving is taken care of on the template level for both the Community Bulletin Board and the New featured content. --Go for it! 14:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

And since each section is now a template, they can be accessed directly by link for those who want an even more compact version:

• Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board
• Template:Announcements/New featured pages
• Template:Announcements/Current collaborations

Or include one in double-curly brackets to display the entire thing on your userpage.

Have fun...

--Go for it! 14:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I admit it, this is a good idea. I will have to watch three things rather than one, though, but never mind. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:29, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

There's a problem with this - this will effectively make the archives useless. Raul654 07:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

All that is required is a new archiving procedure. --Go for it! 14:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted. Not only does it make the archives useless, but it makes this page entirely useless (no longer could you watch one page and get all you need to know). It also includes a whole heap of not-important stuff which never did go on this page (things like the founding of random WikiProjects). Ambi 08:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Trying to attract volunteers to your new WikiProject is not important? The main purpose of advertising a WikiProject is to attract people to it so they can help out. How is that not important? --Go for it! 14:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Plenty important, but this is not the place. Ambi 06:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Archiving can be done by substing the transcluded templates on the right day. Is it such a problem to watchlist a few extra pages? -- ALoan (Talk) 10:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I was just going to add the Featured Pages template here before I read this discussion. I'm the guy who's been adding the new Featured Pictures to the lists most of the time, and it does seem silly to me to have to add them to two lists that are exactly the same. If changes like this would make the page useless, I might question the need for it at all. Raven4x4x 09:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

The New Featured Content template that is displayed on the Community Portal has been picked up by the Featured Content Portal and is being displayed there as well. By templatizing, we create value, by making it easy to create new applications for the data. Perhaps that portal would be a good place to keep and maintain featured content archives. --Go for it! 10:47, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A request

Could someone other than me *please* take the time to keep this page properly archived and updated? It's enough work doing the dozen-or-more edits required to promotion batches of featured articles without having to keep this page updated too. Raul654 07:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry - I had been doing it for a while until a month or so ago, but the conversation above led me to doubt its uility. It is not a terribly difficult task if anyone else notices that it needs to be done (move the previous week to a new subpage; copy back to the original page; change the date, delete last week's entries, add a link to the new archive). I keep forgetting to check (or uncheck) the box so the talk page is not moved too... -- ALoan (Talk) 11:27, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

• I would actually recommend converting this page back to self-updating templates, or abandoning it entirely. I'm not sure it's worth the effort of keeping up, given that between the Community Portal and Wikipedia:Featured content, you can see everything you can see here now. There are too many "news" pages now, anyway, and this one is no longer being used for anything other than things that happen every week (and are announced elsewhere). Really, I think it would be more useful to direct people who want to hear about real goings-on to the Community Portal. -- Beland 20:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Fine, kill the bloody thing. I'm sick of having to argue every second week when someone who doesn't use this perfectly useful page decides that they must make it die. Ambi 01:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I quit

I'm tired of having to archive this page every time I promote new featured articles. I will no longer be maintaing it - that is to say, I will not be posting newly promoted FAs to this list and I will not be archiving it. Raul654 23:03, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Archiving has been done for week beginning April 23. -TonyW 23:34, 3 May 2006 (UTC)