Portal talk:Astronomy/Archive 2

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it's a shame that this portal seems so neglected. no news, no updates... 77.56.91.12 (talk) 19:15, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I am back from a longer hiatus, and I will try to "spruce up" this portal. It seems important that in this year WP shows its Astronomy related sections from its best side. Anybody else want to chip in? Right now, I'm fixing the batch mechanism that was disabled by older edits. Then a better layout may be a good project. Awolf002 (talk) 14:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm saddened by the fact that this portal is very slow on news and such. To me it feels like there is a very very very small group of people dedicated to keeping it running... I'm not sure if I need to ask this but can I help with anything? (also could there be an article of the week instead of article of the month? I gladly manage it, but I'm not sure if I have the experience.) Marx01 ^{Tell me about it} 00:26, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

I think there should be an article of the week instead of an article of the month. I get rather tired seeing only one article feature per month. I would gladly manage such a system, but I'm not sure who is managing the current system, or how to manage it. Thanks for feedback --Marx01 ^{Tell me about it} 05:06, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I think Awolf002 is the current maintainer —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest! Please, help out if you can (see unanswered suggestions some sections above). However, I think it is harder to keep up with a weekly schedule than a monthly, and nothing makes a portal looks worse then red links. It is just about doable with images, where we've got hundreds. Good articles are much fewer in numbers! What would be helpful, is a more frequent update of the sections pointing to areas other people can help: The articles in peer review and featured article candidates. I just do not have time to keep this up, as I had a few years ago... But, feel free to come up with something new, and give it a try! Awolf002 (talk) 00:58, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I'll try and set up something which focuses on Articles Which are in Reason of being helped. One of the unavoidable problems with astronomy is you've got so many darn asteroids out there it's hard to write much about every single one! So I could make up a list of articles with a relative chance of reaching at least B-class. I will also look at a list of Good articles and Featured Article Candidates. Also Would you find it within reason to put this on the page:

User:Marx01/astroyear

Thought it might fit since it is the year of astronomy. Happy editing!

Marx01 ^{Tell me about it} 01:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

From this month I will not let any redlink to be in the images of the week.Extra999 (talk) 10:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Extra999 for this effort! Awolf002 (talk) 11:47, 12 October 2009 (UTC)