Portal talk:Bangladesh

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	The Bangladesh Portal is a featured portal, which means it has been identified as one of the best portals on Wikipedia. If you see a way this portal can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute.
September 18, 2007 Featured portal candidate Promoted

This talk page is for discussing improvements to the Portal about Bangladesh; content disputes should take place on the appropriate article's talk page. Please ensure this portal's details are listed in the Portal directory and its status is assessed. For discussion about Portals generally, please see the WikiProject on Portals.

Contents 1 Portal:Bangladesh 2 Portal:Asia 3 Bangladesh News 4 India -> India + Pakistan + Bangladesh 5 Fixed links 6 peer review 7 New Article 8 A bit odd... 9 A bit strange 10 Problem Watching 11 Lost? Can I help to find? 12 I've made a few changes 13 Proposing to add new subsections 13.1 Where in Bangladesh 13.2 This month in Bangladesh 14 Drive for Featured Portal - Final Checks 14.1 FireFox Problem 15 Random rotation for Where in Bangladesh 16 New ads 17 Congrats 18 Portal:Current events/Bangladesh 19 BAGHA JATIN

[edit] Portal:Bangladesh

Hi all - I request y'er help in making this a featured portal. Rama's arrow 16:04, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comments There's a couple of key points I would like to highlight. From a formatting standpoint, I think the code needs to be cleaned up a bit — some of the [edit] links seem to be dangling outside their boxes. --[Done]. I can work to fix this pretty quick. Other than that, archives need to be created for all subsections in the portal, including "News", "Selected picture", "Selected article" and "Did You Know". --[Done]. How does the selection process for "Selected article" and "Selected picture" work? How are users able to nominate and / or vote for selected content? --[Nomination and selection process has been regularized] These are just some of my initial thoughts...I will continue to provide feedback as more content is incorporated into the portal. Additionally, it might help if we reach out to other Wikipedians like Kirill Lokshin to share their thoughts on areas that need improvement. Hope this helps. AreJay 16:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Okay, some suggestions (partially repeated from above, as well):
  • Archives!--[Done]
  • The "more" link after the featured article is insufficient; the actual title should be linked as well.--[Done]
  • The selected picture needs to be centered.--[Done]
  • The gap between the two columns of boxes is too wide; probably the percentages are off by more than one.--[Done]
  • The gap after the "International ties of Bangladesh" box is too large. In general, I think it may be worthwhile to pull all the links out of the multiple topic boxes at the bottom and create a single box of your own; otherwise, you're going to be dependent on outside formatting for the layout of the portal, which isn't a good idea.--[Spacing problem fixed]
  • The big problem for a featured portal nomination at this point, however, would be that the portal has no track record of being actively maintained. I would strongly recommend that you set up some form of automatic content rotation, at least for the selected article and picture.--[Done; the selected article/biography/picture for current month will be automatically picked] Kirill Lokshin 00:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[Completed tasks tagged by Arman Aziz 01:49, 3 August 2007 (UTC)]

[edit] Portal:Asia

The Asia Portal has recently been created and seeks help from those who are interested. Thanks in advance, TBC^{??? ??? ???} 06:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bangladesh News

the news listed under the "Bangladesh News" is out of date and full of suicide bombings. Could someone please include other, more up-to-date news? Maybe the capture of Siddiqul Islam and Abdur Rahman or something more up to date.

This section is now regulalrly updated.-Arman Aziz 05:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] India -> India + Pakistan + Bangladesh

There is a discussion going on related to India before and after 1947. Following is statement which gives you idea, please read whole discussion before editing:

India after 1947 consists of three countries, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. When we use word India, in articles, refereeing to whole India, links are such that they bring us to present day India (Republic of India), reducing size of pre-1947 India considerably. Is it possible that when we refer to pre-1947 India we use a term which encompasses whole India not just present day India? Please comment.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notice_board_for_India-related_topics/India_disambiguation_discussion

--Spasage 06:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fixed links

I have fixed the links of this particular portal to the correct portal sub-pages. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 17:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] peer review

Put up Wikipedia:Peer review/Rajshahi University/archive1 for a peer review. pls take a look.--ppm 00:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Article

List of South Asian stock exchanges --McTrixie/Mr Accountable 13:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A bit odd...

• The portal layout is currently looking a bit odd... --Akut 18:47, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• The portal coding is probably not compatible with Mozilla Firefox (the browser I use at home and office). The layout comes even more strange on it. - Aditya Kabir 11:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A bit strange

Some of the articles on this page begin with an hyphen (-) for no apparent reason at all (example Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban), while most are without a hyphen in the beginning (example Rabindranath Tagore) as articles on other portal page archives. Is there any meaning in it? Or is it just sloppy editing? I wonder. - Aditya Kabir 11:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, It's nothing special. I will remove it. Thanks. Tarif from Bangladesh 11:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem Watching

I am having a bit of problem watching the page. Today when I came to change the article and picture I am seeing only a blue screen with any any news, article or picture. Can anybody help?Tarif from Bangladesh 11:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lost? Can I help to find?

Where is the WikiProject History of Bangladesh? I see it mentioned on the talk page of Dhaka Nawab Family. But, alas, it's a red link. If it's lying there for a volunteer to start, please, let me know the procedures. I can volunteer to do whatever is in my capacity. Better people can always add to it latter. Aditya Kabir 16:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You can start the project. :) --Ragib 17:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I've made a few changes

I have made a few major changes to the portal page.I have added a new "Selected biography" section. More importantly, for selected article, selected picture and the newly created selected biography sections, I have created a monthy nomination and selection process. I have been bold to select all three items upto September 2007. For items of October 2007 I have created the nomination page. Please feel free to nominate your candidates or support my nominees.-Arman Aziz 11:14, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposing to add new subsections

I'm proposing to add two new subsections in this portal: "Selected Location" and "Selected Map". Please let me know your comments about this.-Arman Aziz 06:38, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Does other similar portals have these two? Do we have a significant number of those to keep the new sub-sections busy? If yes, I'm completely with you. Just tell me what I can do (though, I may not be able to do all that's required too quickly all the time... real life business, you know). Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 09:08, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I have borrowed the idea from Portal:Islam and Portal:Asia. However, I share your concern of not having enough material to keep the new subsections busy. May be we can keep this idea on hold for the moment.-Arman Aziz 10:14, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

This is a new proposal. Portal:Pakistan has a subsection called This week in History. This gave me an idea to start something called This month in Bangladesh - in which we can describe the climate / historical events of the month. For sample, I have startedPortal:Bangladesh/July page. Please lend me a hand in completing it and other 11 monthly pages. Once we have 12 pages with nice photos in all of them, we can start this section. -Arman Aziz 00:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

This may be a very good idea. A section on the main page may also feature selected location. This came to my mind actually seeing yours and Uttam's great work on the geography of Bangladesh. I'd propose that "This month" goes to the right hand side column and "Selected location" goes to the left hand side. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 04:08, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Most of our location articles now have infobox with maps - but they are still lacking in terms of contents. However, having a section on the portal may actually encourage us to put some materials on specific pages - sort of mini collaboration. I can try to create a mini template to show the location on bangladesh locator map on the portal page. An alternative name of this section can be "Where in Bangladesh" - so that we don't imply that the selected location article is one of our best work in Wikipedia. Let's add these two sections before we push for featured portal status. If we can do all these in a proper way, Portal:Bangladesh may be one of the best portal pages on wikipedia.-Arman Aziz 04:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where in Bangladesh

As promised earlier I have created a template and a sample page based on the template for this section. Please let me know your suggestion/comments.-Arman Aziz 10:36, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This month in Bangladesh

I have not made much progress other than the July page. I'll wait for others to help me out with the pages for other months. I have a rough idea about which month can talk on which theme:

• Jan - Winter in Bangladesh
• Feb - 21 February
• Mar - 26 March
• Apr - Pohela Baishakh
• May - Summer in Bangladesh
• Jun - Any suggestions?
• Jul - Monsoon / Floods
• Aug - Assasination of Mujib?
• Sep - Ramadan (at least for 2007-2009)
• Oct - Eid-ul Fitr (at least for 2007-2008)
• Nov - Any suggestions?
• Dec - 16 December.

- Arman Aziz 10:36, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drive for Featured Portal - Final Checks

I'm about to nominate this portal as a featured portal candidate. Before I do so, I wanted to review the featured portal criteria. One thing that may be a problem is - this portal may appear to be self-referential. The citerion says "Aspects of portals that encourage contribution may be self-referential." From that point of view the section on "Things you can do" may be objectionable. The tags "Nominate an article/picture/biography" may be questioned, too. But I can see at least one Featured Portal (Portal:Christianity) also has such tags.

I'd really appreciate comments from other editors on this. My recommendation is to replace "Things you can do" with "Where in Bangladesh" (discussed above) to mantain balance on left and right side of the portal.

-Arman Aziz 04:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

• The portal is well organized and it might meet the featured portal criteria. --NAHID 07:39, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Once again I have been bold and made all the changes / upgrades I felt appropriate and have finally nominated this portal for Featured Portal status. I'm confident we should pass with flying colors.-Arman Aziz 06:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggestions

When I first saw the portal, to be very honest, I was just speechless. Even it looks far better than the front page of the Bangle Wikipedia. It is really hard to believe that almost whole portal is prepared on a single hand. Here goes my thumps up to user Arman Aziz.

It's really tough to identify flaws from such a work and I won't walk on that way. Rather I'll try to propose some suggestions, which is pretty easier I guess ;-) .

• A new section "On this day" can be added. It won't be too hard to get those information as NTV and other channels in Bangladesh use to show such segment everyday. We may collect Bangladesh related information from those programs and gradually make an archive. [Yes, we can and should do this. But first we need to create the database of events. Staying outside BD, it is difficult for me to do. I can really use some help here. We can start with "This month in Bangladesh", and gradually go to days. This should be a long-term plan, though.]

Starting from month and gradually moving towards the day will be a nice and realistic idea. I am also leaving Bangladesh soon. But, wherever I say, I'll try my level best to prepare this section. Its a promise :-). Niaz bd 13:46, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• A new section in the name of "Selected location" can be formed. It may show a famous geographical location, a famous place or an important district/division of Bangladesh. [One problem of saying something is "selected" is that, the underlying component - article / picture - needs to be of very good quality. Otherwise that will become an weakness of the portal. Right now most of Bangladesh location aricles are not in such good shape. That's why Aditya and myself discussed and came up with this "Where in Bangladesh..." concept which would allow us to highlight a location without calling it "selected location". I guess this can be a long term plan, too.]

Completely logical and I've understood. Niaz bd 13:46, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• A box providing fast information on Bangladesh can be added. It'll work like a Bangladesh-at-a-glance. [This is indeed a good idea. We can add an infobox at the bottom of the map on the "indices" page and change the section name. I'll try to do something about this.]

When I attempted to do this, I noticed that there is already such an infobox present in the article on Bangladesh. Since for most countries on wikipedia, the factsheet is in the article and not in the portal - I dropped this idea for sake of consistency. The factsheet is just one click away from the "more about Bangladesh" in Portal introduction, anyway. Arman Aziz 05:33, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• WikiProject History of Bangladesh should be added as a daughter project of WikiProject Bangladesh. [This is no longer a wikiproject - it's a workgroup under WP:BANGLADESH]

Hope to see Bangladesh as a Featured Portal soon. -- Niaz bd 17:08, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I have added responses above. Arman Aziz 23:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FireFox Problem

We've been informed that when viewed in FireFox the header of the portal doesn't look as nice as it does in IE. User:B uploaded a comparative screenshot here. I have made some changes to solve this but not sure whether this is working since I am not a FF user. I'd really appreciate if any FireFox user could tell me how it looks now, and even better, upload a screenshot. Arman Aziz 06:17, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• I've used both Firefox and IE at the same time for watching this portal. And the background color (E9EFF8) (including overall features) gives better expression in IE than in FireFox.--NAHID 09:49, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Nahid,would you be able to upload a latest screenshot from FireFox? I have made some changes and it shouldn't look the same. Arman Aziz 10:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• I have installed FireFox. I'll take some time to fix the problem. Arman Aziz 11:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I have an allergy with IE (I don't know why, but when I look at its blue screen, it stars itching me!). So, I always use FireFox and Opera. From the very beginning, I can see this portal properly. I never had any problem regarding formating or other issues. God knows way! By the way, I'm using its latest version Firefox - 2.0.0.6. Niaz bd 13:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• I have rectified all the problems in FireFox (Version 2.0) that I could see and the portal looks almost same in FireFox and IE now. I hope this closes the issues identified by User:B, User:NAHID and User:Aditya Kabir in differrent occassions. If there are further problems, please raise it here. Arman Aziz 07:10, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

• Good work. Now the portal looks better in Firefox too. Happy editing--NAHID 14:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Random rotation for Where in Bangladesh

I am planning to have a random rotation for the "Where in Bangladesh" section (similar to Did you know...). Unlike Selected article, biography or picture we don't need to identify good quality materials for this sections. So having monthly nomination and selection doesn't make much sense. However, to have a reasonable pool of items to rotate through I need more suggestions on which locations we can feature on the portal page. Please give me your suggestions (if any) here. Arman Aziz 09:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

We didn't receive any suggestion for the Month of May. If there are no more new suggestions before May 1, from that month we'll do a random rotation of previously highlighted locations. The suggestion page will still remain active for any suggestion for adding locations to the rotation pool. Arman ^(Talk) 09:33, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New ads

Hi, a new ad of Bangladesh has been uploaded in WP :)--NAHID 21:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

Congratulations to everyone whose hard work made this into a Featured Portal. Keep up the good work. --Ragib 01:54, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Ragib bhai - thanks to you, too - for starting this portal and also for leading the drive of increasing coverage of Bangladesh related topics on Wikipedia. Bangladesh Portal is the third Asian country portal to be featured on wikipedia. This is a remarkable achievement indeed. Arman ^(Talk) 02:33, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Can I congratulate two people very especially - Arman, for his diligence and innovations, and Ragib, for starting the page? Congratulations. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 02:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations, and thanks to everybody who works hard on Bangladesh-related articles. east.718 at 08:49, November 22, 2007

[edit] Portal:Current events/Bangladesh

Check out this new page. Arman ^(Talk) 03:46, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

When using Firefox, you can see some empty space on the left between individual selected articles and the section border. Is that done on purpose, or is it a glitch in coding? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 04:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed this note earlier. It is a coding problem that I failed to fix. Any help to correct this is very much welcome. Arman ^(Talk) 04:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BAGHA JATIN

Thanks on behalf of Users who collaborated with me for the article on Bagha Jatin. Good speed!--BobClive (talk) 05:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)