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[edit] Regarding portal direction

I resign my post as "featured portal co-director". I confess that I am not as active as I once was, especially when I applied to be one in the late midst of 2007 so I feel I am not active enough nor knowledgeable enough to retain my position. I trust another valued portal contributor will fill my vacancy. Good luck and good wishes to all those who are involved with portals in the future. Best regards, Caulde 18:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Archival instructions

I moved the archival instructions to a subpage at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Archival instructions. Also, removed a bunch of steps in the archival process, to be in coordination with Wikipedia_talk:Featured_portal_candidates/Archive_1#Archival_process_getting_tedious_-_time_for_a_bot.3F, and left notes for Gimmetrow (talk · contribs) and SandyGeorgia (talk · contribs) to look it over. Hopefully this will make for a smoother process in the future. Cirt (talk) 15:28, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Additional modifications to help smooth the process. Cirt (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Schools

Hey all - I promoted Portal:Schools to WP:FPORT - but please do not do any of the update steps that I skipped over which used to be done manually. See above subsection regarding Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Archival instructions - I removed a bunch of steps that will (hopefully) be done in the future by a bot. Cirt (talk) 15:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

We did have a bot before, but that task was taken off the bot list. OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:00, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Right, I am keeping Gimmetrow (talk · contribs) in the loop about this, and I think the issue last time was that people unaware of the bot's role were manually promoting portals anyways and manually doing steps the bot could have done. Hopefully by removing those steps from the process in the instructions at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Archival instructions, people will just not do them anymore. Cirt (talk) 16:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

These are the steps done by the bot. Cirt (talk) 19:44, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible to ask the bot owner to do a few more little things, such as +1 count to {{Featured portals number}} OhanaUnitedTalk page 20:02, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
See this response from Gimmetrow (talk · contribs). I think Gimmetrow has a point - let's work with the current setup with the bot for a while for a few more closings, and if that works well then hopefully in the future we can automate more steps. Cirt (talk) 20:19, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Featured portal director

The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

We just lost one, and one of the two current co-directors has not been that active lately. I would be willing to help out in this capacity in addition to the other two, if there is consensus for me to step up into this role. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 19:58, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Support It's understandably a problem of time for our directors, and I think it would be good to have a trusted reviewer like Cirt as an additional director. --Jh12 (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Duh!. I have tried to nominate you for this position but you keep refusing me not once, but twice! Hopefully I'll be active once the holidays start. OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:37, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Support I just saw this over at the Community Bulletin Board. Cirt seems like a good choice for the featured portal director since he has 13 featured portals. I worked with this user on Portal:Feminism, during the Feminism Task Force's featured portal drive and I found him to be extremely helpful and professional. I think he will make an excellent director. Awadewit (talk) 22:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Support- Also saw this on the Community Bulletin Board, I think Cirt would do great at the job. -Marcusmax(speak) 00:40, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Support. Caulde 14:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, looks like we got a clear consensus here. Cirt, welcome onboard. OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

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