Portal talk:Switzerland

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Northamerica1000 in topic 2020 portal updates

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four out of four title images show alpine idylls? I mean, nostalgia is all very well, but how about balancing this away a little bit from folklore and stereotypes? dab (𒁳) 17:59, 3 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

PORTAL SWITZERLAND
 
 
 

The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, German: die Schweiz or Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, French: La Suisse or La Confederation Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra) is a landlocked Alpine country in Central Europe with a strong economy in finance and banking, pharmaceutics, watches and micro-precision industry.

Switzerland borders Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.

Switzerland is a confederation and has a long and strong tradition of political and military neutrality. This background allows Switzerland various international co-operations and organizations.
 
 

How about something like this? ---Sluzzelin 05:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

hm.. no. I'm sure we can settle for something between these extremens :) dab (𒁳) 17:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)Reply
Novartis, looks too much like an advertising. What about "Bundeshaus" in place of Blocher and replacing Novartis with Aletsch. Look how we did that on :fr (well the layout has changed but there are some ideas if you want to replace your 4 pics). 85.2.79.72 22:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Reply
Ok, the suggestion was a New Year's joke. I do like the look of French WP's portal of Switzerland, though the concept is different, featuring smaller images for each subcategory (politics, geography, history, etc.) Which ever way this portal goes, I agree with dab that the alpine idylls could be balanced out a bit. Specifically, more urbanity, at least some buildings or signs of civilization and/or technology, maybe a railway picture, maybe the Bundeshaus, as suggested by 85.2.79.72. I've been looking through Commons, but haven't found any clear winners yet. ---Sluzzelin 15:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

People... Much as I would like, but Albert Einstein was not Swiss although he assumed Swiss citizenship in the end. At the time of his death, he actually was a US - Swiss double citizen Tprosser 17:44, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Mosè Giacomo Bertoni‎ or Moisés Santiago Bertoni

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Hi Portal:Switzerland and Portal:Latin America I have a question on the naming of Mosè Giacomo Bertoni‎ or Moisés Santiago Bertoni. He lived in Switzerland from 1857 til 1884 and in South America the rest of his life (1929). So what is the right name for the artile and which one will become the redirect?--Stone (talk) 10:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Project on swiss women biographies

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Hi there we have a project running in Geneva on swiss women's biography to fill the gender gap. We have started to translate in collaboration with Women In Red and User:Rosiestep. Any volunteers welcome to help!

Here is the link to the french speaking project: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Suisse/Biographies_des_femmes_en_Suisse

--Nattes à chat (talk) 18:27, 3 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Question

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I'm hardly active in the English Wikipedia only now and then with minor edits. Could someone please help me and explain me what I have to do if I believe that someone actually violates WP:HOUND? --MBurch (talk) 03:30, 13 April 2017 (UTC)Reply


Notice from the Portals WikiProject

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WikiCon

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WikiCon, the convention of the German-speaking Wikipedia, will take place from October 5 till October 7 in St. Gallen. Also editors active in other languages are kindly invited to join the event.

Further details can be found at de:Wikipedia:WikiCon 2018. You can register now for free.

The presentations will be held mostly in German. But there will be many persons who are able to communicate in other languages. In case you need help with translations, don't hesitate to contact us at info wikicon.org.

--Albinfo (talk) 21:56, 12 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Portal expanded

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The portal has been expanded with the addition of new Good- and Featured article sections. The following article selections were added. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these additions here. North America1000 08:29, 20 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Good articles

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1 * Switzerland in the Roman era 2 * Swiss Bank Corporation 3 * Belinda Bencic 4 * Swabian War 5 * UBS 6 * Albert Einstein 7 * Credit Suisse 8 * Roger Federer 9 * Swiss peasant war of 1653 10 * Bovet Fleurier 11 * Zytglogge 12 * Werner Kaegi (composer) 13 * Ricardo Rodríguez (footballer) 14 * Xavier Mertz 15 * History of the Swiss Air Force 16 * Nico Hischier 17 * Switzerland and weapons of mass destruction 18 * Alpine Spaniel 19 * 2018 Zürich ePrix 20 * 2015 Tour de Suisse 21 * Maurice Rossel

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1 * Huldrych Zwingli 2 * Battle of Winterthur 3 * Leonhard Euler 4 * Isabelle Eberhardt 5 * Nyon Conference 6 * Pierre Rossier

  • Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below.

Selected articles

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  • In addition to the articles listed above, the following articles are presently being displayed in the Selected article section using transclusion from articles. Consensus at VPP has approved using transclusion templates in portals, which provides users with up-to-date content that is verbatim to that in articles. North America1000 09:17, 14 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

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FYI: Request for comment regarding Swiss Standard German

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Hi, I would like to call your attention to the following request for comment because it is relevant to Swiss Standard German:

Thanks --mach 🙈🙉🙊 14:20, 3 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

2020 portal updates

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Added some B-class articles to the Selected article section (listed below), to round-out the portal to provide a more comprehensive topical overview. North America1000 07:34, 29 March 2020 (UTC)Reply