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Revision as of 22:03, 29 May 2018
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- For an explanation of portals, see Wikipedia:Portal
Welcome to the new and improved WikiProject Portals, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians interested in developing portals. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join!
After being dormant for years, this project was rebooted in April 2018, to drive the technological evolution of Wikipedia's portal system. If you would like to improve Wikipedia's portals, and make them more dynamic, you've come to the right place...
We have 84 members
We are featured in the Signpost...
2018-05-24: Our own Cesdeva and Waggers were interviewed in the latest issue of the Signpost about recent events concerning portals and on the future potential of this WikiProject. Check it out.
Purposes
The main purposes of this WikiProject are to innovate portals, while building, upgrading, updating, and maintaining them.
But, what is a portal? Here are a couple definitions from Wiktionary:
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. For example, The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
Each portal on Wikipedia acts as an alternative entrance to a subject covered within Wikipedia. The purposes that portals serve are:
- To provide a variety of sample content of subtopics ("topic tasters"), from within each portal's subject, that the reader may find interesting. Kind of like a magazine. Like what Wikipedia's Main Page does in general.
- As navigation aids - portals are one of Wikipedia's navigation subsystems, designed to help users find their way around the vast amount of knowledge on Wikipedia to material within a particular subject.
- As a bridge between reading and editing, by providing guidance and what needs to be done, and links to relevant areas in the Wikipedia community associated with the portal's subject.
Project tasks
 | There's more than one way to produce a good portal. Where active editors are willing and able to do the work, they can continue to run portals however they like, using some or none of the new tools and ideas as they see fit. |
Many of the tasks included below pertain to upgrading and updating the entire portal system, and there are links to design discussions on upgrading particular features. In addition, maintenance is a renewed priority, and that is covered, too. You are welcome to join in on the fun!
Current focus
To revitalize Wikipedia's portal system, we are engaged in a three-in-one development strategy: selectively transclude excerpts directly on each portal's base page. In case you missed the three strategies, they are 1) stop using static copy/pasted excerpts, 2) make portals self-updating (transclusions always match the source material), and 3) make portal subpages obsolete (so that they can be deleted. While there are 1500 portals, those portals together have almost 150,000 subpages).
The content of much of the portal system has grown out of date. Much of this can be automated in various ways to reduce the amount of manual maintenance that is needed.
Reassess function and purpose, minimum content criteria and promotion/branding
See questions we need to consider on this section of our talk page.
Inspect the portals listed at Portal:Contents/Portals
Some of the portals listed at Portal:Contents/Portals were placed there prematurely, and are not ready yet. Unlike articles, portals are listed once their construction is complete, because until then, they look broken. This has to do with their page formatting.
So, all the portals listed at Portal:Contents/Portals need to be inspected for completion. Those that are under construction need to be removed from that list, and added to the list on its talk page where such entries are marked 
Portals that are not ready yet may have any of the following problems:
- Empty boxes (usually with a redlinked subpage in its center)
- Lack of "selected" sections ("selected article", "selected picture")
- It is just a portal stub, with only an intro, and perhaps end sections
- Very poor layout (like with seriously unbalanced columns)
Add missing entries to Portal:Contents/Portals
If you like WikiGnome tasks, this section is for you...
There is a list of unlisted portals at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.
Each item in that list needs to be processed as explained below. Please do as many as you have time for. Every little bit helps...
First, look at a portal on the list, and inspect it to see if it is completed. If it isn't, either complete it, or mark the entry "
If an entry on the list is a completed portal, add it to Portal:Contents/Portals. After you've added it, please mark that entry in the list as "
Most incomplete portals have one or more empty sections that have nothing more than a red subpage link in the middle of them.
Thank you.
Participate in design efforts & discussions
The talk page is divided into major areas of discussion, each covering a portal design component or issue:
Check portals at Category:Portals under construction
Attention WikiGnomes:
Please inspect as many portals in this category as you have time for, and remove the category from those that are complete.
Also, feel free to complete those that are not, or any portion of them.
The upgrading and updating of specific section types are covered below.
Thank you.
Transclude intro excerpt directly on the portal base page
Swap out intro excerpt subpage transclusions with "selective transclusions"...
Many portals include an intro section with a static excerpt copied from the lead of the corresponding article and pasted into a subpage which is transcluded onto the portal base page. That's inefficient: the excerpt goes stale over time, and the subpage is not needed anymore.
The new method is to use the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}} directly in the intro box on the portal base page. This provides an excerpt that always matches the source (that is, stays fresh), and makes the subpage obsolete.
So, instead of this line:
{{{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Intro}}
You put something like this:
{{Transclude lead excerpt|{{PAGENAME}}|paragraphs=1-3|files=1|more=}}
But, now you have to make it so the edit link in the section doesn't go to the subpage anymore. To do that, remove /Intro from the following line:
{{/box-header|<big>{{PAGENAME}}</big>|{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Intro|}}
So it looks like this:
{{/box-header|<big>{{PAGENAME}}</big>|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|}}
If you would like editors who change intros to {{Transclude lead excerpt}}, to not edit your portal's intro page, then please add this comment:
<!--Please do not convert to {{Transclude lead excerpt}}, as this is being maintained by hand-->
By the way, please skip Portal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand.
The section below goes into more detail on how to use selective transclusion templates...
Using transclusion templates
If a portal page contains text copied and pasted from the lead of some article Foo, it can be replaced by {{Transclude lead excerpt|Foo}}. Other wikitext such as images and a "Read more..." link can be kept or can also be replaced by adding the options to the template call. For example, {{Transclude lead excerpt|Foo|paragraphs=1,3-5|files=1}} will select only paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 from the lead, and will retain the first file (usually an image) found there. (By default, the template transcludes all paragraphs and no files.) Further information: {{Transclude lead excerpt/doc}}.
If a portal page selects an extract randomly, it can be replaced by {{Transclude random excerpt}}. This works exactly like Transclude lead excerpt but it accepts multiple article names from which it selects one at random. For example, {{Transclude random excerpt|paragraphs=1-4|files=1|Foo|Bar|Baz}} will show up to four paragraphs from the lead of Foo, Bar or Baz (random choice), showing the first of any images which appear within that article's lead. Further information: {{Transclude random excerpt/doc}}.
Please check carefully that the results are what you were hoping for. In particular, if the article's lead contains only one short sentence, that's all you'll get in the portal. If the previous version of the portal contained carefully selected paragraphs from later sections, that may be a backward step. Images within infoboxes are currently not picked up automatically (they don't count as "within the lead") so they also need to be included manually. As the modules are still in alpha testing, this behaviour may change.
For further information on selective transclusion, see: Mediawiki extension.
Process news subpages
Some portal news sections have static news posts that are are years out of date. These should be cleared.
News sections work best if the portal has significant scope. For portals on a niche subject the likelihood of there being any available news is greatly reduced.
The User:JJMC89 bot/Wikinews importer runs hourly, and can be used to provide a stream of up-to-date news items on a subject, if Wikinews has any news available, which it generally doesn't.
Or {{Transclude selected current events}} can transclude items from the daily subpages of Portal:Current events, which often have more up to date and relevant news. For further information and examples, see Template:Transclude selected current events/doc.
Obsolete a Wikimedia subpage
One of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using this code directly on the portal base page:
<div style="clear:both; width:100%">
{{/box-header|Wikimedia|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|}}
{{Wikimedia for portals|species=no|voy=no}}
{{/box-footer|}}
</div>
Notice that the subpage has been removed from the /box-header 2nd parameter (otherwise the section's edit link would still lead to the subpage).
For living organisms apply species=yes, and for locations apply voy=yes.
This has been done for several hundred portals so far.
Add a missing Associated Wikimedia section
The following portals need to be checked for an Associated Wikimedia section, and if they don't have one, have one added.
Here's the the template code for geographical portals: {{Wikimedia for portals | species=no | voy=yes}} This goes inside whatever box formatting is used on the portal for its sections.
Complete a portal
If you'd like to work on a whole portal that was started but not finished, and get it ready for Wikipedia's readership to view, pick one from the list below.
(WikiGnomes) When you find a portal (from the missing list) that is a work-in-progress (isn't complete), please add it to the list below:
- Portal:Special operations: This Portal was improved with the newest templates. If someone wants to practice the improvement of Portals with this templates, he/she can improve this Portal.
- Portal:Prehistory of Africa
- Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica
- Portal:Prehistory of Asia
- Portal:Prehistory of Europe
- Portal:Prehistory of North America
- Portal:Prehistory of Oceania
- Portal:Prehistory of South America
- Portal:Grand Canyon
Invite your friends!
Let them know we are going to be having a lot of fun. ;)
Selected Anniversaries
The Selected Anniversaries portion of Portal:LDS Church provides an example of rotating text stored within the main portal page (rather than excerpts extracted from articles by a template). However, subpages are cheap. Such text could equally be stored on an /Anniversaries subpage and brought in by a simple transclusion.
Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD
Manual listing
- Note that portal subpages are not included in the automatic alerts. For example, if a specific subpage is nominated for deletion.
- For archives, see: Portals for deletion at MfD.
- 2018 May 17 - Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal – pages no longer needed nominated for deletion for routine housekeeping/cleanup of the namespace. Everyone agreed all around upon deletion. Closed May 26th.
Automated alerts
- No Article alerts at this time.
Tools
Watchlist
For your convenience, a list of all portal pages is provided below. (It is possible to get all portal pages into your watchlist, but it is difficult and tedious). The list is current as of 4/22/2018.
The list of all portal pages is useful for getting a bird's eye view of:
- What's in portal space
- Monitoring activity on the portal pages using the Related changes feature in the sidebar menu
The list was too long to get onto a single page (there are 149,069 pages in portal space), and so it is split up into 4 parts:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 1 (A-C)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 2 (D-J)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 3 (K-R)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 4 (S-Z)
SearchSuite
Portals have subpages.
Search is kind of cludgy for looking at these. you can use PrefixIndex for extracting subpages (Example).
SearchSuite enhances Wikipedia search results. It has a feature (menu item) that reformats search results to one-line entries, which is convenient for looking at portal subpages as a list. It has another menu item that formats the links (asterisk-style, with link delimeters) for copying/pasting into an editor. And another for sorting the results. Each feature works on the output of the others, and the script remembers the setting of each menu item between pages. When one is turned on, it stays on for all searches.
Templates
Markers
These markers control how a portal is edited.
- {{nobots}} – tells bots not to edit the page.
- {{Featured portal}} – marks a featured portal
- {{Portal flag talk}} – use on talk page to give information.
- {{Maintained portal flag}} – use to mark a portal which has maintainers.
Portal components
- {{Transclude lead excerpt}} – dynamic excerpt that always matches the source.
- {{Transclude random excerpt}} – same as above, but specify multiple sources for alternating display.
- {{Transclude selected excerpt}} – shows a specific lead of an article for a specific time.
- {{Transclude selected current events}} – shows wikinews about a subject.
- {{Random quotation}} – this template was used in the Portal:LDS Church to eleminate the need for subpages for quotes.
- {{Portal selected quote layout}} – this template should be used when you need a layout for quotes.
- {{Wikimedia for portals}}
- {{Purge link portals}} – creates the "Refresh page to show new selections" link.
Project members
If you'd like to receive task requests and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also, please indicate if you are a user of AWB or JWB, and if you know Lua. Follow your name with an asterisk if you do not wish to receive project-wide updates. Those marked with 2 asterisks have not been confirmed as wishing updates.
- 9563rj (talk · contribs)
- Abyssal (talk · contribs)
- Andrewa (talk · contribs) (I use neither)
- Bahb_the_Illuminated (talk · contribs)
- Bermicourt (talk · contribs)
- Cactus.man (talk · contribs) Used to maintain Portal:Scotland. Don't use AWB or JWB, but am delighted this initiative is underway. have now pretty much updated the Portal to self maintain/update.
- Cesdeva (talk · contribs) - busy working on a new approach to make portals mobile-friendly.
- comfr (talk · contribs)*
- Checkingfax (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs)(AWB)(JWB)(a little Lua)
- Daniel Case (talk · contribs) **
- Dunarc (talk · contribs) - Limited time means I am not sure if I can be of much help, but I have edited a few portals from time to time and happy to keep doing so. Do not use any of the above.
- Emir of Wikipedia (talk · contribs) (AWB)(JWB)
- Espilio (talk · contribs)
- Evad37 (talk · contribs) – Lua (also AWB, but have not used it for a while)
- Ganesha811 (talk · contribs) - I use neither, happy to take on small to mid-sized tasks to help
- Hiding (talk · contribs) **
- Iazyges (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Javert2113 (talk · contribs)
- John Cline (talk · contribs) (just me)
- Kirbanzo (talk · contribs) - I know the background importance of portals to the site.
- Mercurywoodrose (talk · contribs) - use none of them. already heavily edited a number of portals, so member by default
- Mhhossein (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Nerd1a4i (talk · contribs) (I use neither)
- Nick Moyes (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Nigos (talk · contribs)
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) - No AWB, no JWB, don't know Lua but wouldn't mind learning it
- Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs) Have performed maintenance, fixes and updating to various portals
- OdysseusTroy (talk · contribs) I don't know a lot of JS anymore because I learned it too long ago and forgot, and before seeing the mention above I had never heard of AWB. I know HTML basics fluently (and maybe a bit of fancy formatting but I don't think that's necessary). If I can help in any way at all, you can count me in for the whole enchilada. Lua I don't know the slightest about but I think it looks pretty simple and I'm positive I could learn it quickly enough.
- OhanaUnited (talk · contribs)
- Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) (old school clunky Wiki coder)
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs). I am registered for AWB, but have hardly started to learn how to use it.
- Railfan01 (talk · contribs)
- Redolta (talk · contribs) - (Don't know AWB, JWB, or Lua)
- Robertgombos (talk · contribs) — AWB (sometimes).
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs)
- Samee (talk · contribs) — AWB
- SirGents (talk · contribs)
- Slambo (talk · contribs)
- The Transhumanist (talk · contribs) (AWB)(JS)
- Tisquesusa (talk · contribs), no AWB, JWB, Lua Help to get the automatic update function in would be great, the main point why portals are considered "dead"; not automatically updated for Featured, DYK and Pictures.
- Ｔｏｍ (talk · contribs) - International Collaboration / Knowlegde exchange Homewiki de:WP ==> de:P:WF
- Vermont (talk · contribs) - AWB
- Wpgbrown (talk · contribs) - AWB
- Ɱ (talk · contribs) (awb)
- مصعب (talk · contribs) (Mossab) (AWB).
WikiGnomes
If you prefer WikiGnome tasks and would like to receive WikiGnome-oriented updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also let us know if you are an AWB or JWB user.
- AfroThundr3007730 (talk · contribs)
- Auric (talk · contribs) (AWB - can't get it to work for me, though)
- Certes (talk · contribs) JWB
- Dicklyon (talk · contribs)
- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs) - (Already a WikiGnome in this area)
- Espilio (talk · contribs)
- Nigos (talk · contribs)
- PratyushSinha101 (talk · contribs)
- Scottyoak2 (talk · contribs)
- Trinitrobrick (talk · contribs)
- Wumbolo (talk · contribs) (AWB)
Specific portal maintainers
This is a list of editors who work on specific portal(s) or in specific areas, in case you need to contact someone about those.
- Armanaziz (talk · contribs)- Portal:Bangladesh, Portal:SAARC and Portal:Bengal.
- Ask123 (talk · contribs) - Interested in Portal: Swimming
- Ancheta Wis (talk · contribs) - focus on Portal: Science
- Auric (talk · contribs) - Creator and maintainer of Portal: H. P. Lovecraft
- Balablitz (talk · contribs) - Creator and maintainer of Portal:Trichy
- Bermicourt (talk · contribs), lead editor on most of Germany's state and regional portals
- Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia
- East Frisia, Eifel, Elbe-Elster, Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Elbe-Weser Triangle, Franconia, Harz Mountains, Lüneburg Heath, Lusatia, North Palatine Uplands, Ore Mountains, Palatine Forest, Pomerania, Rhön, Silesia, Westerwald
- East Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Alps, Mountains, Peak District, Tyrol
- BrendonTheWizard (talk · contribs)- The portals for partially recognized / unrecognized political entities are currently inactive and I intend to fix this. Today I am launching Portal:Limited recognition and I will monitor related portals & WikiProjects to update and feature articles on this topic. Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 13:27, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Broter (talk · contribs) - Maintainer of Portal:Latter Day Saints, Portal:LDS Church, Portal:Book of Mormon. Creator of Portal:Community of Christ, Portal:History of the Latter Day Saint movement. In politics I created the Portals: Portal:Right-wing populism, Portal:Republican Party and Portal:Geert Wilders.
- BusterD (talk · contribs) - co-maintainer of Portal:American Civil War
- Cactus.man (talk · contribs) - Portal:Scotland Used to maintain it regularly until I became quite inactive. Have recently revamped it to autoupdate using current templates.
- Cesdeva (talk · contribs) - Portal:Herbalism
- Cplakidas (talk · contribs) - maintainer of Portal:Byzantine Empire
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs) - Portal:Zoos and aquariums
- DavidCane (talk · contribs) - maintainer of Portal:London transport
- DaGizza (talk · contribs) - maintain, will try to improve, or create Indian/Aussie related portals
- Ddstretch (talk · contribs) - Creator and one of the Maintainers of the Cheshire portal; I may help set up other county portals for England.
- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs) - Maintaining Portal:Jersey
- Effer (talk · contribs) - Maintainer of PlayStation.
- Eruditescholar (talk · contribs) - creator and maintainer of Portal:Lagos
- Evad37 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Australian roads
- Grey Wanderer (talk · contribs) - Creator of Portal:Missouri
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) - Portal:Nuclear technology. Been meaning to update this one for a while
- JarrahTree (talk · contribs) - watcher of Portal:Australia and related state portals
- JLJ001 (talk · contribs) - builds portals related to the UK. happy to help elsewhere too.
- Kpalion (talk · contribs) – sole editor of Portal:Poland
- L3X1 (talk · contribs) - no, never heard of, same ** Will be working mostly off and on on Portal:Cars
- LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:38, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Working on the Tropical cyclones portal, and occasionally, a few other Science-topics portals as well. Would like to receive major/critical updates only. LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Marshallsumter (talk · contribs) - created Portal:X-ray astronomy at 23:27, 7 March 2010, and maintain it!
- Master of Time (talk · contribs) – Mostly focus on updating current storms and sometimes anniversary material in the Tropical cyclone portal
- Maxim (talk · contribs) Might as well add myself, as I'm one of two users who maintain on a somewhat regular basis Portal:Ice hockey.
- Mercurywoodrose (talk · contribs) - sole editor and maintainer of Portal:San Francisco Bay Area, fixed up a number of others as well, not active on them
- Mhhossein (talk · contribs) - I restored Portal:Shia Islam after it was deleted. I also created Portal:Ashura.
- Montanabw (talk · contribs), for Portal:Horses, I'm the only person who even keeps an eye on the portal any more, the creator of the portal, who raised it to featured portal quality, has retired from WP.
- Nerd1a4i (talk · contribs) - creator of Portal:Quantum Computing which I'm working on. Willing to help out with other portals, but I'm still learning how to edit portals.
- Nick Moyes (talk · contribs) - Alps Mountains, Plants
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) - Generally sole editor and creator of Portal:Speculative fiction (featured), also sometimes edit Portal:Normandy, Portal:Anime and manga, Portal:Studio Ghibli, and Portal:Japan
- Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) One of several involved at Portal:College Football.
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs). Lead editor on Portal:Underwater diving
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) Updated Portal:Earth sciences.
- SirGents (talk · contribs) - General maintenance, especially on the war portal
- Slambo (talk · contribs) - lead editor on Portal:Trains
- Teblick (talk · contribs) - Creating a portal for the 1940s decade.
- The Transhumanist (talk · contribs) - Created/maintaining Portal:Thinking
- Tisquesusa (talk · contribs) - filled in the blanks and reorganized the categories for Portal:Prehistory of South America
- Vishal14k (talk · contribs)- Created Portal:Hisar and maintaining it.
- Voceditenore (talk · contribs) - maintainer and one of the original creators of Portal:Opera
- Waggers (talk · contribs) - creator and maintainer of Portal:South East England and most of its sub-portals, with a specific focus on Portal:Hampshire. I can use both AWB and JWB but don't know Lua very well.
- TestPAKISTAN (talk · contribs) - Maintaining and making Pakistan related portals visually more appealing. My make can be recently seen on Portal:Pakistan.
Newsletter archive
Support pages
Userboxes
- {{User WikiProject Portals}} creates
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Portals. |
- {{User WikiProject Portals/2}} creates
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Portals. |
Related pages
- List of country portals
- List of shortcuts/Portal shortcuts
- List of U.S. state portals
- List of Wikipedians by featured portal nominations
- Portal namespace (setting-up debate)
- Translation/Portal:Companies
