Template talk:Portal

Subject bar template

The new combined template is now completely coded. It is a solid bar intended for the end of the article, just after "External Links." It supports portals, books, and interWikis. I have put in the main space at {{Subject bar}} for testing and comments. I also made a post about it at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (layout). There is a sandbox version for more major edits. Everyone is encouraged to stop by there to learn more and make comments. – VisionHolder « talk » 15:47, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Pretty job !

--Nnemo (talk) 19:26, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

What am I doing wrong?

I setup Template:Portal/Images/Washington Roads but when I put in my portal box the image does not work. --AdmrBoltz 15:43, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Fixed ---cant have the second word with a cap. Template:Portal/Images/Washington roads .Moxy (talk) 16:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Ahh, cool. Thanks :) --AdmrBoltz 16:38, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Could some....

{{editrequest}} Could someone pls protect Template:Portal/Images/Justin bieber .Moxy (talk) 23:13, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Added to Template:Portal/Image lockboxes/Names. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

What am I doing wrong?

For Singapore strategy I wanted a ref to five portals (right) but no matter which way I order them, the fourth is always missing. Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Y Done - used {{portal box|.....Moxy (talk) 05:31, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 79.180.199.137, 29 August 2011

The translation in Hebrew is incorrect, Gerda is female, not male as translated. someone needs to edit the translation.

79.180.199.137 (talk) 21:17, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't know what page you are referring to, but I'm pretty sure it's not this template. Gerda is indeed a female name in Dutch and I suppose German, though. Ucucha (talk) 03:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Fix request — Show the fourth portal

Hello,

The Template:Portal is broken.

I have written four portals :

{{Portal|Geography|Spaceflight|Russia|Soviet Union}}

But I see only three portals. See here.

Please fix this template.

Thanks,

--Nnemo (talk) 19:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Y Done It's now fixed. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:54, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Edit request

PNG → SVG Template:Portal/Images/Greater_manchester to File:England Greater Manchester numbered.svg -- -- πϵρήλιο ℗ 16:54, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Y Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Merging a couple Portal related templates

There is currently a discussion here about merging the templates for {{Portal}}, {{Portal box}} and potentially a couple others into {{Portal}} so we can just use one standard Portal template for all or most portal related actions. --Kumioko (talk) 21:10, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Update Conversation have moved to the next level ... pls see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Portal box.Moxy (talk) 05:15, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Post merger notes

I have completed the merger of {{portal box}} with {{portal}}. The old code for {{portal}} would call {{portal box}} when there was more than one portal in the box. This code also worked for a single portal, so I merged the code by using the code from {{portal box}} but the name {{portal}}. The reason for sticking with the name {{portal}} was that this template had more transclusions, and is more concise. One outcome of the change is that the old {{portal}} code would set the image size to 'x28px' if there was only one portal in the box, and '32x28px' if there was more than one portal in the box. However, the 'portal box' code would always use '32x28px'. Hence, after the merger, we now have a single image size in all cases, namely '32x28px'. This won't be noticed for most portals, but if the portal image is very wide, like the one for {{portal|BBC}}, then the box will appear to be much smaller now. I, or someone else, can restore the old functionality by passing a parameter to the first call to {{portal/core}} which would tell it if there is only one portal in the box. As far as I know, this would only effect portals with wide images, which I don't think is as common as more square aspect ratios. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 14:36, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

It's also because of the "font-size:85%;" that was in the style of "Portal box" but wasn't in the style of "Portal". I thought the size difference in font alone is negligible -- it doesn't really make a difference. How about just setting the image size to x28px? This would seem to fix the BBC Project portal problem and other images would similarly just sort themselves out. Adding extra parameters to check for the presence of more than one portal wouldn't make a difference for articles like BBC Radio 1 (whose portal box only links to the BBC Project), and it would add extra overhead to the server when the portal template is called. Banaticus (talk) 04:48, 25 January 2012 (UTC)