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[edit] Proposal to change a section title
There's a proposal to adjust one of the main section titles used in "Wikipedia's contents", which will also affect the order in which the section titles are presented. See Portal talk:Contents#Proposal for main section title adjustment. The Transhumanist 02:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Most popular portal
Is there a list of portals by pageviews? – Lionel (talk) 23:43, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm also interested in viewing pageviews for portals, plus a question: are they accessible from outside via a search engine, like the article namespace is?--~TPW 20:02, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Portals
I have started a RFC on the Portal namespace. You may view it here. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:19, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Style tweaks for small and mobile screens
I've noticed that a lot of portal pages use a two-column layout (using CSS floats); on large screens this looks great, but on very narrow screens -- and especially on smartphones -- you end up with tiny tiny inch-wide columns that aren't big enough to fit their contents.
At MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Portal_column_width_vs_narrow_and_mobile_screens I'm proposing moving the float & width definitions to common styles; these can then be disabled on narrow screens through a CSS media query (on mobile displays through the en.m.wikipedia.org system they shouldn't even be engaged at all), switching to a nice one-column layout automatically.
If there's no objection, I'll start this on a few portal pages later today as an experiment. --brion (talk) 22:29, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've gone ahead and done this on Portal:Literature and the portals linked to it from the bottom. They render a lot nicer on mobile, though some are still too wide due to other things on the page (either in whole or in part -- usually big tables of icons with links to other portals!) If there's no obvious problem I'll have a bot run over the rest of the portals to do the same, then look after the icons and tables. --brion (talk) 23:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Citing sources in Portals
I'm looking specifically at Portal:Current events/Sports when I ak that should a Portal which is filled with a lot of news type reporting, that it should be referenced? The regular editors at this portal seem actively opposed, believing the Portals are somehow immune from standards of verifiability. Any assistance? --Falcadore (talk) 10:14, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Far from being an expert on the matter, the portals themselves are not articles but aggregated links to articles that contain the citations to sources. As such, they are like the lead of an article and do not require citations, at least that is how I interpret it. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:18, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Problem I have that despite being labelled as a portal, the contents are actually an unsourced version of Wikinews. If it is to behave as Wikinews and contains nothing but news items it should be sourced and the Portal name does not abrogate the responsibility? --Falcadore (talk) 21:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
