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Revision as of 23:04, 5 September 2005
NOTE: There is now a formal Portal namespace - see WP:PORTAL. If your Wikiportal is designed as a reader-aid, such as Portal:Cricket, please place it in the portal namespace. If it is an editor-aid, keep it at Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Subject.
Wikiportals are Wikipedia pages intended to be the main pages for Wikipedians interested in a specific area of knowledge, helping both to find the information on the specific topic and to develop articles connected with it. They can be associated with one or more WikiProjects. Unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant to be used both by editors and by readers of Wikipedia. If you want to help run one of the Wikiportals listed below, please add yourself to the list. If you want to create a new portal see below.
Quick links to all portals
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Existing Wikiportals
The following is a list of all known Wikiportals on the English Wikipedia together with who founded them and when and who maintains them. Please insert new entries alphabetically and wikify both date and year so personally preferred date formats are inserted for registered users. The "opening" date is the date on which the first completed portal went live or when it was created as per history. Also, add a link to the online portal at {{Portals}} (listed alphabeticaly), {{main portals}} (categorized according to Wikipedia:Browse) and Portal:Browse (also categorized).
Please list your name below under the appropriate Wikiportal if you want to help keeping it up to date on a regular basis.
How to create a new portal?
Only create a portal if you intend to maintain it.
To create a new portal on the topic "Topic" follow these steps:
1. Create a new portal at [[Portal:Topic]] (where "Topic" is the subject of your portal) and enter the following text
{{subst:box portal skeleton| topic=Topic}}
Save.
2. Create two subpages: a) Portal:Topic/box-header with the following text
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header | title={{{1}}}
|editpage={{{2}}}
|border=#aaaaaa <!-- This is the color of the borders around Box Sections -->
|titleforeground=white <!-- This is the color of the Box Section Title Bar text-->
|titlebackground=#aaccff <!-- This is the color of the Box Section Title Bar -->
|background=#f9f9ff <!-- This is the color of the Box Section background -->
|foreground=black}} <!-- This is the color of the Box Section text -->
Save.
and b) Portal:Topic/box-footer with the text
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-footer | {{{1}}} }}
Save.
3. Return to your portal page Portal:Topic and begin editing (general instructions on editing a portal are below). Basically follow the red links to create sub-pages that will fill the boxes.
4. Place a link to your portal at the top of the appropriate article (of the same name) by placing a {{portal}} there, or place {{portalpar}} at other various pages. List your portal at {{portals}} and {{main portals}}
For an explanation of how and why this format works go here.
How to edit the portal
The box portal allows you to edit the portal without editing the main portal page. Simply follow the red links to the sub pages and enter the information there. These sub-pages will be displayed on the main page.
Adding a section (box)
If you wish to add a section (box) using the regular codes, go to your portal page (e.g. [1]) and simply type in:
{{/box-header| 1 | 2 }}
{{ 3 }}
{{/box-footer| 4 }}
where
- "1" is the box title
- "2" is the article to be linked to via Template:Ed2. This will appear right under the title bar. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
- {{/box-header | Featured article | {{Portal:Computer and video games/Featured}}
- {{/box-header | Featured article | }} (no edit link param, note pipe still in place)
- "3" is again the article to be linked to (this will appear as a red link until first edited), for example:
- {{/Featured}}
- "4" is a link that you'd like to display at the bottom-right corner of the box. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
- {{/box-footer | [[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
- {{/box-footer | }} (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)
Example 1
The following code:
<div style="float:right; width:50%;">
{{/box-header|A random title|Portal:Computer and video games/Featured}}
{{/Featured}}
{{/box-footer|[[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
</div>
results in -->
A random title
Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its Japanese equivalent is known as the Nintendo Family Computer (任天堂 ファミリーコンピュータ), or Famicom (ファミコン). The most successful gaming console of its time in Asia and North America (Nintendo claims to have sold over 60 million NES units worldwide), it helped revitalize the video game industry following the video game crash of 1983, and set the standard for subsequent consoles in everything from game design (the first modern platform game, Super Mario Bros., was the system’s first "killer game") to business practices. The NES was the first console for which the manufacturer openly courted third-party developers. Portal:Computer and video games/box-footer
Example 2
The following code:
<div style="float:right; width:50%;">
{{/box-header|A random title|Wikipedia talk:Wikiportal/box-header}}
The following text will appear in the [[box]]. This text can be placed on
the [[Wikipedia:Wikiportal|portals]] main page and edited there.Or,
alternatly placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.
{{/box-footer|[[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
</div>
Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer and video games/box-header The following text will appear in the box. This text can be placed on the portals main page and edited there.Or, alternatly placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below. Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer and video games/box-footer
...when used at the computer and video games portal, will result in what is displayed to the immediate right. -->
The exact same code, used at other portals, will create a box with the exact same content, but the colors may be completely different. This is because each portal has templates at:
that add color information, and the pass all the work along to the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-footer templates, which compose everything into a standards-compliant and cross-browser box.
Changing colors
The colors of the portal can be changed in the box-header subpage. A list of colors you can use is available at Web colors or List of colors.
How to make a good Wikiportal?
Most Wikiportals contain the following for readers:
- A featured article and/or picture
- Links into the main category for the topic and possibly subcategories (some portals actually appear in the description page for the main category)
- General info about the subject, or links thereto
- Links to other portals (using templates)
...and for editors:
- Links to related WikiProjects
- Links to specific articles or tasks
- Collaboration of the week, month, etc.
You may want to embark on an effort to fill the related categories with appropriate articles if this has not been done already (or add it to the portal's "todo" list so visitors can help out).
Wikiportals under construction
- Agronomy
- Ancient Germanic culture
- Atmosphere
- Colombia
- Culture (Wikipedia:WikiProject Culture)
- Education (last edited May 24 and still a mess as of August 14)
- Film
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- International Relations
- Iran
- Middle-earth
- Montreal
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Pakistan
- Philately
- Philosophy (currently on Category:Philosophy; part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy)
- Pokémon
- Scientific method
- Spain
- The Simpsons
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Writing
Requested Wikiportals (alphabetical order)
- African Union
- American Indians
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial languages
- Astronautics
- Automobiles
- Cartoons (The Simpsons, anime)
- Chemistry
- College football
- Computing
- Dance
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Finding information
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Hinduism
- Internet
- Iraq
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea
- Lebanon
- Library and information science
- Linguistics
- Libya
- Mafia
- Maritime transport
- Martial arts
- Microsoft
- Middle East
- Mexico
- Modern world
- Mythology and folklore
- New media
- Organic gardening
- Politics
- Psychology
- Robotics
- Sexuality
- Television
- Transport
- Tourism
- Venezuela
- War (WWI, WWII...)
- Zimbabwe