Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bavaria
Portal:Bavaria
Neglected mini-portal on the German state of Bavaria, wih only 5 articles + 5 biogs. Very low readership, and no sign that it has ever had any significant interest from editors other than its creator, or from WikiProjects.
With 13 million inhabitants, Bavaria is Germany's second-most-populous state. However, the last 8 months of scrutinisng portals at MFD has shown that sub-national regions (including cities) rarely attract enough readers and editors to sustain a portal. This is not one of the exceptions.
Notes:
- Created in 2009 by Matthias Klostermayr (talk · contribs), who last edited en.wp in 2014
- I have found no substantive updates or expansion since then. Just some formatting edits, and and conversion of some sub-pages to transclusion
- Low readership. In the 12 months to end October 2019, it got an average of only 11 pageviews/day. The rate is quite steady, apart from a short spike in June 2019. That's less than half of the same period's median rate of 28 views/day for all currenty-existing portals.
- No discussion ever at Portal talk:Bavaria
- No assessment of quality or importance by WP:WikiProject Portal (see Portal talk:Bavaria)
- No recent interest from WikiProjects. WhatLinksHere from WikipediaTalk namespace shows only 3 mentions, all in 2010/2011:
- A mention in a 2011 discussion at WT:WikiProject Bavaria, asking if that project was still active, and noting that the portal was not maintained
- A mention in a 2010 announcement at WT:WikiProject Germany noting the poartl needed maintainers
- A passing mention in a 2011 discussion at WT:WikiProject Switzerland
- The portal is a hybrid of the forked-subpages model and the "mega-navbox" model pioneered by User:Bermicourt. The mega-navbox component is in Portal:Bavaria/Topics, which I suggest would make an excellent basis for a Template:Bavaria navbox. (It is surprising that we don't have one already). Navboxes are much more successful than portals because they are (or should be) transcluded on each article in their set, allowing readers to navigate directly between articles ... whereas portals have the list on a separate page.
The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Bavaria shows:
- Portal:Bavaria/Did you know, with only only entry. Unchanged since 2009, apart from tweaks. Per WP:DYK, "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section". Eleven-year articles are not in any way "new", so this is just a WP:TRIVIA section. In any case I can find no sign of the linked article German nationality law ever having been selected for WP:DYK, so this is just an unscrutinised fake DYK which usurps the good name of DYK.
- Portal:Bavaria/Selected article with five sub-pages. In 2018, all were converted by User:Dreamy Jazz from content forks to transclusions of excerpts from the article's lead. This was a helpful improvement to prevent rot, but doesn't resolve the smallness of the set
- Portal:Bavaria/Selected biography with five sub-pages. All are content forks created in 2009, with only minor technical tweaks since then. None are BLPs.
- Portal:Bavaria/Quotes, all created in 2009, with no indication of source.
Some other German portals have been moved to project space at the request of their creator User:Bermicourt. In this case, the only part which seems likely to e of use to the project is Portal:Bavaria/Topics, so I suggest moving that age and deleting the rest. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:32, 13 November 2019 (UTC)