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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#AWB task (eom)

Portals tasks requests: presented in the newsletter below...

Your draft article, User:Auric/Derek Boote

Hello, Auric. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Derek Boote".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Mgbo120 (talk) 20:37, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019

Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants

A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:

Harvesting categories tool prototype

DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

What else is going on

There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 09:07, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Podcasting

I changed the search from {{PAGENAME}} ("Podcasting") to "podcast", and some items turned up in "Did you know".

The default search only works well with place names and other proper nouns. To make it work for subjects that usually go in small case, we've got to change the search parameters manually. — The Transhumanist 12:37, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing that.--Auric talk 15:06, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019

Portal styles

For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.

If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.

Conversion continues

There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".

Flagship portals: the portals on the Main Page

Speaking of upgrades...

The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:

Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.

The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.

As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.

Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.

And be sure they are on your watchlist.

New portals since last issue

Keep 'em coming!

Deorphanizing the new portals

As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.

What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.

Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...

Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.

That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!

To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.

It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.

Good news indeed.

Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!

And, that's a wrap

That's all I have to report this time around.

No doubt there will be more to tell soon.

Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019

Here's a quicky status report:

Old-style portals: 1,018

Single-page portals: 4,367

Total portals: 5,385

But of course, there has been more going on than just that...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!

Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.

What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.

We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.

When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.

Get ready...

Get set...

Go!

Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discovered

User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.

When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.

The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:

And the corresponding talk pages:

New portals since the last issue

Keep up the great work

Until next time, — The Transhumanist 08:58, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019

Hi Auric,

"Parvatii Nair" - whom the wiki page is about, has informed me that there are three movies in her filmography in which she didn't act. The source is not accurate. These movies are as follows:

1)Nimirndhu Nil 2014 Indira Tamil Cameo appearance 2)Janda Pai Kapiraju 2015 Vandhana Telugu Cameo appearance 3)Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam 2016 Kamini Tamil

Hence, I deleted those from her filmography.

These are shady films, having them in her filmography is damaging to her reputation. Hence I deleted them.

Can you go ahead and remove the content.

Thanks Mithun Markbulb (talk) 19:21, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On Further inspection. Looks like was an edit war on this topic last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Parvatii_Nair

I can confidently say that Parvatii didn't act in those films. Willing to submit the required proof. Having those films in her filmography is a clear case of defamation and according to Wikipedia law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Libel,

Can you please remove it.

Thanks

Markbulb (talk) 19:56, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Auric. I noticed that you recently removed content from Parvatii Nair without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Auric talk 17:49, 5 February 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markbulb (talk • contribs)