Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
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Welcome to WikiProject Portals, dedicated to developing and maintaining portals. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join!
Here, we drive the artistic and technological evolution of Wikipedia's portal system. If you would like to improve Wikipedia's portals, and make them more useful, more dynamic, and more eye-catching, you've come to the right place...
Contents
- 1 Portals WikiProject-related news
- 2 Focus: Portals
- 3 Purposes of this WikiProject
- 4 The current situation
- 5 The current plan
- 6 Discussion announcements
- 7 Project tasks
- 7.1 Inspect portals, especially new ones
- 7.2 Check portals for errors and bugs
- 7.3 Participate in design efforts and discussions
- 7.4 Fill in the gaps
- 7.5 Portal:Contents/Portals needs to be updated (again)
- 7.6 Add a panorama or banner picture to a portal
- 7.7 Install image slideshows
- 7.8 Check portals at Category:Portals under construction
- 7.9 Complete a portal
- 7.10 Invite your friends!
- 8 Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD
- 9 Tools
- 10 Project participants
- 11 Support pages
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Portals progress report[edit]
The number of portals when we started the project reboot (April 2018): 1,485
The number of portals that have been created or revamped since then: 2,893
Total portals: 4,168
Focus: Portals[edit]
The focus of this WikiProject is portals. All existing and future portals on Wikipedia.
What is a portal?[edit]
Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. They are analogous to Wikipedia's Main Page, the subject of which is knowledge (the broadest subject of all). Portals narrow down the scope a bit to a more specific subject, and they vary in format and approach. Like the Main Page, which itself is not an article per se, portals are supplemental to the encyclopedia, and provide various alternate approaches to exploring a subject. Innovation is desired and encouraged.
Each portal is named for the subject it covers. We have a portal called "Geography", for example. To set them apart from articles, portals have their own namespace, and so the title of each portal is always preceded by "Portal:". So, the one on geography is called Portal:Geography.
It may help to look at a couple definitions for the word "portal" from Wiktionary:
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. For example: The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
While these definitions may also fit Wikipedia's regular articles (like Geography, for example), such articles are constrained primarily to presenting a description of their respective subjects. The essence of regular articles is that they are prose overviews. That makes them less than ideal for navigating their entire subject.
When a subject goes beyond the capacity of a single page, that page is called the subject's root article (its title is the name of the broader subject). But, Wikipedia's coverage of subjects goes way beyond what is on a root article's page. For example, there are over 40,000 articles on mathematics. While the article mathematics summarizes the general subject in descriptive terms, it becomes obvious that there can be other approaches to navigating Wikipedia's overall coverage of this and other subjects.
That's where Wikipedia's various navigation systems come in, including portals. Portal:Mathematics, for instance, provides a selection of reading samples and links to delve into Wikipedia's coverage of mathematics further. A good synonym for a portal is "doorway to knowledge".
Please bear in mind that portals must be about subject areas for which Wikipedia's coverage goes beyond the root article. Otherwise, a portal will simply be a reworking of the corresponding root article, which is not the intent of portals.
Speaking of intent, the essence of portals is determined by their purposes...
Purposes of portals[edit]
Each portal on Wikipedia acts as an alternative entrance to a subject. Portals supplement the encyclopedia. They support their subjects in various ways, including but not limited to:
- Providing a variety of sample content of subtopics ("topic tasters"), from within each portal's subject, that the reader may find interesting. Kind of like a magazine. Like what Wikipedia's Main Page does in general.
- Aiding navigation - portals are one of Wikipedia's navigation subsystems, designed to help users find their way around the vast amount of knowledge on Wikipedia to material within a particular subject. So, in addition to sample content, a portal may also present in various ways, links, and lists of links.
- Providing bridges between reading and editing, and between the encyclopedia proper and the Wikipedia community, via links to pages in project space (and the other namespaces) that are relevant to the portal's subject. A portal may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike a WikiProject, however, it is meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution. Note that portals are created for encyclopedic topics only and not for article maintenance categories.
Purposes of this WikiProject[edit]
What we do here is collaborate upon improving and maintaining portals and their support pages, and building new portals...
- Improving portals pertains to developing better portal designs (such as creating new and better automated components), and implementing those designs into existing portals.
- Maintaining portals means updating them, and fixing problems that arise.
- We also build new portals to fill gaps in the portal system, and expand the portal system's coverage of subjects on Wikipedia.
The current situation[edit]
When this WikiProject rebooted in April 2018, there were about 1500 portals, most of which had a rather cludgy design including manually copied and pasted excerpts and images. These were very time-consuming to maintain, and as a consequence, most weren't.
We've redesigned the portal concept, and have created over 2500 new portals. These are highly automated, and practically maintain themselves, with content updating and even changing, over time. So, the majority of the portal collection is new and remain fresh. The new portals are also augmented with more powerful browsing features, such as slideshows for both images and textual content.
Concerning the older portals, they are undergoing upgrade or replacement. So far, the introduction sections and the Associated Wikimedia sections on almost all of these portals have been upgraded to the new design. Several hundred of the old portals have received upgrades to their image section and category tree section. That leaves 4 to 10 sections on each portal that still need upgrading or removal. About 300 old-style portals have been fully converted to the new design.
The new standard design is embodied in the Template:Basic portal start page, and is undergoing further development at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Design. There is no requirement to use this design, and creativity in developing portals is both welcomed and encouraged.
The current plan[edit]
Current efforts are divided between these five activity types:
- Developing new components and tools to build and maintain portals with
- Upgrading old portals, replacing their static content with self-updating features
- Creating new portals
- Developing and maintaining portals of the new design (adding new features, fixing bugs and repairing formatting errors that emerge, placing links to the portals, etc.)
- Administration of the WikiProject (updating support pages and guidelines, publishing the project's newsletter, managing tasks, posting announcements and invitations, etc.)
The plan is to continue with these activities to...
- Fully automate the creation and maintenance of portals, with features included to allow for human input. For a detailed presentation of design objectives and their implementation, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Design and the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
- Upgrade all of the old portals, except those with dedicated manual maintainers
- Create new portals for all the core topics that have enough coverage to need a portal, and for whatever other topics portal creators are interested in
- Keep existing portals fully upgraded with new features as they become available, and running smoothly
- Support a team who enjoy working together and building something special
For details of what needs to be done, see the rest of this page, below...
Discussion announcements[edit]
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#Second sentence contradicts WP:NOTCOMPULSORY policy, and should be removed
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#Concerning the inclusion of "Related portals" section
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#Concerning the inclusion of "Selected article(s)" section
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#Concerning section: Recommended
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#Concerning section: Article selection
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#Concerning section: Required
Project tasks [edit]
| There's more than one way to produce a good portal. Where active editors are willing and able to do the work, they can continue to run portals however they like, using some or none of the new tools and ideas as they see fit. |
Pertaining to portals, there are tasks of many kinds. You are welcome to join in on the fun...
Inspect portals, especially new ones[edit]
The list of all portals can be found at Category:All portals.
For new portals since November 1st, use this PetScan query to find this month's new portals. To use a different date, go to the "Page properties" screen and change the limit from 20181101, or just hack the URL. (Tip courtesy of Certes).
Check portals for errors and bugs[edit]
Because most of the portals are generated by lua modules and various forms of transclusion, and because wikicode throughout the pages being transcluded is so varied, bugs and errors tend to occur here and there in portals.
To make the job of checking all the 4,000+ portals easier, here are a couple links to help do the work for you:
- PetScan query for listing portals with Lua errors (courtesy of Certes).
- WP search to find portals that "spew" excerpts all at once rather than one per click of the slideshow controls (courtesy of Certes)
Lua errors usually indicate an empty section, or a sourcepage that lacks images. These can be fixed by providing better parameters (pagenames), or by putting images on the image slideshow sourcepage(s). Image files can also be added directly to image slideshows, but any sourcepage name causing the lua error needs to be removed for the error to go away.
If you come across errors or bugs that you cannot fix, please report them at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.
Participate in design efforts and discussions[edit]
Design discussions take place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
Fill in the gaps[edit]
There are many subjects on Wikipedia that have plenty of coverage, but lack a portal.
An area where this is obvious is the vital topic structure. Initially developed for tracking the quality of core topic articles on Wikipedia, we're adapting it below to track coverage of "core" topics by portals...
Level 2 vital portals still needed[edit]
These correspond to level 2 vital articles.
Here are the last of the redlinked ones from level 2. Please turn them blue:
- Portal:Atoms
- Portal:Civilization
- Portal:Climate
- Portal:Communication
- Portal:Construction
- Portal:Disease
- Portal:Electricity
- Portal:Entertainment
- Portal:Ethnic groups
- Portal:History of art
- Portal:History of the world
- Portal:Knowledge
- Portal:Land
- Portal:Life
- Portal:Mind
- Portal:Modern history
- Portal:Nature
- Portal:Popular culture
- Portal:Post-classical history
- Portal:Tools
Level 3 vital portals[edit]
The redlinked ones still need to be built.
These somewhat correspond to level 3 vital articles.
Level 4 vital portals[edit]
The redlinked ones need to be built?
These roughly correspond to level 4 vital articles.
Level 5 vital portals[edit]
The redlinked ones need to be built?
These loosely correspond to level 5 vital articles.
Portal:Contents/Portals needs to be updated (again)[edit]
We've been busy! As of this writing, there are at least 1,955 new portals not yet presented on the main list at Portal:Contents/Portals. Please add them. They can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet, along with instructions.
Each item in that list needs to be processed as explained below. Please do as many as you have time for. Every little bit helps...
First, look at a portal on the list, and inspect it to see if it is completed. If it isn't, either complete it, or mark the entry "
Not ready" with the {{Not ready}} template. That will let others know it needs work.
If an entry on the list is a completed portal, add it to Portal:Contents/Portals. After you've added it, please mark that entry in the list as "
Done", using the {{done}} template.
Most incomplete portals have one or more empty sections that have nothing more than a red subpage link in the middle of them.
Thank you.
Add a panorama or banner picture to a portal[edit]
Here's a task that really brightens up a page...
Add a banner-shaped picture (such as a panorama) to the introduction section of portals. Place them at the top of the introduction section, or if they are especially tall, place them at the bottom of that section.
Do one, here or there, as you feel like it. Do as many as you like. Every little bit helps.
Please do not add pics over 2 megabytes in size, as they can cause the portal scripts to time out, causing empty sections, or sections with error messages. Watch out, because some of those pictures are huge, like 12 megabytes or more. Less than one megabyte is best, if you can manage it.
Pictures can be found at commons:. Search strings that work well with city names to find these are "skyline" or "panorama". There are a large number of wide images at 7:1 aspect ratio used as Wikivoyage banners in Commons:Category:Wikivoyage banners. Most of these are not very large files.
Geographic portals are listed in the Geography section of Portal:Contents/Portals. City portals are shown in parentheses (though they are not the only ones in parentheses).
As for other subjects, banner-shaped pictures pertaining directly to those or any of their subtopics will typically suffice.
Here is an example of the main template used to place banners/panoramas:
{{Portal image banner|Jarvis Island banner sharks.jpg|[[Gray reef shark]]s over reef near [[Jarvis Island]].}}
Which looks like this:
Here are some examples of portals with panoramas or banner-shaped pictures in their intro sections:
When you finish one, feel free to show it off in this list...
- Portal:Agoura Hills, California
- Portal:Ajmer
- Portal:Albany, New York
- Portal:Algeria
- Portal:Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Portal:Almaty
- Portal:Andorra la Vella
- Portal:Animation
- Portal:Anti-nuclear movement
- Portal:Assam
- Portal:Asunción
- Portal:Athens
- Portal:Atlanta
- Portal:Atlases
- Portal:Austin
- Portal:Australia
- Portal:Australian Capital Territory
- Portal:Bacon
- Portal:Bananas
- Portal:Bangkok
- Portal:Barcelona
- Portal:Beed district
- Portal:Bergamo
- Portal:Berkeley, California
- Portal:Bermuda
- Portal:Bihar
- Portal:Billings, Montana
- Portal:Blueberries
- Portal:Bob Weir
- Portal:Bread
- Portal:Breakfast
- Portal:Brisbane
- Portal:Brooklyn
- Portal:Burmese cuisine
- Portal:Calgary
- Portal:Cannabis
- Portal:Cannabis in the United States
- Portal:Cereals
- Portal:Cheese
- Portal:Cherries
- Portal:Chess
- Portal:Chilean cuisine
- Portal:Clothing
- Portal:Coconuts
- Portal:Coffee
- Portal:Columbia River
- Portal:Cooking
- Portal:Davenport
- Portal:Decompression (diving)
- Portal:Deep frying
- Portal:Delhi
- Portal:Derby
- Portal:Desserts
- Portal:Dhaka
- Portal:Diver training
- Portal:Diving equipment
- Portal:Diving support equipment
- Portal:Dresden
- Portal:Dubai
- Portal:Edinburgh
- Portal:Edison, New Jersey
- Portal:Encarnación, Paraguay
- Portal:Energy drinks
- Portal:Erie, Pennsylvania
- Portal:Erotica and Pornography
- Portal:Finswimming
- Portal:Florence
- Portal:Florida
- Portal:Food preservation
- Portal:Freediving
- Portal:Fruits
- Portal:Gary, Indiana
- Portal:Genocide
- Portal:Geography
- Portal:Glasgow
- Portal:Goa
- Portal:Graffiti
- Portal:Green Bay Packers
- Portal:Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Portal:Hamburgers
- Portal:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Portal:Herbs and spices
- Portal:Himachal Pradesh
- Portal:Hong Kong
- Portal:Houston
- Portal:Illinois
- Portal:India
- Portal:Japanese architecture
- Portal:Java
- Portal:Jerry Garcia
- Portal:Kansas City, Missouri
- Portal:Kolkata
- Portal:Korean cuisine
- Portal:Kyoto
- Portal:Lithuania
- Portal:Lusaka
- Portal:Madagascar
- Portal:Maharashtra
- Portal:Malaysian cuisine
- Portal:Manhattan
- Portal:Manufacturing
- Portal:Meals
- Portal:Meat
- Portal:Melbourne
- Portal:Memphis, Tennessee
- Portal:Miami
- Portal:Miami Beach, Florida
- Portal:Mickey Hart
- Portal:Milan
- Portal:Milk
- Portal:Milwaukee
- Portal:Monaco
- Portal:Moscow
- Portal:Mountains
- Portal:Munich
- Portal:New Orleans
- Portal:New York City
- Portal:Norfolk, Virginia
- Portal:Northumberland
- Portal:Nutrition
- Portal:Nuuk
- Portal:Odisha
- Portal:Olives
- Portal:Palermo
- Portal:Pancakes
- Portal:Paris
- Portal:Parkersburg, West Virginia
- Portal:Pasta
- Portal:Penguins
- Portal:Perth
- Portal:Pies
- Portal:Podgorica
- Portal:Poland
- Portal:Portland, Maine
- Portal:Portugal
- Portal:Poultry
- Portal:Prague
- Portal:Punjab
- Portal:Punjab/Indices
- Portal:Punjab/Intro
- Portal:Punjab/Wikiprojects
- Portal:Recreational dive sites
- Portal:Reptiles
- Portal:Rice
- Portal:Rio de Janeiro
- Portal:Sacramento
- Portal:Saint Petersburg
- Portal:San Antonio
- Portal:Sanskrit
- Portal:Science of underwater diving
- Portal:Scotland
- Portal:Scottish islands
- Portal:Seattle
- Portal:Sharks
- Portal:Soups
- Portal:South Sudan
- Portal:Stockholm
- Portal:Strawberries
- Portal:Sushi
- Portal:Tamil Nadu
- Portal:Tea
- Portal:Tehran
- Portal:Thai cuisine
- Portal:The Bronx
- Portal:Thiruvananthapuram
- Portal:Transport
- Portal:Turin
- Portal:Underwater breathing apparatus
- Portal:Underwater divers
- Portal:Underwater diving
- Portal:Underwater sports
- Portal:Underwater work
- Portal:United States Territories
- Portal:University of Montana
- Portal:Vienna
- Portal:Vincent van Gogh
- Portal:Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Portal:Vitamins
- Portal:West Bengal
- Portal:Wheat
Tip for displaying an oversized picture as a banner[edit]
Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:
{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}
Using both maxheight=120px and overflow=Hidden produces this:
Install image slideshows[edit]
On the older portals, replace "Selected image" sections with "Selected images" sections.
The code for an image slideshow would look like this, for most existing portals:
{{Box-header colour|Selected images}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow| paragraphs=1-3 | files=1 | more=
| {{PAGENAME}}
|
|
}}Entries can be sourcepage names, or file names. For each sourcepage, the template displays every image on that page. Filenames must start with "File:" and get displayed directly in the slideshow. "{{}}" is the magic word that stands for the portal's page name, without prefix, which is usually also the name of the corresponding root article.
For examples of portals that have image slideshows, see Portal:Continents, Portal:Greek cuisine, Portal:Toucans, and Portal:Ancient Egypt. Or see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&limit=5000&target=Template%3ATransclude+files+as+random+slideshow&namespace=100
Where do you find pictures?
- At Wikipedia:Featured pictures, some of Wikipedia's best pictures are listed by subject. Many of those subjects correspond to a portal name.
- On the portal's subpages, if any.
- Throughout Wikipedia articles.
- On Wikimedia Commons. This is a great place to find pictures not used in articles.
Check portals at Category:Portals under construction[edit]
Attention WikiGnomes:
Please inspect as many portals in this category as you have time for, and remove the category from those that are complete.
Also, feel free to complete those that are not, or any portion of them.
Thank you.
Complete a portal[edit]
If you'd like to work on a whole portal that was started but not finished, and get it ready for Wikipedia's readership to view, pick one from the list below.
- Portal:1910s
- Portal:1920s
- Portal:1930s
- Portal:1940s
- Portal:2000s
- User:Abyssal/Portal: Belemnoids
- Portal:Algae
- Portal:All Saints
- Portal:Ashura
- Portal:Association Football Variants
- Portal:Butterflies and moths
- Portal:Coke Studio (Pakistan)
- Portal:Flodden
- Portal:Law & Order (franchise)
- Portal:Left-wing populism
- Portal:MMA
- Portal:Paleobotany
- Portal:Prehistory of Oceania
- Portal:RuPaul's Drag Race
- Portal:Ryukyu
- Portal:Savoy
- Portal:Shina
- Portal:Smartphone
- Portal:Space
- Portal:Special operations
- Portal:Strictly Come Dancing
- Portal:Sydney
- Portal:Syrian Civil War
- Portal:Tamil Eelam
- Portal:Telephones
- Portal:Turkmenistan
- Portal:Ulcinj
- Portal:United States Territories
- Portal:Universe
- Portal:Western Region (Ghana)
- Portal:Wikiatlas
- Portal:Women's history
- Portal:Yoga
- Portal:York Region, Ontario
- Portal:Zoos and aquariums
Invite your friends![edit]
Let them know we are having a lot of fun. ;)
Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD[edit]
Manual listing[edit]
- Note that portal subpages are not included in the automatic alerts. For example, if a specific subpage is nominated for deletion.
- For archives, see: Portals for deletion at MfD.
Automated alerts[edit]
Categories for discussion
- 14 Nov 2018 – Category:Portals with titles not starting with a proper noun (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion
Tools[edit]
Watchlist[edit]
WikiProject Portals watchlist (external link - tool labs) A watchlist that is automatically generated from all pages that transclude the project banner is available here: WikiProject Watchlist - WikiProject Portals.Alternative version which excludes edits in the portal namespace is available here. |
For your convenience, a list of all portal pages is provided below. (It is possible to get all portal pages into your watchlist, but it is difficult and tedious). The list is current as of 8/12/2018.
The list of all portal pages is useful for getting a bird's eye view of:
- What's in portal space
- Monitoring activity on the portal pages using the Related changes feature in the sidebar menu
The list was too long to get onto a single page (there are 146,329 pages in portal space), and so it is split up into 6 parts:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 1 (1-9 and A-B)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 2 (C-E)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 3 (F-L)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 4 (M-Q)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 5 (R-T)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 6 (S-Z and other characters)
The archive contains old lists and these older lists are kept for historical reference: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Archive
SearchSuite[edit]
Most portals have subpages.
Search is kind of cludgy for looking at these. you can use PrefixIndex for extracting subpages (Example).
SearchSuite enhances Wikipedia search results. It has a feature (menu item) that reformats search results to one-line entries, which is convenient for looking at portal subpages as a list. It has another menu item that formats the links (asterisk-style, with link delimeters) for copying/pasting into an editor. And another for sorting the results. Each feature works on the output of the others, and the script remembers the setting of each menu item between pages. When one is turned on, it stays on for all searches.
Templates[edit]
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- {{WikiProject Portals/New}} (see box displayed to the right)
Markers[edit]
These markers control how a portal is edited.
- {{nobots}} – tells bots not to edit the page.
- {{Featured portal}} – marks a featured portal
- {{Portal maintenance status}} – used to record various maintenance metadata for a portal
Portal components[edit]
Here's a portal displaying the components that can be used in each section:
Here's a list of components used to build portals. Their placement (left column, etc.) is suggested only.
- Top of portal
{{Portal description}}– adds a standard short description{{Portals browsebar}}– standard portals navigation bar displayed in top margin, to browse top-level portals{{Transclude lead excerpt}}– dynamic excerpt that always matches the source.
- Left column
{{Transclude random excerpt}}– same as above, but specify multiple sources for alternating display.{{Transclude selected excerpt}}– shows a specific lead of an article for a specific time.- Quotes
{{Portal selected quote layout}}– this template should be used when you need a layout for quotes.{{Random quotation}}– this template was used in the Portal:LDS Church to eleminate the need for subpages for quotes.
- Right column
{{Transclude selected current events}}– shows wikinews about a subject.{{Random slideshow}}– shows a slideshow gallery of specified files, in a randomised order{{Transclude selected recent additions}}– shows Did you know? items for a subject.
- Bottom of portal
{{Related portals}}– creates icon tables of related portals for portal pages. Friendly to wide and narrow screens, including mobile, and does not require hardcoding icons.{{Wikimedia for portals}}– creates a table of interwiki links related to the current portal.{{Purge link portals}}– creates the "View new selections (purge)" link.{{Portals}}– explanatory and browsing links
- Layout
{{Box-header/#}}– start of a layout box. The "#" is the number of a configuration subpage, each with a different pre-defined configuration.{{Box-header colour}}as an alternative to the above, with automatic WP:WCAG compliant color selection.{{Box-footer}}– end of a layout box
For a full list of portal templates, see {{Portal templates navbox}}:
Userboxes and WikiAd[edit]
Show these off on your profile to let everyone know you contribute to the sustainment of the Portal namespace. Or you could just add Category:WikiProject Portals participants directly.
- {{User WikiProject Portals}} creates
| This user is a member of WikiProject Portals. |
- {{User WikiProject Portals2}} creates
| This user is a member of WikiProject Portals. |
- {{Wikipedia ads|267}} creates
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| Wikipedia ads | file info – #267 |
If you receive a Portal Barnstar, you may want to have a userbox to show this. You can do this by with:
- {{User:Dreamy Jazz/Userboxes/Barnstars/Portal}} which creates
Project participants[edit]
If you'd like to receive task requests and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also, please indicate if you are a user of AWB or JWB, and if you know Lua, JS, perl, and/or PHP. An asterisk following a name indicates they receive updates in the form of a link instead of the whole newsletter. Follow your name with two asterisks if you do not wish to receive any project-wide updates, not even a link. Those marked with 3 asterisks have not been confirmed as wishing updates due to unreachability.
- 9563rj (talk · contribs) *
- Abyssal (talk · contribs)
- AfroThundr3007730 (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Andrewa (talk · contribs) (I use neither) (Admin)
- AmericanAir88 (talk · contribs)
- Bahb_the_Illuminated (talk · contribs)
- Bermicourt (talk · contribs)
- BrantleyIzMe (talk · contribs) Delighted to use my free time to improve WP
- Cactus.man (talk · contribs) * (Admin) Used to maintain Portal:Scotland. Don't use AWB or JWB, but am delighted this initiative is underway. have now pretty much updated the Portal to self maintain/update.
- Cesdeva (talk · contribs) * (AWB) - busy working on a new approach to make portals mobile-friendly.
- comfr (talk · contribs) *
- Coffeeandcrumbs — Interested in adding quotes like this.
- Checkingfax (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs)(AWB)(JWB)(a little Lua)
- Daniel Case (talk · contribs) ***
- Dreamy Jazz (talk · contribs) * - AWB (used JWB once) - Pagemover rights - Lua.
- Dunarc (talk · contribs) - Limited time means I am not sure if I can be of much help, but I have edited a few portals from time to time and happy to keep doing so. Do not use any of the above.
- Emir of Wikipedia (talk · contribs) I have both (AWB)(JWB) but I am not using them as of the timing of writing.
- Finnusertop (talk · contribs)
- Espilio (talk · contribs)
- Evad37 (talk · contribs) – Lua (also AWB, but have not used it for a while)
- Gazamp (talk · contribs) - Very little experience with portals but willing to help and learn!
- Ganesha811 (talk · contribs) - I use neither, happy to take on small to mid-sized tasks to help
- Godsy (talk · contribs) *
- Hiding (talk · contribs) *** (Admin)
- Javert2113 (talk · contribs)
- John Cline (talk · contribs) (just me)
- Kirbanzo (talk · contribs) - I know the background importance of portals to the site.
- Kpgjhpjm (talk · contribs) - use none of them .
- Mercurywoodrose (talk · contribs) - use none of them. already heavily edited a number of portals, so member by default
- Mhhossein (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Mr. Guye (talk · contribs) (Uses neither, trying to figure out JavaScript, bad at everything else)
- Nerd1a4i (talk · contribs) (I use neither)
- Nick Moyes (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Nigos (talk · contribs)
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) * (Admin) - No AWB, no JWB, don't know Lua but wouldn't mind learning it
- Nolan Perry (talk · contribs) - I am learning Lua
- Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs) (Admin) Have performed maintenance, fixes and updating to various portals
- OdysseusTroy (talk · contribs) I don't know a lot of JS anymore because I learned it too long ago and forgot, and before seeing the mention above I had never heard of AWB. I know HTML basics fluently (and maybe a bit of fancy formatting but I don't think that's necessary). If I can help in any way at all, you can count me in for the whole enchilada. Lua I don't know the slightest about but I think it looks pretty simple and I'm positive I could learn it quickly enough.
- OhanaUnited (talk · contribs) (Admin)
- Paine Ellsworth (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) (Admin) (old school clunky Wiki coder)
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) (Admin) – I am registered for AWB, but have hardly started to learn how to use it.
- User talk:Pythoncoder/News
- Railfan01 (talk · contribs)
- Redolta (talk · contribs) - (Don't know AWB, JWB, or Lua)
- Robertgombos (talk · contribs) — AWB (sometimes).
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) (Admin)
- Samee (talk · contribs) — AWB
- Serenesage (talk · contribs)
- SirGents (talk · contribs)
- Slambo (talk · contribs) (Admin)
- The Transhumanist (talk · contribs) (AWB)(JS)
- TheGridExe (talk · contribs) (AWB) – my participation will be limited and my experience with AWB is novice
- Tisquesusa (talk · contribs), no AWB, JWB, Lua Help to get the automatic update function in would be great, the main point why portals are considered "dead"; not automatically updated for Featured, DYK and Pictures.
- Tom (talk · contribs) - International Collaboration / Knowlegde exchange Homewiki de:WP ==> de:P:WF
- Vermont (talk · contribs) - AWB
- مصعب (talk · contribs) (Mossab) (AWB).
- Child Duckling (talk · contribs) (California Area Portal Fixer).
WikiGnomes[edit]
If you prefer WikiGnome tasks and would like to receive WikiGnome-oriented updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also let us know if you are an AWB or JWB user.
- AfroThundr3007730 (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Auric (talk · contribs) (AWB - can't get it to work for me, though)
- Dicklyon (talk · contribs)
- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs) - (Already a WikiGnome in this area)
- Espilio (talk · contribs)
- Greatedits1 (talk · contribs)
- Kpgjhpjm (talk · contribs)
- Nigos (talk · contribs)
- PratyushSinha101 (talk · contribs)
- Trinitrobrick (talk · contribs)
- Wumbolo (talk · contribs) (AWB)
Specific portal maintainers[edit]
This is a list of editors who work on specific portal(s) or in specific areas, in case you need to contact someone about those.
- Armanaziz (talk · contribs)- Portal:Bangladesh, Portal:SAARC and Portal:Bengal.
- Ask123 (talk · contribs) - Interested in Portal: Swimming
- Ancheta Wis (talk · contribs) (Admin) - focus on Portal: Science
- Auric (talk · contribs) - Creator and maintainer of Portal: H. P. Lovecraft
- Balablitz (talk · contribs) - Creator and maintainer of Portal:Trichy
- Bermicourt (talk · contribs), lead editor on most of Germany's state and regional portals
- Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia
- East Frisia, Eifel, Elbe-Elster, Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Elbe-Weser Triangle, Franconia, Harz Mountains, Lüneburg Heath, Lusatia, North Palatine Uplands, Ore Mountains, Palatine Forest, Pomerania, Rhön, Silesia, Westerwald
- East Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Alps, Mountains, Peak District, Tyrol
- BrendonTheWizard (talk · contribs)- The portals for partially recognized / unrecognized political entities are currently inactive and I intend to fix this. Today I am launching Portal:Limited recognition and I will monitor related portals & WikiProjects to update and feature articles on this topic. Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 13:27, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- BusterD (talk · contribs) - co-maintainer of Portal:American Civil War
- Cactus.man (talk · contribs) - Portal:Scotland Used to maintain it regularly until I became quite inactive. Have recently revamped it to autoupdate using current templates.
- Cesdeva (talk · contribs) * - Portal:Herbalism
- Charlesdrakew (talk · contribs) I maintain Portal:West Sussex.
- Cplakidas (talk · contribs) - maintainer of Portal:Byzantine Empire
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs) - Portal:Zoos and aquariums
- DavidCane (talk · contribs) - maintainer of Portal:London transport
- dcljr (talk · contribs) * - Help to maintain Portal:Mathematics.
- Ddstretch (talk · contribs) - Creator and one of the Maintainers of the Cheshire portal; I may help set up other county portals for England.
- Dreamy Jazz (talk · contribs) - Keeps an eye on Portal:North East England and Portal:Northumberland
- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs) - Maintaining Portal:Jersey
- Eruditescholar (talk · contribs) - creator and maintainer of Portal:Lagos
- Evad37 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Australian roads
- Finnusertop (talk · contribs) – Portal:North Korea
- Greatedits1 (talk · contribs) - I currently maintain Portal:Narnia. Also interested in technology and literature.
- Grey Wanderer (talk · contribs) - Creator of Portal:Missouri
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) - Portal:Nuclear technology. Been meaning to update this one for a while
- JarrahTree (talk · contribs) - watcher of Portal:Australia and related state portals
- Keith D (talk · contribs) (Admin) - Portal:Yorkshire
- Kpalion (talk · contribs) – sole editor of Portal:Poland
- L3X1 (talk · contribs) - no, never heard of, same
- Will be working mostly off and on on Portal:Cars
- LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:38, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Working on the Tropical cyclones portal, and occasionally, a few other Science-topics portals as well. Would like to receive major/critical updates only. LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Marshallsumter (talk · contribs) - created Portal:X-ray astronomy at 23:27, 7 March 2010, and maintain it! I don't believe anyone is maintaining the Portal:Astronomy so I have started to do so! Adding Portal:Jupiter. Of course, others are welcome to help!
- Master of Time (talk · contribs) – Mostly focus on updating current storms and sometimes anniversary material in the Tropical cyclone portal
- Mercurywoodrose (talk · contribs) - sole editor and maintainer of Portal:San Francisco Bay Area, fixed up a number of others as well, not active on them
- Mhhossein (talk · contribs) - I restored Portal:Shia Islam after it was deleted. I also created Portal:Ashura.
- Montanabw (talk · contribs), for Portal:Horses, I'm the only person who even keeps an eye on the portal any more, the creator of the portal, who raised it to featured portal quality, has retired from WP.
- Nerd1a4i (talk · contribs) - creator of Portal:Quantum Computing which I'm working on. Willing to help out with other portals, but I'm still learning how to edit portals.
- Nick Moyes (talk · contribs) - Alps Mountains, Plants
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) (Admin) * - Generally sole editor and creator of Portal:Speculative fiction (featured), also sometimes edit Portal:Normandy, Portal:Anime and manga, Portal:Studio Ghibli, and Portal:Japan
- Nolan Perry (talk · contribs), Trys to work on Portal:Telephone, most likely will need help
- Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) (Admin) One of several involved at Portal:College Football.
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) (Admin) – Lead editor on Portal:Underwater diving
- RL0919 (talk · contribs) (Admin) - taking on maintenance of Portal:Theatre
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) Updated Portal:Earth sciences.
- Simon Burchell (talk · contribs) - I maintain Portal:Mesoamerica.
- SirGents (talk · contribs) - General maintenance, especially on the war portal
- Slambo (talk · contribs) (Admin) - lead editor on Portal:Trains
- Teblick (talk · contribs) - Creating a portal for the 1940s decade.
- TheGridExe (talk · contribs) - Updating Portal:Florida.
- Tisquesusa (talk · contribs) - filled in the blanks and reorganized the categories for Portal:Prehistory of South America
- Vishal14k (talk · contribs)- Created Portal:Hisar and maintaining it.
- Voceditenore (talk · contribs) - maintainer and one of the original creators of Portal:Opera
- Waggers (talk · contribs) (Admin) - creator and maintainer of Portal:South East England and most of its sub-portals, with a specific focus on Portal:Hampshire. I can use both AWB and JWB but don't know Lua very well.
- Ww2censor (talk · contribs) - Portal:Ireland, Portal:Philately
- FR30799386 (talk · contribs) - Portal:India maintainer. Also maintain Template:portal image banner
Other[edit]
- SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 – Primarily interested for now in working on the draft WP:Manual of Style/Portals. I'm one of the longest-term MoS shepherds. Please consider me basically an ombudsman for how to craft that in a way to get it passed as an actual guideline. (Also AWB-approved and a Template Editor and Page Mover, if such geekery is needed, though I suck at Lua.) PS: I don't directly co-maintain any portals right now but have worked on several, including Portal:Snooker; would like to see a more general Portal:Cue sports; also an overhaul of Portal:English (about the language, not just in it :-).
Support pages[edit]
Guidance[edit]
- Wikipedia:Portal
- Portal guidelines
- Style guidelines
- m:Portal
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 25 – Portals
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 18 – Difference between wikiprojects and portals?
Newsletter archive[edit]
[edit]
- Category:WikiProject Portals
- Portal:Featured content/Portals
- Former featured portals
- List of country portals
- List of shortcuts/Portal shortcuts
- List of U.S. state portals
- List of Wikipedians by featured portal nominations
- Portal namespace (setting-up debate)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals (Closed as no consensus; resulted in the reboot of WikiProject Portals.
Project Subpages[edit]
- WikiProject Portals
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts/Archive
- WikiProject Portals/Assessment
- WikiProject Portals/Components
- WikiProject Portals/Design
- WikiProject Portals/KeyNamespaces
- WikiProject Portals/Newsletter archive
- WikiProject Portals/Newsletter archive/Box-header
- WikiProject Portals/Statistics
- WikiProject Portals/Status
- WikiProject Portals/Tasks
- WikiProject Portals/Tasks archive
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 2
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 3
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 4
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 4/Biology and health sciences
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 4/Geography
- WikiProject Portals/cat class
- WikiProject Portals/cat class/doc
- WikiProject Portals/cat importance
- WikiProject Portals/cat importance/doc
- WikiProject Portals/sandbox


