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WikiProject Arctic (Rated Project-class)
WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Arctic, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Arctic on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
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edit·history·watch·refresh Stock post message.svg To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic:

  1.  Done Create {{WikiProject Arctic}} - use Template:WPBannerMeta to construct the template.
  2. Not done Start tagging the talkpages of relevant articles with {{WikiProject Arctic}} and assess quality. -
    Ongoing. - Very important that this is addressed and articles get tagged/assessed.
  3.  Done Create WP:WikiProject Arctic/Assessment.
  4.  Done Create {{Arctic-stub}} and tag the article-space of related stubs. See Category:Arctic stubs.
  5. Not done Recruit users to the project, listing them at Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic#Participants.
    Ongoing. - Make sure this is posted at community locations such as Wikipedia:Community portal, Wikipedia:Village pump, etc.
    Created Outreach page and Invitation template
    Created Newest Article page
  6.  Done Create {{User Arctic Project}} - userbox which would output to Category:WikiProject Arctic members.
  7.  Done Create Portal:Arctic and consider design and content.

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject[edit]

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background[edit]

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)