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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018
Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...
Portals status
We now have 4,620 portals.
And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...
Can we make it?
The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}
or
{{subst:bpsp}}
)
Evad is back!
After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.
Be sure to welcome him back.
Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner
User:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.
Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.
Upgrade of flagship portals is underway
Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).
So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.
Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.
Spotting missing portals that are redirects
In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.
Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.
The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.
Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.
To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.
What's new in portal space?
Keep 'em coming!
And I'll see you next issue.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:07, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018
We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners
Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.
User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}...
So, this:
Becomes this:
Here's the code for the above banner:
{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}
To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.
About that end of the year goal...
We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).
We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!
And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.
Congratulations!
What's next?
The 10,000th portal mark. But...
...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:
- The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
- On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
- A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
- Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
- Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
- Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
- Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
- Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
- Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
- Update the portal building instructions.
- Update the portal guideline.
- Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
- Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.
And whatever else you can dream up.
But most of all, have a...
WikiWikiWayne, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 11:53, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
You are cordially invited to Stanford University to celebrate Wikipedia's birthday
- I am delighted to invite you to the 2019 Wikipedia Day party at Stanford, which will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 5:00-8:30pm.
- There will be pizza, cake, and refreshments; both newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome! We will have a beginner track with tutorials, and an advanced track with presentations, lightning talks, and tips and tricks. Admission is free, and you do NOT have to be a Stanford University student to attend.
See you soon! All the best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c)
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 in a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
New portals since last issue
- Academic publishing
- Accounting
- Adam and Eve
- African Great Lakes
- Al Green
- Alternative views
- America's Next Top Model
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Angles
- Applied mathematics
- Arabic
- Areas of mathematics
- Atlanta metropolitan area
- Atlantic Ocean
- Big Bash League
- Bijelo Dugme
- Bill Cosby
- Boats
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Bruce Willis
- Canadian law
- Cannons
- Caribbean American
- Chinese American
- Chinese Canadians
- Chinese gardens
- Chris Brown
- City
- Common law
- Criminal law
- Czechoslovakia
- Data
- Data warehouses
- DC Comics
- Deities
- DeKalb County
- Destiny's Child
- Differential equations
- Discrete geometry
- East Asia
- Economy of China
- Economy of India
- Economy of Malaysia
- Economy of the United Kingdom
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Email clients
- E
- Equations
- European Americans
- Filipino Americans
- Football in Algeria
- Fox Corporation
- Fractions and ratios
- Functional analysis
- Game theory
- Girlguiding
- Gloucestershire
- Grazhdanskaya Oborona
- Greek diaspora
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Hilbert's problems
- Hoodoo Gurus
- Hyundai Motor Company
- Iggy Azalea
- Indian Ocean
- Infinity
- Information theory
- Integrals
- Irish diaspora
- Irrational numbers
- Italian diaspora
- Japanese diaspora
- J. Cole
- Jennifer Lopez
- Jessica Lange
- John Fogerty
- Kehlani
- Kiev
- K. Michelle
- Knot theory
- Kool & the Gang
- Lakes in China
- Lake Van
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Limerick
- Literary composition
- Long Island Rail Road
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Lukas Graham
- Mathematical optimization
- Matt Damon
- Merchant ships
- Metallic means
- Metro-North Railroad
- Microsoft Windows
- Military of India
- Miss America
- Modulation
- Moon landing
- Mozilla
- Music of Ireland
- Narratives
- Nashville
- Nassau County
- Norfolk
- Nottinghamshire
- One Life to Live
- Overseas Chinese
- Percentages
- Probability distributions
- Public Broadcasting Service
- Quezon City
- Raven-Symoné
- R. Kelly
- Rodeo
- RuneScape
- Sarah Silverman
- Saturn rockets
- Science and technology
- Sesame Street
- Seth MacFarlane
- Ships
- Shipwrecks
- Shropshire
- Spaceports
- Space suits
- Spanish diaspora
- Steam locomotives
- Suffolk
- Suzuki
- Tanks
- Tensors
- The CW
- Thomas Aquinas
- T.I.
- TISM
- Tom Cruise
- Toni Braxton
- Toyota
- Transportation in the Philippines
- True Blood
- Violin
- Virgin Group
- Vladimir Putin
- Volkswagen
- Volume
- Warner Bros.
- Warships
- Warwickshire
- Washington D.C.
- [[Portal:Watercraft|
- Web syndication
- Wikis
- Witchcraft
- Women's sports
- World of Warcraft
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 08:12, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
February 2019 at Women in Red
February events:
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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:
- Portal:Arts
- Portal:Biography
- Portal:Geography
- Portal:History
- Portal:Mathematics
- Portal:Science
- Portal:Society
- Portal:Technology
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
- Accomack County
- Adair County
- Adair County
- Adams County
- Adidas
- Airbus
- Americas
- Bangladesh Armed Forces
- Bedfordshire
- Bicycles
- Boeing
- Chester County
- Conspiracy theories
- Corals
- County Durham
- Culture of the United States
- DC Universe
- Dragons
- Economy of Pakistan
- Electricity
- Ethnic groups
- European Union law
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Flanders
- Frederick County
- Fujian
- German language
- Global issues
- Greek mathematics
- Grisons
- Guangxi
- Hebei
- Henan
- Herefordshire
- History of North America
- Hollywood
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Hybrid
- Inner Mongolia
- Jet engines
- Jiangsu
- Johor
- Johor Bahru
- Julius Caesar
- Kuala Lumpur
- Lake Constance
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Lufthansa
- Lunar eclipses
- Magnetism
- Menstrual cycle
- Mustelids
- Mutations
- New York University
- Nord-du-Québec
- North Africa
- PepsiCo
- Pitcairn Islands
- Podcasting
- Quantum electrodynamics
- Quantum mechanics
- Rawalpindi
- Réunion
- Roads in Pakistan
- Rockefeller Center
- Sichuan
- St. Gallen
- State University of New York
- Temperature
- Tsunamis
- Veterinary medicine
- Vorarlberg
- Walgreens
- Walmart
- Weasels
- Xinjiang
- Yunnan
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 13:10, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I just came across this category, and I'm afraid it just doesn't make sense as named, given that the vast majority of all murders are committed by adults. It makes sense in the context of the sub-cat for school shootings, but not more broadly. If there is a valid rationale for this category, it needs to be renamed. If not, it should be deleted. So I thought I'd give you a heads up before proceeding. Regards, Anomalous+0 (talk) 12:00, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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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:
- Portal:Adidas
- Portal:AFC Asian Cup
- Portal:Airbus
- Portal:Anhui
- Portal:Bicycles
- Portal:Blue Cheese
- Portal:Boeing
- Portal:British Airways
- Portal:Carcinogen
- Portal:ComfortDelGro
- Portal:Construction
- Portal:Corals
- Portal:Cross-Strait relations
- Portal:Derry
- Portal:Duke University
- Portal:Electricity
- Portal:Ethnic groups
- Portal:Extraterrestrial life
- Portal:Flanders
- Portal:Fujian
- Portal:Gansu
- Portal:German language
- Portal:Gordon Ramsay
- Portal:Government of Australia
- Portal:Government of Canada
- Portal:Government of Hong Kong
- Portal:Government of Indonesia
- Portal:Government of Ireland
- Portal:Government of Japan
- Portal:Government of Malaysia
- Portal:Government of Russia
- Portal:Government of Singapore
- Portal:Government of Spain
- Portal:Government of Thailand
- Portal:Government of the United Kingdom
- Portal:Government of Ukraine
- Portal:Grapes
- Portal:Guangxi
- Portal:Guizhou
- Portal:Hasbro
- Portal:Hebei
- Portal:Heilongjiang
- Portal:Henan
- Portal:Hillary Clinton
- Portal:History of art
- Portal:History of North America
- Portal:History of Thailand
- Portal:Hollywood
- Portal:Hubei
- Portal:Hunan
- Portal:Hybrid (biology)
- Portal:Hydrogen
- Portal:Imperial College London
- Portal:Inner Mongolia
- Portal:Japan Airlines
- Portal:Jet engines
- Portal:Jet Engines
- Portal:Jiangsu
- Portal:Jiangxi
- Portal:Jilin
- Portal:Johor Bahru
- Portal:Julius Caesar
- Portal:JYP Entertainment
- Portal:Kedah
- Portal:Kelantan
- Portal:Kuala Lumpur
- Portal:Labuan
- Portal:Lee Kuan Yew
- Portal:Liaoning
- Portal:Lufthansa
- Portal:Magnetism
- Portal:McLaren
- Portal:Menstrual cycle
- Portal:Monash University
- Portal:Mutations
- Portal:Nanyang Technological University
- Portal:National University of Singapore
- Portal:Negeri Sembilan
- Portal:Nestlé
- Portal:Nike, Inc.
- Portal:Ningxia
- Portal:Nissan
- Portal:North Africa
- Portal:North Pole
- Portal:Pahang
- Portal:Penang
- Portal:PepsiCo
- Portal:Perak
- Portal:Perlis
- Portal:Qinghai
- Portal:Quantum electrodynamics
- Portal:Quantum mechanics
- Portal:S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Portal:Selangor
- Portal:Shanxi
- Portal:Sichuan
- Portal:SM Entertainment
- Portal:South Pole
- Portal:Subway (restaurant)
- Portal:Temperature
- Portal:Terengganu
- Portal:Uber
- Portal:Veterinary medicine
- Portal:Volvo Buses
- Portal:Walgreens
- Portal:Walmart
- Portal:Xinjiang
- Portal:Yahoo!
- Portal:Yale University
- Portal:YG Entertainment
- Portal:Yunnan
- Portal:Zhejiang
And the corresponding talk pages:
- Portal talk:Adidas
- Portal talk:Airbus
- Portal talk:Bicycles
- Portal talk:Boeing
- Portal talk:Carcinogen
- Portal talk:Corals
- Portal talk:Duke University
- Portal talk:Electricity
- Portal talk:Ethnic groups
- Portal talk:Flanders
- Portal talk:Fujian
- Portal talk:German language
- Portal talk:Girls' Generation
- Portal talk:Government of Australia
- Portal talk:Government of Canada
- Portal talk:Government of Hong Kong
- Portal talk:Government of Indonesia
- Portal talk:Government of Ireland
- Portal talk:Government of Japan
- Portal talk:Government of Malaysia
- Portal talk:Government of Russia
- Portal talk:Government of Singapore
- Portal talk:Government of Spain
- Portal talk:Government of Thailand
- Portal talk:Government of the United Kingdom
- Portal talk:Government of Ukraine
- Portal talk:Grapes
- Portal talk:Guangxi
- Portal talk:Hebei
- Portal talk:Henan
- Portal talk:Hillary Clinton
- Portal talk:History of art
- Portal talk:Hollywood
- Portal talk:Hubei
- Portal talk:Hunan
- Portal talk:Hybrid (biology)
- Portal talk:Imperial College London
- Portal talk:Inner Mongolia
- Portal talk:Jet engines
- Portal talk:Jet Engines
- Portal talk:Jiangsu
- Portal talk:Johor Bahru
- Portal talk:Julius Caesar
- Portal talk:JYP Entertainment
- Portal talk:Kuala Lumpur
- Portal talk:Lee Kuan Yew
- Portal talk:Lufthansa
- Portal talk:Magnetism
- Portal talk:Menstrual cycle
- Portal talk:Monash University
- Portal talk:Mutations
- Portal talk:Nanyang Technological University
- Portal talk:National University of Singapore
- Portal talk:Nike, Inc.
- Portal talk:North Africa
- Portal talk:PepsiCo
- Portal talk:Quantum electrodynamics
- Portal talk:Quantum mechanics
- Portal talk:Sichuan
- Portal talk:SM Entertainment
- Portal talk:Subway (restaurant)
- Portal talk:Temperature
- Portal talk:Veterinary medicine
- Portal talk:Walgreens
- Portal talk:Walmart
- Portal talk:Xinjiang
- Portal talk:Yale University
- Portal talk:YG Entertainment
- Portal talk:Yunnan
New portals since the last issue
- Portal:American_Horror_Story
- Portal:Bad_Religion
- Portal:Bicycles
- Portal:British_Airways
- Portal:Campania
- Portal:Ciara
- Portal:Derry
- Portal:Extraterrestrial_life
- Portal:Fujian
- Portal:Guangxi
- Portal:Imperial_College_London
- Portal:Islamic_Golden_Age
- Portal:Ivy_Queen
- Portal:Japan_Airlines
- Portal:Japanese_language
- Portal:Kate_Ceberano
- Portal:Labuan
- Portal:LL_Cool_J
- Portal:New_York_City_Police_Department
- Portal:Penang
- Portal:PepsiCo
- Portal:Perak
- Portal:Perlis
- Portal:Politics_of_Ukraine
- Portal:Quantum_mechanics
- Portal:Salads
- Portal:Selangor
- Portal:Shaquille_O'Neal
- Portal:South_Pole
- Portal:Supermarket
- Portal:Temperature
- Portal:Terengganu
- Portal:The_Fairly_OddParents
- Portal:The_Incredibles
- Portal:Vassar_College
- Portal:Voivod_(band)
- Portal:Yu-Gi-Oh!
Keep up the great work
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 08:59, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019
Where we are at:
- Single-page portals: 4,704
- Total portals: 5,705
The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down
You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).
Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!
Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:
The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...
The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...
Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.
For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch
10,000 portals, here we come...
We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
New portals since issue #28
- Portal:Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Portal:Ahold Delhaize
- Portal:AKB48
- Portal:Åland Islands
- Portal:Alaska Airlines
- Portal:Albanian Civil War
- Portal:Albertsons
- Portal:Alevism
- Portal:All in the Family
- Portal:Alternative metal
- Portal:Ambient music
- Portal:Ancient Near East mythology
- Portal:Ancient Roman religion
- Portal:Andrew Cuomo
- Portal:Anti-consumerism
- Portal:Antimatter
- Portal:Arameans
- Portal:Arianism
- Portal:Australian Crawl
- Portal:Bali
- Portal:Banten
- Portal:Bengkulu
- Portal:Black Lives Matter
- Portal:Bluegrass music
- Portal:Bonnie Tyler
- Portal:Breakbeat
- Portal:Calypso music
- Portal:Cambridgeshire
- Portal:Camila Cabello
- Portal:Capcom
- Portal:Capsicum
- Portal:Celtic music
- Portal:Central American music
- Portal:Central Java
- Portal:Central Kalimantan
- Portal:Central Sulawesi
- Portal:Chanel
- Portal:Cinema of Australia
- Portal:Cognitive psychology
- Portal:Communication studies
- Portal:Conservatism in the United States
- Portal:Cortina d'Ampezzo
- Portal:Cross-Strait relations
- Portal:Cryptozoology
- Portal:Danish folk music
- Portal:Disco
- Portal:Dyslexia
- Portal:East Java
- Portal:East Kalimantan
- Portal:East Nusa Tenggara
- Portal:Easy listening
- Portal:Ed Sheeran
- Portal:Ehime
- Portal:Electricity
- Portal:Electronica
- Portal:Electronic rock
- Portal:English folk music
- Portal:Environmental technology
- Portal:Experimental music
- Portal:Extreme metal
- Portal:Fall Out Boy
- Portal:Finnish Defence Forces
- Portal:Finnish folk music
- Portal:Football in Croatia
- Portal:Football in Jordan
- Portal:Funk
- Portal:Gamelan
- Portal:General Mills
- Portal:Germanic languages
- Portal:German language
- Portal:Government of Canada
- Portal:Government of Hong Kong
- Portal:Government of Indonesia
- Portal:Government of Ireland
- Portal:Government of Malaysia
- Portal:Government of Russia
- Portal:Government of Singapore
- Portal:Government of Spain
- Portal:Government of Thailand
- Portal:Grapes
- Portal:Green Party of the United States
- Portal:Grinspoon
- Portal:Gwen Stefani
- Portal:Hardcore punk
- Portal:Hardcore techno
- Portal:Haskell (programming language)
- Portal:History of art
- Portal:History of North America
- Portal:History of Thailand
- Portal:Hollywood
- Portal:Hotels
- Portal:House music
- Portal:Hungarian folk music
- Portal:Hunters & Collectors
- Portal:Hydrogen
- Portal:Icelandic folk music
- Portal:Indigenous music of North America
- Portal:Insomniac Games
- Portal:International field hockey
- Portal:International trade
- Portal:Iranian music
- Portal:Islamophobia
- Portal:Jambi
- Portal:Jet engines
- Portal:Jordin Sparks
- Portal:Julius Caesar
- Portal:Kannur
- Portal:Kansas City Spurs
- Portal:Kelly Rowland
- Portal:Kirby
- Portal:Kraft Heinz
- Portal:Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Portal:Kroger
- Portal:Kuala Lumpur
- Portal:Lampung
- Portal:Larry Kramer
- Portal:LeBron James
- Portal:Lehigh Valley
- Portal:Leicestershire
- Portal:Liège
- Portal:Liguria
- Portal:Los Angeles Aztecs
- Portal:Los Angeles Wolves
- Portal:Macedonian language
- Portal:Magnetism
- Portal:Maithripala Sirisena
- Portal:Maluku (province)
- Portal:Mangoes
- Portal:Marco Pierre White
- Portal:McLaren
- Portal:Menstrual cycle
- Portal:Metalcore
- Portal:Miami FC
- Portal:Microblogging
- Portal:Microtonal music
- Portal:Midnight Oil
- Portal:Minnesota Kicks
- Portal:Mission: Impossible
- Portal:Modernism (music)
- Portal:Moheener Ghoraguli
- Portal:Mondelez International
- Portal:Music genres
- Portal:Music of Bangladesh
- Portal:Music of India
- Portal:Music of Italy
- Portal:Music of Japan
- Portal:Music of Korea
- Portal:Music of Latin America
- Portal:Music of Micronesia
- Portal:Music of North Africa
- Portal:Music of Pakistan
- Portal:Music of Serbia
- Portal:Music of the Philippines
- Portal:Music of the United States
- Portal:Mutations
- Portal:National Rugby League
- Portal:Neoclassicism (music)
- Portal:Netball
- Portal:New York City Fire Department
- Portal:Nick Jr.
- Portal:Nobility
- Portal:Nordic countries
- Portal:North Africa
- Portal:North Kalimantan
- Portal:North Maluku
- Portal:North Pole
- Portal:North Queensland
- Portal:North Sulawesi
- Portal:North Sumatra
- Portal:Norwegian folk music
- Portal:Papua (province)
- Portal:Peaches
- Portal:Politics of Abkhazia
- Portal:Politics of Afghanistan
- Portal:Politics of Albania
- Portal:Politics of Algeria
- Portal:Politics of Andorra
- Portal:Politics of Angola
- Portal:Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
- Portal:Politics of Argentina
- Portal:Politics of Artsakh
- Portal:Politics of Bahrain
- Portal:Politics of Bangladesh
- Portal:Politics of Bavaria
- Portal:Politics of Belarus
- Portal:Politics of Belgium
- Portal:Politics of Belize
- Portal:Politics of Benin
- Portal:Politics of Bhutan
- Portal:Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Portal:Politics of Botswana
- Portal:Politics of Brazil
- Portal:Politics of Brunei
- Portal:Politics of Bulgaria
- Portal:Politics of Burkina Faso
- Portal:Politics of Burundi
- Portal:Politics of Cambodia
- Portal:Politics of Cameroon
- Portal:Politics of China
- Portal:Politics of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Portal:Politics of South Sudan
- Portal:Politics of Sudan
- Portal:Politics of Tanzania
- Portal:Politics of the Republic of the Congo
- Portal:Politics of Togo
- Portal:Politics of Tunisia
- Portal:Politics of Uganda
- Portal:Pop rock
- Portal:Rap rock
- Portal:Ras Al Khaimah
- Portal:Riau
- Portal:Riau Islands
- Portal:Ricky Martin
- Portal:Royal Canadian Air Force
- Portal:Rutland
- Portal:Saxophones
- Portal:Semiotics
- Portal:Ska
- Portal:Soca music
- Portal:Soul music
- Portal:Sound sculptures
- Portal:Southeast Sulawesi
- Portal:South Kalimantan
- Portal:South Sulawesi
- Portal:South Sumatra
- Portal:Space: 1999
- Portal:Special Region of Yogyakarta
- Portal:Swedish folk music
- Portal:Tamil language
- Portal:Techno
- Portal:Terry Brooks
- Portal:The Living End
- Portal:Thrissur
- Portal:Trance music
- Portal:Tyrant flycatchers
- Portal:Veterinary medicine
- Portal:Wayanad
- Portal:Welsh folk music
- Portal:West Champaran district
- Portal:Western dress codes
- Portal:West Flanders
- Portal:West Java
- Portal:West Kalimantan
- Portal:West Nusa Tenggara
- Portal:West Papua (province)
- Portal:West Sulawesi
- Portal:West Sumatra
- Portal:Wildlife of India
- Portal:Wildlife of Nepal
- Portal:Windows 10
- Portal:Winter War
- Portal:Woodpeckers
- Portal:Worcestershire
- Portal:World economy
- Portal:World Ocean
- Portal:World Rally Championship
- Portal:World views
- Portal:XTC
- Portal:Yahoo!
- Portal:Yoruba people
- Portal:You Am I
- Portal:Young Wizards
- Portal:Yugoslavs
Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.
What's next for portal pages?
There are 5 drives for portal development:
- Create new portals
- Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
- Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
- Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
- Pageless portals
Let's take a closer look at these...
1: Creating new portals
Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.
Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.
Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.
2: Expanding existing portals
The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...
- Improving and/or adding search parameters to better power the Did you know and In the news sections.
- Adding more selected content sections, like Selected biographies.
- Adding and maintaining Recognized content sections, via JL-Bot.
- Adding pictures to the image slideshow.
- Adding panoramic pics.
- Categorizing portals.
More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.
3: Converting old portals
By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.
There are two approaches here:
- A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...
- B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.
4: Linking to new portals
Or "portal deorphanization"...
Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.
And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.
5...
See below...
New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...
Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.
What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?
Quantum portals.
What are quantum portals?
Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.
Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
Keep on keepin' on
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:18, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019
Previous issue:
- Single-page portals: 4,704
- Total portals: 5,705
This issue:
- Single-page portals: 4,562
- Total portals: 5,578
The collection of portals has shrunk
All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019
Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals
Individual Nominations:
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prostitution in Canada Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agoura Hills, California Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urinary system Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cannabis (2nd nomination) Reverted to non-Automated version
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Intermodal containers Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adventure travel Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adam Ant Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benito Juárez, Mexico City Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spaghetti Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Wikiatlas Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Greek alphabet Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Accounting Deleted G7
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
- Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH
Related WikiProject:
(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)
WikiProject Quantum portals
This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).
It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.
Hiatus on mass creation of Portals
At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.
The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Until next issue...
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 03:37, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
March GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles. March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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