Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
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The WikiProject on Portals is a project to better organize information in articles related to Portals. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. At present, there are 119 featured portals, of a total of 548 portals on Wikipedia.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject has been created in order to better organise portals and related templates, so as to allow better integration and co-ordination between portal topic areas and ensure any particular Portal does not become messy, forgotten or unnoticed.
[edit] Parentage
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates
[edit] Participants
- Absar (talk • contribs • count) - Creator of Portal:Current events/Turkey and maintainer of Portal:Turkey
- AchedDamiman
- Adrian M. H. (talk • contribs • count) I've fallen into the role of primary maintainer of the Motorsport portal, which has had a recent overhaul.
- AQu01rius (talk • contribs • count) - Maintains China-related portals
- AreJay (talk • contribs • count) - one of the Portal:India maintainers
- Arjun01 (talk • contribs • count) - I <3 portals, interested in religion portals. Arjun 20:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- BusterD (talk • contribs • count) - co-maintainer of Portal:American Civil War
- Bwyard (talk • contribs • count) maintainer of Extreme Sports
- CQ (talk • contribs • count) - co-founder of Community Builders Taskforce, maintainer of Portal:Community and Portal:American Civil War taskforce
- Cyberjunkie (talk • contribs • count) - various roles (P:AU, WP:FPORT and others)
- DaGizza (talk • contribs • count) - maintain, will try to improve, or create Indian/Aussie related portals
- Daniel.Bryant (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:A-League.
- Ddstretch (talk • contribs • count) - Creator and one of the Maintainers of the Cheshire portal; I may help set up other county portals for England.
- Deeptrivia (talk • contribs • count)
- Deepujoseph (talk • contribs • count) - one of the Portal:Kerala maintainers
- Dfrg.msc (talk • contribs • count) I'd love to help.
- Doug (talk • contribs • count) - Involved in Portal:Cooperatives, Portal:Agriculture, and corresponding Projects, also involved in Portal:Transylvania and the Council and take a particular interest in MfDs.
- Doug Bell (talk • contribs • count)
- Effer (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of PlayStation.
- Englishnerd (talk • contribs • count) - Creator and maintainer of Portal:Guardians of Time Trilogy
- firefoxman (talk • contribs • count) wants to help
- Jedi6 (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:Star Wars
- Kimchi.sg (talk • contribs • count)
- Kirill Lokshin (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:War
- KGV (talk • contribs • count)
- Kmf164 (talk • contribs • count)
- Ling.Nut (talk • contribs • count)
- Maxim (talk • contribs • count) Might as well add myself, as I'm one of two users who maintain on a somewhat regular basis Portal:Ice hockey.
- Nishkid64 (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of Portal:Baseball, Portal:Business and Economics, Portal:Philosophy. Helping out with Portal:Politics, Portal:Astronomy and various other portals.
- Ragesoss (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:History of science
- riana_dzasta (talk • contribs • count) - I've been trying to improve Portal:Chemistry lately, and am slowly becoming more and more fascinated by portals :)
- Rudget (talk • contribs • count) - Portal nominator and upkeeper.
- Sd31415 (talk • contribs • count) — Portal reviewer. S.D. ¿п? § 02:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Senators (talk • contribs • count) - mostly write articles for the "car news" section in Portal:Cars
- Shyam Bihari (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of Portal:Government of India and one of the Portal:India maintainers.
- Slambo (talk • contribs • count) - lead editor on Portal:Trains
- Spacevezon (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy portals.
- Spebi (talk • contribs • count) – help with Portal:Music of Australia.
- Hiding (talk • contribs • count)
- TBC (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:Food, Portal:Theatre, Portal:Asia and Portal:Nintendo
- The Menace (talk • contribs • count) - Creator of the West Sussex Portal and maintainer of the East Sussex portal, also helped a tiny bit with the South East England portal.
- Valmoer (talk • contribs • count) - Busy decreasing the size of Category:Portals under construction
- Waggers (talk • contribs • count) - creator and maintainer of Portal:South East England; I may set up portals for other English regions along the same lines. Update: Now created and maintaining Portal:Hampshire too.
- Walton_monarchist89 (talk • contribs • count) - would like to help; no prior experience of portals, but I'll learn as I go along
- Warlordjohncarter (talk • contribs • count) - regularly update Portal:Saints, occasionally wind up unintentionally sabotaging others as well
- Wesborland (talk • contribs • count)
- Shudde (talk • contribs • count)
[edit] Structure
To be discussed.
[edit] Policy and criteria
- To see the current policy and other information on Portals in general, see: Wikipedia:Portal.
[edit] New portals
An archived method for proposing portals can be found at Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals.
Currently, there is no process for the proposal and approval of new portals. If you want to create a new portal, see Portal and participate in the discussions there.
You may also talk about your idea for a new portal here. We'll be happy to review your idea and help out where we can.
[edit] Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
[edit] Goals
- List all portals and related sub pages in the portal space
- Discuss and settle upon ways of linking portals of related topics
- Discuss already created portals and determine their usability, readability, and worth.
- Discuss, create and harmonise templates and portal boxes.
[edit] Projects
- Help critique and improve featured portal candidates.
- Help WikiProject — Portal dynamics coordination and integration.
[edit] Tasks
- List all portals and related sub pages in the portal space on the discussion page. - Huh? Why would we want them there. We should list them here or on a subpage.
[edit] Related pages
[edit] Subpages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Status - List of portals and their status (e.g. Wikipedia:Version 0.5 evaluation)
[edit] Portal creation aids
[edit] Other templates
- {{Browsebar}} - this is the header used on Portals
- {{Portals}} - this is the footer used on Portals themselves
- {{Portal nav footer}} - this is a footer used on pages about Portals, mostly in Project Space
- {{User WikiProject Portals}} - a userbox for participants in this Project
- {{FPcandidates}}
- {{PortalReviewVolunteers}}
[edit] Portals for deletion at MfD
- May 13 Portal:Naruto - discussion.
- April 10 - Wikipedia:HP - discussion.
- April 5 - Portal:Warriors - discussion.
- March 25 - Portal:Lotus Connections - Discussion.
- March 12 - Portal:Chiism(Godianism) - Discussion.
- March 10 - Portal:Volunteerism in the Philippines - Discussion.
- March 10 - Portal:Urban planning - Discussion.
- March 10 - Portal:Trivia - Discussion.
- March 10 - Portal:Systems Thinking - Discussion.
- March 10 - Portal:Social Development - Discussion.
- March 7 - Portal:Border - Discussion.
- March 7 - Portal:Scholarship - Discussion. (delete)
- March 7 - Portal:Royal Naval Service - Discussion. (redirected to Portal:Royal Navy)
- March 5 - Portal:Britney Spears - Discussion.
- March 5 - Portal:Madonna (entertainer) - Discussion.
- March 5 - Portal:Mariah Carey - Discussion.
- March 5 - Portal:Sheryl Crow - Discussion.
- March 5 - Portal:My Chemical Romance - Discussion.
- March 5 - Portal:Motorhead - Discussion.
- February 28 - Portal:Psychiatry - Discussion.
- February 28 - Portal:Millencolin - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- February 28 - Portal:Einstein Family - Discussion.
- February 28 - Portal:GIST Security - Discussion.
- February 28 - Portal:Nazism - Discussion.
- February 28 - Portal:New Age - Discussion.
- February 24 - Portal:Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Discussion
- February 23 - Portal:Satellite navigation systems - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- February 23 - Portal:Atlanta - Discussion
- February 23 - Portal:Andhra Pradesh - Discussion
- February 16 - Portal:Powderfinger - Discussion - Closed as Keep (withdrawal)
- February 16 - Portal:Britney Spears, Portal:Madonna (entertainer),Portal:Mariah Carey, Portal:Sheryl Crow, Portal:My Chemical Romance, and Portal:Motörhead. - Discussion (closed as no consensus, relisting)
- February 16 - Portal:The Vines - speedy delete
- February 16 - Portal:Contents/Categorical index/Intro - Discussion - Closed as Keep
- February 12 - Portal:Cavite - Discussion - Closed as Speedy Delete
- February 12 - Portal:Beyoncé Knowles - Discussion
- January 29 - Portal:Information technology - Discussion - Closed as Keep
- January 21 - Portal:Jhelum - Discussion - Closed as Speedy Delete
- January 18 - Portal:English_football - Discussion - Closed as Keep
- January 13 - Portions of Portal:Current events - Discussion - Closed as Keep (No Consensus)
- October 6 - Portal:Transylvania - Discussion - Closed as Keep
- October 6 - Portal:Team - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 6 - Portal:Starcraft chronicles - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 6 - Portal:San Diego - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 6 - Portal:Mumbai - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 6 - Portal:Lake Tahoe - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 6 - Portal:Jaws - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 6 - Portal:Friends - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 5 - Portal:Celtic FC - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- October 5 - Portal:Chaser's War on Everything - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- September 30 - Portal:Auckland - Discussion - Closed as Delete (now redirects to Portal:New Zealand)
- September 27 - Portal:Avril Lavigne - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- September 26 - Portal:Marvel - Discussion - Closed as Keep
- September 24 - Portal:IndiaMap - Discussion - Closed as Delete
- August 24 - Portal:NATO - Discussion - Closed as Keep
- August 19 - Portal:Presidency of the United States - Discussion - Closed as Merge to Portal:Government of the United States (now redirects to Portal:Government of the United States/Executive branch)