Template talk:Portal

Image edit request on 3 May 2024

Add 

["african cinema"] = "Africa-map-TAN.svg|link=|alt=map"

to Module:Portal/images/a to show up as the portal's icon in the WikiProject's banner and template. Assem Khidhr (talk) 01:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, except icon requires a link because it is CC licensed. — hike395 (talk) 11:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image edit request on 4 May 2024

Please add the following: ["washington, d.c."] = "Flag_of_Washington,_D.C.svg|link=|alt=", Thanks! '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 07:55, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 08:53, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 9 May 2024

Please change the icon for Portal:Psychiatry from File:American Lady Against The Sky.jpg to File:Psi and Caduceus.svg. Jeaucques Quœure (talk) 06:03, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — hike395 (talk) 08:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 30 July 2024

["risk"] = "Warning icon.svg|link=|alt=icon",
Add the above line to Module:Portal/images/r for use on {{User WP Risk}}. Tule-hog (talk) 19:31, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Sohom (talk) 20:13, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent: Please fix this template for printed content Module:Portal/styles.css.

Moved from Module talk:Portal

Firstly, apologies for writing in English if this is not your first language (this is an automated message).

This template has been detected as one of 436 pages using styles that break the page when printed when the user is using dark mode. The fix is very straightforward - all your styles relating to dark mode must be scoped to. Since there is a high risk of this templates being copied to other wikis it is important this notice is acted on ASAP.

To fix this:

  1. Update `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark` to `@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark`
  2. Wrap any styles relating to `html.skin-theme-clientpref-night` in `@media screen`

If this message has not been acted on in 7 days, this will be fixed by an automated script. Thank you for your help fixing this important issue.

For any questions feel free to ask them at phab:T369874.

Jon (WMF) (talk) 18:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC) on behalf of the web team.[reply]

Fixed, and a typo. Izno (talk) 22:13, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image edit request on 25 August 2024

Hello everyone: can someone please set the portal icon for Portal:Peace? I propose PeaceAndLoveBus.svg which well encapsulates activism, nonviolent resistance, and historical demonstrations which is a primary feature of the category; or the more generic Peace dove icon.svg or Peace button.svg. Thank you very much. Evedawn99 (talk) 20:29, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have implemented the dove because it is vectorized and works in dark mode..... that said if this is not ideal a discussion could take place if a change warranted or wanted. Moxy🍁 01:51, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Module:Portal/images/other, some decade portals have 

|link=

included, and some do not. The list of decade portals that have this property are:

  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 2000s
  • 2020s (in some other file)

The list of decade portals that do not have this property are:

  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2010s

The effect of including the link parameter or not is that the picture associated with the portal becomes a link to the File: page on Wikipedia of that image if it is not included, or it becomes just a static image with no link if the link parameter is explicitly set as an empty string. The inconsistency is apparently unintentional, as these specific decade portals are commonly linked together on many pages, such as at Zillennials#See_also, leading to inconsistent behaviour of Portal images in the same Portals box.

A decision should be made whether or not it is ever desirable to link to the File namespace (maybe desirable, but it seems that perhaps sometimes the decision has been made to intentionally not link to it). In either case, a change should be made that the link parameter be included or omitted consistently in the definitions of these specific decade portals.

However, this issue may alternatively be handled at the top Module:Portal level, if it is determined appropriate to never link to File namespace by default. It could be done to implement the same behaviour as link=[nothing] if the parameter is not included. This would reduce the risk of editors forgetting to include the parameter, handling it properly by default, if Portal images are never intended to link to File namespace. Thanks, Hubcapp (talk) 08:23, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 1 October 2024

The use of "File:" in Module:Portal/images/b has broken the icon file link in every instance of every template that calls for that icon, because that's implied already and it's accordingly trying to load File:File:Dharma Wheel (2).svg, which does not exist and never will. Please remove the "File:" from the module. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 04:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Fixed --- removed "File:" from Module:Portal/images/b — hike395 (talk) 09:48, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request: HTML output

Could this template be wrapped in a <div>? Using <ul> for a self-contained box of this sort is an abuse of semantic HTML. Other templates similar to this one tend to use <div> or <table> elements (although I don't recommend the latter in this case). I noticed this issue when some code I wrote to extract the "text content" of a Wikipedia article was failing to filter out this template. Ioaxxere (talk) 04:11, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 3 December 2024

Hi, File:EF4DaltonMNtornadoJuly2020.png was deleted from commons 3 December 2024 and now causing 100+ file errors in articles. A possible alternate is file:F5 tornado Elie Manitoba 2007.jpg as currently used on Tornado. Regards KylieTastic (talk) 19:31, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updated. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:46, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 11 December 2024

Several portals do not exist and need removal, including the African diaspora portal and the Yoruba portal. Ukabia - talk 17:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image edit request on 24 December 2024

Hello, can you add an icon image to my newly created Portal:2020s? The existing portal box still uses the old icon image.

Ibrahim Muizzuddin 💬 15:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ibrahim Muizzuddin: did you have a suggestion for a new portal image to use? — hike395 (talk) 14:52, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Hike395, I would like to propose this image File:Human brain blue circuit white background artificial intelligence icon (DALL- E) Dec 2024.jpg as the icon picture for the new portal. -Ibrahim Muizzuddin 💬 05:22, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good choice: , although it looks just like a brain at 28px. — hike395 (talk) 06:04, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done — hike395 (talk) 06:08, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request

Please change the icon for Portal:Seoul from File:Flag of Seoul cropped.gif to File:Flag of Seoul.svg. --Namoroka (talk) 10:40, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reasoning behind the change? The colors of File:Flag of Seoul cropped.gif are taken from the original flag at [1], while File:Flag of Seoul.svg is slightly different, which seems less good. The svg version also has a 3:2 aspect ratio, which makes it appear smaller than the 1:1 aspect ratio of the gif file. — hike395 (talk) 14:45, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:19, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 31 December 2024

Greetings and felicitations. Would someone please be so kind as to modify the template so that when it is positioned on the left the rest of the content in the section is below it as with the {{subst:Commons}} template, rather than having the content start next to the Portal template box? See USNS_Yukon_(T-AO-202)#External_links for an example. (I am in desktop mode; more information upon request.) —DocWatson42 (talk) 11:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you are pushing the Portal box to the left and want the text to flow around it, I suspect you should be using a different template entirely. If the link to the portal is in a "See also" section, I would recommend {{Portal-inline}}. If there is no existing "See also" section and you want to put the portal into an "External links" section, please use {{Portal bar}} after the navboxes (or perhaps {{Subject bar}} if you want to place several sister links, also). — hike395 (talk) 14:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Later --- I went ahead and converted the left-placed Commons box at USNS_Yukon_(T-AO-202)#External_links to {{Commons-inline}}, since I think it looks better that way. — hike395 (talk) 14:22, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The option is there, and in some article's "See also" sections, especially short ones in wide browser windows, an infobox or other object intrudes into the section, and the portal template would (as with USNS Yukon (T-AO-202)) get pushes to the bottom. I do use inline templates, but I refer the regular ones if I can use them without detriment to the article, in part because they are larger and thus more visible. —DocWatson42 (talk) 21:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are 236 articles that use |left=. I'll investigate to make sure we don't break those with any change in the behavior.
I would still recommend {{portal bar}} specifically for USNS Yukon (T-AO-202). — hike395 (talk) 02:49, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DocWatson42: Apparently, people are using {{clear left}} immediately after the left-floating portal box to get the behavior you want. I think I introduced the left floating behavior in 2022 and it doesn't seem like the right thing. I would suggest using {{clear left}} for now, and I'll see if I can figure out an elegant fix. — hike395 (talk) 03:01, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. Thank you. :-) —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:05, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There was no portal for the Yukon article—I just used it as an example of the Commons template's behavior. —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Generally: Thank you for the change. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 17:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Specific edit request

Request
please delete lines 41 and 42 from Module:Portal/styles.css under .portalleft that set clear: left and float: left
Reasoning
In 2022, I changed the css for the case of {{Portal|left=yes}} to make the portal box float left (as well as float right). The post-2022 behavior is viewable at the "Adaptive layout, left=yes" testcase. As can be seen at this PetScan run, editors are not using the template as a floating left box, but instead are adding {{clear left}} or putting the box before a full-width to attempt to avoid the float. Clearly the 2022 change in behavior did not match editor expectations. This edit will revert the template with |left=yes back to the pre-2022 behavior.
Testing
The proposed behavior is implemented in sandbox CSS and is viewable under the sandbox version at the "Adaptive layout, left=yes" testcase

@Pppery: who offered to review edits for this module. — hike395 (talk) 17:41, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done * Pppery * it has begun... 17:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]