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User talk:AvicennoSpeedy deletion nomination of Rana Dajani
A tag has been placed on Rana Dajani requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.omicsonline.org/reviewer-profile/Rana_Dajani. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:28, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
 The article Rana Dajani has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article. If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. KDS4444 (talk) 22:52, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Rana Dajani for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rana Dajani is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rana Dajani until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. KDS4444 (talk) 23:39, 2 August 2017 (UTC) Resources for Rana Dajani article improvementI've taken an interest in Rana Dajani, and am working on trying to save the article on her from deletion. I don't think the nominator understood her importance, and perhaps mistook her for someone else named Raja Dajani. After some research I understand her importance in the Arab and Islam world, and also how important she must be for women scientists throughout the world - especially young aspiring women scientists. I've made some improvements to the article, and would like to create an Infobox. Can you upload to English Wikimedia Commons a copyright-free, creative-commons photo of her? I also need her birth date (year only is fine). Netherzone (talk) 23:24, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
Please do not vandalize my user page againPlease do not vandalize my user page again, or I will report it. Netherzone (talk) 18:53, 16 September 2017 (UTC) Category:Buddhist terrorism has been nominated for discussionCategory:Buddhist terrorism, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Inter&anthro (talk) 03:18, 28 October 2017 (UTC) Speedy deletion requestsHi. I see you have been nominating a few articles about singers for speedy deletion WP:A7, "No indication of importance". These singers' articles, however, makes claims of significant numbers of studio albums and in some cases live albums, and that's easily enough to beat the very low requirements of A7. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:13, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Similarly, you've requested A7 speedy deletion for several articles on Iraqi journalists. The notability standard that needs to be met to avoid speedy deletion is quite low, and is meant to be used on articles like "Joe is a great guy." -- no reasonable person would think Joe has notability. Articles where there's a good faith attempt at showing notability need to go through other deletion processes. --Fabrictramp | talk to me 01:40, 12 November 2017 (UTC) You don't seem to understand the speedy deletion criteria on the English Wikipedia. I just declined your nomination of a Major General. Just the fact that he is a Major General is enough to survive Speedy deletion. You should probably stop nominating articles for speedy deletion. ~ GB fan 12:39, 12 November 2017 (UTC) @GB fan: it was one time and explained it and i know my mistake. BTW your revert here is wrong and i refixed it.--مصعب (talk) 15:33, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this: Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes) Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history. Edit summary content is visible in: Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → ArbCom 2017 election voter message Hello, مصعب. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of OPSS (disambiguation) A tag has been placed on OPSS (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Boleyn (talk) 17:44, 29 December 2017 (UTC) Welcome to Wikipedia from the Anatomy Wikiproject!Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Anatomy! We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of anatomy articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are involved in editing anatomy articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing wikipedia articles are: 
Feel free to contact us on the WikiProject Anatomy talk page if you have any problems, or wish to join us. I wish you all the best on your wiki-voyages! Tom (LT) (talk) 23:46, 10 February 2018 (UTC) Linking to anatomy portalHi Musab, thanks for your edits around anatomy pages. You're linking a lot to Portal:Anatomy I see. We don't usually link to that portal because it's unfortunately barely edited (if at all). If you had time during your edits to spruce up that page a bit it would be much appreciated :). --Tom (LT) (talk) 23:47, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Position of portalsHi Musab, thanks for adding links to portals. However, please add them above the navboxes, per the layout guide. If you can, please modify the ones you've added because having them below the categories wil probably mess up tools that deal with categories. Graham87 05:18, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Dear Mossab,Thank you for the thanks for my edit on Portal:Anatomy. I'm glad you like portals, especially the medical portals. You are cordially invited to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals. We are making components available to make portals easier to build, easier to maintain, and more dynamic. Two that we have completed so far are the Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt. We'd love to meet you and get your input on portals, and answer any questions you may have. See you at the WikiProject. — The Transhumanist 12:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject Portals Overview, May 04, 2018Thank you for being a member of the Portals WikiProject, and thank you for all the work you have all been doing on the portal namespace. To see the activity, check out the watchlist. This is our 3rd issue, see previous issues at the Newsletter archive. Top priority: Main list of portals needs updatingThe top, and one of the most visible parts, of the portal system is Portal:Contents/Portals, which is intended to list all (completed) portals on Wikipedia. About half of the missing existing portals have been added since this WikiProject's reboot (April 17th). Thank you to RockMagnetist, TriNitrobrick, Polyamorph, PratyushSinha101, Ganesha811, Bermicourt, Javert2113, Noyster, Ɱ, Lepricavark, XOR'easter, and Emir of Wikipedia, for working on this. We are half-way to completion with this. We need everyone to chip in until it is done. Instructions, and the list of missing entries are at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. I hope you'll join me there. ("Many hands make light work"). Thank you. MembershipWe're at 66 members, with more joining daily. We even have 6 WikiGnomes! Special thanksI have awarded Certes with a portals barnstar on his talk page for his work on the new excerpt templates that are revolutionizing the portal system (Template:Transclude lead excerpt & Template:Transclude random excerpt). If you'd like to show your appreciation, please feel free to stop by his talk page and add your signature to the barnstar itself. Thank you Certes. You are enabling this WikiProject to get the right things done, fast. By the way, the templates have already gone international. After being told about the templates, Mossab wrote:
RFCAs you know, the (April 8th) proposal to delete all portals and the portal namespace inspired the reboot of this WikiProject. RfCs typically run for 30 days, which means there are 5 days left including today, before the RfC will be closed. The !votes are predominantly "oppose", but many editors have shared their disappointment with the portal system. We have our work cut out for us in correcting the problems of the portals to address their concerns. Complaints ranged from being out of date and lacking maintenance, to taking up the time of editors that they felt (due to low traffic) would be better spent improving articles. Anti-WikiProject dramaThis past week has been somewhat stressful for me, with more than a little conflict... It culminated with my being reported at the Administrator's Noticeboard "for spamming and canvassing". This is the second time I've been reported there during the RfC; the first one was for posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages. The accusations were 1) Posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages, 2) Adding an Article alerts section to the Portals WikiProject page, and 3) posting notices (invitations) about this WikiProject on user talk and portal talk pages. None of which fall under the Wikipedia definitions of spamming or canvassing. Thank you, Lionelt and Lepricavark, for coming to my rescue. I don't know how the discussion would have turned out if you had not spoken up. The discussion was closed as "no action necessary". After that, the person responsible posted their thoughts to my talk page. Here they are, with my response:
Automatically refreshed excerptsThe main advancement we've made so far is applying selective transclusion Transclusion is template technology, showing a page on another page. Selective transclusion shows only part of that page. We use it to show excerpts that always match the source. The two templates we have so far, are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt. Obsoleting subpagesExcerpts are migrating toward the base page of each portal, and where this is done, a subpage is no longer needed. Template:Transclude lead excerpt will be able to be used to put the intro excerpt directly on the portal page, rather than on an intro subpage, once we adapt a portal design to accommodate this. Template:Transclude random excerpt is currently being used on 1st-level subpages, and eliminates the need for 2nd-level subpages. (Many portals have 2 levels of subpages). There are about 1500 portals, but there are around 148,000 subpages in portal space. Further discussions are needed to develop designs and components that do not require them. It is my hope that the portal of the future will be a single page, or close to it, pulling in excerpts from specified dynamic sources (like category pages), filtered by ratings. This would obviate the need for subpages at all (except for maybe the header and footer subpages, which store a portal's settings). A more likely near-term solution would be subpages with a list maintained by a bot, or editors using semi-automatic tools. New portalsSince the reboot, a new portal has been created: Please watchlist these pagesSome central pages in the portal system. The more eyes on them, the better.
Wrapping up...There's more in the works, like a rating system, further redesigns, etc. Keep an eye on the discussions on the project's talk page. They should start showing up there soon. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:25, 4 May 2018 (UTC) @Transhumanist: Thank you very much for your great efforts. you have encouraged me by this message and i dedicated my day 4 may completely and half of the 5 may for editing and improving portals as response to your inspiring message even-though I am in hard medical and surgical examination period so thank you another time and BTW i added this sentence which i hope it being helpful. king regards--مصعب (talk) 00:04, 5 May 2018 (UTC) @Transhumanist: After construction of portal Anatomy I completed construction of Portal:Muhammad and it is
WikiProject Portals update, 11 May 2018We've grown to 73 members, and morale is high. Thank you for joining. Here is some news, and some tasks... The RfC will be closed soon...2018-05-11: preparations are being made to close the RfC. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals. When there, be sure to notice the consultation link. We're trying to get a prototypical single-page portal developed in time to show the RfC closers before they make their final decision. You can help. It's Portal:Humanism. So far, we've applied selective transclusion (automation) to excerpts, and have made the following sections without subpages: intro, selected article, selected biography, categories, related portals, wikiprojects, things to do, and wikimedia. Eight down, 4 to go, plus 2 formatting subpages (not sure we can migrate those). Automating every section, would also be nice. Main objectivesOur main objectives currently, are:
Maintenance pass #1: Upgrading the intro sectionThe intro section of many portals transcludes an "Intro" subpage that has an excerpt in it. We're replacing that with a selective transclusion directly in the intro section, bypassing the subpage. Though, there's a little more to it... For instructions, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Transclude intro excerpt directly on the portal base page. Please skip Portal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand. Maintenance pass #2: Obsoleting the Wikimedia subpagesOne of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using the template {{Wikimedia for portals}} directly on the portal base page. This has been done for several hundred portals so far. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Obsolete a Wikimedia subpage for instructions. Maintenance pass #3: calling the category tree from the portal base pageCertes figured out how...
For more information, see the thread Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Rendering PAGENAME inside categorytree tag doesn't work (it does now). More to come...In the meantime, see ya around the portals! — The Transhumanist 16:03, 11 May 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update, 15 May 2018We are at 74 members. If you know anyone who might find this WikiProject interesting, please invite them. The RfC has endedThe RfC was closed May 11th, and a closing statement was posted May 12th which says "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." Ongoing tasksSome major activities that we are in the middle of include:
Other tasks
Portal-building resourcesDuring his work on portals, Broter found a quote randomizer. It is {{Random quotation}}. Trailblazer: approaching the one-page portalBroter has transformed the Portal:Community of Christ so it is comprised of only 3 pages in portal space: the base page, its box-header subpage, and its box-footer subpage. Its other other subpages are now obsolete and are waiting for deletion. Nice job, Broter! Well, that's all for now. See ya around the portals. — The Transhumanist 06:41, 16 May 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018We have grown to 79 members. Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo. A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there. Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening... New news template ready for testingEvad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals... {{Transclude selected current events}} is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns. Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!" See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Alternative to Wikinews. Thank you, Evad. Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem... Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there. Please check Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this. Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page. Thank you. Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually. New portal, still needs work
Drafting a new portals guidelineYour input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals. See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11. See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#RfC on new portal guidelines RfC on new TOC layout for main portal listThere is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals. See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals#RFC on layout update. Deletion discussion survivorsThank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...
Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page. Portal space clean upWhile portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per {{Db-p1}} or {{Db-p2}}). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist. There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal. For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:
Then an admin will come along and delete them. Please help list the unlisted portals!There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet... Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work. The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. I hope to see you there! Wrapping upThese developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon. — The Transhumanist 00:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC) Whoa, I missed one...There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report Enjoy. P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined! — The Transhumanist 01:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Abdel Majid al-MajaliHello مصعب, I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Abdel Majid al-Majali for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia. If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top. You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Reb1981 (talk) 00:50, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
It's time: the Portals WikiProject AWBers are needed for a task...I'm contacting you because you indicated on the Portals WikiProject's members list that you use AWB. We are now working on a task that requires your help. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#AWB team please tackle maintenance run on intro sections. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 22:46, 28 May 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018We have grown to 89 members. This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive. WelcomeA warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members... Our new members include:
Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team. The portal set has shrunkThere were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV. Maintenance runs on the portals set have begunThis is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB. More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :) The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin. Thank you, youI'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you. Why reread that mess, you ask? To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below... Thank yous all aroundI've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page). Sockpuppet, and reverting his workIt so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed. This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run. The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:
Automation so far, section by section...
Automatic article alerts is up and runningAutomatic article alerts are now featured on the project page. Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Choosing workflows, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts. Other things that could use some automationNoyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board. Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that? Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you. Deletion discussion survivorsKeep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).
(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page). Portals needing repairWrapping upThere's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue. Until then, see ya around the project. — The Transhumanist 12:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of Abdel Majid al-Majali for deletionA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Abdel Majid al-Majali is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdel Majid al-Majali until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins. WelcomeA warm welcome to the newest members of the team: Be sure to say hi. CongratsPbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him. The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone." New feature: Picture slideshowPicture slideshow
Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right. Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Refining the Picture slideshow. The one-page portal has been achievedWe now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own. I commend you for your teamworkThis is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you. In conclusion...There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page. — The Transhumanist 02:13, 7 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Did you know/1A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Did you know/1 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 00:44, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/2A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/2 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 00:50, 8 June 2018 (UTC) "Deleting" portal contentNot actually being deleted - turns out there is a way to put most of the content on the portal page instead of heaps of subpages, making editing much easier. So your content will be preserved :) --Tom (LT) (talk) 00:51, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/5A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/5 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/6A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/6 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/8A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/8 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:11, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/7A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected picture/7 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected biography/11A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected biography/11 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:20, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected biography/12A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected biography/12 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:21, 8 June 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Portal:Anatomy/Selected biography/13A tag has been placed on Portal:Anatomy/Selected biography/13 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section P1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a portal which would be subject to speedy deletion if it were an article. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tom (LT) (talk) 23:21, 8 June 2018 (UTC) إغاثةسلام علیك؛ يمكنك أن تحقق هذا الطلب لرفع منعي في نقاشي؟ --SajjadDon't hope in your live except God! 21:41, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
هل يمكنك الرد على طلبه لانني ليس لي خبرة في هذه المواضيع---مصعب (talk) 22:02, 9 June 2018 (UTC) AWB task requests, from the Portals WikiProject1) Replace the intro box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#AWB task: converting/upgrading intro sections. 2) Replace categories box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#AWB task: Converting category sections. Enjoy. — The Transhumanist 08:09, 13 June 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #009, 15 June 2018(Article slideshow prototype) Selected animals
Don't mind that box to the right. We'll be talking about that later, below. Almost done...With the portals upgrades? No. :) What is almost done is the updating of the main list of portals! There are 23 portals left to be listed. Kudos to the WikiGnome Squadron, for spearheading this. Once it is fully updated, we need to keep it up to date. When you complete a portal, remember to add it to Portal:Contents/Portals. Concerning portal upgrades, we are working on those section-by-section... Associated Wikimedia section conversion task completeThe Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the {{Wikimedia for portals}} template rather than reiterated copied/pasted code. So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course). Further section conversions (using AWB)Work is underway on converting Portals' introduction sections, and the categories sections. If you would like to help, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Upgrade introduction sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#AWB task: Convert category sections Further section conversions (by hand)Work has also started with converting selected picture sections to picture slideshow sections. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Install picture slideshows. Quality rating system for portals under developmentCurrently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See the discussion. What's coming: excerpt slideshowsEvad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner. Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show the direction portal development is heading. See the discussion. WowI'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :) — The Transhumanist 11:06, 16 June 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #010, 30 June 2018We've grown to 94 participants. A warm welcome to dcljr and Kpgjhpjm. Rating system for portalsWe are in the process of developing a rating system specifically for portals, as the quality assessment scheme for articles does not apply to portals. It is coming along nicely. Your input would be very helpful. See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/General#Proposed new quality class assessments. Better than a barnstarOne of our participants got involved with this WikiProject through interest in how the new generation of portals would be handled in WP's MOS (Manual of Style). It didn't take long before he got sucked in deeper. This has given him an opportunity to look around, and so, he has made an assessment of this WikiProject's operations:
Congratulations, everyone. Keep up the great work. Slideshow developmentWe've run into a glitch with slideshows: they don't work on mobile devices. Initially, we will need to explore options that allow portals to have slideshows without adversely affecting mobile viewers. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Mobile view support. Eventually, we may need another way to do slideshows. If we do go this route, and I don't see why we wouldn't, then (user configurable) automatic slideshows also become a possibility. TemplateStyles RfC passedOnce implemented, this will allow editors to create and edit cascading style sheets for use with templates. This will expand what we can do with portals. For more detail, see mw:Extension:TemplateStyles and Wikipedia:TemplateStyles. Automation effortWe've run into an obstacle using Lua-based selective transclusion: Lua is incapable (on Wikipedia) of reading in article names from categories. Because of this, we'll need to seek other approaches for fully automating the Selected article section. We are exploring sources other than categories, and other technologies besides Lua. Speaking of using other sources, the template {{Transclude list item excerpt}} collects list items from a specified page, or from a section of that page, and transcludes the lead from a randomly selected link from that list. Courtesy of Certes. So, if you use this in a portal, and if the template specifies a page or section serviced by JL-Bot, you've now got yourself an automatically updated section in the portal. JL-Bot provides links to featured content and good articles, by subject. What is "fully automated"? When you create a portal using a creation template, and the portal works thereafter without editor intervention, the portal is fully automated. That is, the portal is supported by features that fetch new content. If you have to add new article names every so often for it to display new content, then it is only semi-automated. Currently, the Selected article section is semi-automated, because it requires that an editor supplies the names of the various articles for which excerpts are (automatically) displayed. For examples, look at the wikisource code of Portal:Reptiles, Portal:Ancient Tamil civilization, and Portal:Reference works. So far, 3 sections are fully automatable: the introduction section, the categories section, and the Associated Wikimedia section. Where is all this heading?Henry. Or some other name. Eventually, the portal department will be a software program. And we won't have to do anything (unless we want to). Not even tell it what portals to create (unless we want to). It will just do it all (plus whatever else we want it to do). And we will of course give it good manners, and a name. But, that is a few years off. Until then, building portals is still (partially) up to us. — The Transhumanist 13:35, 30 June 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #011, 10 July 2018We now have 97 participants. Be sure to welcome our newest members, BrantleyIzMe, Coffeeandcrumbs, and Nolan Perry, with warm regards. Work is proceeding apace. We have 2 major thrusts right now: converting the intro sections of portals, and building the components of the one-page automated model...
We need everybody, except those building software components, to work on converting intros. If you have AWB, definitely use that. If not, then work on them manually. Even one a day, or as often as you can muster, will help a lot. There are only about 1,000 of them left to go, so if everyone chips in, it will go pretty quickly. Remember, there are 97 of us! The intros for most of the portals starting with A through F have already been converted to use the {{Transclude lead excerpt}} template. The standard wikicode for the automated intro that we want to put into place looks like this: {{/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|}}
{{Transclude lead excerpt | {{PAGENAME}} | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1}}
{{Box-footer|[[{{PAGENAME}}|Read more...]]}}
That works for most portals, but not all. For some portals it requires some tweaking, and for others, we may have to use a different or more customized approach. Remember to visually inspect each portal you work on and make sure that it works before moving on to the next one. Be sure to skip user-maintained portals. They are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Specific_portal_maintainers.
I've started an AWB tips page, for those of you feeling a bit overwhelmed by that power user tool. Feel free to add to it and/or improve it.
We have some very talented Lua programmers, who are pushing the limits of what we can do in gathering data from Wikipedia's various namespaces and presenting it in portals. Due to their efforts, Lua is powering the selective transclusion core of our emerging automated portal design, in the form of selected article sections that rotate content, and slideshows. To go beyond Lua's limits, to take full advantage of Mediawiki's API, we are in the midst of adding another programming language to the resources we shall be making use of: JavaScript. The ways that JavaScript can help us edit portals to boost the power of our Lua solutions, are being explored, which will likely make the two languages synergistic if not symbiotic. Research is under way on how we can use JavaScript to make some of the portal semi-automated features fully automatically self-updating, in ways that Lua cannot. Like gathering random members from a category and inserting them into a portal's templates as parameters. Once the parameters are in place, Lua does the rest. If you would like to get involved with design efforts, or just keep up on them, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
Well, not at the present time, because building portals is quite time consuming. The good news is that we are working on a design that will be fully automated, or as close to that as we can get. And the new design is being implemented in the portal department's main portal creation template. This means, that not only will portals update themselves, their creation will be highly automated as well. That's the nature of templates. You put them in place, and they just... work. What I'm getting at here, is that it would be better to wait to build lots of new portals until after the new design is completed. Because with it, instead of taking hours to create a new portal, it will likely take minutes. That does not mean we should be idle in the meantime. The main reason most of us are here is because it became apparent that portals were largely unmaintained and had grown out-of-date. This had become so apparent that a proposal was made to delete all the portals and the portal namespace to boot. That makes our main objective in the short term to improve all the existing portals so that the community will want to keep them—forever. Building lots of new portals comes later. Let's fix up the ones we have first. ;) And on that note, I bid you adieu. Until next newsletter, see ya 'round the WikiProject. — The Transhumanist 12:33, 10 July 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #012, 15 July 2018We have 97 participants. Getting fasterAutomation makes things go faster, even portal creation. One of the components Certes made was {{Transclude list item excerpt}}. I became curious about its possible applications. So I worked out a portal design using it, the initial prototypes being Portal:Kyoto (without a "Selected pictures" section), and Portal:Dubai (with a "Selected pictures" section). Then I used Portal:Dubai as the basis for further portals of this type...
Why? To see, and to show, what may become feasible via automation. It now looks highly feasible that we could get portal construction time down to a few minutes, or maybe even down to a few seconds. The singularity is just around the corner. :) SlideshowsWhen using the {{Random slideshow}} template to display pictures, be sure to use the plural tense in the section title: "Selected pictures". That's because slideshows don't show up on many mobile devices. Instead the whole set of pictures is shown, hence the section title "Selected pictures", as it fits both situations. In case you are curious, here is a list of the portals so far that have a slideshow:
Progress on intro conversionsThe intros for most of the portals up through the letter "O" have been converted, using this wikicode: {{/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|}}
{{Transclude lead excerpt | {{PAGENAME}} | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1}}
{{Box-footer|[[{{PAGENAME}}|Read more...]]}}
Where the pagename didn't match the article title for the subject, the title was typed in. Most of the portals that do not contain About a thousand portals use the method of selective transclusion for the intro section. That's about two-thirds. That means we have one-third of the way to go on the intro section conversions. Much more to come...So much has been happening with portals that I can't keep up with it. (That's good). Which means, more in the upcoming issue. Until then, see ya 'round the project. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:47, 15 July 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #013, 18 July 2018I got overwhelmed IRL (in real life) during the production of issue #12. So, here is a catch-up issue, to help bring you (and me) up to speed on what is happening with portals... By the way, we still have 97 participants. (Tell all your friends about this WikiProject, and have them join!) Panoramas!One cool feature of some of the geographical portals is a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section. Check these out:
The Portals WikiGnome squadron is busy adding panoramas to geographical portals that don't yet have one. Feel free to join in on the fun. See task details at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Add a panorama or skyline to a geographic portal. Caveat: avoid super-huge pics, as they can cause portal scripts to time-out. Please try to keep picture size down below 2 megabytes. Thank you. Auto-populated slideshowsSpeaking of pictures... We now have two slideshow templates. You may be familiar with {{Random slideshow}}, in which the editor types in (or copies/pastes) a list of pictures he or she wants it to display. Well, now we have another template, courtesy of Evad37, which accepts one or more page names instead, and displays a random image off of the listed pages. So instead of listing dozens of files by hand, you can include a title or three to be scanned automatically. It even lets you specify particular sections. The new slideshow template is {{Transclude files as random slideshow}}. Here's a sample, that grabs images from a single page: Selected motorcycle or motorcycling pictures
Speaking of new templates, here's another one! Also from Evad37, we have a new component for starting section boxes, that is color configurable, and that bypasses the need for box-header subpages altogether. It is {{Box-header colour}}. For color support, see Web colors. For the discussion in which this was inspired, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#Colour combinations for accessibility. (In case you didn't notice, the slideshow box above uses this new template). BTW, don't forget to close your box with {{Box-footer}}. Where are we on the redesign?The answer to this question is quite involved, and would fill this page to overflowing. Therefore, this subject, including a complete update on where we are at and where we are going with portal design, is covered at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design. Where are we on portal conversion?An AWB pass to convert intros on the portals has been completed. The pass couldn't convert them all (due to various formatting configurations, etc.). All but about 170 portals now have introductions selectively transcluded on the base page. Not counting manually maintained portals, that leaves about 70 portals that either need their intros converted, or they need an intro. Next, we'll be converting the categories sections! What's the plan, man?The course of action we have been taking goes something like this, with all steps being pursued simultaeneously... 1) Design a one-page automated portal model 2) Convert existing portals to that design (except those being manually maintained) 3) Remove subpages no longer needed 4) Develop further tools to empower editors working on portals Later, when the tools are up to the task, filling in the gaps in coverage (with new portals) will also become practical. Are we caught up yet?Probably not. Who knows what our programmers and editors have dreamed up while I was writing this. See ya again soon, — The Transhumanist 11:10, 18 July 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #014, 27 July 2018Development of design continues, full speed ahead... Excerpt slideshows are here!Can you say "paradigm shift"? Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge. Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out. For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys... We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from: {{Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}
Panoramic banners{{Portal image banner}} displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged. Give resizing the page a try:  Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
You can now balance section boxesBefore: Reptile types
Amphibian types
After: Reptile types
Amphibian types
Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons. The template used for this is {{Flex columns}}. By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them. Box-header colourYou may have noticed the new {{Box-header colour}} template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere. Testing, testingNow that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals... Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode... To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design. Until next time...Have fun. — The Transhumanist 01:01, 27 July 2018 (UTC) Portals tasks requests: presented in the newsletter below...Portals WikiProject update #015, 31 July 2018Now that we have lots of toys to play with, it's play time! Here are some fun activities to use our new toys on... Fun activity #1: put the improved panorama template to useWould you like to travel around the world? Well, this may be the next best thing... Here's another fun toy to play with: {{Portal image banner}} To see what it looks like, check out the panoramas at the tops of the following portals:
The task: There are many geography portals that lack panoramas. Please add some. Please keep the file size down below 2 megabytes, and keep in mind that you may find quality banners at commons: at less than 200K (.2 megabytes). Good search terms to include with the place name are "banner", "cityscape", "skyline", "panorama", "landscape", etc. Related task: There are also lots of geography portals that have panoramas used as gaudy banners (with print or icons splattered across them) or that display them in some random location on the page. In many cases, those pages would be improved by displaying the panorama as a clean picture at the top of the intro section, like on the examples above. This works best with banner-like panoramas. Please fix such pages when you come across them, if you believe it would improve the look of the page. Taller images might be better suited displayed further down the page, or in the "Selected images" section. Note that {{Portal image banner}} supports multiple images, and displays one at random upon the first visit, and each time the page is purged. Fun activity #2: install "Selected images" sectionsThat is, image slideshows! Over 200 have been installed so far. Just 1200 to go. (Be sure not to install them on portals with active maintainers, unless they want you to). The title "Selected images" reflects the fact that not all images on Wikipedia are pictures, and encompasses maps, graphs, diagrams, sketches, paintings, pictures, and so on. The toys we have to work with for this are: {{Random slideshow}} and {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} The task: Using one of the above templates directly on a portal's base page, replace static "Selected picture" sections, with a section like one of these: Selected images
Selected images
The one on the left uses {{Random slideshow}} (which accepts file names), and the one on the right uses {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} (which accepts source pages from which the filenames are gathered). The above section formatting is used on many of the pages you will come across, but not all. In those cases, use whatever section formatting matches the rest of the page. Note that you may come across "Selected picture" sections done with {{Random portal component}} templates. That template call is the entire section. Replace it with a section that matches the other sections on the page, and put the new slideshow inside that. For example, in Portal:California, this code:
was replaced with this code: {{/box-header|Selected images|noedit=yes}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow
| {{PAGENAME}}
| Culture of {{PAGENAME}}
}}
{{Box-footer}}
And the new section blended right in with the formatting of the rest of the page. Note the use of the Fun activity #3: upgrade "Selected article" sectionsThese sections, where unmaintained, have gone stale. That's because 1) the excerpts are static, having been manually copied and pasted, and 2) because they lack automatic addition of new entries. They can be upgraded with: or {{Transclude list item excerpt}} or All three of these will provide excerpts that won't go stale. The latter two can provide excerpt collections that won't go stale, by providing new entries over time. The key is to select source pages or source sections that are frequently updated, such as root article sections, mainstream lists, or navigation templates. Where will this put us?When the above tasks are completed for the entire collection of portals (except the ones with specific maintainers), we'll be more than half-way done with the portal system upgrade. Keep up the great work. — The Transhumanist 19:19, 30 July 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #016, 15 Aug 2018Future portal toolDiscussions are underway on the design of a portal tool (user script) that will hopefully have features for modifying portals at the click of a menu item, to make editing them easier. It might do things like change the color for you, add to a selection, add a new section, move a section, and so on. If you'd like to be involved and suggest features for the tool, please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#What would you want a portal tool to be able to do?. Progress report: upgrade of portalsAs new portal components are built by our Lua gurus, those components are being used to upgrade portals. Each component automates a section of a portal in a particular way. The sections that are mostly upgraded so far are the Intro, and the Associated Wikimedia section. The sections currently undergoing upgrade are: Selected image, Categories, and the Intro. The Intro? Isn't that done already? Yes, and no. The upgrade of the excerpt in intros is mostly complete (there are about 70 non-standard portals that still need it). Now we are doing another upgrade of intros in the form of adding a panoramic picture at the top of the intro, on portals for which such a picture is available on Commons:. Dozens of panoramas have been added so far, and they are really starting to affect the look of portals — the portals that have them look really good. Regions are the most likely subjects to have panoramas, but a surprising number of other subjects have banner-shaped pictures too. Some examples of non-geographic portals that they have been added to are:
Speaking of pictures, several hundred Selected image sections have been upgraded to include image slideshows. Progress report: designThe push for automation continues, with new components under continuous testing in the field. As problems are spotted, they are reported to our programmers, who have done a fantastic job of keeping up with bug reports and fixing the relevant Lua modules fast. I am highly impressed. Construction time on new portals is now down to as little as a minute or less. Though not in general. If you are lucky enough to spot portals that fit the profile of the new tools (their strengths), then a portal can be complete almost as soon as it is created, with the added time it takes to find and add a panorama. Source page titles are not generally standardized, and so it source pages in many cases must be entered manually. Where source page titles follow a standard naming convention, portal creation for those subjects goes quickly. So, we still have some hurdles, but the outlook on portals is very good. New features, and many improvements to features are on the horizon. I'll be sure to report them when they become available. What will the portal of the future look like? That is up to you! See you on the project's talk pages. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 21:12, 15 August 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #017, 22 Aug 2018This issue is about portal creation... Creating new portalsMyself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals. The templates are ready for general use for portal creation. They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them. I look forward to seeing what new portals you create! Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD. The main portal creation template is {{box portal skeleton}}. Portal creation tipsAfter starting a portal using {{box portal skeleton}}...
Need a laugh?Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism. — The Transhumanist 02:25, 22 August 2018 (UTC) Dear AWB'erI noticed over at the Portals WikiProject that you have or use AWB (or JWB). There are some tasks that have turned up that are perfect for AWB. We have many new portals, and they need:
The new portals can be found on Category:Single-page portals along with some revamped ones. You'll need to use the skip feature of AWB. If you have any questions, please {{ping}} me, and ask them below. — The Transhumanist 01:59, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Portals WikiProject update #018, 04 Sept 2018Bug hunt!As you know, portals are now supported by a number of new templates, which are in turn supported by some new Lua modules. Those templates and modules are being put to the test, in the new portals that have been created since this WikiProject rebooted, plus a number of existing portals that have been revamped. The new portals, and revamped ones, can be found at Category:Single-page portals. Please browse the new portals at your leisure, and report any and all problems that you spot. Post bug and other portal problem reports at WT:WPPORTD. Please report bugs, quirks, awkward aspects, or anything weird or off that you notice. Compliments and suggestions are also welcome. :) When you report a bug, please indicate the portal's name, the section that the problem appeared in, and the name of the article appearing (first) in the section with the problem. Most problems will likely be encountered in the Selected general articles" section, due to quirks in a displayed article's wikicode that the lua modules don't handle yet. Your help in spotting those is of utmost value. Thank you. Don't delete portal subpages just yetFor portals that have been converted to the single-page design, we are not deleting their subpages at this time, because we are working on ways to harvest the data from those pages. For example, the Selected picture subpages include filenames and captions that would be valuable for the image slideshows. Please don't delete portal subpages, for now. They'll be slated for d-batch speedy deletion after harvesting. Thank you. Development notesWe are currently testing a feature added to {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} that allows it to accept both sourcepages and filenames. Courtesy of Evad37. This will pave the way for harvesting files and their captions from portal subpages, for use in image slideshows. We need your helpThe bulk of the work is being done by a handful of editors. But we can't do it all. We need help with spotting bugs, refining the search parameters in new/revamped portals (in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections), adding images to slideshows for a broader selection (they default to showing the images on the root article page but are capable of showing so much more), adding panoramic pictures at the top of the intro section of region portals (cities, counties, states, provinces, countries, continents, and other regions), to name but a few task types. It is rewarding to be a part of the growing portal phenomenon. And you get to see its expansion and refinement up close. Feel free to join in on the fun. ;) Thank you, — The Transhumanist 06:59, 4 September 2018 (UTC) AWB task request: please help with the backlogHey... If you have AWB laying around, please dust it off and crank it up! ;) We have a growing backlog! There are now 545 portals. Of those, 51 are of the new design. Many of the new portals are orphaned or near orphaned, and need links pointing to them:
To make a list of corresponding templates, you can use AWB's make list feature to make a list of the pages in Category:Single-page portals. Then you copy that list to a sandbox, and replace To make a list of corresponding root articles, make a list of portal links, and then remove "Portal:" from the links. To make a list of category links to process, make sure you use a leading colon (:) in the category links, like this: All new and revamped portals can be found at Category:Single-page portals. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 20:45, 17 September 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #019, 22 Sept 2018Portals progress reportDon't blink. You might miss something. As of a few days ago, portals had doubled in about a month and a half. Also, there were 98 incompleted portals in Category:Portals under construction. Now there are just 43. The WikiProject page has been thoroughly revisedThe goals, plans, and task sections have all been updated. Orphaned portals need a home...Many new portals are still orphans, and need links pointing to them:
All new and revamped portals can be found at Category:Single-page portals. This is the main list of portals. Nearly 2,000 of the new portals need to be listed here. They can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there. Customized Portal Rating system is now in placePortals now have a new rating system of their own designed specifically to support portal evaluation! We were trying to use the standard assessment system for articles, but that doesn't fit portals very well. Many thanks to Evad37, Waggers, AfroThundr3007730, SMcCandlish, Tom, BrendonTheWizard, and Pbsouthwood for their work and input on this. The new system can be found at the top of all portal talk pages, in the WikiProject portals box. Those with "???" ratings need to be assessed, which makes up most of the older portals. Most of the new portals were started out with an initial "Low" level of importance when their talk pages were created. Those deserving higher importance should be promoted as you come across them. Improving the new portalsThe starting point for new portals included minimal parameters and content, in the form of default values in the template(s) used for their creation. Embellishing embedded search stringsSo, for the search strings in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections, this was the magic word
... that returned several results in the portal's DYK section. Be sure you make the improvements to both the DYK section and the "In the news" section, as they both require the search strings. Expanding the slideshow contentsThe default starting selection for the image slideshow in most new portals is whatever images happen to be in the corresponding root article (via the PAGENAME magic word). You can improve image slideshows by adding more sourcepages and filenames as parameters in the "Selected images" section of portals. See Template:Transclude files as random slideshow/doc for instructions. More exciting things are to come...Portals used to take about 6 hours or more to create. Now, for subjects that have particular navigation support, we've got that down to about one minute each, with even more content displayed than ever. True, that means the new portals pick you, rather than the other way around. Creating a specific portal that doesn't happen to have the requisite navigation support is still pretty time consuming. But, we are working on extending our reach beyond the low-hanging fruit. And efforts are ongoing to keep shaving time off of the creation process. Eventually, we may get it down to seconds each. In addition to improving automation, we're always looking for new features and improvements that we can add to portals, and there is plenty of potential to expand on the standard design so that new portals are even better right out of the starting gate. Additional designs are also possible. On the horizon, there are many more portals waiting to be created. And we can expect to see at least a few more section types emerge. I never expected slideshows, for example, especially not for excerpts. Who knows where innovation will take us next? Keep up the great work everyone. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:11, 23 September 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #020, 12 Oct 2018Whew, a lot has been happening. A bit of defending of the portals has been needed. But, most activity recently has been directed upon maintenance and development of existing portals. The majority of portals now use the new design, about 2400 of them, leaving around 1200 portals that still employ the old style. Newest portals
Please inspect these portals, and report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you. MfDsSince the last issue of this newsletter, Nineteen portals were nominated for deletion. All posted by the same person. Two portals were deleted. One resolved as "no consensus". Sixteen resolved as "keep". Links to the archived discussions are provided below:
Many thanks to those who participated in the discussions. To watch for future MfD's, keep in mind that the Portals WikiProject is supported by automatic alerts. You can see them at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD Creation criteriaThere was also some discussion of creation criteria for portals. The result was that one of the participants in the discussion reverted the portal guidelines to the old version, which has the minimum number of articles for a portal included in there: "about 20 articles", a guideline that was in place since 2009. Many of the portals that existed prior to April 2018 do not have that many (being limited to however many subpages the portal creator created), and therefore, these portals need to be upgraded to the new design (which automatically provides many articles for display). Using the new design, exceeding 20 articles for display is very easy. Linking to the new portalsEfforts have been underway to place links to new portals (all 2200 of them created since April).
Your help is needed. It is easy to access the page mentioned in #1, #2, & #3 from the portals themselves. AWBers could do these tasks even faster (that's how the category pages were done), except #4... Item #4 above pretty much has to be done by hand. (If you can find a way to speed that up, I would be very impressed). The links needing placement can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there. The conversion effort: news sectionsThere are still around 1200 old-style portals that have only undergone partial conversion to the new design concepts, still relying on subpages with copied/pasted excerpts that have been going stale for years, out of date (manually posted) news entries, etc. The section currently being tackled on these is news. You can help by deleting any news section on the old-style portals that has news entries that are years old (that is the dead giveaway to a manual news section). Be sure not to delete the news sections of portals that have up-to-date news, or active maintainers. For maintainers, look at the portal's categories, and/or check the participants list at WP:WPPORT. Eventually, conditional news sections (that appear only when news items are available for display) will be added using AWB to all portals without a news section. News items (and even the news sections themselves) are automatically generated for portals that were created using the Basic portal start page. On those portals, there is a hidden comment at the top of the page (that you can see in the edit window), that says this:
Design developmentPresently, we are in the process of implementing the new design features, creating new portals with them, and installing them in existing portals. But, what about development of new new design features? We have a wish department. Post your wishes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Discussions about possible cool new features, and they might come true. Many have already, and for many of those, this is where they were posted. Cascade effectA resource that has been elusive so far will be obtained eventually: categories. That is, the ability to pull category member links to populate a page. Rather than populate portals directly with such links, it may be more beneficial to the encyclopedia to utilize them in navigation footers, because portals already have the ability to generate themselves based on those. So, this would create a cascade effect: auto-gathering entries from categories, would enable the construction of new navigation footers, that would in turn support the development of new portals. The cascade effect would also be felt by existing portals, as existing navigation footers could be expanded using the category harvesting methods, which would in turn expand the coverage of portals that access those navigation footers. You can help by providing leads about any potential category harvesting methods. Please report anything you know about harvesting categories at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you. Looking into the future: the quantum portal?One idea that has been floating around is the concept of a pageless portal. That is, a portal that isn't stored anywhere, instead being generated when you click on a menu item or button. Many of the new portals were generated by a single click, and then saved via a second click. Therefore, it seems likely that the portals of the future will employ the one-click concept. Because of the need for customization by users, this concept would need to be augmented with a way to integrate user contributions. This could be done in at least two ways: posting an existing portal, autogenerating one from scratch if such does not yet exist, or have a special data page for user contributions that is folded into the auto-generated portal. How soon? That is up to you. All that is needed are persons to implement it. Until next time...Keep up the good work on portals. They are improving daily. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 04:27, 12 October 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #021, 24 Oct 2018Portals have passed the 4,000 mark. More new portals...Here's a list of portals created since the last issue Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you. What's next?There is still lots to do... There are many subject gaps that need to be filled. This can be done by creating new portals, or by adding Selected article sections to existing portals. To create a new portal, simply place Each new portal is just a starting point. Each portal of the new design can be further developed by:
Besides the new portals, there are still about 1200 portals of the old design that need to be converted to the new design. Many portals need to be de-orphaned, by placing links to them (in the See also section of the corresponding root articles, at the bottom of the corresponding navigation footer templates, and on the corresponding category pages). Many of the new portals still need to be listed at Portal:Contents/Portals. Bugs keep popping up in portals. These need to be tracked down and reported at WT:WPPORTD. Tools are needed to make developing and maintaining portals quicker and easier. Dreaming up new features and capabilities. Innovation needs to continue, to design the portal of tomorrow, and the portal development-maintenance-system of the future. Automation! So, if you find yourself with a little (or a lot) of free time, pick an area (or more) above and... ...dive in! — The Transhumanist 07:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #022, 11 Nov 2018Welcome AmericanAir88Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals: Way to go! Where's Evad?Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18. He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed. Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something. The conversion continuesPortals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design. One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years. This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors. Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other. This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so. Going wide...We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals. We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386... Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:
Using both  Project's statusThere are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate. Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals. Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention. Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines. Until next issue...See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC) Mashaher Al Iraq(magazine) listed at Redirects for discussion An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mashaher Al Iraq(magazine). Since you had some involvement with the Mashaher Al Iraq(magazine) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC) ArbCom 2018 election voter messageHello, مصعب. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 2 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018There are now 4,180 portals. Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year? I know we can. But, that is up to you! ( New portals are created with Happy Holidays.jpg) .jpg)   Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC) ,_cropped.jpg)
Jingling alongThe following portals have been created since the last issue:
Keep 'em coming! By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names). In closingWe'll keep it short this issue. Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that. Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC) December 2018
Ways to improve Mohammed Al-RaqadThanks for creating Mohammed Al-Raqad. A New Page Patroller Rosguill just tagged the page as having some issues to fix, and wrote this note for you:
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can reply over here and ping me. Or, for broader editing help, you can talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer. signed, Rosguill talk 00:09, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is... Portals statusWe 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 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 bannerUser: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 underwayWork 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 redirectsIn 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 08:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018We can now crop the tops of pics to make bannersBefore, 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:  Niagara falls, from the Canadian side
Becomes this: Niagara falls, from the Canadian side
Here's the code for the above banner:
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:
And whatever else you can dream up. But most of all, have a...   Avicenno, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:15, 30 December 2018 (UTC) Hello Mossab. This is with regards to your private request for deletion of the above article. I hope you don't mind me continuing the discussion here. I see that you have requested A7, and it was subsequently declined by another admin, User:Bbb23. Noted that the article was created in 2006, and the term has 331,000 hits on Google, although the latter being mostly as part of people's names. In your request, you have also asked me to look at User:Gharaibeh. May I ask how are the two related, apart from the term? If you still have concerns, please do feel free to raise an AFD. In the mean time, don't hesitate to ask for any help. Best wishes, Rehman 05:50, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy... New participantsA hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department: Harvesting categories tool prototypeDannyS712 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 with a section starter script and/or portal builder script. New portals since last issue
What else is going onThere 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 09:06, 20 January 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019Portal stylesFor 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 continuesThere 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 PageSpeaking 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:
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
Keep 'em coming! Deorphanizing the new portalsAs 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 wrapThat's all I have to report this time around. No doubt there will be more to tell soon. Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:17, 28 January 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019Here's a quicky status report:
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 discoveredUser: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:
And the corresponding talk pages:
New portals since the last issue
Keep up the great workUntil next time, — The Transhumanist 09:06, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019Where we are at:
The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them downYou 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.wikipedia.org/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
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:
Let's take a closer look at these... 1: Creating new portalsPortal 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 portalsThe portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...
More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish. 3: Converting old portalsBy 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:
4: Linking to new portalsOr "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:
Introducing... Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page). Keep on keepin' on...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019Previous issue:
This issue:
The collection of portals has shrunkAll Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019 Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
Individual Nominations:
Related WikiProject: (Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results) WikiProject Quantum portalsThis 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 PortalsAt 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 monthsSee Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals. Until next issue...Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 09:35, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #031, 01 May 2019Back to the drawing boardImplementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design. Some of the reasons for the purge are:
Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases. In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted. Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG. However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal. See you at WT:POG. CurationA major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer. There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion. See you at WT:POG. TrafficAn observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get. And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals. The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are? And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)... Some potential future directions of developmentQuantum portals?An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself. Non-portal integrated componentsAnother approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible. What kind of features could this be done with? The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on. Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts). The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page. Where would that leave curated portals?Being curated. At least for the time being. New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface. But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them. Keep on keepin' onThe features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other. And who knows what else? No worries. Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 00:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Wiki Project MedHello, Avicenno, Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Onel5969 and it's nice to meet you :-) I wanted to let you know that I have tagged an article that you started, Wiki Project Med for deletion, because it seems to be an article that has been already decided by a [decision] to be unsuitable for inclusion. If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top. 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A7Hi. Being a mayor of a city is a relatively strong claim to significance, the A7 tag is fairly restricted in what it can be applied to. And don't forget to use edit summaries :) – Thjarkur (talk) 09:40, 17 September 2020 (UTC) Hi Avicenno -- I noticed this draft in the G13 deletion pile and have tried to rescue it as the subject is obviously notable. There are still some sources needed, if you were able to assist further with its development. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 00:59, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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