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@ Dreamy Jazz: Thank you! Much appreciated. You too. AmericanAir88( talk) 03:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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@ Davey2010: Thank you so much! Much appreciated! Have a Happy Holidays as well. AmericanAir88( talk) 04:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...
We now have 4,620 portals.
And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...
Can we make it?
The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}
or
{{subst:bpsp}}
)
After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.
Be sure to welcome him back.
User:FR30799386 is working on making {{ Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.
Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.
Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).
So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.
Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.
In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.
Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.
The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.
Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.
To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.
And I'll see you next issue.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:01, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
We just hit 4,940 portals.
We have 3 more days left in the year to make it to 5,000.
We're almost there! — The Transhumanist 09:28, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.
User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{ Portal image banner}}...
So, this:
Becomes this:
Here's the code for the above banner:
{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}
To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.
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!
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...
AmericanAir88, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 11:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I work for Consumer Bankers Association (CBA), and I've suggested some improvements for the organization's article here. I've already sought help at WikiProject Finance & Investment, WikiProject Organizations, and WikiProject Companies, but there hasn't been any movement yet.
The current article is quite short and hasn't been updated since 2008. I have suggested a draft to add more content to the existing sections and build off of those as sourcing allows. I saw your name here and was wondering if you might be willing to take a look at my proposed draft here - User:CBA NS/Consumer Bankers Association. I know about COI rules, and I've done my best to follow them.
Can you possibly take a look at the draft and copy over content or provide any feedback? Thank you! CBA NS ( talk) 21:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
@ CBA NS: Sure thing. Glad to help. AmericanAir88( talk) 01:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, AmericanAir88.
You are invited to join
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@ Northamerica1000: Will do! AmericanAir88( talk) 22:53, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Northamerica1000: Anything you want me to do within the project? AmericanAir88( talk) 04:15, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, AmericanAir88,
Thanks for creating List of water parks in Europe! I edit here too, under the username Britishfinance and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
A good (and useful) article! If this is all from a source, would be good to reference, otherwise use the tag to encourage editors to add sources/links to each of the parks listed (give it is a long list). Well done.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Britishfinance}}
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article American Airlines Flight 587 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:00, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey! Just wanted to let you know that I have completed my initial review of American Airlines Flight 587 and have placed the review on hold. Nice job with the article. Please let me know if you have any questions/comments. Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 03:59, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
The article American Airlines Flight 587 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:American Airlines Flight 587 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:00, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Balon Greyjoy: Thank you again. I have completed all the "Well written" concerns. I will get to the next concerns soon. AmericanAir88( talk) 19:54, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Northamerica1000:, @ The Transhumanist:, and @ Balon Greyjoy:,
I will be on vacation in Phoenix and Vegas this upcoming week from the 17th to 25th. I am giving the heads up just in case you see any inactivity. I will try to be a bit active on Wikipedia, but gambling, hiking, and celebrating are on my list. Ill bring back a souvenir and hope that the TSA doesn't take 3 hours.
Thank you. AmericanAir88( talk) 01:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, AmericanAir88! You helped me with the Web.com article a while back, so I was wondering if you might be interested in reviewing a draft article I've written to replace the current Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. article, which is entirely unsourced and has 2 warning banners at the top of the page. I've posted a request at Talk:Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., which directs editors to User:Inkian Jason/Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş.. I've posted requests for editor help at multiple WikiProjects, but so far no changes have been made to the article. Are you willing to review? Thanks for your consideration, Inkian Jason ( talk) 16:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.
DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.
Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.
Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).
Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 08:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article R (New York City Subway service) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ComplexRational -- ComplexRational ( talk) 17:00, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hello! Just wanted to let you know that I passed the GA nomination/review for American Airlines Flight 587. My apologies for the delay; I started playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey yesterday and next thing I knew it was midnight. You and Spintendo both did great work! Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:35, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Balon Greyjoy: Thank you so much for taking up the review. You have my respect. Cheers. AmericanAir88( talk) 16:25, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.
If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.
There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.
You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".
Speaking of upgrades...
The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:
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.
Keep 'em coming!
As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.
What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.
Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...
Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.
That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!
To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.
It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.
Good news indeed.
Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!
That's all I have to report this time around.
No doubt there will be more to tell soon.
Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:08, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: Thank you for the news letter. I promise to be more active on the portal project, I've been dealing with some GAN's and I have just got back from vacation. Glad to be back. Thanks. AmericanAir88( talk) 01:11, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
The article R (New York City Subway service) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:R (New York City Subway service) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ComplexRational -- ComplexRational ( talk) 00:41, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
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!
User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.
When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.
The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 08:57, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello AmericanAir88: An invitation for you to check out the Sustainability Initiative, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. If you're interested, please consider adding your name to the list of supporters, which serves to express and denote the community's support of the initiative. Thanks for your consideration! North America 1000 10:43, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Northamerica1000: Signed. I completely support this. I'll notify others as well. AmericanAir88( talk) 03:20, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for adding to the syrups article. However, you really need to use copy attribution in edit summaries. Please read and follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. North America 1000 04:29, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Are you connected or have a relationship with American Airlines? Icewhiz ( talk) 08:03, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Icewhiz: Not at all. I just have a big appreciation and passion for the company. No COI. AmericanAir88( talk) 12:09, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
I know you had approached ( here) me a while back about working towards getting Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) to an FA and some related articles to GA's. Just wondering if you're still up for that? Over the last few days I've been prepping the second season to work towards a GA. I think I've expanded it quite a bit. Unless you have any more ideas I plan on nominating it for GA soon (or more specifically as soon as I finish cutting down some of the episode summaries to conform to WP:TVPLOT). TheDoctorWho (talk) 19:30, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
@ TheDoctorWho: 100% on board. Tell me what you need done. AmericanAir88( talk) 20:45, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! | |
Hello AmericanAir88, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
@ Dreamy Jazz: Thank you! Much appreciated. You too. AmericanAir88( talk) 03:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
| |
Hi AmericanAir88, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas |
@ Davey2010: Thank you so much! Much appreciated! Have a Happy Holidays as well. AmericanAir88( talk) 04:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...
We now have 4,620 portals.
And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...
Can we make it?
The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}
or
{{subst:bpsp}}
)
After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.
Be sure to welcome him back.
User:FR30799386 is working on making {{ Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.
Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.
Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).
So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.
Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.
In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.
Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.
The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.
Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.
To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.
And I'll see you next issue.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:01, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
We just hit 4,940 portals.
We have 3 more days left in the year to make it to 5,000.
We're almost there! — The Transhumanist 09:28, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.
User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{ Portal image banner}}...
So, this:
Becomes this:
Here's the code for the above banner:
{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}
To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.
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!
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...
AmericanAir88, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 11:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I work for Consumer Bankers Association (CBA), and I've suggested some improvements for the organization's article here. I've already sought help at WikiProject Finance & Investment, WikiProject Organizations, and WikiProject Companies, but there hasn't been any movement yet.
The current article is quite short and hasn't been updated since 2008. I have suggested a draft to add more content to the existing sections and build off of those as sourcing allows. I saw your name here and was wondering if you might be willing to take a look at my proposed draft here - User:CBA NS/Consumer Bankers Association. I know about COI rules, and I've done my best to follow them.
Can you possibly take a look at the draft and copy over content or provide any feedback? Thank you! CBA NS ( talk) 21:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
@ CBA NS: Sure thing. Glad to help. AmericanAir88( talk) 01:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, AmericanAir88.
You are invited to join
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brands and brand-related topics. |
@ Northamerica1000: Will do! AmericanAir88( talk) 22:53, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Northamerica1000: Anything you want me to do within the project? AmericanAir88( talk) 04:15, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, AmericanAir88,
Thanks for creating List of water parks in Europe! I edit here too, under the username Britishfinance and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
A good (and useful) article! If this is all from a source, would be good to reference, otherwise use the tag to encourage editors to add sources/links to each of the parks listed (give it is a long list). Well done.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Britishfinance}}
. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article American Airlines Flight 587 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:00, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey! Just wanted to let you know that I have completed my initial review of American Airlines Flight 587 and have placed the review on hold. Nice job with the article. Please let me know if you have any questions/comments. Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 03:59, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
The article American Airlines Flight 587 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:American Airlines Flight 587 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:00, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Balon Greyjoy: Thank you again. I have completed all the "Well written" concerns. I will get to the next concerns soon. AmericanAir88( talk) 19:54, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Northamerica1000:, @ The Transhumanist:, and @ Balon Greyjoy:,
I will be on vacation in Phoenix and Vegas this upcoming week from the 17th to 25th. I am giving the heads up just in case you see any inactivity. I will try to be a bit active on Wikipedia, but gambling, hiking, and celebrating are on my list. Ill bring back a souvenir and hope that the TSA doesn't take 3 hours.
Thank you. AmericanAir88( talk) 01:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, AmericanAir88! You helped me with the Web.com article a while back, so I was wondering if you might be interested in reviewing a draft article I've written to replace the current Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. article, which is entirely unsourced and has 2 warning banners at the top of the page. I've posted a request at Talk:Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., which directs editors to User:Inkian Jason/Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş.. I've posted requests for editor help at multiple WikiProjects, but so far no changes have been made to the article. Are you willing to review? Thanks for your consideration, Inkian Jason ( talk) 16:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.
DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.
Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.
Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).
Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 08:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article R (New York City Subway service) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ComplexRational -- ComplexRational ( talk) 17:00, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
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The article American Airlines Flight 587 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:American Airlines Flight 587 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:41, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Just wanted to let you know that I passed the GA nomination/review for American Airlines Flight 587. My apologies for the delay; I started playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey yesterday and next thing I knew it was midnight. You and Spintendo both did great work! Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 04:35, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Balon Greyjoy: Thank you so much for taking up the review. You have my respect. Cheers. AmericanAir88( talk) 16:25, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.
If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.
There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.
You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".
Speaking of upgrades...
The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:
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.
Keep 'em coming!
As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.
What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.
Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...
Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.
That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!
To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.
It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.
Good news indeed.
Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!
That's all I have to report this time around.
No doubt there will be more to tell soon.
Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:08, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: Thank you for the news letter. I promise to be more active on the portal project, I've been dealing with some GAN's and I have just got back from vacation. Glad to be back. Thanks. AmericanAir88( talk) 01:11, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
The article R (New York City Subway service) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:R (New York City Subway service) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ComplexRational -- ComplexRational ( talk) 00:41, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
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!
User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.
When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.
The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 08:57, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello AmericanAir88: An invitation for you to check out the Sustainability Initiative, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. If you're interested, please consider adding your name to the list of supporters, which serves to express and denote the community's support of the initiative. Thanks for your consideration! North America 1000 10:43, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Northamerica1000: Signed. I completely support this. I'll notify others as well. AmericanAir88( talk) 03:20, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for adding to the syrups article. However, you really need to use copy attribution in edit summaries. Please read and follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. North America 1000 04:29, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Are you connected or have a relationship with American Airlines? Icewhiz ( talk) 08:03, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Icewhiz: Not at all. I just have a big appreciation and passion for the company. No COI. AmericanAir88( talk) 12:09, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
I know you had approached ( here) me a while back about working towards getting Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) to an FA and some related articles to GA's. Just wondering if you're still up for that? Over the last few days I've been prepping the second season to work towards a GA. I think I've expanded it quite a bit. Unless you have any more ideas I plan on nominating it for GA soon (or more specifically as soon as I finish cutting down some of the episode summaries to conform to WP:TVPLOT). TheDoctorWho (talk) 19:30, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
@ TheDoctorWho: 100% on board. Tell me what you need done. AmericanAir88( talk) 20:45, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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