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Hi Transhumanist. If you have time, could you possibly have a look at the Selected Articles part of Portal:Banks as I can't seem to make it work and don't know what I should do to it either... Thanks a lot, Gazamp ( talk) 19:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello again! In connecting some new portals to their corresponding articles, I couldn't find a way to change this icon,
a blwydd newydd ar ol! Seasons greetings. Cesdeva (talk) 22:51, 5 December 2018 (UTC) The blanket adding of portals to all navboxes is possibly not a good idea, and should probably be discussed. They are controversial, and there has been discussion about validity of non-mainspace links in navboxes in the past. I think some consensus should be sought before this task is undertaken. I think an RFC at WP:WikiProject Templates would be the best forum. At the very least, it should be weighed up whether there is some benefit on a case-by-case basis. -- wooden superman 14:50, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no hummingbird portal? There are around 200+ articles on Wikipedia. Sadly there many hummingbirds that don't have articles, all total there are at least 340 hummingbirds. Catfurball ( talk) 21:53, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
I see you've begun editing one of our redirects to Portal:Library and information science into a portal page of its own. While I welcome your efforts and interest, I do wonder why you feel a separate page is necessary, and what your plans for this and other pages may be. I am currently involved in a project of trying to revive the WikiProject Libraries. While the members page currently lists 46 "active" members, most are former members who remain active on Wikipedia, but not in the WikiProject, itself. In fact, there are only a couple of us actively working on the project. I've been concentrating my efforts on dusting off the project site, fixing broken tools, and cleaning up the infrastructure of the site. I certainly welcome additional people who have an interest in helping, but it would be good to coordinate our efforts. This is the main reason why WikiProjects exist. Please join us. I know there are still a few cobwebs on our project site, and it's not exactly warm and welcoming. But I have cleaned out much of the decay and rot, and gotten most of the machinery to (somewhat) run again. This is certainly a good time to join, because you're on the ground floor of a major rebuild. We can use the help. I just want to make sure we're all working in the same direction, and not wind up undoing each other's work, and making the site less cohesive instead of more. Thanks again for your interest, and I look forward to working with you. LibraryGeek ( talk) 03:17, 22 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... 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 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 08:12, 26 December 2018 (UTC) Hi The Transhumanist: I noticed that you have created many new portals, and have included the {{ Under construction}} on many of them (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Transnistria&action=history). A problem is that the template should only be used for a few days, rather than weeks. I have removed the template from a few portals you created, but it appears to be on many of them, and I don't have time to remove them all. Another matter is that you could be inadvertently providing a rationale for deletion by leaving the template in place. At MfD, some portals have been deleted for being perpetually under construction, or incomplete. Food for thought. North America 1000 11:56, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Here's the pages I removed the tag from:
Regarding marking for maintenance, Template:WikiProject Portals provides an option in the form of "maintenance =", as does Template:Portal maintenance status. Regarding the latter, I'm not sure if this goes on the talk page or main portal page. North America 1000 13:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018Before, 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. 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... ![]() ![]() The Transhumanist, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:11, 30 December 2018 (UTC) ![]() ![]() Message added 14:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. A template could use updating... North America 1000 14:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC) News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2018). Hello everyone and welcome to the brand new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America 1000 13:52, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
I would Deorphanize portals, but how is it done?-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 21:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Good work to fully explain how to Deorphanize portals on my talk page. It is after midnight here, too late at night to do something unfamiliar and a bit tricky. Much beter in the AM before a big cup of tea.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 05:31, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
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What no Portal:Woodpeckers, there are over 239 Woodpeckers by World Book Encyclopedia.
H:HELP listed at Redirects for discussion![]() An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect H:HELP. Since you had some involvement with the H:HELP redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 17:07, 9 January 2019 (UTC) H:H listed at Redirects for discussion![]() An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect H:H. Since you had some involvement with the H:H redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 17:08, 9 January 2019 (UTC) @ The Transhumanist: Still no Portal:Woodpeckers?, when there are over 239 of them. And plus there is a book that has them all listed. Catfurball ( talk) 20:52, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019Well, 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 08:51, 20 January 2019 (UTC) Good work being done, but how can we communicate with User:Dreamy Jazz? -- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 19:02, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, how do I change the image to the portal display? If possible, can you help me change it to the logo of Boeing? Thank you. ⊂ Emoteplump ( Contributions) ( Talk) 14:13, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, is there anyway that I can get Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals members to help to deorphan all the portals listed here? Double tick means done & single tick means only the main article has the link to the portal. ⊂ Emoteplump ( Contributions) ( Talk) 11:34, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi. A new version of catlinks is out (version 3). If you just import my script normally, you should have automatically been switched over. It now has a graphical interface and some other great functions. Hope you enjoy -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:16, 24 January 2019 (UTC) HUH?? What on earth caused you to do this https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Scotland&oldid=879623268 ??? Converting a maintained and well populated Portal into barely a stub of little relevant content that you then felt compelled to add Category:Portals with errors in need of immediate attention to ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Scotland&direction=next&oldid=879623268). I'll put my good faith hat on and assume it was an error, but in the meantime I have restored the Portal to the last good version. -- Cactus.man ✍ 03:54, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Portal:United States is broken after the bot updated it. There are several script timeouts after it added the recognized content, breaking the layout spectacularly. Imzadi 1979 → 02:08, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I've hard coded the general articles section of Portal:History of North America as the is a Lua error when using Template:{{PAGENAME}}. Would be glad if you could give me some pointers on how to fix it as I've tried several ways to address the issues but to no avail. Its late now (in my timezone), so I'll try to fix it tommorrow if possible. ⊂ Emoteplump ( Contributions) ( Talk) 15:53, 27 January 2019 (UTC) News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the second issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019For 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". 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.
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 13:16, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
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Pls see Wikipedia:Help desk#Featured portal?.-- Moxy ( talk) 23:27, 2 February 2019 (UTC) You did not attempt to communicate with me before you reset a portal I created, H. P. Lovecraft, despite the warning on the talk page "This portal is manually maintained by Auric. Please contact these user(s) when you plan to make significant changes." A portal reset and deletion of subpages would seem to be a significant change. Why did you not check with me?-- Auric talk 10:36, 3 February 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! 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 09:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC) I was thinking about 5 to 6 specific portals - and the country whose name that I dont necessarily put on my talk page for reasons of justifiable paranoia - I only wish to converse about offline - if you wish to do it onwiki, great! but sorry, I am not interested in pursuing, but thanks for your interest in clarifications - that is appreciated. JarrahTree 10:28, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Inneresting' - sounds interesting... JarrahTree 21:46, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Do you have more details or is that it? if so yes... JarrahTree 21:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC) @ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Peppers. Catfurball ( talk) 23:24, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Regarding your move of Template:Julius Caesar to Template:Julius Caesar (play). The naming policy is to not use parenthetical disambiguation unless there is actual ambiguity (in this context, ambiguity means collision). Since there is no template for Julius Caesar (which I obviously agree is the PRIMARYTOPIC), there is no need for parenthetical disambiguation for the template for Julius Caesar. Please undo this move. -- Xover ( talk) 04:59, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Xover: I like your reference to the Assassination of Julius Caesar. He may be dead, but may his memory live on, in both the Template:Julius Caesar and Portal:Julius Caesar, which should remedy the problem you pointed out. Thank you for the heads up. — The Transhumanist 08:12, 5 February 2019 (UTC) ![]() Hello The Transhumanist: 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 09:45, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Peaches. Catfurball ( talk) 19:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Plums. Catfurball ( talk) 21:12, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
![]() Message added 04:20, 7 February 2019 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Updates North America 1000 04:20, 7 February 2019 (UTC) I would be very interested in a set of one page portals on the Provinces of Indonesia - how does that sound to you ? JarrahTree 11:01, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Tyrant flycatchers there are 400 species. Catfurball ( talk) 19:48, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: Even better you can use, List of tyrant flycatchers that would be even better for the portal. Catfurball ( talk) 20:51, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: I just finished creating List of Woodpeckers, this should help you with Portal:Woodpeckers. Catfurball ( talk) 22:39, 13 February 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019Where we are at:
You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community). Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks! Here's a link to the dramatic discussion: The 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/?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
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. There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these... Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal. Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script. Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain. The 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. By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place. There are two approaches here:
Or "portal deorphanization"... Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along. And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter. See below... 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). ...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:28, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Falcons there 67 in this family. Use List of Falconidae. Catfurball ( talk) 19:24, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Catfurball: By the way, see Portal:Tanagers. — The Transhumanist 21:44, 18 February 2019 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Oceans&action=edit§ion=8 would be appreciated JarrahTree 14:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: To make this portal work use this List of plum cultivars. Catfurball ( talk) 23:14, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi The Transhumanist, Greetings to you. I have put my name up for helping portal creation but yet to start to create any at this point. I read bit and pieces of info and and wonder would you provide me the link on how to create portal step by step and few tips what to be included in it so I would start helping up. Thanks in advance. CASSIOPEIA( talk) 10:22, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
<!--CONDITIONAL DID YOU KNOW? SECTION - ONLY SHOWS UP WHEN THERE ARE ENTRIES TO DISPLAY-->
{{Transclude selected recent additions | flower | months=36 | header={{Box-header colour|Did you know... }}|max=6}}
<!--END OF DID YOU KNOW? SECTION--> Which looks like this: Did you know...
The text after each vertical line (called a "pipe") are the parameters. The parameters without equal signs are search terms. I hope this explanation helps. — The Transhumanist 07:00, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Cotingas. You can use the articles Cotinga or List of cotingas. Catfurball ( talk) 21:29, 21 February 2019 (UTC) @ Catfurball: See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas. — The Transhumanist 07:35, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:American sparrows. You can use the article American sparrow. Catfurball ( talk) 19:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
The bot now outputs pages which need linking to Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Portals needing links. Currently the bot is running and a new list for upto C for now should be outputted. Once the manual all portals run is done, I'll let it run for all portals. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 17:23, 24 February 2019 (UTC) |
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Hi Transhumanist. If you have time, could you possibly have a look at the Selected Articles part of Portal:Banks as I can't seem to make it work and don't know what I should do to it either... Thanks a lot, Gazamp ( talk) 19:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello again! In connecting some new portals to their corresponding articles, I couldn't find a way to change this icon,
a blwydd newydd ar ol! Seasons greetings. Cesdeva (talk) 22:51, 5 December 2018 (UTC) The blanket adding of portals to all navboxes is possibly not a good idea, and should probably be discussed. They are controversial, and there has been discussion about validity of non-mainspace links in navboxes in the past. I think some consensus should be sought before this task is undertaken. I think an RFC at WP:WikiProject Templates would be the best forum. At the very least, it should be weighed up whether there is some benefit on a case-by-case basis. -- wooden superman 14:50, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no hummingbird portal? There are around 200+ articles on Wikipedia. Sadly there many hummingbirds that don't have articles, all total there are at least 340 hummingbirds. Catfurball ( talk) 21:53, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
I see you've begun editing one of our redirects to Portal:Library and information science into a portal page of its own. While I welcome your efforts and interest, I do wonder why you feel a separate page is necessary, and what your plans for this and other pages may be. I am currently involved in a project of trying to revive the WikiProject Libraries. While the members page currently lists 46 "active" members, most are former members who remain active on Wikipedia, but not in the WikiProject, itself. In fact, there are only a couple of us actively working on the project. I've been concentrating my efforts on dusting off the project site, fixing broken tools, and cleaning up the infrastructure of the site. I certainly welcome additional people who have an interest in helping, but it would be good to coordinate our efforts. This is the main reason why WikiProjects exist. Please join us. I know there are still a few cobwebs on our project site, and it's not exactly warm and welcoming. But I have cleaned out much of the decay and rot, and gotten most of the machinery to (somewhat) run again. This is certainly a good time to join, because you're on the ground floor of a major rebuild. We can use the help. I just want to make sure we're all working in the same direction, and not wind up undoing each other's work, and making the site less cohesive instead of more. Thanks again for your interest, and I look forward to working with you. LibraryGeek ( talk) 03:17, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi. Recently, I discovered a passion for created and understanding user scripts on wikipedia, and am planning to create a monthly newsletter about new scripts and related projects (created by anyone, not for simply promoting my own), as well as currently pending user script requests, Wikipedia-related JavaScript tips/tricks, and other related information. This message was sent to you because you are listed as a member of the user script developers category. If you would like to subscribe to this upcoming newsletter, please go to User:DannyS712/subscribe to scripts and add yourself. If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me。 -- DannyS712 ( talk) 05:22, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018Last 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 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 08:12, 26 December 2018 (UTC) Hi The Transhumanist: I noticed that you have created many new portals, and have included the {{ Under construction}} on many of them (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Transnistria&action=history). A problem is that the template should only be used for a few days, rather than weeks. I have removed the template from a few portals you created, but it appears to be on many of them, and I don't have time to remove them all. Another matter is that you could be inadvertently providing a rationale for deletion by leaving the template in place. At MfD, some portals have been deleted for being perpetually under construction, or incomplete. Food for thought. North America 1000 11:56, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Here's the pages I removed the tag from:
Regarding marking for maintenance, Template:WikiProject Portals provides an option in the form of "maintenance =", as does Template:Portal maintenance status. Regarding the latter, I'm not sure if this goes on the talk page or main portal page. North America 1000 13:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018Before, 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. 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... ![]() ![]() The Transhumanist, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:11, 30 December 2018 (UTC) ![]() ![]() Message added 14:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. A template could use updating... North America 1000 14:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC) News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2018). Hello everyone and welcome to the brand new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America 1000 13:52, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
I would Deorphanize portals, but how is it done?-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 21:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Good work to fully explain how to Deorphanize portals on my talk page. It is after midnight here, too late at night to do something unfamiliar and a bit tricky. Much beter in the AM before a big cup of tea.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 05:31, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
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What no Portal:Woodpeckers, there are over 239 Woodpeckers by World Book Encyclopedia.
H:HELP listed at Redirects for discussion![]() An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect H:HELP. Since you had some involvement with the H:HELP redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 17:07, 9 January 2019 (UTC) H:H listed at Redirects for discussion![]() An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect H:H. Since you had some involvement with the H:H redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 17:08, 9 January 2019 (UTC) @ The Transhumanist: Still no Portal:Woodpeckers?, when there are over 239 of them. And plus there is a book that has them all listed. Catfurball ( talk) 20:52, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019Well, 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 08:51, 20 January 2019 (UTC) Good work being done, but how can we communicate with User:Dreamy Jazz? -- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 19:02, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, how do I change the image to the portal display? If possible, can you help me change it to the logo of Boeing? Thank you. ⊂ Emoteplump ( Contributions) ( Talk) 14:13, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, is there anyway that I can get Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals members to help to deorphan all the portals listed here? Double tick means done & single tick means only the main article has the link to the portal. ⊂ Emoteplump ( Contributions) ( Talk) 11:34, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi. A new version of catlinks is out (version 3). If you just import my script normally, you should have automatically been switched over. It now has a graphical interface and some other great functions. Hope you enjoy -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:16, 24 January 2019 (UTC) HUH?? What on earth caused you to do this https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Scotland&oldid=879623268 ??? Converting a maintained and well populated Portal into barely a stub of little relevant content that you then felt compelled to add Category:Portals with errors in need of immediate attention to ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Scotland&direction=next&oldid=879623268). I'll put my good faith hat on and assume it was an error, but in the meantime I have restored the Portal to the last good version. -- Cactus.man ✍ 03:54, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Portal:United States is broken after the bot updated it. There are several script timeouts after it added the recognized content, breaking the layout spectacularly. Imzadi 1979 → 02:08, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I've hard coded the general articles section of Portal:History of North America as the is a Lua error when using Template:{{PAGENAME}}. Would be glad if you could give me some pointers on how to fix it as I've tried several ways to address the issues but to no avail. Its late now (in my timezone), so I'll try to fix it tommorrow if possible. ⊂ Emoteplump ( Contributions) ( Talk) 15:53, 27 January 2019 (UTC) News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the second issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019For 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". 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.
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 13:16, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Transhumanist, I would like to opt out of Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals updates on my talk page. Thanks, — Kpalion (talk) 14:41, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Pls see Wikipedia:Help desk#Featured portal?.-- Moxy ( talk) 23:27, 2 February 2019 (UTC) You did not attempt to communicate with me before you reset a portal I created, H. P. Lovecraft, despite the warning on the talk page "This portal is manually maintained by Auric. Please contact these user(s) when you plan to make significant changes." A portal reset and deletion of subpages would seem to be a significant change. Why did you not check with me?-- Auric talk 10:36, 3 February 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! 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 09:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC) I was thinking about 5 to 6 specific portals - and the country whose name that I dont necessarily put on my talk page for reasons of justifiable paranoia - I only wish to converse about offline - if you wish to do it onwiki, great! but sorry, I am not interested in pursuing, but thanks for your interest in clarifications - that is appreciated. JarrahTree 10:28, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Inneresting' - sounds interesting... JarrahTree 21:46, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Do you have more details or is that it? if so yes... JarrahTree 21:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC) @ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Peppers. Catfurball ( talk) 23:24, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Regarding your move of Template:Julius Caesar to Template:Julius Caesar (play). The naming policy is to not use parenthetical disambiguation unless there is actual ambiguity (in this context, ambiguity means collision). Since there is no template for Julius Caesar (which I obviously agree is the PRIMARYTOPIC), there is no need for parenthetical disambiguation for the template for Julius Caesar. Please undo this move. -- Xover ( talk) 04:59, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Xover: I like your reference to the Assassination of Julius Caesar. He may be dead, but may his memory live on, in both the Template:Julius Caesar and Portal:Julius Caesar, which should remedy the problem you pointed out. Thank you for the heads up. — The Transhumanist 08:12, 5 February 2019 (UTC) ![]() Hello The Transhumanist: 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 09:45, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Peaches. Catfurball ( talk) 19:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Plums. Catfurball ( talk) 21:12, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
![]() Message added 04:20, 7 February 2019 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Updates North America 1000 04:20, 7 February 2019 (UTC) I would be very interested in a set of one page portals on the Provinces of Indonesia - how does that sound to you ? JarrahTree 11:01, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Tyrant flycatchers there are 400 species. Catfurball ( talk) 19:48, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: Even better you can use, List of tyrant flycatchers that would be even better for the portal. Catfurball ( talk) 20:51, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: I just finished creating List of Woodpeckers, this should help you with Portal:Woodpeckers. Catfurball ( talk) 22:39, 13 February 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019Where we are at:
You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community). Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks! Here's a link to the dramatic discussion: The 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/?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
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. There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these... Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal. Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script. Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain. The 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. By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place. There are two approaches here:
Or "portal deorphanization"... Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along. And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter. See below... 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). ...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:28, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Falcons there 67 in this family. Use List of Falconidae. Catfurball ( talk) 19:24, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Catfurball: By the way, see Portal:Tanagers. — The Transhumanist 21:44, 18 February 2019 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Oceans&action=edit§ion=8 would be appreciated JarrahTree 14:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: To make this portal work use this List of plum cultivars. Catfurball ( talk) 23:14, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi The Transhumanist, Greetings to you. I have put my name up for helping portal creation but yet to start to create any at this point. I read bit and pieces of info and and wonder would you provide me the link on how to create portal step by step and few tips what to be included in it so I would start helping up. Thanks in advance. CASSIOPEIA( talk) 10:22, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
<!--CONDITIONAL DID YOU KNOW? SECTION - ONLY SHOWS UP WHEN THERE ARE ENTRIES TO DISPLAY-->
{{Transclude selected recent additions | flower | months=36 | header={{Box-header colour|Did you know... }}|max=6}}
<!--END OF DID YOU KNOW? SECTION--> Which looks like this: Did you know...
The text after each vertical line (called a "pipe") are the parameters. The parameters without equal signs are search terms. I hope this explanation helps. — The Transhumanist 07:00, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:Cotingas. You can use the articles Cotinga or List of cotingas. Catfurball ( talk) 21:29, 21 February 2019 (UTC) @ Catfurball: See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas. — The Transhumanist 07:35, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
@ The Transhumanist: What no Portal:American sparrows. You can use the article American sparrow. Catfurball ( talk) 19:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
The bot now outputs pages which need linking to Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Portals needing links. Currently the bot is running and a new list for upto C for now should be outputted. Once the manual all portals run is done, I'll let it run for all portals. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 17:23, 24 February 2019 (UTC) |
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