Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
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Welcome to WikiProject Portals, dedicated to developing and maintaining portals and portal tools. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join.
This project collaborates to build, improve and maintain portals, their support pages, and portal tools.
- Maintaining portals means updating them, and fixing problems that arise.
- We also build new portals to fill gaps in the portal system, and expand the portal system's coverage of subjects on Wikipedia.
- Portal support pages include the portal guidelines, portal building instructions, and this WikiProject.
- Gaining community consensus for the WikiProject's activities in the Portal, Template, and Main namespaces.
- Fixing bugs and repairing formatting errors that emerge, placing links to the portals, etc.
- Administration of the WikiProject (updating support pages and guidelines, publishing the project's newsletter, managing tasks, posting announcements and invitations, etc.)
- Create new portals for all the core topics that have enough coverage to need a portal
- Keep existing portals fully upgraded and running smoothly
Portals WikiProject-related news
[edit]Portals status report
[edit]- 543 Current all portals (this number automatically updates as pages are added to or deleted from Category:All portals)
- Historical trivia: up through mid-2018, French Wikipedia actually used a bot to keep regular track of how many Portals were here, in English Wikipedia; the bot's report history is here.
- 52 Current single page portals (new creations and restarts, net of deletions).
- 1,485 The number of portals when we started the project reboot (April 2018)
- 4,220 Added portals (at least) April 2018-Feb 13, 2019 (many of these were subsequently deleted at MfD)
- 5,705 Approximate peak number of portals from Newsletter #29 on Feb 13, 2019 (many of these were subsequently deleted at MfD)
Project tasks
[edit]Inspect portals, especially new ones
[edit]Use this PetScan query to find this month's new portals. To use a different date, go to the "Page properties" screen and change the limit from 20190101, or just hack the URL. (Tip courtesy of Certes).
The list of all portals can be found at Category:All portals.
Check for errors and bugs
[edit]Bugs and errors sometimes occur in portals.
- PetScan query for listing portals with Lua errors (courtesy of Certes).
- WP search to find portals that "spew" excerpts all at once rather than one per click of the slideshow controls (courtesy of Certes)
Lua errors usually indicate an empty section, or a sourcepage that lacks images. These can be fixed by providing better parameters (pagenames), or by putting images on the image slideshow sourcepage(s). Image files can also be added directly to image slideshows, but any sourcepage name causing the lua error needs to be removed for the error to go away.
If you come across errors or bugs that you cannot fix, please report them at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.
Improve
[edit]- See Category:Portals needing attention
- See Category:Portals under construction
- Maintain Portal:Contents/Portals
- Design discussions take place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
- See massviews analysis of portals. In November 2023, the the top three portals were Portal:Current events, Portal:Erotica and pornography, and Portal:Anime and manga
Add links to portals in articles
[edit]- See Category:Portals needing placement of incoming links and Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Portals needing links
There are presently many portals with insufficient links to them existent in main namespace articles.
Here's how you can help (note to editors, replace {{subst:PAGENAME}}
with the intended portal name, e.g. Language
):
- Place a portal box in the article's See also section
{{Portal|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
– or –
Place a list item link to a portal in the corresponding root article's See also section, using this code:
* {{Portal-inline|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
- Place a portal link at the bottom of the portal's corresponding navigation box footer template, like this:
If the navbox template already has a line with
| belowclass = hlist | below = * {{icon|Portal}} [[Portal:{{subst:PAGENAME}}|Portal]]
| below
, don't duplicate it - just add the third line of code. - Place the following code at the top of the portal's corresponding category page:
{{Portal|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
If you use AWB, please apply it to removing the backlog described above. (There are over 2000 orphaned portals at this time).
Add a panorama or banner picture
[edit]Add a banner-shaped picture (such as a panorama) to the introduction section of portals. Place them at the top of the introduction section, or if they are especially tall, place them at the bottom of that section. Please do not add pics over 2 megabytes in size, as they can cause the portal scripts to time out, causing empty sections, or sections with error messages. Watch out, because some of those pictures are huge, like 12 megabytes or more. Less than one megabyte is best, if you can manage it. Pictures can be found at commons:. Search strings that work well with city names to find these are "skyline" or "panorama". There are a large number of wide images at 7:1 aspect ratio used as Wikivoyage banners in Commons:Category:Wikivoyage banners. Most of these are not very large files. Geographic portals are listed in the Geography section of Portal:Contents/Portals. City portals are shown in parentheses (though they are not the only ones in parentheses). As for other subjects, banner-shaped pictures pertaining directly to those or any of their subtopics will typically suffice.
Here is an example of the main template used to place banners/panoramas:
{{Portal image banner|Jarvis Island banner sharks.jpg|[[Gray reef shark]]s over reef near [[Jarvis Island]].}}
Which looks like this:
Tip for displaying an oversized picture as a banner
[edit]Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:
{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}
Using both maxheight=120px
and overflow=Hidden
produces this:
Install image slideshows
[edit]{{Transclude files as random slideshow}} does not function in mobile view or with the Wikipedia app thus should be replaced with the {{Portal pictures}} method.
On the older portals, replace "Selected image" sections with "Selected images" sections.
The code for an image slideshow would look like this, for most existing portals:
{{Box-header colour|Selected images}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow| paragraphs=1-3 | files=1 | more=
| {{PAGENAME}}
|
|
}}
Entries can be sourcepage names, or file names. For each sourcepage, the template displays every image on that page. Filenames must start with "File:" and get displayed directly in the slideshow. "{{}}
" is the magic word that stands for the portal's page name, without prefix, which is usually also the name of the corresponding root article.
For examples of portals that have image slideshows, see Portal:Continents and Portal:Ancient Egypt. Or see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&limit=5000&target=Template%3ATransclude+files+as+random+slideshow&namespace=100
Where do you find pictures?
- At Wikipedia:Featured pictures, some of Wikipedia's best pictures are listed by subject. Many of those subjects correspond to a portal name.
- On the portal's subpages, if any.
- Throughout Wikipedia articles.
- On Wikimedia Commons. This is a great place to find pictures not used in articles.
Review Portals that are being Drafted
[edit]Portals currently in Draft are: (if this section is blank, no portals are currently in the Draft: namespace)
Focus: Portals
[edit]The focus of this WikiProject is portals, all existing and future portals on Wikipedia.
What is a portal?
[edit]"Portal" is an archaic word which means "doorway", so a portal is a form of entrance. A good synonym for a Wikipedia Portal is "signposted doorway to knowledge". Portals serve as entrance points for topics which extend across many related articles, but with more depth and engagement than a list of links. A portal focuses on a range of articles based on its title, and seeks to emulate a main page for that range. This helps specify more familiar articles and files, and narrows down searches for important and interesting, but otherwise more obscure aspects. Like a main page, a portal is not an article, but a passageway to many articles. Portals may vary in format and approach, but their main purpose is always to capture interest and provide various routes of topic exploration.
Here are a couple definitions for the word "portal" from Wiktionary:
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. For example: The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
Each portal name follows the subject covered, so we have a portal of "Geography", but all portals have a namespace, defined by adding "Portal:" to the title, so the geography portal is Portal:Geography.
The best portals are not simply domains of information, but nodes of knowledge and categorization complimenting the category, listing, and outline systems.
When a subject is covered by a range of articles, the parent portal can be considered a root article as related articles branch from it. Portals take us beyond the root article however to guide and encourage exploration of the branches. If there are too few branches, a portal is not appropriate because the root article is a better navigation tool.
As an example of how portals may be useful, the article mathematics summarizes its general subject in descriptive terms, but with over 40,000 articles on mathematics topics, navigating the various branches of the mathematics topic from the root mathematics article, or its categories and lists, can be somewhat awkward and unengaging. A portal expands the list based navigation concepts to make a subject more accessible. Portal:Mathematics, for instance, provides a selection of reading samples including more obscure and trivial topics, such as DYKs, chosen and structured to provoke interest, beside a guide to related on-wiki projects, all underscored by a comprehensive, collapsible link tree for users drawn deeper into the subject.
Portals begin as a basic template. But the design of the portal progresses and evolves to the stage where static content display transforms to dynamic user interface. With interactive components such as slideshows and rotating featured content (emulating a main page), portals aspire to be a go-to area for seeking knowledge in a particular categorical subject.
Good portals should fill a niche not covered by lists, categories, outlines or articles and improve dissemination of all categorical subjects. Innovation in the style and design of portals individually is both desired and encouraged.
Purposes of portals
[edit]Each portal on Wikipedia acts as an alternative entrance to a subject. Portals supplement the encyclopedia. They support their subjects in various ways, including but not limited to:
- Providing a variety of sample content of subtopics ("topic tasters"), from within each portal's subject, that the reader may find interesting. Kind of like a magazine. Like what Wikipedia's Main Page does in general.
- Aiding navigation - portals are one of Wikipedia's navigation subsystems, designed to help users find their way around the vast amount of knowledge on Wikipedia to material within a particular subject. So, in addition to sample content, a portal may also present in various ways, links, and lists of links.
- Providing bridges between reading and editing, and between the encyclopedia proper and the Wikipedia community, via links to pages in project space (and the other namespaces) that are relevant to the portal's subject. A portal may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike a WikiProject, however, it is meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution. Note that portals are created for encyclopedic topics only and not for article maintenance categories.
Discussion announcements
[edit]- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines § Second sentence contradicts WP:NOTCOMPULSORY policy, and should be removed
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines § Concerning the inclusion of "Related portals" section
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines § Concerning the inclusion of "Selected article(s)" section
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines § Concerning section: Recommended
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines § Concerning section: Article selection
- Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines § Concerning section: Required
Manual listing
[edit]- Note that portal subpages are not included in the automatic alerts. For example, if a specific subpage is nominated for deletion.
- For archives, see: Portals for deletion at MfD.
Automated alerts
[edit]Templates for discussion
- 06 Aug 2024 – Template:WikiProject Portals sandbox (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Gonnym (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Tools
[edit]Watchlist
[edit]WikiProject Portals watchlist (external link - tool labs) A watchlist that is automatically generated from all pages that transclude the project banner is available here: WikiProject Watchlist - WikiProject Portals.Alternative version which excludes edits in the portal namespace is available here. |
A list of all portal pages is provided below. (It is possible to get all portal pages into your watchlist, but it is difficult and tedious). The list is current as of 17 May 2022.
The list of all portal pages is useful for getting a bird's eye view of:
- What's in portal space
- Monitoring activity on the portal pages using the Related changes feature in the sidebar menu
The list was too long to get onto a single page (there are 105,352 pages in portal space[as of?]), and so it is split up into 6 parts:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 1 (1-9 and A-B)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 2 (C-E)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 3 (F-L)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 4 (M-Q)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 5 (R-T)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 6 (U-Z and other characters)
The archive contains old lists and these older lists are kept for historical reference: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Archive
Most older portals have subpages. Search is kind of cludgy for looking at these. you can use PrefixIndex for extracting subpages (Example).
SearchSuite enhances Wikipedia search results. It has a feature (menu item) that reformats search results to one-line entries, which is convenient for looking at portal subpages as a list. It has another menu item that formats the links (asterisk-style, with link delimeters) for copying/pasting into an editor. And another for sorting the results. Each feature works on the output of the others, and the script remembers the setting of each menu item between pages. When one is turned on, it stays on for all searches.
Templates
[edit]Navigation
[edit]- {{WikiProject Portals/New}} (see box displayed to the right)
Markers
[edit]These markers control how a portal is edited.
- {{nobots}} – tells bots not to edit the page.
- {{Portal maintenance status}} – used to record various maintenance metadata for a portal
Portal components
[edit]Here's a portal displaying the components that can be used in each section:
Here's a list of components used to build portals. Their placement (left column, etc.) is suggested only.
- Top of portal
{{Portal description}}
– adds a standard short description{{Portals browsebar}}
– standard portals navigation bar displayed in top margin, to browse top-level portals{{Transclude lead excerpt}}
– dynamic excerpt that always matches the source.
- Left column
{{Transclude random excerpt}}
– same as above, but specify multiple sources for alternating display.{{Transclude selected excerpt}}
– shows a specific lead of an article for a specific time.- Quotes
{{Portal selected quote layout}}
– this template should be used when you need a layout for quotes.{{Random quotation}}
– this template was used in the Portal:LDS Church to eleminate the need for subpages for quotes.
- Right column
{{Transclude selected current events}}
– shows wikinews about a subject.{{Random slideshow}}
– shows a slideshow gallery of specified files, in a randomised order{{Transclude selected recent additions}}
– shows Did you know? items for a subject.
- Bottom of portal
{{Related portals2}}
– creates icon tables of related portals for portal pages. Friendly to wide and narrow screens, including mobile, and does not require hardcoding icons.{{Wikimedia for portals}}
– creates a table of interwiki links related to the current portal.{{Purge link portals}}
– creates the "View new selections (purge)" link.{{Portals}}
– explanatory and browsing links
- Layout
{{Box-header/#}}
– start of a layout box. The "#" is the number of a configuration subpage, each with a different pre-defined configuration.{{Box-header colour}}
as an alternative to the above, with automatic WP:WCAG compliant color selection.{{Box-footer}}
– end of a layout box
For a full list of portal templates, see {{Portal templates navbox}}:
Userboxes and WikiAd
[edit]Show these off on your profile to let everyone know you contribute to the sustainment of the Portal namespace. Or you could just add Category:WikiProject Portals participants directly.
- {{User WikiProject Portals}} creates
This user is a participant in WikiProject Portals. |
- {{User WikiProject Portals2}} creates
This user is a participant in WikiProject Portals. |
- {{Wikipedia ads|267}} creates
Wikipedia ads | file info – #267 |
Project participants
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If you'd like to receive task requests and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also, please indicate if you are a user of AWB or JWB, and if you know Lua, JS, perl, and/or PHP. An asterisk following a name indicates they receive updates in the form of a link instead of the whole newsletter. Follow your name with two asterisks if you do not wish to receive any project-wide updates, not even a link. Those marked with 3 asterisks have not been confirmed as wishing updates due to unreachability.
- Abyssal (talk · contribs)
- AfroThundr3007730 (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Andrewa (talk · contribs) (I use neither) (Admin)
- AmericanAir88 (talk · contribs)
- Arorae (talk · contribs) (I use neither)
- Bermicourt (talk · contribs) *
- BigWillyStyle4162 (talk · contribs) Use neither AWB or JWB. Has experience with Javascript and PHP.
- BrantleyIzMe (talk · contribs) Delighted to use my free time to improve WP
- Cactus.man (talk · contribs) * (Admin) Used to maintain Portal:Scotland. Don't use AWB or JWB, but am delighted this initiative is underway. have now pretty much updated the Portal to self maintain/update.
- CASSIOPEIA (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Cesdeva (talk · contribs) * (AWB) - busy working on a new approach to make portals mobile-friendly.
- comfr (talk · contribs) *
- Checkingfax (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs)(AWB)(JWB)(a little Lua)
- Daniel Case (talk · contribs) ***
- DannyS712 (talk · contribs) (AWB) (A bit of Javascript)
- Dunarc (talk · contribs) - Limited time means I am not sure if I can be of much help, but I have edited a few portals from time to time and happy to keep doing so. Do not use any of the above.
- Evad37 (talk · contribs) – Lua (also AWB, but have not used it for a while)
- Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) I can use AWB, but usually I don't.
- Finnusertop (talk · contribs)
- Finton the magical salmon (talk · contribs) I want to learn how to make portals, maintain portals, etc.
- Gazamp (talk · contribs) - Very little experience with portals but willing to help and learn!
- Ganesha811 (talk · contribs) - I use neither, happy to take on small to mid-sized tasks to help
- Godsy (talk · contribs) *
- Hiding (talk · contribs) *** (Admin)
- Javert2113 (talk · contribs)
- John Cline (talk · contribs) (just me)
- Kirbanzo (talk · contribs) - I know the background importance of portals to the site.
- Kpgjhpjm (talk · contribs) - use none of them .
- MarkZusab (talk · contribs)
- Maxsao 810 (talk · contribs) (JWB)
- Mercurywoodrose (talk · contribs) - use none of them. already heavily edited a number of portals, so member by default
- Mhhossein (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Mr. Guye (talk · contribs) (Uses neither, trying to figure out JavaScript, bad at everything else)
- NANPLover47 (talk · contribs) (plans on being a maintainer of Society)
- Narraharon (talk · contribs)
- Nerd1a4i (talk · contribs) (I use neither)
- Nick Moyes (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Nigos (talk · contribs)
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) * (Admin) - No AWB, no JWB, don't know Lua but wouldn't mind learning it
- Nolan Perry (talk · contribs) - I am learning Lua
- OhanaUnited (talk · contribs) (Admin)
- OxonAlex (talk · contribs)
- Paine Ellsworth (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) (Admin) (old school clunky Wiki coder)
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) (Admin) – I am registered for AWB, but have hardly started to learn how to use it.
- Pakieditor (talk · contribs)
- Pcompton40 (talk · contribs) * No AWB, no JWB, no Lua, some JavaScript but been a while. Plan on being a maintainer of Portal:Oklahoma
- Pythoncoder (talk · contribs)
- RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk · contribs)
- Redolta (talk · contribs) - (Don't know AWB, JWB, or Lua)
- Robertgombos (talk · contribs) — AWB (sometimes).
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) (Admin)
- Samee (talk · contribs) — AWB
- Serenesage (talk · contribs)
- SirGents (talk · contribs)
- Slambo (talk · contribs) (Admin)
- Sm8900 (talk · contribs) Adding portal navigation bars and links to various areas consistently around encyclopedia, esp on annual timeline entries for specific countries.
- The Transhumanist (talk · contribs) (AWB)(JS)
- Tisquesusa (talk · contribs) **, no AWB, JWB, Lua Help to get the automatic update function in would be great, the main point why portals are considered "dead"; not automatically updated for Featured, DYK and Pictures.
- UnitedStatesian (talk · contribs)
- Vermont (talk · contribs) - AWB
- مصعب (talk · contribs) (Mossab) (AWB).
- TheEpicGhosty (talk · contribs)
- Villeum (talk · contribs)
- Wisdomwiki 40 (talk · contribs) * No knowledge of AWB, JWB, or Lua but wouldn't mind learning it
- the wub (talk · contribs), mostly working on making things accessible and mobile-friendly
- Terrickisaiah555 (talk · contribs)
- Anotaomo (talk · contribs) Not AWB,JWB No lua. But would like to learn it!
WikiGnomes
[edit]If you prefer WikiGnome tasks and would like to receive WikiGnome-oriented updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also let us know if you are an AWB or JWB user.
- AfroThundr3007730 (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Auric (talk · contribs) (AWB - can't get it to work for me, though)
- Bsoyka (talk · contribs)
- Certes (talk · contribs) (AWB, JWB, Lua, templates)
- DannyS712 (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Dicklyon (talk · contribs)
- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs) - (Already a WikiGnome in this area)
- Edward-Woodrow (talk · contribs) (JWB)
- Greatedits1 (talk · contribs)
- Kpgjhpjm (talk · contribs)
- Nigos (talk · contribs)
- PratyushSinha101 (talk · contribs)
- Wumbolo (talk · contribs) (AWB)
- Idontknowwhatshappening (talk · contribs)
Specific portal maintainers
[edit]This is a list of editors who work on specific portal(s) or in specific areas, in case you need to contact someone about those.
- Armanaziz (talk · contribs) – Portal:Bangladesh.
- Ancheta Wis (talk · contribs) (Admin) – focus on Portal: Science
- BD2412 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Law
- Bermicourt (talk · contribs) *, lead editor on most of Germany's state and regional portals
- Buaidh (talk · contribs) – Coordinator for Portal:Colorado.
- BusterD (talk · contribs) – Maintainer of Portal:American Civil War
- Cactus.man (talk · contribs) * – Portal:Scotland Used to maintain it regularly until I became quite inactive. Have recently revamped it to autoupdate using current templates.
- CanonNi (talk · contribs) – Creator and maintainer of Portal:Washington, D.C..
- Charlesdrakew (talk · contribs) I maintain Portal:West Sussex.
- Cplakidas (talk · contribs) – maintainer of Portal:Byzantine Empire
- DavidCane (talk · contribs) – maintainer of Portal:London transport
- dcljr (talk · contribs) * – Help to maintain Portal:Mathematics.
- Ddstretch (talk · contribs) – Creator and one of the Maintainers of the Cheshire portal; I may help set up other county portals for England.
- EchidnaLives (talk · contribs) – Creator and maintainer of Portal:Victoria.
- Elijahandskip (talk · contribs) – Maintaining Portal:Current events; I am also the Current Events WikiProject coordinator.
- Espresso Addict (talk · contribs) – a maintainer of Portal:Cheshire & Portal:Viruses, & creator of Portal:Scottish islands
- Evad37 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Australian roads
- Finnusertop (talk · contribs) – Portal:North Korea
- Goldsztajn (talk · contribs) – Portal:Organized Labour, reviving the project
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Nuclear technology. Been meaning to update this one for a while
- JarrahTree (talk · contribs) – watcher of Portal:Australia and related state portals
- Keith D (talk · contribs) (Admin) – Portal:Yorkshire
- Kingsif (talk · contribs) – Portal:Venezuela
- Kpalion (talk · contribs) * – sole editor of Portal:Poland
- L3X1 (talk · contribs) – no, never heard of, same
- Will be working mostly off and on on Portal:Cars
- LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:38, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Working on the Tropical cyclones portal, and occasionally, a few other Science-topics portals as well. Would like to receive major/critical updates only. LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Marshallsumter (talk · contribs) – I don't believe anyone is maintaining the Portal:Astronomy so I have started to do so! Of course, others are welcome to help!
- Master of Time (talk · contribs) – Mostly focus on updating current storms and sometimes anniversary material in the Tropical cyclone portal
- Mercurywoodrose (talk · contribs) – sole editor and maintainer of Portal:San Francisco Bay Area, fixed up a number of others as well, not active on them
- Mhhossein (talk · contribs) – I restored Portal:Shia Islam after it was deleted.
- Mjquinn_id (talk · contribs) - Portal:Tennis, and Portal:Idaho, if I can get it resurrected. (Purveyor of Categories and Templates)
- Montanabw (talk · contribs), for Portal:Horses, I'm the only person who even keeps an eye on the portal any more, the creator of the portal, who raised it to featured portal quality, has retired from WP.
- Morgan Riley (talk · contribs) – maintainer of Portal:Virginia.
- Nick Moyes (talk · contribs) – Alps Mountains, Mountains, Derbyshire.
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) (Admin) * – Generally sole editor and creator of Portal:Speculative fiction (featured), also sometimes edit Portal:Anime and manga, Portal:Studio Ghibli, and Portal:Japan
- Nimrodbr (talk · contribs) – maintainer of Portal:Olympic Games
- Nolan Perry (talk · contribs), Trys to work on Portal:Telephone, most likely will need help
- Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Coffee, Portal:Food, Portal:Jamaica, Portal:Liquor
- Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) (Admin) One of several involved at Portal:College Football.
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) (Admin) – Lead editor on Portal:Underwater diving and associated subportals
- Pakieditor (talk · contribs), Maintaining Portal:Pakistan and its related Portals. I have updated many Pakistani Portals.
- Phospheros (talk · contribs) – Martial arts
- RL0919 (talk · contribs) (Admin) – taking on maintenance of Portal:Theatre
- RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) Updated Portal:Earth sciences.
- Runningonbrains (talk · contribs) (Admin) – Maintaining Portal:Weather
- Simon Burchell (talk · contribs) – I maintain Portal:Mesoamerica.
- SirGents (talk · contribs) – General maintenance, especially on the war portal
- Slambo (talk · contribs) (Admin) – lead editor on Portal:Trains
- Sm8900 (talk · contribs) – Starting to take on maintenance of Portal:History. --Sm8900 (talk) 14:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
- Teblick (talk · contribs) – Creating a portal for the 1940s decade.
- Vanilla Wizard (talk · contribs) – various, particularly world geography-related portals
- Voceditenore (talk · contribs) – maintainer and one of the original creators of Portal:Opera
- Waggers (talk · contribs) (Admin) – creator and maintainer of Portal:South East England and most of its sub-portals, with a specific focus on Portal:Hampshire. I can use both AWB and JWB but don't know Lua very well.
- Ww2censor (talk · contribs) – Portal:Ireland, Portal:Philately
- Ammar Elbehery (talk · contribs) – Portal:Egypt
- Moxy (talk · contribs) – Portal:Canada
- OxonAlex (talk · contribs) – look after Portal:buses whilst it still exists.
- Skwon1029 (talk · contribs) – Portal:Traditional African religions, Portal:Pan-Africanism, Portal:Senegal, and Portal:The Gambia (only major/critical updates please)
- NANPLover47 (talk · contribs) (plans on maintaining Society)
- Geardona (talk · contribs) Maintains Portal:maine
Other
[edit]- SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 – Primarily interested for now in working on the draft WP:Manual of Style/Portals. I'm one of the longest-term MoS shepherds. Please consider me basically an ombudsman for how to craft that in a way to get it passed as an actual guideline. (Also AWB-approved and a Template Editor and Page Mover, if such geekery is needed, though I suck at Lua.) PS: I don't directly co-maintain any portals right now but have worked on several, including Portal:Snooker; would like to see a more general Portal:Cue sports.
Support pages
[edit]Guidance
[edit]- Wikipedia:Portal
- Portal guidelines
- Style guidelines
- m:Portal
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 25 – Portals
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 18 – Difference between wikiprojects and portals?
Newsletter archive
[edit]Navigation
[edit]- Category:WikiProject Portals
- Portal:Featured content/Portals
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals/Article_alerts Highly important alerts page, listing active discussions of Portals for deletion.
General topical lists of portals
[edit]- Former featured portals
- List of country portals
- List of shortcuts/Portal shortcuts
- List of U.S. state portals
- List of Wikipedians by featured portal nominations
- Portal namespace (setting-up debate)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals (Closed as no consensus; resulted in the reboot of WikiProject Portals.
Project Subpages
[edit]- WikiProject Portals
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts/Archive 1
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts/Archive 2
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts/Archive 3
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts/Archive 4
- WikiProject Portals/Article alerts/Archive 5
- WikiProject Portals/Assessment
- WikiProject Portals/Cleanup
- WikiProject Portals/Components
- WikiProject Portals/Design
- WikiProject Portals/How to setup Recognized Content for portals
- WikiProject Portals/Indian portals
- WikiProject Portals/KeyNamespaces
- WikiProject Portals/List of city portals
- WikiProject Portals/List of country portals
- WikiProject Portals/Newsletter archive
- WikiProject Portals/Newsletter archive/Box-header
- WikiProject Portals/Popular portals
- WikiProject Portals/Portals needing links
- WikiProject Portals/Portals tree
- WikiProject Portals/Quantum portals
- WikiProject Portals/Statistics
- WikiProject Portals/Status
- WikiProject Portals/Tasks
- WikiProject Portals/Tasks archive
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 2
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 3
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 4
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 4/Biology and health sciences
- WikiProject Portals/Vital portals level 4/Geography
- WikiProject Portals/cat class
- WikiProject Portals/cat class/doc
- WikiProject Portals/cat importance
- WikiProject Portals/cat importance/doc
- WikiProject Portals/sandbox