Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals

Wikipedia:Portal

The WikiProject on Portals is a project to better organize information in articles related to Portals. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. At present, there are 119 featured portals, of a total of 548 portals on Wikipedia.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Portals Featured Criteria Candidates List DirectoryWikiProject Guidelines Instructions Peer review Pending

1 Scope
2 Parentage
3 Similar WikiProjects
4 Participants
5 Structure
- 5.1 Policy and criteria
- 5.2 New portals
6 Hierarchy definition
7 Goals
8 Projects
9 Tasks
10 Related pages
11 Portals for deletion at MfD
12 Categories
13 Lists
14 Articles
- 14.1 Wikipedia articles on Portals
- 14.2 Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Portals

Scope

This WikiProject has been created in order to better organise portals and related templates, so as to allow better integration and co-ordination between portal topic areas and ensure any particular Portal does not become messy, forgotten or unnoticed.

Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council

Similar WikiProjects

Participants

Absar (talk • contribs • count) - Creator of Portal:Current events/Turkey and maintainer of Portal:Turkey
AchedDamiman
Adrian M. H. (talk • contribs • count) I've fallen into the role of primary maintainer of the Motorsport portal, which has had a recent overhaul.
AQu01rius (talk • contribs • count) - Maintains China-related portals
AreJay (talk • contribs • count) - one of the Portal:India maintainers
Arjun01 (talk • contribs • count) - I <3 portals, interested in religion portals. Arjun 20:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
BusterD (talk • contribs • count) - co-maintainer of Portal:American Civil War
Bwyard (talk • contribs • count) maintainer of Extreme Sports
CQ (talk • contribs • count) - co-founder of Community Builders Taskforce, maintainer of Portal:Community and Portal:American Civil War taskforce
Cyberjunkie (talk • contribs • count) - various roles (P:AU, WP:FPORT and others)
DaGizza (talk • contribs • count) - maintain, will try to improve, or create Indian/Aussie related portals
Daniel.Bryant (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:A-League.
Ddstretch (talk • contribs • count) - Creator and one of the Maintainers of the Cheshire portal; I may help set up other county portals for England.
Deeptrivia (talk • contribs • count)
Deepujoseph (talk • contribs • count) - one of the Portal:Kerala maintainers
Dfrg.msc (talk • contribs • count) I'd love to help.
Doug (talk • contribs • count) - Involved in Portal:Cooperatives, Portal:Agriculture, and corresponding Projects, also involved in Portal:Transylvania and the Council and take a particular interest in MfDs.
Doug Bell (talk • contribs • count)
Effer (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of PlayStation.
Englishnerd (talk • contribs • count) - Creator and maintainer of Portal:Guardians of Time Trilogy
firefoxman (talk • contribs • count) wants to help
Jedi6 (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:Star Wars
Kimchi.sg (talk • contribs • count)
Kirill Lokshin (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:War
KGV (talk • contribs • count)
Kmf164 (talk • contribs • count)
Ling.Nut (talk • contribs • count)
Maxim (talk • contribs • count) Might as well add myself, as I'm one of two users who maintain on a somewhat regular basis Portal:Ice hockey.
Nishkid64 (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of Portal:Baseball, Portal:Business and Economics, Portal:Philosophy. Helping out with Portal:Politics, Portal:Astronomy and various other portals.
Ragesoss (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:History of science
riana_dzasta (talk • contribs • count) - I've been trying to improve Portal:Chemistry lately, and am slowly becoming more and more fascinated by portals :)
Rudget (talk • contribs • count) - Portal nominator and upkeeper.
Sd31415 (talk • contribs • count) — Portal reviewer. S .D. ¿п? § 02:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Senators (talk • contribs • count) - mostly write articles for the "car news" section in Portal:Cars
Shyam Bihari (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of Portal:Government of India and one of the Portal:India maintainers.
Slambo (talk • contribs • count) - lead editor on Portal:Trains
Spacevezon (talk • contribs • count) - Maintainer of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy portals.
Spebi (talk • contribs • count) – help with Portal:Music of Australia.
Hiding (talk • contribs • count)
TBC (talk • contribs • count) - maintainer of Portal:Food, Portal:Theatre, Portal:Asia and Portal:Nintendo
The Menace (talk • contribs • count) - Creator of the West Sussex Portal and maintainer of the East Sussex portal, also helped a tiny bit with the South East England portal.
Valmoer (talk • contribs • count) - Busy decreasing the size of Category:Portals under construction
Waggers (talk • contribs • count) - creator and maintainer of Portal:South East England; I may set up portals for other English regions along the same lines. Update: Now created and maintaining Portal:Hampshire too.
Walton_monarchist89 (talk • contribs • count) - would like to help; no prior experience of portals, but I'll learn as I go along
Warlordjohncarter (talk • contribs • count) - regularly update Portal:Saints, occasionally wind up unintentionally sabotaging others as well
Wesborland (talk • contribs • count)
Shudde (talk • contribs • count)

Structure

To be discussed.

Policy and criteria

To see the current policy and other information on Portals in general, see: Wikipedia:Portal.

New portals

An archived method for proposing portals can be found at Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals.

Currently, there is no process for the proposal and approval of new portals. If you want to create a new portal, see Portal and participate in the discussions there.

You may also talk about your idea for a new portal here. We'll be happy to review your idea and help out where we can.

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals

List all portals and related sub pages in the portal space
Discuss and settle upon ways of linking portals of related topics
Discuss already created portals and determine their usability, readability, and worth.
Discuss, create and harmonise templates and portal boxes.

Projects

Help critique and improve featured portal candidates.
Help WikiProject — Portal dynamics coordination and integration.

Tasks

List all portals and related sub pages in the portal space on the discussion page. - Huh? Why would we want them there. We should list them here or on a subpage.

Subpages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Status - List of portals and their status (e.g. Wikipedia:Version 0.5 evaluation)

Portal creation aids

Other templates

{{Browsebar}} - this is the header used on Portals
{{Portals}} - this is the footer used on Portals themselves
{{Portal nav footer}} - this is a footer used on pages about Portals, mostly in Project Space
{{User WikiProject Portals}} - a userbox for participants in this Project
{{FPcandidates}}
{{PortalReviewVolunteers}}

Portals for deletion at MfD

May 13 Portal:Naruto - discussion.
April 10 - Wikipedia:HP - discussion.
April 5 - Portal:Warriors - discussion.
March 25 - Portal:Lotus Connections - Discussion.
March 12 - Portal:Chiism(Godianism) - Discussion.
March 10 - Portal:Volunteerism in the Philippines - Discussion.
March 10 - Portal:Urban planning - Discussion.
March 10 - Portal:Trivia - Discussion.
March 10 - Portal:Systems Thinking - Discussion.
March 10 - Portal:Social Development - Discussion.
March 7 - Portal:Border - Discussion.
March 7 - Portal:Scholarship - Discussion. (delete)
March 7 - Portal:Royal Naval Service - Discussion. (redirected to Portal:Royal Navy)
March 5 - Portal:Britney Spears - Discussion.
March 5 - Portal:Madonna (entertainer) - Discussion.
March 5 - Portal:Mariah Carey - Discussion.
March 5 - Portal:Sheryl Crow - Discussion.
March 5 - Portal:My Chemical Romance - Discussion.
March 5 - Portal:Motorhead - Discussion.
February 28 - Portal:Psychiatry - Discussion.
February 28 - Portal:Millencolin - Discussion - Closed as Delete
February 28 - Portal:Einstein Family - Discussion.
February 28 - Portal:GIST Security - Discussion.
February 28 - Portal:Nazism - Discussion.
February 28 - Portal:New Age - Discussion.
February 24 - Portal:Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Discussion
February 23 - Portal:Satellite navigation systems - Discussion - Closed as Delete
February 23 - Portal:Atlanta - Discussion
February 23 - Portal:Andhra Pradesh - Discussion
February 16 - Portal:Powderfinger - Discussion - Closed as Keep (withdrawal)
February 16 - Portal:Britney Spears, Portal:Madonna (entertainer),Portal:Mariah Carey, Portal:Sheryl Crow, Portal:My Chemical Romance, and Portal:Motörhead. - Discussion (closed as no consensus, relisting)
February 16 - Portal:The Vines - speedy delete
February 16 - Portal:Contents/Categorical index/Intro - Discussion - Closed as Keep
February 12 - Portal:Cavite - Discussion - Closed as Speedy Delete
February 12 - Portal:Beyoncé Knowles - Discussion
January 29 - Portal:Information technology - Discussion - Closed as Keep
January 21 - Portal:Jhelum - Discussion - Closed as Speedy Delete
January 18 - Portal:English_football - Discussion - Closed as Keep
January 13 - Portions of Portal:Current events - Discussion - Closed as Keep (No Consensus)
October 6 - Portal:Transylvania - Discussion - Closed as Keep
October 6 - Portal:Team - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 6 - Portal:Starcraft chronicles - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 6 - Portal:San Diego - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 6 - Portal:Mumbai - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 6 - Portal:Lake Tahoe - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 6 - Portal:Jaws - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 6 - Portal:Friends - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 5 - Portal:Celtic FC - Discussion - Closed as Delete
October 5 - Portal:Chaser's War on Everything - Discussion - Closed as Delete
September 30 - Portal:Auckland - Discussion - Closed as Delete (now redirects to Portal:New Zealand)
September 27 - Portal:Avril Lavigne - Discussion - Closed as Delete
September 26 - Portal:Marvel - Discussion - Closed as Keep
September 24 - Portal:IndiaMap - Discussion - Closed as Delete
August 24 - Portal:NATO - Discussion - Closed as Keep
August 19 - Portal:Presidency of the United States - Discussion - Closed as Merge to Portal:Government of the United States (now redirects to Portal:Government of the United States/Executive branch)