Nodyn:Portal

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This template produces a box with links to a portal or to multiple portals. It is most often used in the "See also" section of an article.

Usage

Portal iconLouisiana portal
Portal iconMissouri portal
Portal iconArkansas portal
Portal iconTexas portal
Portal iconMinnesota portal
Portal iconKansas portal
Portal iconNebraska portal
Portal iconColorado portal
Portal iconNorth Dakota portal
Portal iconMontana portal
Portal iconWyoming portal
Portal iconSaskatchewan portal
Portal iconAlberta portal
Portal iconOklahoma portal
Portal iconNew Mexico portal
Portal iconHistory portal
Basic usage
{{Portal |Portal 1 |Portal 2 |Portal 3 |... }}
All options
{{Portal | Portal 1 | Portal 2 | Portal 3 | ...  | left =  | margin =  | break =  | boxsize = }}

Location

Within articles, this template is meant to be placed at the bottom of the article in the See also section. If there is no See also section, you can put it in the External links section instead; there is no need to create a new section just to house this template. If there is no External links section either, just put it below the article text in the place that seems most appropriate.

There are no particular rules about the placement of portals on other kinds of page.

Image

The portal image names are stored in subpages of Module:Portal/images, organised by the first letter of the portal name. For example, the first letter of Portal:Fishing is "F", so the image name is stored at Module:Portal/images/f. If there is an entry for a portal on the correct page then the corresponding image will be shown next to the portal link. If no image is found then File:Portal-puzzle.svg will be shown instead.

It is also possible to specify aliases for portal images. For example, the code {{portal|Detroit}} produces the same image as the code {{portal|Metro Detroit}}. The "Detroit" alias is found on the page Module:Portal/images/aliases.

The image-detection algorithm is case-insensitive. For example, the code {{portal|Detroit}} will produce the same image as the code {{portal|detroit}} (although the portal links will be different). Portal names are stored in lower case in the image subpages, and input is converted to lower case before being checked.

To add new images to the list, please make a protected edit request at Template talk:Portal to get an administrator to edit the correct subpage for you. Portal images must be either in the public domain or available under a free license that allows commercial reuse and derivative works; fair-use images are not acceptable.

Example

CodeResult
 {{Portal|Science}}
Portal iconScience portal

Parameters

NameValueDescription
1, 2, 3 ...The portal name, e.g. LiteratureThe positional parameters specify the portals to be displayed.
leftyesIf set to yes, the portal appears on the left side of the page instead of the right.
marginCSS margin value, e.g. 1.2em 3em 0.5em 1emThis allows you to set a custom margin. All valid CSS margin values are accepted.
breakyesIf set to yes, a line break is inserted after the portal name and before the word portal.
boxsizeSize in pixels, e.g. 300This sets a custom box width in pixels.

Maintenance

The following tracking category lists instances where the template is used incorrectly:

  • Category:Portal templates without a parameter

See also