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72		Discrimination against non-binary gender people (talk)	Merge
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25		Decentralized exchange (talk)	Stub
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Portals have passed the 4,000 mark.

More new portals...

Here's a list of portals created since the last issue

Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you.

What's next?

There is still lots to do...

There are many subject gaps that need to be filled. This can be done by creating new portals, or by adding Selected article sections to existing portals. To create a new portal, simply place {{subst:Basic portal start page}} on an empty portal page, and click "Preview". If the portal is complete, click "Save". After you try it, come share your experience and excitement at WT:WPPORTD.

Each new portal is just a starting point. Each portal of the new design can be further developed by:

• refining the search parameters to improve the results displayed in the Did you know and In the news sections.
• adding more specific Selected articles sections, like Selected biographies.
• inserting a Recognized content section.
• adding more pictures to the image slideshow.
• placing a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section (especially for geographic portals).

Besides the new portals, there are still about 1200 portals of the old design that need to be converted to the new design.

Many portals need to be de-orphaned, by placing links to them (in the See also section of the corresponding root articles, at the bottom of the corresponding navigation footer templates, and on the corresponding category pages).

Many of the new portals still need to be listed at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Bugs keep popping up in portals. These need to be tracked down and reported at WT:WPPORTD.

Tools are needed to make developing and maintaining portals quicker and easier.

Dreaming up new features and capabilities. Innovation needs to continue, to design the portal of tomorrow, and the portal development-maintenance-system of the future. Automation!

So, if you find yourself with a little (or a lot) of free time, pick an area (or more) above and...

...dive in!    — The Transhumanist   07:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Portals WikiProject. Thank you for joining!

I will try to bring you up to speed on portals, starting with some history...

The WikiProject was dormant for years, though editors still came along and created about 80 portals per year, until there were about 1500 of them. It typically took 6 hours or more to create a portal (some took considerably longer, with some editors putting in dozens of hours of work on a single portal), and even more to maintain them.

Unfortunately, only about 100 of the portals were being maintained, and the design for most portals was such that without maintenance, the rest of the portals grew stale and out-of-date. Some had news entries that hadn't been added to for 8 years (and still do), with the old news items still sitting there. The typical pattern was for an editor to create a portal, and then never be seen again. Since everything was done by hand, excerpts became stale, there was nobody to post new news entries, or to add new article excerpts, and so on.

Then, in April 2018, someone proposed to delete all of the portals, including the portal namespace itself. It was one of the largest and most contentious community discussions in Wikipedia history, with the battle spilling over to ANI, project space, and user talk pages. Initially, portals looked like they were doomed, but then as the wider community learned about the proposal, users came forward in droves to join the discussion. And the verdict was...

Keep!

It turned out that many readers found the portals useful, even though they were out-of-date.

During the stressful debate, a bunch of editors got together and revitalized the Portals WikiProject, taking on a total revamp of the portal system, including designing new automated components so that portals with those update themselves automagically. The newly reorganized WikiProject helped assure participants in the debate that the portals would no longer be neglected, and to offset the lack of regular maintainers, that they would be transformed so that they mostly maintained themselves.

The project quickly grew to about 100 participants, with so much activity that it needed 3 talk pages. A newsletter was also created, with delivery to participants' talk pages, which just published its 21st issue.

For subjects with particular support features in place (such as a robust navigation footer), portal creation time has been reduced to under a minute! It now takes more time to place links to a portal than it does to create the portal itself. Though portals can be further improved by putting in however much time is desired.

While it took 13 years for the first 1500 portals to be created, in the past 6 months portals have grown to over 4,000, with all of the new ones using the automated design, which is based on slideshows and selective transclusion of content directly from the main encyclopedia (which the old design didn't have). Meanwhile, the old-style portals that have no maintainers are slowly being converted to the new design. About 1400 of those have been at least partially converted, with about 300 being fully converted so far.

And now, on to current activities...

The WikiProject is active in 5 areas:

1. Creating new portals – see the instructions at Template:Basic portal start page.
2. Developing and maintaining existing portals – things like adding pictures to a portal's image slideshow, refining a portal's internal search parameters, adding new components as they are developed, placing links to portals, etc. See WP:WPPORT.
3. Administration – maintaining instruction pages, etc.
4. Converting old portals – adding automated components, or restarting the portals from scratch, so that they self-update.
5. Design – innovation continues with current components being improved, and new components being dreamed up. Work is also underway on the development of userscripts to aid users in developing and maintaining portals. See WT:WPPORTD and WP:WPPORTD.

WikiProject features

The WikiProject has some resources to make working on portals easier. There is a newsletter, to keep participants informed on current events and tasks relating to portals. The main task list is maintained at WP:WPPORT. There is also an automatic alerts section on the WikiProject's main page so that deletion nominations of portals do not go unnoticed. The project has its own rating system, tailored specifically to portals -- you can see it at the top of every portal's talk page. And there is a wish list of desired new features at WT:WPPORTD -- feel free to post your ideas on improving portal design there. Templates for automating portal design are listed on the Template:Portal templates navbox.

Jump right in!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

And remember...

Have fun!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   22:16, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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16		Soft power of China (talk)	Merge
884		Assault (talk)	Merge
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Welcome AmericanAir88

Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:

Way to go!

Where's Evad?

Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.

He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.

Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.

The conversion continues

Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.

One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.

This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.

Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.

This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.

Going wide...

We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.

We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...

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:

Project's status

There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.

Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.

Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.

Until next issue...

See ya round the portal system!    — The Transhumanist   11:44, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Template:The Christian Music Barnstar has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:53, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Your proposal to split off a part of a section of that article was incomplete. You didn't add the "discuss=" parameter to the template, nor did you add the corresponding talk page section for such discussion. I've done that for you. Also, when proposing a split (or merge), and when you create the talk page section, you need to explain what the split is about (already done), along with your reasons for the proposal. Some people will also add a bulleted "Support as proposer" note after, for the purposes of a potential straw poll, (but not always as that is sometimes considered to be implied). Please go to Talk:SEAL Team Six#Split proposed now and add your reasons for proposing the split. Thank you - wolf 19:15, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

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There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers,    — The Transhumanist   06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

In closing

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio,    — The Transhumanist   07:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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STRONG OPPOSE - without this template how will I ever know where I am?!?! --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

FYI Hope you took that as a joke... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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The templates are very different... Template:Centuries in Christianity link all to categories, such as Category:1st-century Christianity.

Template:Christianity by century link all to articles, such as Christianity in the 1st century. tahc ^chat 02:19, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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848		Far-left politics (talk)	Cleanup
219		DynCorp (talk)	Cleanup
39		Wings of the Golden Horde (talk)	Cleanup
174		Battle of Kulikovo (talk)	Expand
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102		Normandie-Niemen (talk)	Merge
523		Debt (talk)	Merge
289		Bailout (talk)	Wikify
476		Containerization (talk)	Wikify
311		Capital structure (talk)	Wikify
3		Esperanto workers movement (talk)	Orphan
10		Wildland fire emission (talk)	Orphan
5		Florida Small Business Development Center Network (talk)	Orphan
45		William P. G. Harding (talk)	Stub
10		Grand Duke of Vladimir (talk)	Stub
5		Jerome Silbergeld (talk)	Stub
45		Charles Sumner Hamlin (talk)	Stub
77		Great Horde (talk)	Stub
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Hi Mr. Guye. Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia, it is a tremendous resource.

You recently erased my first and only attempt to contribute to Wikipedia, on veni, vedi, vici. (https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Veni%2C_vidi%2C_vici )

The phrased was of course used by Caesar following a swift and decisive victory. Following that use, it could THEREAFTER be used allusively to refer to a swift victory.

But what did Caesar mean by the phrase? It seems to go against popular opinion and what we know of Caesar to say that it was merely literal (and meant only that he conquered). This would mean that veni and vici were included only for their pleasant sound. Everyone seems to think Caesar was more clever than that.

Or, if he meant more, HOW does it acquire this additional meaning? I agree, I seem to be the only person considering this question. Sorry. If I knew of a reference to this figurative expression other than my own webpage, I would happily include it. I just thought my logic was solid and I was appropriately careful.

Surely the Wikipedia entry should address the question of what Caesar meant. Can I add something including uncertainty? Perhaps:

"It is not known if Caesar was merely reporting a victory or if he meant more, such as a rapid victory. Perhaps veni and vidi were included because of the pleasing sound and rhythm, but speculative possibility is that Caesar meant to imply his victory was as easy as coming and seeing."

EmmaSohan (talk) 18:55, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Emma Sohan

Just one source: ""Veni, vidi, vici" is a famous phrase said to have been spoken by the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar in a bit of stylish bragging"

• @EmmaSohan: The edit you made consisted solely of original research, speculation, and commentary. Your comment here just proved that; you justified your edit by pointing to what you personally heard and what you think the popular opinion is. If you want to include detail about the phrase's meaning, go ahead. Such content would likely be welcomed. But please write neutrally, citing published verifiable reliable sources. Please see WP:No original research, WP:Verifiability, WP:Neutral point of view, and WP:Manual of Style/Words to watch; that edit violated all of those policies and guidelines. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  05:01, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, thank you for your feedback on my article. You submitted for speedy deletion for promotional usage. This is the first article I contribute to. I did this for a class assignment. I read the policy that it must be written in a neutral point of view. Can please provide me with any tips on how I should do that. Thank you. Sja97385 (talk) 18:54, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

@Sja97385: You should look at:

 — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  20:19, 8 December 2018 (UTC)