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Portals have passed the 4,000 mark.
Here's a list of portals created since the last issue
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Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you.
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:
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 07:04, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
It's a capital i, not an l. Confused me at first :). Adam9007 (talk) 21:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
You modified my comments here to make it look like I declined an unblock request. I did not decline the unblock request, I was making a comment to the IP. I am involved with this situation from a non-admin point and it would be wrong for me to decline his unblock request. ~ GB fan 15:54, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Please do not motify my grandfather's page without letting me know,Thank you.Sabermoose (talk) 18:47, 29 October 2018 (EST)
Hello I just recieved your message about adding a past member for the band Full Of Hell.What did I do wrong to add him? Thereaperwatches (talk) 00:16, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi there Kirbanzo! You had flagged an edit I made regarding the background provided for the Love & Hip Hop cast members. The information I added in was based upon the current season's season finale. In that episode, Paris Phillips opens up about one of her very good and close friends Riley Nacke, who is a social media mogul (which I'm a very big fan of myself). I'm unsure as to how I would cite that information since no online textual reference would be available. However, it does appear in one of the episodes - before the season reunion. The other change I made was grammatical - "for" to "from." Please let me know how I can appropriately make these changes. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlynck2 (talk • contribs) 20:43, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
I have found a reliable source and cited it. Thank you!
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!
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.
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.
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:
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.
See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:43, 11 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}}
)
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)
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).
We'll keep it short this issue.
Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.
Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:16, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
I've seen you place block templates on user talk pages a couple of times today. Please don't do this. There could be a very good reason why an admin or checkuser does not leave a block template; if you think it was an accidental oversight you can ask the admin on their talk page but please don't take it upon yourself to add one. Thank you, -- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 23:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
For an opinion that definitely wasn't neutral in addition to having several spelling mistakes. Please re-review the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.243.213 (talk) 19:38, 5 December 2018 (UTC) And also, the entry I edited was making extremely biased statements with a "citation needed" message before I edited it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.243.213 (talk) 19:44, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Kirbanzo,
Sorry about reverting your revert on the article about Reiki. Are you free to talk about this? I'm sure we can reach a consensus.
-Aaron
184.155.86.34 (talk) 00:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I removed a source from the Andronovo culture and you undid that. I can explain why I removed the source. If you go to the removed source you can see that the samples they tested where from the Ukraine not Siberia, and circa 5000 years ago ( which is before the Andronovo culture existed). The source is not about the Andronovo culture. I'm new to wikipedia so I apologize if the reason for the changes weren't clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mithmacar2 (talk • contribs) 21:40, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Just a reminder: with these edits, you replaced some spaces in other people's comments. I'm guessing you're using the Visual Editor? I don't know a lot about how these changes might creep into your edits; I suggest you ask somewhere like WP:Village pump (technical). isaacl (talk) 23:17, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
I added two people who played the baby in the movie Grumpy Old Men. This was an uncredited role for twins who lived in southern MN where the movie was shot. One of them is my sister-in-law. Please allow this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sullivanevan (talk • contribs) 15:08, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
@Sullivanevan: That suggests you have a conflict of interest. Per our policy, I can't do that. Kirbanzo (talk) 15:11, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
A conflict of interest? That's absurd, who else would know about except people who are close to her? We are talking about a baby in a 25-year-old movie here...not rewriting history.
Such absurdity. I don't even care at this point but your reasoning is just plain stupid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sullivanevan (talk • contribs) 15:24, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Before, 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:
Becomes this:
Here's the code for the above banner:
{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}
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...
Kirbanzo, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:05, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
i removed the info of the 2 organizations because it was false. The term Mashgiach is to ensure Kasharuth, that the food is Halachiky Kosher according to the Orthodox understanding of the laws of the Bible. These organizations may monitor the social correctness or that the food is healthy but that does not make them a Mashgiach organizaion and therefore does not belong on the Mashgiach page. Please revert my removal, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.24.207.252 (talk) 17:55, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/players/playerpage/1226247/damien-linson
https://247sports.com/Player/Damien-Linson-49259/
http://www.espn.com/nfl/jogador/bio/_/id/10886/damien-linson
https://www.baltic-hurricanes.de/newsdetail/wohnen-wie-die-hurricanes-part-2.html
This guy should have been up here. He played collegiate football at central michigan university, baltimore Ravens followed and Kiel Baltic Hurricanes. I was a Bowl Champion in Europe, all documented. Stop deleting — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitecityplymouth (talk • contribs) 05:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted a lot of stuff with this edit, to replace with a {{ow}}. I'm not sure it's appropriate - it would be for an IPv4 address, where the address gets recycled. But this type of IPv6 address is a specific computer, with MAC address F2:62:58:6B:11:8D, not just a location. So all those edits are certainly done from the same computer, and given the pattern, almost certainly the same problem individual.
Something to keep in mind for future IP talk pages, there's a huge distinction between significance of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 07:32, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi there,Apologies there. Was just a typo code mistake. Best regards to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B405:6E9B:700E:3E26:2BE:A123 (talk) 00:36, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Sure! Thanks and best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B405:6E9B:700E:3E26:2BE:A123 (talk) 00:43, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering why you changed my edits for the Oregon Military Museum, I don't understand why you think I might have a conflict of interest. This museum is now NOT named after any one person. This is by order of the Adjutant General of the Oregon Military Department, he is the top military person in the state of Oregon and the museum belongs to the Oregon Military Department. I gave you three people who will confirm this information. I hope you verify this information before you continue to support a site with really wrong information.
Oregon Military Museum 503-683-5359Oregon Department of Military (Salem) Inspector General 503-584-3980
```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oremilhistory (talk • contribs) 03:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
As further information concerning the veracity of my information, just look on oregonmilitarymuseum.org, the official website, and you will see that there is no naming for an individual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oremilhistory (talk • contribs) 04:23, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
I still do not have an answer to why you removed my edit for the Oregon Military Museum. I explained to you that I did not have an association with TH museum nor was I advertising anything. I explained to you the difference between the Wikipedia page and the Museum's web site. I gave you the phone numbers of 3 people who confirmed the information to me. So, what is the problem here.Oremilhistory (talk) 23:07, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
I have not been able to get an explanation about why you removed my changes. I will give it a little more time for you to digest my explanation and then nvestigate the information discrepancies ( which I investigated and gave you my results) between the Oregon military Museum website and the Wikipedia website. I will be gone and upon return if I do not have a response I will go to an administrator. I acknowledge your personal mission but you do state that you are new and could make mistakes. This might be one that needs your arrention.
Oremilhistory (talk) 22:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Sorry I think you have the wrong person because I didn't change anything in this Debbie Allen Wikipedia. I was certainly on this cite but I never edited anything and if I did it was most likely on accident. Sorry for the inconvenience. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:B400:CFA0:D579:A041:7313:2022 (talk) 01:00, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Where 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://www.search.com.vn/wiki/?lang=en&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:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:22, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi there -
Not sure why you deleted my edits to the Trout Valley Formation entry. You said I hadn't provided documentation, but I did - a state web site and two published papers (one of which I co-authored). There's a bunch of stuff in the entry on this topic that is antiquated and beyond dated - and there is NO warning that the unit occurs entirely within the confines of a state park, and that collecting of fossils is strictly prohibited. For some reason, Wikipedia won't let me log in - although I preserved my login password and it auto-enters. Even after hitting your "recaptcha" squiggly code a dozen times, I kept getting rejected. - R. E. Nelson, Dept. of Geology, Colby College, Maine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:9FC0:E:442C:3A19:CB69:3C06 (talk) 01:43, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, your signature, as used here and here, contains a newline immediately after color:
which is causing it to be invisible in my browser. Please remove that newline. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:40, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019
Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
Individual Nominations:
Related WikiProject:
(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)
This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).
It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.
At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 19:06, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Please don't patronise me. Take a look at the sources. The description of a "trilogy" is purely a marketing tool. No actual independent reliable sources exist that describe these films as a trilogy independent of the director's own interpretation. No need for consensus. Only need for independent sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk • contribs)
Hi - I just saw your signature on a user's talk page when I went to give them a warning. I'm sorry if this comes across as slightly dickish, but I wonder if you'd consider changing the colour slightly - it's almost invisible against the white background on my screen. Per WP:SIGAPP, our signatures are supposed to be easy to read for people with visual disabilities; I've got pretty-near perfect vision, and I struggle with it! Cheers GirthSummit (blether) 18:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Are you guys looking at what is actually being published or NO. Damien Linson was a member or the Baltimore Ravens(NFL) and 2010 (GFL Champions) Kiel Baltic Hurricanes. Select a search engine and do your research, facts are facts. However to consistently delete facts when there are notable people who have done less, seems a little off. To the editors its 2019, based off of the criteria it should actually be a few more names on the list. As long as you guys delete, the information will be resubmitted because they are facts. National Football League and German Football League are both professional leagues. Editors please put your personal issues aside, just do your research and thank you. If you have an issue with the editor, feel free to make changes yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitecityplymouth (talk • contribs) 18:16, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
are you a bot Oofric Stormbloke (talk) 22:43, 14 March 2019 (UTC) ?
Previous issue:
This issue:
Please put back the edits. the text has been deciphered. all of the changed you made are wrong. Read the source that I cited for my change. thanks.
Dear Kirbanzo - you reverted changes yesterday on the Jivamukti Yoga page which were made in order to correct inaccurate and biased information. As the text is currently written it is not an accurate portrayal of the issue, which was resolved. This must be modified, because it does not represent a neutral point of view on the issue, and is slander against Jivamukti Yoga. Satchidekambhrama (talk) 18:08, 22 May 2019 (UTC)