Geological age category edits[edit]

I'm attempting to unwind Look2See1's edits on geological age categories. From what I can tell, you put ((Phanerozoic eon nav)) on many of these pages, and then Look2See1 added extra navboxes and formatting. So, I'm leaving ((Phanerozoic eon nav)) in place, but getting rid of the other boxes. Does that sound good? (Perhaps I am now pursuing strategy (3) :-/ ) —hike395 (talk) 08:54, 10 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Later: I forgot to mention that I rescued your "XXX on nav" templates (like ((Jurassic on nav)), by modifying ((Phanerozoic eon nav)) to automatically detect the earliest period category that exists, but also taking a cutoff parameter. So, ((Jurassic on nav)) will never show a category before the Jurassic, but if Jurassic cat doesn't exist, then it will move onto Cretaceous, etc. I'm leaving "XXX on nav" on the category pages, also. —hike395 (talk) 09:20, 10 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Chronostratigraphy navbox content[edit]

Hey, I've noticed on several stratigraphic formation articles that you've added some nice chronostratigraphy navboxes for quite a few states. Since I was trying to add content for Arkansas stratigraphy, I've built one for Arkansas in my sandbox, which I think meets standards. But, my question is: are subsurface formations included in these or only formations that are exposed at the surface? Thanks. YodellingFish (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@YodellingFish:It looks good, but some users have opposed putting these in articles. You might not want to put too much effort into making these until the controversy settles. Abyssal (talk) 19:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Abyssal:OK. I can leave it off entirely then. I think they're pretty handy, for what it's worth.
@YodellingFish:That means a lot to me. Hopefully one day we can roll these out without resistance. Abyssal (talk) 20:04, 17 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Neogene nav[edit]

Template:Neogene nav has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 17:38, 23 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Prehistoric categoreis[edit]

None of them would belong in Category:Paleontology in Alabama even if they were real articles, because they have nothing to do with Alabama. So no, I'm not going to just restore the category with a comment-out, because in addition to the WP:DRAFTNOCAT issue the category was also just wrong. Bearcat (talk) 17:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Then a bot can also just add the appropriate categories when the appropriate time comes, without needing an incorrect category to sit there in the meantime as a placeholder. Bearcat (talk) 17:04, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Concerning your redlink problem[edit]

I left a message for you at Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Redlinks remover, but I'm not sure the ping worked, because I added it on after I saved the message. So I'm giving you a heads up, just in case. Ciao.     — The Transhumanist   01:05, 1 March 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Paleozoic life in Utah has been accepted[edit]

Paleozoic life in Utah, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as List-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Wyoming[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Wisconsin[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of West Virginia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Virginia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Vermont[edit]

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Please update the region on Kota Formation wiki[edit]

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota_Formation, I understand that the regions mentioned were accurate at the time it was edited. But Andhra Pradesh state was divided back into previous regions, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and as per this event the regions I noticed are no longer in Andhra Pradesh State. Hence, the region should be updated to Telangana State. As I don't have enough information about the exact location to decide whether it is in Telangana or Andhra Pradesh state, I am hoping that the person who edited in the beginning has this information. And I am new to editing Wiki, so it difficult for me edit the page correctly, please help me updating the information and providing the users the current actual data. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srikarji (talk • contribs) 17:40, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:List of the Paleozoic life of Massachusetts[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of British Columbia[edit]

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Concerning your interest in automation / productivity tools[edit]

I made a new tool. I thought you might like to take a look at it.

It's called SearchSuite.

It enhances search results and makes copying/pasting results to lists (including outlines) from search results very easy.

It even sorts.

I hope you find it useful. All feedback is welcome.     — The Transhumanist    06:19, 12 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Update on outline automation

Here's an update I wrote for someone, which explains things in a bit more detail...

I'm learning JavaScript, so I can automate outline construction and maintenance.

The goal: full automation. That's hard. Within easier reach are interactive tools that can assist editors and increase their productivity: semi-automation.

One approach I've been working on is magical vision for editors who work on outlines. No, not special glasses, but changing how Wikipedia is presented on the screen so that anything that has built-in outline structure, they see as outline material. Shown in wikiformat, without going into an editor first, right there on the screen. From where they can copy and paste it into a wiki editor.

Outline material abounds on Wikipedia all over the place. It's just not noticed as such by most, because it is formatted differently. As you know, outlines are trees, and trees have branches. Those branches can themselves be outlines (i.e., have more branches), or they can be straight lists.

Straight lists are outline material?

A single outline can include many straight lists.

One of the places to find straight lists on Wikipedia are search results. No branches. Just a list of destinations. But cluttered with lots of extraneous data.

So, I started experimenting with reformatting search results, to convert them to a form that is easy to copy/paste.

By the time I was done, it wasn't just useful for outline developers. It was generally useful.

It's a user script called SearchSuite.

It's got several features that modify search results, and each is given a menu item that serves as its on/off switch. Each can work on the output of the others (that was a pain), and the script remembers the setting of each switch between searches. Once you turn a feature on, it stays on. Until you turn it off.

One of the features is sort. Another strips out details, giving you a single-spaced list (showing a lot more results on the screen, which is much faster to browse). Another toggles the sister project results. And another toggles those sometimes annoying redirect/category-based results. The outline developer's feature wikifies the entries, though sort is quite useful to them as well.

Further comments...

So, that's the conversion script for search results. What other areas are slated for conversion?

Well, I'm done writing the conversion scripts for Special:Allpages with prefix, Wikipedia Books, and Categories. I'm about half done with the ones on CatTree, and nav templates (navigation footers and sidebars). Those last two are proving much harder, and are only partially operational.

I've not yet started on All pages, indices, infoboxes, portal topic lists (so many formats), what links here, tables, embedded lists, or article prose content.

Where is this heading?

Somewhere along the way, I'll put them (except article prose) on a switch (the same switch). I think I can do that without combining them into the same script, but they'll all be bundled together in some way at some point (to allow for a single install).

Then, outline developers can click the menu item to instantly see whatever outline material is on whatever page they are on, in a form they can easily transfer. Some will do it the other way around: leave them on, and turn them off when they want to see wikipedia in the normal view. (Right now, they are not on a switch, so I see the outline view all the time).

And as I did with SearchSuite, I'll add other functionality as well, for general users.

Does any of this make sense?

I figure that as I learn more about programming, I'll progress to higher levels of automation.

I've looked for other programmers to get involved, to no avail. So I'm pretty much on my own on this project.

I hope you've found this interesting. Sincerely,     — The Transhumanist    22:27, 12 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Side discussion on how to improve portals via technology[edit]

See User_talk:Fram#Seeking advice.    — The Transhumanist   13:21, 13 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Coccosteuscropped.JPG listed for discussion[edit]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Coccosteuscropped.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Pkbwcgs (talk) 06:49, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Invitation to WikiProject Portals[edit]

The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.

You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it.

There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals.

Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore.

It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them.

The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond.

A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

Let's do this.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   10:18, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica[edit]

Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 14:34, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Belemnoids[edit]

Portal:Belemnoids, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Belemnoids and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Belemnoids during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 14:43, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject heads up, April 27, 2018[edit]

We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily.

New and easier way to handle excerpts

Attention portal maintainers!

There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called ((Transclude lead excerpt)).

It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you.

It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale or fork.

It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the Lua Module:Excerpt supporting it.

Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across.

To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt of a discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:

Kudos on a wonderful template.    — The Transhumanist   03:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This is amazing stuff. I'm going to get to work on using it on the selected content at most of these portals very soon. WaggersTALK 13:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The RfC

I wrote a comment in the the April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it.

Please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals to your watchlist

Wish list

What's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it... 

*poof*

Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes!

I wish...

  1. ...that Portal:Contents/Portals becomes up-to-date.   (The missing entries are listed on the talk page, with instructions).
  2. ...the WikiProject to have Article Alerts.   (((WikiProject Portals)) templates have already been placed on all portal talk pages).
  3. ...that Portal:Cricket becomes a shining example of portal excellence.   (It was the main example of a crappy and unmaintained portal at the RfC).

Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals!    — The Transhumanist   07:50, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

P.S.: Abyssal, thank you for joining. You might be most interested in our design discussions on the WikiProject's talk page. We also have a watchlist from which to view what's going on in Portal space. It includes all the pages in the portal namespace. P.S.: If you have any questions about anything, don't hesitate to ask.    — The Transhumanist   07:50, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Proposed deletion of List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Faroe Islands[edit]

The article List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Faroe Islands has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No content

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((proposed deletion/dated)) notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing ((proposed deletion/dated)) will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Christian75 (talk) 19:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Faroe Islands[edit]

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Faroe Islands requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:39, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New articles[edit]

I am creating a bunch of new articles from genera that are currently red links on Wikipedia using fossilworks as a base source. As I am a college student I may have to suddenly leave them half made to go to a lesson, as such I would be grateful if you could help me finish them off. Lavalizard101 (talk) 14:43, 3 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject Portals Overview, May 04, 2018[edit]

Thank you for being a member of the Portals WikiProject, and thank you for all the work you have all been doing on the portal namespace. To see the activity, check out the watchlist.

This is our 3rd issue, see previous issues at the Newsletter archive.

Top priority: Main list of portals needs updating

The top, and one of the most visible parts, of the portal system is Portal:Contents/Portals, which is intended to list all (completed) portals on Wikipedia.

About half of the missing existing portals have been added since this WikiProject's reboot (April 17th). Thank you to RockMagnetist, TriNitrobrick, Polyamorph, PratyushSinha101, Ganesha811, Bermicourt, Javert2113, Noyster, Ɱ, Lepricavark, XOR'easter, and Emir of Wikipedia, for working on this.

We are half-way to completion with this. We need everyone to chip in until it is done. Instructions, and the list of missing entries are at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope you'll join me there. ("Many hands make light work").

Thank you.

Membership

We're at 66 members, with more joining daily. We even have 6 WikiGnomes!

Special thanks

I have awarded Certes with a portals barnstar on his talk page for his work on the new excerpt templates that are revolutionizing the portal system (Template:Transclude lead excerpt & Template:Transclude random excerpt). If you'd like to show your appreciation, please feel free to stop by his talk page and add your signature to the barnstar itself.

Thank you Certes. You are enabling this WikiProject to get the right things done, fast.

By the way, the templates have already gone international. After being told about the templates, Mossab wrote:

Thanks You very much!. Those are fantastic and great templates! I transferred them to Arabic Wikipedia and they do a magic great job. I worked to improve portal anatomy here and i do every thing i can to improve it and i am very sad for the nomination for deletion of portals :(. I am glad to be member on WikiProject Portals and i added my name with pleasure. Kind regards

RFC

As you know, the (April 8th) proposal to delete all portals and the portal namespace inspired the reboot of this WikiProject. RfCs typically run for 30 days, which means there are 5 days left including today, before the RfC will be closed. The !votes are predominantly "oppose", but many editors have shared their disappointment with the portal system. We have our work cut out for us in correcting the problems of the portals to address their concerns. Complaints ranged from being out of date and lacking maintenance, to taking up the time of editors that they felt (due to low traffic) would be better spent improving articles.

Anti-WikiProject drama

This past week has been somewhat stressful for me, with more than a little conflict...

It culminated with my being reported at the Administrator's Noticeboard "for spamming and canvassing". This is the second time I've been reported there during the RfC; the first one was for posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages.

The accusations were 1) Posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages, 2) Adding an Article alerts section to the Portals WikiProject page, and 3) posting notices (invitations) about this WikiProject on user talk and portal talk pages.

None of which fall under the Wikipedia definitions of spamming or canvassing.

Thank you, Lionelt and Lepricavark, for coming to my rescue. I don't know how the discussion would have turned out if you had not spoken up.

The discussion was closed as "no action necessary".

After that, the person responsible posted their thoughts to my talk page. Here they are, with my response:

Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac

Thank you. I accept your congratulations on behalf of Wikiproject Portals and the portal-loving community – it was a team effort. In addition, I'd like to clarify some things about your claims above...
  1. Each page nominated for deletion must have a notice at the top of its page, per the deletion guideline. Not to have one there, would be unfair to those who use such pages, and would constitute a secret deletion tribunal. We don't do things that way on Wikipedia.
  2. As new facts became available (e.g., a motivated and thriving WikiProject to support the portals, new building blocks, etc.), it was appropriate to post the developments to the RfC, to support informed decision making.
  3. Proposals are literal, not figurative. The proposal specified "all portals". All means all.
  4. The fact is, the rebooted WikiProject is cleaning up the mess, rather rapidly. By updating and upgrading the portals, rather than getting rid of them.
  5. I think I'll be hanging around for awhile, but the project is more than likely to achieve critical mass and may outlive us all, due in part to the development of tools to assist editors in building, upgrading, and maintaining portals that are fully dynamic and self-updating.
Portals are more fun to work with than ever. Thank you for your role in making this happen. You made us try even harder, and inspired us to pull together as a team. You'll have a warm place in our hearts, forever. The Transhumanist

Automatically refreshed excerpts

The main advancement we've made so far is applying selective transclusion Transclusion is template technology, showing a page on another page. Selective transclusion shows only part of that page. We use it to show excerpts that always match the source. The two templates we have so far, are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Obsoleting subpages

Excerpts are migrating toward the base page of each portal, and where this is done, a subpage is no longer needed.

Template:Transclude lead excerpt will be able to be used to put the intro excerpt directly on the portal page, rather than on an intro subpage, once we adapt a portal design to accommodate this.

Template:Transclude random excerpt is currently being used on 1st-level subpages, and eliminates the need for 2nd-level subpages. (Many portals have 2 levels of subpages).

There are about 1500 portals, but there are around 148,000 subpages in portal space. Further discussions are needed to develop designs and components that do not require them.

It is my hope that the portal of the future will be a single page, or close to it, pulling in excerpts from specified dynamic sources (like category pages), filtered by ratings. This would obviate the need for subpages at all (except for maybe the header and footer subpages, which store a portal's settings). A more likely near-term solution would be subpages with a list maintained by a bot, or editors using semi-automatic tools.

New portals

Since the reboot, a new portal has been created:

Portal:Limited recognition

Please watchlist these pages

Some central pages in the portal system. The more eyes on them, the better.

Wrapping up...

There's more in the works, like a rating system, further redesigns, etc. Keep an eye on the discussions on the project's talk page. They should start showing up there soon.

Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   06:19, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]


WikiProject Portals update, 11 May 2018[edit]

We've grown to 73 members, and morale is high. Thank you for joining. Here is some news, and some tasks...

The RfC will be closed soon...

2018-05-11: preparations are being made to close the RfC. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals.

When there, be sure to notice the consultation link.

We're trying to get a prototypical single-page portal developed in time to show the RfC closers before they make their final decision. You can help. It's Portal:Humanism. So far, we've applied selective transclusion (automation) to excerpts, and have made the following sections without subpages: intro, selected article, selected biography, categories, related portals, wikiprojects, things to do, and wikimedia. Eight down, 4 to go, plus 2 formatting subpages (not sure we can migrate those). Automating every section, would also be nice.

Main objectives

Our main objectives currently, are:

  1. Replace static excerpts with selective transclusions, so that the excerpts always stay fresh (that is, match the source content). We are now doing this on the portal base page as much as possible, to reduce the number of subpages that are needed. See #2...
  2. Migrate the functions of subpages to the portal base pages. There are around 150,000 subpages in portal space. We aim to make these obsolete by using templates and other calls from the portal base pages.
  3. Improve portal design to make portals self-update. Semi-dynamic sections update from a static list, as used in ((Transclude random excerpt)). Fully-dynamic sections would update from a list maintained elsewhere on Wikipedia, like a category. We haven't found a way to do this yet, other than to create a bot (which we will probably need to do).

Maintenance pass #1: Upgrading the intro section

The intro section of many portals transcludes an "Intro" subpage that has an excerpt in it.

We're replacing that with a selective transclusion directly in the intro section, bypassing the subpage. Though, there's a little more to it...

For instructions, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Transclude intro excerpt directly on the portal base page.

Please skip Portal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand.

Maintenance pass #2: Obsoleting the Wikimedia subpages

One of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using the template ((Wikimedia for portals)) directly on the portal base page.

This has been done for several hundred portals so far.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Obsolete a Wikimedia subpage for instructions.

Maintenance pass #3: calling the category tree from the portal base page

Certes figured out how...

((subst:Text|<category|tree>))((subst:PAGENAME))((subst:Text|</categorytree>))

For more information, see the thread Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Rendering PAGENAME inside categorytree tag doesn't work (it does now).

More to come...

In the meantime, see ya around the portals!    — The Transhumanist   15:19, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Kenya[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica[edit]

Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 22:17, 14 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update, 15 May 2018[edit]

We are at 74 members. If you know anyone who might find this WikiProject interesting, please invite them.

The RfC has ended

The RfC was closed May 11th, and a closing statement was posted May 12th which says "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time."

Ongoing tasks

Some major activities that we are in the middle of include:

Other tasks

Portal-building resources

During his work on portals, Broter found a quote randomizer. It is ((Random quotation)).

Trailblazer: approaching the one-page portal

Broter has transformed the Portal:Community of Christ so it is comprised of only 3 pages in portal space: the base page, its box-header subpage, and its box-footer subpage. Its other other subpages are now obsolete and are waiting for deletion. Nice job, Broter!

Well, that's all for now. See ya around the portals.    — The Transhumanist   06:18, 16 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018[edit]

We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

New news template ready for testing

Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

((Transclude selected current events)) is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Alternative to Wikinews.

Thank you, Evad.

Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)

Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please check Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

New portal, still needs work

Drafting a new portals guideline

Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#RfC on new portal guidelines

RfC on new TOC layout for main portal list

There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals.

See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals#RFC on layout update.

Deletion discussion survivors

Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...

Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page.

Portal space clean up

While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per ((Db-p1)) or ((Db-p2))). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

((Db-g6|rationale=of subpage clean up – this subpage's function has been migrated to the portal base page and is no longer needed))

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

Please help list the unlisted portals!

There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope to see you there!

Wrapping up

These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon.    — The Transhumanist   00:30, 25 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Whoa, I missed one...[edit]

There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined!    — The Transhumanist   01:35, 25 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018[edit]

We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive.

Welcome

A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

The portal set has shrunk

There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV.

Maintenance runs on the portals set have begun

This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

Thank you, you

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

Thank yous all around

I've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page).

Sockpuppet, and reverting his work

It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:

Automation so far, section by section...

Automatic article alerts is up and running

Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Choosing workflows, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Other things that could use some automation

Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Deletion discussion survivors

Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).

(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page).

Portals needing repair

Wrapping up

There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project.    — The Transhumanist   11:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Delaware[edit]

I fixed a few links in List of the prehistoric life of Delaware but there are still some that need expert disambiguation and a few that point in the wrong direction. (I'm pretty sure Lima isn't in Delaware). Certes (talk) 22:17, 6 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018[edit]

The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins.

Welcome

A warm welcome to the newest members of the team:

Be sure to say hi.

Congrats

Pbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him.

The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone."

New feature: Picture slideshow

Picture slideshow
  • Image 1US Bank Tower
    US Bank Tower
  • Image 2Pocket Sacramento Canal
    Pocket Sacramento Canal
  • Image 3Sacramento from near the Sacramento River
    Sacramento from near the Sacramento River
  • Image 4Tower Bridge
    Tower Bridge
  • Image 5Capitol Mall, seen from the Capitol
    Capitol Mall, seen from the Capitol
  • Image 6Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
    Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
  • Image 7Old Town Sacramento, the capital as it looked like in 19th century
    Old Town Sacramento, the capital as it looked like in 19th century
  • Image 8State Capitol Building
    State Capitol Building

Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the > to go to the next picture or < to instantly show the previous feature. The feature also shuffles the pictures when the page is initiated, so that they are shown in a different order each time the user visits the page (or purges it).

It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right.

Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Refining the Picture slideshow.

The one-page portal has been achieved

We now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own.

I commend you for your teamwork

This is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you.

In conclusion...

There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page.    — The Transhumanist   01:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Abyssal/Nectosaurus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Aphrosaurus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:CMN 8547[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Columbosauripus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Dawson Creek[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Dinosaur bonebed[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Dinosaur paleopathology[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Duquettichnus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Fresnosaurus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Fuscinapeda[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Gironnette dinosaur tracksite[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Hoganas Formation[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Invertebrates of the Morrison Formation[edit]

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Concern regarding Draft:List of controversies in paleontology[edit]

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Wikified and taxobox and cats added, original unformatted text commented out. Tisquesusa (talk) 18:55, 13 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Hosselkus Limestone[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Hydrotherosaurus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Iguanodontipus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Late Cretaceous North America[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of controversies in paleontology[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Argentina[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Australia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Austria[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Belgium[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Brazil[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in China[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Croatia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Denmark[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Finland[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in France[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Germany[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Hungary[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in India[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Ireland[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Italy[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Mongolia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Norway[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Portugal[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in South Africa[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Spain[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Sweden[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in Switzerland[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in the Czech Republic[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Paleontology in the Netherlands[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Pooleyichnus[edit]

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Wiwaxia, described by Walcott or Matthew?[edit]

I just read the Wiwaxia article and it seems a bit confusing. It states in the taxobox that it was named by Walcott in 1911 from a reassignment (as the type species was named earlier), but the main article body states that Wiwaxia itself was first described when the type species was and makes no mention as to this reassignment. As I have limited knowledge on this Wiwaxia, I am asking for someone to help clarify the article and correct either the taxobox or the main article so that they don't conflict each other. I ask you, Abyssal as you seem experienced enough and have edited Wiwaxia before. 18:12, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

@Lavalizard101: I can clear this up a little, Matthew described a single spine in 1899 as "Orthotheca corrugata". Walcott moved the species to Wiwaxia in 1911 with his description of whole body fossils showing the spines attached. So the Genus is Walcott, while the initial species name was Matthew, but a fuller species re-description was again Walcott.--Kevmin § 18:46, 13 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks User:Kevmin, I normally can understand how reassigned species are placed it's just this one occasion when the article fails to mention said reassignment where it confused me. Lavalizard101 (talk) 18:49, 13 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Cenozoic[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Bradford Riney[edit]

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Portals WikiProject update #009, 15 June 2018[edit]

(Article slideshow prototype)
Selected animals
  • Image 1 House mouse (Mus musculus) A mouse (<abbr title=" '"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000011-QINU`"' ">pl.: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally common. They are known to invade homes for food and shelter. Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size. Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered, its common name includes the term mouse if it is smaller, or rat if it is larger. The common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically specific. Typical mice are classified in the genus Mus, but the term mouse is not confined to members of Mus and can also apply to species from other genera such as the deer mouse (Peromyscus). Domestic mice sold as pets often differ substantially in size from the common house mouse. This is attributable to breeding and different conditions in the wild. The best-known strain of mouse is the white lab mouse. It has more uniform traits that are appropriate to its use in research. (Full article...)
    House mouse (Mus musculus)

    A mouse (<abbr title="
    '"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000011-QINU`"'
    ">pl.: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (Mus musculus). Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally common. They are known to invade homes for food and shelter.

    Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size. Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered, its common name includes the term mouse if it is smaller, or rat if it is larger. The common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically specific. Typical mice are classified in the genus Mus, but the term mouse is not confined to members of Mus and can also apply to species from other genera such as the deer mouse (Peromyscus).

    Domestic mice sold as pets often differ substantially in size from the common house mouse. This is attributable to breeding and different conditions in the wild. The best-known strain of mouse is the white lab mouse. It has more uniform traits that are appropriate to its use in research. (Full article...)
  • Image 2 The horse (Equus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated and historically linked to the megafauna category of species. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior. Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess an excellent sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under a saddle or in a harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years. Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses. (Full article...)

    The horse (Equus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated and historically linked to the megafauna category of species. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.

    Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess an excellent sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under a saddle or in a harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.

    Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses. (Full article...)
  • Image 3 The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae. Recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC. It is commonly kept as a house pet and farm cat, but also ranges freely as a feral cat avoiding human contact. It is valued by humans for companionship and its ability to kill vermin. Because of its retractable claws it is adapted to killing small prey like mice and rats. It has a strong flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp teeth, and its night vision and sense of smell are well developed. It is a social species, but a solitary hunter and a crepuscular predator. Cat communication includes vocalizations like meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting as well as cat body language. It can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by small mammals. It also secretes and perceives pheromones. Female domestic cats can have kittens from spring to late autumn in temperate zones and throughout the year in equatorial regions, with litter sizes often ranging from two to five kittens. Domestic cats are bred and shown at events as registered pedigreed cats, a hobby known as cat fancy. Animal population control of cats may be achieved by spaying and neutering, but their proliferation and the abandonment of pets has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, contributing to the extinction of bird, mammal and reptile species. the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned and around 42 million households owning at least one cat. In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats there were an estimated 220 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the world. (Full article...)


    The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae. Recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC. It is commonly kept as a house pet and farm cat, but also ranges freely as a feral cat avoiding human contact. It is valued by humans for companionship and its ability to kill vermin. Because of its retractable claws it is adapted to killing small prey like mice and rats. It has a strong flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp teeth, and its night vision and sense of smell are well developed. It is a social species, but a solitary hunter and a crepuscular predator. Cat communication includes vocalizations like meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting as well as cat body language. It can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by small mammals. It also secretes and perceives pheromones.

    Female domestic cats can have kittens from spring to late autumn in temperate zones and throughout the year in equatorial regions, with litter sizes often ranging from two to five kittens. Domestic cats are bred and shown at events as registered pedigreed cats, a hobby known as cat fancy. Animal population control of cats may be achieved by spaying and neutering, but their proliferation and the abandonment of pets has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, contributing to the extinction of bird, mammal and reptile species.

    the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned and around 42 million households owning at least one cat. In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats there were an estimated 220 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the world. (Full article...)
  • Image 4 The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from extinct gray wolves, and the gray wolf is the dog's closest living relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Hunter-gatherers did this over 15,000 years ago in Oberkassel, Bonn, which was before the development of agriculture. Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids. The dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior, and the human–canine bond has been a topic of frequent study. This influence on human society has given them the sobriquet of "man's best friend". (Full article...)


    The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from extinct gray wolves, and the gray wolf is the dog's closest living relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Hunter-gatherers did this over 15,000 years ago in Oberkassel, Bonn, which was before the development of agriculture. Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids.

    The dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior, and the human–canine bond has been a topic of frequent study. This influence on human society has given them the sobriquet of "man's best friend". (Full article...)

Don't mind that box to the right. We'll be talking about that later, below.

Almost done...

With the portals upgrades?

No. :)

What is almost done is the updating of the main list of portals!

There are 23 portals left to be listed.

Kudos to the WikiGnome Squadron, for spearheading this.

Once it is fully updated, we need to keep it up to date. When you complete a portal, remember to add it to Portal:Contents/Portals.

Concerning portal upgrades, we are working on those section-by-section...

Associated Wikimedia section conversion task complete

The Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the ((Wikimedia for portals)) template rather than reiterated copied/pasted code.

So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course).

Further section conversions (using AWB)

Work is underway on converting Portals' introduction sections, and the categories sections.

If you would like to help, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Upgrade introduction sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#AWB task: Convert category sections

Further section conversions (by hand)

Work has also started with converting selected picture sections to picture slideshow sections. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Install picture slideshows.

Quality rating system for portals under development

Currently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See the discussion.

What's coming: excerpt slideshows

Evad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner.

Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show the direction portal development is heading. See the discussion.

Wow

I'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :)    — The Transhumanist   10:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Rebuild of Portal:Cenozoic[edit]

Hi Abyssal, I have done some work towards reconstructing Portal:Cenozoic using the new templates. If you have any strong opinions please let me know. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:16, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Userfication of your drafts[edit]

Give me a ping if your drafts get deleted and you want them userfied. I think most or all are worthy of an encyclopedia article but it is a huge amount of work to get them all ready for main space. It might be easier to keep them in user space if you are too busy to work on them for a while. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:00, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

re: Template:Lists of the Cenozoic life of the United States[edit]

Per WP:MOSLINK, there shouldn't be any links from mainspace to draft space - we don't want readers exposed to pages that aren't ready for publishing. That template is linked from articles in mainspace, so there shouldn't be any links to drafts on it. It shouldn't be difficult to maintain a list in your userspace or a duplicate template specifically for the drafts that would have the same benefit, while keeping drafts away from readers. Thanks, ansh666 06:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Aquatic behavior in theropods[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Eric Göhre[edit]

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Disambiguation links on some of the articles you have created[edit]

Thanks for all your articles on List of the Cenozoic life of X and List of the Paleozoic life of X etc but could you check the links to different "genus" articles. You are creating lots of links to dismbiguation pages which I don't have the expertise to sort.— Rod talk 21:31, 27 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Please see also this list. Plant, or bivalve? Certes (talk) 20:24, 28 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Portals WikiProject update #010, 30 June 2018[edit]

We've grown to 94 participants.

A warm welcome to dcljr and Kpgjhpjm.

Rating system for portals

We are in the process of developing a rating system specifically for portals, as the quality assessment scheme for articles does not apply to portals. It is coming along nicely. Your input would be very helpful. See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/General#Proposed new quality class assessments.

Better than a barnstar

One of our participants got involved with this WikiProject through interest in how the new generation of portals would be handled in WP's MOS (Manual of Style). It didn't take long before he got sucked in deeper. This has given him an opportunity to look around, and so, he has made an assessment of this WikiProject's operations:

I'm quite frankly really impressed and inspired by what's happening here. If you'd asked me a year ago if I thought portals should just be scrapped as a failed, dragged-out experiment, I would have said "yes". This planning and the progress toward making it all practical is exemplary of the wiki spirit, in particular of a happy service-to-readers puppy properly wagging its technological and editorial tail instead of the other way around, and without "drama". It's also one of the few examples I've seen in a long time of a new wikiproject actually doing something useful and fomenting constructive activity (instead of acting as a barrier to participation, and a canvassing/ownership farm for PoV pushers). Kudos all around. — SMcCandlish

Congratulations, everyone. Keep up the great work.

Slideshow development

We've run into a glitch with slideshows: they don't work on mobile devices.

Initially, we will need to explore options that allow portals to have slideshows without adversely affecting mobile viewers. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Mobile view support.

Eventually, we may need another way to do slideshows. If we do go this route, and I don't see why we wouldn't, then (user configurable) automatic slideshows also become a possibility.

TemplateStyles RfC passed

Once implemented, this will allow editors to create and edit cascading style sheets for use with templates. This will expand what we can do with portals. For more detail, see mw:Extension:TemplateStyles and Wikipedia:TemplateStyles.

Automation effort

We've run into an obstacle using Lua-based selective transclusion: Lua is incapable (on Wikipedia) of reading in article names from categories. Because of this, we'll need to seek other approaches for fully automating the Selected article section. We are exploring sources other than categories, and other technologies besides Lua.

Speaking of using other sources, the template ((Transclude list item excerpt)) collects list items from a specified page, or from a section of that page, and transcludes the lead from a randomly selected link from that list. Courtesy of Certes. So, if you use this in a portal, and if the template specifies a page or section serviced by JL-Bot, you've now got yourself an automatically updated section in the portal. JL-Bot provides links to featured content and good articles, by subject.

What is "fully automated"? When you create a portal using a creation template, and the portal works thereafter without editor intervention, the portal is fully automated. That is, the portal is supported by features that fetch new content. If you have to add new article names every so often for it to display new content, then it is only semi-automated.

Currently, the Selected article section is semi-automated, because it requires that an editor supplies the names of the various articles for which excerpts are (automatically) displayed. For examples, look at the wikisource code of Portal:Reptiles, Portal:Ancient Tamil civilization, and Portal:Reference works.

So far, 3 sections are fully automatable: the introduction section, the categories section, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

Where is all this heading?

Henry.

Or some other name.

Eventually, the portal department will be a software program. And we won't have to do anything (unless we want to). Not even tell it what portals to create (unless we want to). It will just do it all (plus whatever else we want it to do). And we will of course give it good manners, and a name.

But, that is a few years off.

Until then, building portals is still (partially) up to us.    — The Transhumanist   13:28, 30 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Portals WikiProject update #011, 10 July 2018[edit]

We now have 97 participants.

Be sure to welcome our newest members, BrantleyIzMe, Coffeeandcrumbs, and Nolan Perry, with warm regards.

Work is proceeding apace. We have 2 major thrusts right now: converting the intro sections of portals, and building the components of the one-page automated model...

Converting the intro sections

We need everybody, except those building software components, to work on converting intros. If you have AWB, definitely use that. If not, then work on them manually. Even one a day, or as often as you can muster, will help a lot. There are only about 1,000 of them left to go, so if everyone chips in, it will go pretty quickly. Remember, there are 97 of us!

The intros for most of the portals starting with A through F have already been converted to use the ((Transclude lead excerpt)) template.

The standard wikicode for the automated intro that we want to put into place looks like this: 

((/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|))
((Transclude lead excerpt | ((PAGENAME)) | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1))
((Box-footer|[[((PAGENAME))|Read more...]]))

That works for most portals, but not all. For some portals it requires some tweaking, and for others, we may have to use a different or more customized approach. Remember to visually inspect each portal you work on and make sure that it works before moving on to the next one.

Be sure to skip user-maintained portals. They are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Specific_portal_maintainers.

AWB tips

I've started an AWB tips page, for those of you feeling a bit overwhelmed by that power user tool. Feel free to add to it and/or improve it.

Portal automation

We have some very talented Lua programmers, who are pushing the limits of what we can do in gathering data from Wikipedia's various namespaces and presenting it in portals. Due to their efforts, Lua is powering the selective transclusion core of our emerging automated portal design, in the form of selected article sections that rotate content, and slideshows.

To go beyond Lua's limits, to take full advantage of Mediawiki's API, we are in the midst of adding another programming language to the resources we shall be making use of: JavaScript. The ways that JavaScript can help us edit portals to boost the power of our Lua solutions, are being explored, which will likely make the two languages synergistic if not symbiotic. Research is under way on how we can use JavaScript to make some of the portal semi-automated features fully automatically self-updating, in ways that Lua cannot. Like gathering random members from a category and inserting them into a portal's templates as parameters. Once the parameters are in place, Lua does the rest.

If you would like to get involved with design efforts, or just keep up on them, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

When should we start building new portals?

Well, not at the present time, because building portals is quite time consuming. The good news is that we are working on a design that will be fully automated, or as close to that as we can get. And the new design is being implemented in the portal department's main portal creation template. This means, that not only will portals update themselves, their creation will be highly automated as well. That's the nature of templates. You put them in place, and they just... work.

What I'm getting at here, is that it would be better to wait to build lots of new portals until after the new design is completed. Because with it, instead of taking hours to create a new portal, it will likely take minutes.

That does not mean we should be idle in the meantime. The main reason most of us are here is because it became apparent that portals were largely unmaintained and had grown out-of-date. This had become so apparent that a proposal was made to delete all the portals and the portal namespace to boot. That makes our main objective in the short term to improve all the existing portals so that the community will want to keep them—forever.

Building lots of new portals comes later. Let's fix up the ones we have first. ;)

And on that note, I bid you adieu. Until next newsletter, see ya 'round the WikiProject.    — The Transhumanist   12:26, 10 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:List of people said to be angels[edit]

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Home Lander (talk) 03:11, 13 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #012, 15 July 2018[edit]

We have 97 participants.

Getting faster

Automation makes things go faster, even portal creation. One of the components Certes made was ((Transclude list item excerpt)). I became curious about its possible applications.

So I worked out a portal design using it, the initial prototypes being Portal:Kyoto (without a "Selected pictures" section), and Portal:Dubai (with a "Selected pictures" section). Then I used Portal:Dubai as the basis for further portals of this type...

I was able to revamp Portal:Munich from start to finish in less than 22 minutes.
Portal:Dresden took about 19 minutes.
Portal:Athens took less than 17 minutes.
Did Portal:Florence in about 13 minutes.
Portal:Stockholm also in about 13.
Portal:Palermo approx. 12 minutes.

Why?

To see, and to show, what may become feasible via automation.

It now looks highly feasible that we could get portal construction time down to a few minutes, or maybe even down to a few seconds.

The singularity is just around the corner. :)

Slideshows

When using the ((Random slideshow)) template to display pictures, be sure to use the plural tense in the section title: "Selected pictures". That's because slideshows don't show up on many mobile devices. Instead the whole set of pictures is shown, hence the section title "Selected pictures", as it fits both situations.

In case you are curious, here is a list of the portals so far that have a slideshow:

Progress on intro conversions

The intros for most of the portals up through the letter "O" have been converted, using this wikicode: 

((/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|))
((Transclude lead excerpt | ((PAGENAME)) | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1))
((Box-footer|[[((PAGENAME))|Read more...]]))

Where the pagename didn't match the article title for the subject, the title was typed in.

Most of the portals that do not contain ((/intro)) or ((((FULLPGENAME))/Intro)) have not yet been processed.

About a thousand portals use the method of selective transclusion for the intro section. That's about two-thirds. That means we have one-third of the way to go on the intro section conversions.

Much more to come...

So much has been happening with portals that I can't keep up with it. (That's good). Which means, more in the upcoming issue. Until then, see ya 'round the project. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   08:41, 15 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Which portals fall under your area of expertise?[edit]

Could you list them below? I'd like to assess how much needs to be done to them to bring them to completion, to avert the possibility of future MfDs. We've got a lot more tools for portals than we used to, and I'd like to take a look to see which ones would benefits these portals the most. Thanks.

P.S.: Please ((ping)) me in your reply. Thank you. @The Transhumanist:

Abyssal (talk) 02:57, 16 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #013, 18 July 2018[edit]

I got overwhelmed IRL (in real life) during the production of issue #12. So, here is a catch-up issue, to help bring you (and me) up to speed on what is happening with portals...

By the way, we still have 97 participants. (Tell all your friends about this WikiProject, and have them join!)

Panoramas!

One cool feature of some of the geographical portals is a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section.

Check these out:

The Portals WikiGnome squadron is busy adding panoramas to geographical portals that don't yet have one. Feel free to join in on the fun. See task details at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Add a panorama or skyline to a geographic portal.

Caveat: avoid super-huge pics, as they can cause portal scripts to time-out. Please try to keep picture size down below 2 megabytes. Thank you.

Auto-populated slideshows

Speaking of pictures...

We now have two slideshow templates. You may be familiar with ((Random slideshow)), in which the editor types in (or copies/pastes) a list of pictures he or she wants it to display.

Well, now we have another template, courtesy of Evad37, which accepts one or more page names instead, and displays a random image off of the listed pages. So instead of listing dozens of files by hand, you can include a title or three to be scanned automatically. It even lets you specify particular sections.

The new slideshow template is ((Transclude files as random slideshow)).

Here's a sample, that grabs images from a single page:

Selected motorcycle or motorcycling pictures

New Template:Box-header colour

Speaking of new templates, here's another one!

Also from Evad37, we have a new component for starting section boxes, that is color configurable, and that bypasses the need for box-header subpages altogether. It is ((Box-header colour)).

For color support, see Web colors.

For the discussion in which this was inspired, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#Colour combinations for accessibility.

(In case you didn't notice, the slideshow box above uses this new template).

BTW, don't forget to close your box with ((Box-footer)).

Where are we on the redesign?

The answer to this question is quite involved, and would fill this page to overflowing. Therefore, this subject, including a complete update on where we are at and where we are going with portal design, is covered at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Where are we on portal conversion?

An AWB pass to convert intros on the portals has been completed. The pass couldn't convert them all (due to various formatting configurations, etc.).

All but about 170 portals now have introductions selectively transcluded on the base page. Not counting manually maintained portals, that leaves about 70 portals that either need their intros converted, or they need an intro.

Next, we'll be converting the categories sections!

What's the plan, man?

The course of action we have been taking goes something like this, with all steps being pursued simultaeneously...

1) Design a one-page automated portal model

2) Convert existing portals to that design (except those being manually maintained)

3) Remove subpages no longer needed

4) Develop further tools to empower editors working on portals

Later, when the tools are up to the task, filling in the gaps in coverage (with new portals) will also become practical.

Are we caught up yet?

Probably not.

Who knows what our programmers and editors have dreamed up while I was writing this.

See ya again soon,    — The Transhumanist   11:02, 18 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #014, 27 July 2018[edit]

Development of design continues, full speed ahead...

Excerpt slideshows are here!

Can you say "paradigm shift"?

Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.

Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.

For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...

We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:

((Transclude excerpts as random slideshow))

For this one, you specify the page names where the excerpts are to be extracted from.

((Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow))

This one accepts source pages from where the page names are gathered from list items. Then an excerpt from one of those pages is displayed. The selection of what is included in the slide show can be limited to a specific number from the collection (of the page names gathered), and that selection is renewed from scratch each time the page is purged.
For example, if you specify Template:World Heritage Sites in Spain as a source page, the slideshow will cycle through those sites. Now you don't have to type them in one-by-one. This greatly reduces portal creation time.

((Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow))

Same as above, but gathers links instead of just linked list items.

Panoramic banners

((Portal image banner)) displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.

Give resizing the page a try:

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

You can now balance section boxes

Before:

Reptile types
Amphibian types
  • Image 1 Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae) Caecilians (New Latin for 'blind ones') (/sɪˈsɪliən/) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales. Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /dʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales. The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...)

    Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae)
    Caecilians (New Latin for 'blind ones') (/sɪˈsɪliən/) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales.

    Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /dʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales.

    The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as     Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...    )
  • Image 2 European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands. A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)

    European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

    Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

    A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)
  • Image 3 Various types of frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ἀνούρα, literally without tail in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees. Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)

    Various types of frog

    A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ἀνούρα, literally without tail in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history.

    An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees.

    Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)
  • Image 4 Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm. Salamanders rarely have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults. This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. (Full article...)

    Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum

    Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm.

    Salamanders rarely have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults.

    This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. (Full article...)

After:

Reptile types
Amphibian types
  • Image 1 Various types of frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ἀνούρα, literally without tail in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees. Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)

    Various types of frog

    A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ἀνούρα, literally without tail in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history.

    An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees.

    Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)
  • Image 2 Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae) Caecilians (New Latin for 'blind ones') (/sɪˈsɪliən/) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales. Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /dʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales. The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...)

    Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae)
    Caecilians (New Latin for 'blind ones') (/sɪˈsɪliən/) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales.

    Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /dʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales.

    The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as     Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...    )
  • Image 3 European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands. A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)

    European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

    Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

    A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)
  • Image 4 Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm. Salamanders rarely have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults. This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. (Full article...)

    Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum

    Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm.

    Salamanders rarely have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults.

    This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. (Full article...)

Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.

The template used for this is ((Flex columns)).

By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.

Box-header colour

You may have noticed the new ((Box-header colour)) template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.

Testing, testing

Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...

Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...

To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile

If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Until next time...

Have fun.    — The Transhumanist   00:53, 27 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Portals tasks requests: presented in the newsletter below...[edit]

Portals WikiProject update #015, 31 July 2018[edit]

Now that we have lots of toys to play with, it's play time!

Here are some fun activities to use our new toys on...

Fun activity #1: put the improved panorama template to use

Would you like to travel around the world? Well, this may be the next best thing...

Here's another fun toy to play with: ((Portal image banner))

To see what it looks like, check out the panoramas at the tops of the following portals:

The task: There are many geography portals that lack panoramas. Please add some. Please keep the file size down below 2 megabytes, and keep in mind that you may find quality banners at commons: at less than 200K (.2 megabytes). Good search terms to include with the place name are "banner", "cityscape", "skyline", "panorama", "landscape", etc.

Related task: There are also lots of geography portals that have panoramas used as gaudy banners (with print or icons splattered across them) or that display them in some random location on the page. In many cases, those pages would be improved by displaying the panorama as a clean picture at the top of the intro section, like on the examples above. This works best with banner-like panoramas. Please fix such pages when you come across them, if you believe it would improve the look of the page.

Taller images might be better suited displayed further down the page, or in the "Selected images" section.

Note that ((Portal image banner)) supports multiple images, and displays one at random upon the first visit, and each time the page is purged.

Fun activity #2: install "Selected images" sections

That is, image slideshows!

Over 200 have been installed so far. Just 1200 to go. (Be sure not to install them on portals with active maintainers, unless they want you to).

The title "Selected images" reflects the fact that not all images on Wikipedia are pictures, and encompasses maps, graphs, diagrams, sketches, paintings, pictures, and so on.

The toys we have to work with for this are:

((Random slideshow))

and

((Transclude files as random slideshow))

The task: Using one of the above templates directly on a portal's base page, replace static "Selected picture" sections, with a section like one of these:

Selected images
  • Image 1Koi are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp Cyprinus carpio, originated from China and widely spread in Japan. They are very closely related to goldfish. The word "koi" comes from Japanese meaning "carp".
    Koi are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp Cyprinus carpio, originated from China and widely spread in Japan. They are very closely related to goldfish. The word "koi" comes from Japanese meaning "carp".
  • Image 2A discus (Symphysodon discus) is guarding its eggs. As for most cichlids, brood care is highly developed with both the parents caring for the young. Additionally, adult discus produce a secretion through their skin, off which the larvae live during their first few days.
    A discus (Symphysodon discus) is guarding its eggs. As for most cichlids, brood care is highly developed with both the parents caring for the young. Additionally, adult discus produce a secretion through their skin, off which the larvae live during their first few days.
  • Image 3Salmon fry hatching (Salmo salar) - the larva has grown around the remains of the yolk - visible are the arteries spinning around the yolk and little oildrops, also the gut, the spine, the main caudal blood vessel, the bladder and the arcs of the gills.
    Salmon fry hatching (Salmo salar) - the larva has grown around the remains of the yolk - visible are the arteries spinning around the yolk and little oildrops, also the gut, the spine, the main caudal blood vessel, the bladder and the arcs of the gills.
  • Image 4The red lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The red lionfish is also found off the east coast of the United States, and was likely first introduced off the Florida coast in the early to mid 1990s.
    The red lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The red lionfish is also found off the east coast of the United States, and was likely first introduced off the Florida coast in the early to mid 1990s.
Selected images

The one on the left uses ((Random slideshow)) (which accepts file names), and the one on the right uses ((Transclude files as random slideshow)) (which accepts source pages from which the filenames are gathered).

The above section formatting is used on many of the pages you will come across, but not all. In those cases, use whatever section formatting matches the rest of the page.

Note that you may come across "Selected picture" sections done with ((Random portal component)) templates. That template call is the entire section. Replace it with a section that matches the other sections on the page, and put the new slideshow inside that.

For example, in Portal:California, this code:

((Random portal component|max=21|seed=27|header=Selected picture|subpage=Selected picture))

was replaced with this code: 

((/box-header|Selected images|noedit=yes))
((Transclude files as random slideshow
| ((PAGENAME))
| Culture of ((PAGENAME))
))
((Box-footer))

And the new section blended right in with the formatting of the rest of the page. Note the use of the ((PAGENAME)) magic word. Plain article titles also work. Don't feel limited to one or two page names. But be sure to test each slideshow before installing the next one. (Or if you prefer, in batches - just don't leave them hanging). Report technical problems at the Portal design talk page.

Fun activity #3: upgrade "Selected article" sections

These sections, where unmaintained, have gone stale. That's because 1) the excerpts are static, having been manually copied and pasted, and 2) because they lack automatic addition of new entries.

They can be upgraded with:

((Transclude random excerpt))

or

((Transclude list item excerpt))

or

((Transclude linked excerpt))

All three of these will provide excerpts that won't go stale. The latter two can provide excerpt collections that won't go stale, by providing new entries over time. The key is to select source pages or source sections that are frequently updated, such as root article sections, mainstream lists, or navigation templates.

Where will this put us?

When the above tasks are completed for the entire collection of portals (except the ones with specific maintainers), we'll be more than half-way done with the portal system upgrade.

Keep up the great work.    — The Transhumanist   18:24, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Paleontology-related portals[edit]

Dear Abyssal,

Would you do me a favor?

Please make a list of all the portals you've been working on over the years, and of all the portals you wish you could make.

I'd like to make an assessment of what it would take to get all of those fully constructed.

We're approaching very high levels of automation, and so this might now be within our reach.

I look forward to your reply.    — The Transhumanist   18:29, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

P.S.: Please ping me in your reply. Thank you.

@The Transhumanist: I actually went through and created pretty much all of the portals I wanted to although a few have since been deleted. The list here on my talk page that I gave you on the 16th is pretty comprehensive. I can't think of any more. Abyssal (talk) 18:34, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I somehow missed that list. I've copied it below, so we can work on it (by adding notes, etc.).

Of those, which ones haven't been completed yet? (When you have time, put a note next to each of those).

In the meantime, I'll start looking them over to see if anything pops out at me.    — The Transhumanist   19:26, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The Transhumanist: Maybe this is a dumb question, but what standards would the have to meet to be considered completed? Abyssal (talk) 21:38, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
When you started them, you had a vision of what you wanted them to be. Which ones are finished according to your plan for them?
With respect to the project, a basic portal has no empty sections, and has a minimum of an intro section, a selected article section, a selected image section, a categories section, and an Associated Mediawiki section.
If you would like them upgraded, then what we shoot for is that all excerpts should be selectively transcluded (not copied/pasted) from the original articles, so that they never go stale. The "selected sections" should each be keyed to at least one frequently maintained source page, so that the section's entries are added to over time. (Whatever articles are listed on the source page, automatically get an entry displayed in the box).
But, what is really important is, which of the portals are up to those basics and up to your desires for those portals. Assuming you wanted more than just the basics, are they as complete as you want them to be?
What we could do is just make a list under each portal listed above of what that portal doesn't have yet.    — The Transhumanist   22:25, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Talk page lurker. Im going to be honest most of those should not be kept at all, they are microscopic in scope and are not ever going to be used. They should be folded under the larger topics if portals must exist at all. Eg portal:Belemnoids; Belemnoids are a very small family of ammonites, they should not have a portal at all. Same for Graptolites. Why Why Why do you feel a portal for a topic with NO real wiki-coverage at all should have a portal. SOME portals are good, but hording all portals just because you feel they are precious is wrong.--~~
Kevmin, Do you have any specific and useful suggestions about what topics should have a portal and why? If so, please open a discussion on the Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Portals page. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:27, 31 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I suppose you're right that both Portal:Belemnoids and Portal:Graptolites could be subsumed under more inclusive portals, though. What about a Portal:Cephalopods for the belemnoids? Last I had read about graptolites before creating their portal their classification was still really uncertain, but if it's settled that they're hemichordates we can redirect the graptolite portal to a Portal:Hemichordates. It still won't be big, obviously, but its broader scope will allow more room for growth.
The small portals I created without knowing in advance how little coverage their subject got. I was alphabetically going through lists of Wikiproject Paleontology's featured, good, and DYK articles and sorting aforementioned content based on what specific portal would seem most relevant. Afterwards, some portals were still small simply because of how imbalanced Wikipedia's coverage of the fossil record is. However, I don't think deleting small portals is helpful as a general policy, because even a little bit of information is better than none at all. Abyssal (talk) 21:11, 31 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Shanghai[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Tianjin[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Beijing[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Fiji[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of French Polynesia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Gansu[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Guam[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Hainan[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Hebei[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Henan[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Hunan[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Inner Mongolia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Liaoning[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of New Caledonia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Ningxia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Norfolk Island[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Northern Territory[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Palau[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Papua New Guinea[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Paraguay[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Pitcairn[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Qinghai[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Shanxi[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of South Australia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Suriname[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Tasmania[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Tibet[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Tonga[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Tuvalu[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Vanuatu[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Victoria (Australia)[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Western Australia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Xinjiang[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of the Falkland Islands[edit]

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AfC notification: Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Egypt has a new comment[edit]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: List of the prehistoric life of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (August 13)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by SportingFlyer were:
This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.
The article is not about the topic - understand it may be replaced through automation at some point, but I can't accept it into mainspace.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
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Portals WikiProject update #016, 15 Aug 2018[edit]

Future portal tool

Discussions are underway on the design of a portal tool (user script) that will hopefully have features for modifying portals at the click of a menu item, to make editing them easier. It might do things like change the color for you, add to a selection, add a new section, move a section, and so on.

If you'd like to be involved and suggest features for the tool, please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#What would you want a portal tool to be able to do?.

Progress report: upgrade of portals

As new portal components are built by our Lua gurus, those components are being used to upgrade portals. Each component automates a section of a portal in a particular way.

The sections that are mostly upgraded so far are the Intro, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

The sections currently undergoing upgrade are: Selected image, Categories, and the Intro.

The Intro? Isn't that done already?

Yes, and no.

The upgrade of the excerpt in intros is mostly complete (there are about 70 non-standard portals that still need it).

Now we are doing another upgrade of intros in the form of adding a panoramic picture at the top of the intro, on portals for which such a picture is available on Commons:. Dozens of panoramas have been added so far, and they are really starting to affect the look of portals — the portals that have them look really good.

Regions are the most likely subjects to have panoramas, but a surprising number of other subjects have banner-shaped pictures too. Some examples of non-geographic portals that they have been added to are:

Speaking of pictures, several hundred Selected image sections have been upgraded to include image slideshows.

Progress report: design

The push for automation continues, with new components under continuous testing in the field. As problems are spotted, they are reported to our programmers, who have done a fantastic job of keeping up with bug reports and fixing the relevant Lua modules fast. I am highly impressed.

Construction time on new portals is now down to as little as a minute or less. Though not in general. If you are lucky enough to spot portals that fit the profile of the new tools (their strengths), then a portal can be complete almost as soon as it is created, with the added time it takes to find and add a panorama. Source page titles are not generally standardized, and so it source pages in many cases must be entered manually. Where source page titles follow a standard naming convention, portal creation for those subjects goes quickly.

So, we still have some hurdles, but the outlook on portals is very good. New features, and many improvements to features are on the horizon. I'll be sure to report them when they become available.

What will the portal of the future look like? That is up to you!

See you on the project's talk pages.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   20:52, 15 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #017, 22 Aug 2018[edit]

This issue is about portal creation...

Creating new portals

Myself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals.

The templates are ready for general use for portal creation.

They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them.

I look forward to seeing what new portals you create!

Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD.

The main portal creation template is ((box portal skeleton)).

Portal creation tips

After starting a portal using ((box portal skeleton))...

  1. Placing a panorama (banner picture) at the top of the intro section is a nice touch, and really makes a portal look good. ((box portal skeleton)) doesn't automatically insert panoramas. So, you will need to do that by hand. They can be found at Commons:. For some examples, check out Portal:Sharks, Portal:Cheese, and Portal:Florence
  2. The search term provided in the Did you know? and In the news sections is very basic and rarely matches anything. It is best to replace that term with multiple search arguments, if possible (separate each argument with a pipe character). For example, in Portal:Capital punishment, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Capital_punishment&diff=855255361&oldid=855137403 Searches in templates use Lua search notation.
  3. Check the In the news and Did you know? sections for mismatches. That is, sometimes entries come up that shouldn't be displayed. If there are any, refine the search strings further, so they don't return such results.
  4. Finish each portal you've created before creating a new one. We don't want unfinished portals sitting around.

Need a laugh?

Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism.    — The Transhumanist   02:20, 22 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Portals WikiProject update #018, 04 Sept 2018[edit]

Bug hunt!

As you know, portals are now supported by a number of new templates, which are in turn supported by some new Lua modules.

Those templates and modules are being put to the test, in the new portals that have been created since this WikiProject rebooted, plus a number of existing portals that have been revamped.

The new portals, and revamped ones, can be found at Category:Single-page portals.

Please browse the new portals at your leisure, and report any and all problems that you spot. Post bug and other portal problem reports at WT:WPPORTD. Please report bugs, quirks, awkward aspects, or anything weird or off that you notice. Compliments and suggestions are also welcome. :)

When you report a bug, please indicate the portal's name, the section that the problem appeared in, and the name of the article appearing (first) in the section with the problem. Most problems will likely be encountered in the Selected general articles" section, due to quirks in a displayed article's wikicode that the lua modules don't handle yet. Your help in spotting those is of utmost value. Thank you.

Don't delete portal subpages just yet

For portals that have been converted to the single-page design, we are not deleting their subpages at this time, because we are working on ways to harvest the data from those pages. For example, the Selected picture subpages include filenames and captions that would be valuable for the image slideshows. Please don't delete portal subpages, for now. They'll be slated for d-batch speedy deletion after harvesting. Thank you.

Development notes

We are currently testing a feature added to ((Transclude files as random slideshow)) that allows it to accept both sourcepages and filenames. Courtesy of Evad37. This will pave the way for harvesting files and their captions from portal subpages, for use in image slideshows.

We need your help

The bulk of the work is being done by a handful of editors. But we can't do it all. We need help with spotting bugs, refining the search parameters in new/revamped portals (in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections), adding images to slideshows for a broader selection (they default to showing the images on the root article page but are capable of showing so much more), adding panoramic pictures at the top of the intro section of region portals (cities, counties, states, provinces, countries, continents, and other regions), to name but a few task types.

It is rewarding to be a part of the growing portal phenomenon. And you get to see its expansion and refinement up close.

Feel free to join in on the fun. ;)

Thank you,    — The Transhumanist   06:32, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Some new portals that may interest you[edit]

Enjoy,    — The Transhumanist   06:53, 12 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Portals WikiProject update #019, 22 Sept 2018[edit]

Portals progress report

Don't blink. You might miss something.

As of a few days ago, portals had doubled in about a month and a half.

Also, there were 98 incompleted portals in Category:Portals under construction. Now there are just 43.

The WikiProject page has been thoroughly revised

The goals, plans, and task sections have all been updated.

Orphaned portals need a home...

Many new portals are still orphans, and need links pointing to them:

  1. A portal link at the bottom of corresponding navigation footer template. E.g., Template:Machines for Portal:Machines. See examples of a portals link at the bottom of Template:Robotics and Template:Forestry.
  2. A ((Portal)) box in the See also section of the corresponding root article for each portal. If there is no See also section, create one and place the portal template in that. (Rather than placing them in an external links section -- they're not external links).
  3. A ((Portal)) template placed at the top of the category page corresponding to each portal.

All new and revamped portals can be found at Category:Single-page portals.

Portal:Contents/Portals

This is the main list of portals.

Nearly 2,000 of the new portals need to be listed here.

They can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.

Customized Portal Rating system is now in place

Portals now have a new rating system of their own designed specifically to support portal evaluation! We were trying to use the standard assessment system for articles, but that doesn't fit portals very well.

Many thanks to Evad37, Waggers, AfroThundr3007730, SMcCandlish, Tom, BrendonTheWizard, and Pbsouthwood for their work and input on this.

The new system can be found at the top of all portal talk pages, in the WikiProject portals box. Those with "???" ratings need to be assessed, which makes up most of the older portals.

Most of the new portals were started out with an initial "Low" level of importance when their talk pages were created. Those deserving higher importance should be promoted as you come across them.

Improving the new portals

The starting point for new portals included minimal parameters and content, in the form of default values in the template(s) used for their creation.

Embellishing embedded search strings

So, for the search strings in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections, this was the magic word ((PAGENAME)), which represents the portal's name. Unfortunately, the resulting term is alway capitalized, which limits its effectiveness as a search string for anything but proper nouns. Results for those two sections can be improved, by replacing the "PAGENAME" magic word with multiple search strings, and search strings that begin with lower case letters. There is no inherent limit as to how many search parameters may be included. Lua search notation is used. The more general the subject, the more subtopic search terms you may want to include. For example, on Portal:Avengers (comics), ((PAGENAME)) turned up nothing. But, when more parameters were added, as in the wikicode below...

((Transclude selected recent additions | ((PAGENAME)) | Iron Man | Spiderman | Antman | Hawkeye | The Hulk | Incredible Hulk | David Banner | Captain America | Scarlet Witch | Black Widow | Tony Stark | Nick Fury | Age of Ultron | Infinity War | months=36 | header=((Box-header colour|Did you know... ))|max=6))

... that returned several results in the portal's DYK section.

Be sure you make the improvements to both the DYK section and the "In the news" section, as they both require the search strings.

Expanding the slideshow contents

The default starting selection for the image slideshow in most new portals is whatever images happen to be in the corresponding root article (via the PAGENAME magic word). You can improve image slideshows by adding more sourcepages and filenames as parameters in the "Selected images" section of portals.

See Template:Transclude files as random slideshow/doc for instructions.

More exciting things are to come...

Portals used to take about 6 hours or more to create. Now, for subjects that have particular navigation support, we've got that down to about one minute each, with even more content displayed than ever. True, that means the new portals pick you, rather than the other way around. Creating a specific portal that doesn't happen to have the requisite navigation support is still pretty time consuming. But, we are working on extending our reach beyond the low-hanging fruit.

And efforts are ongoing to keep shaving time off of the creation process. Eventually, we may get it down to seconds each.

In addition to improving automation, we're always looking for new features and improvements that we can add to portals, and there is plenty of potential to expand on the standard design so that new portals are even better right out of the starting gate. Additional designs are also possible.

On the horizon, there are many more portals waiting to be created. And we can expect to see at least a few more section types emerge. I never expected slideshows, for example, especially not for excerpts. Who knows where innovation will take us next?

Keep up the great work everyone.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   06:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Fencepost limestone[edit]

Given your support for Cottonwood Limestone years ago, I wanted to let you know I have completed another large article, and submitted it to DYK. IveGoneAway (talk) 01:50, 30 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@IveGoneAway:Good work! Abyssal (talk) 02:23, 30 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List of life link checker[edit]

Hello! You may find this query from PetScan interesting. It shows links from List of the Cenozoic life of Delaware to things that aren't taxa. Some links such as Delaware are legitimate but generally the output indicates links that may need to be refined, e.g. Astarte should probably become Astarte (bivalve). On the Page Properties tab, I've excluded redirects. Including redirects will report all links via redirects, including the many perfectly good ones which don't need attention. (The redirects themselves aren't taxon articles, and I can't see any way for PetScan to detect that their targets are.) The "Links from" field on the Templates&links tab can be changed to check a different list.

I hope that is helpful and doesn't sound too passively aggressive. I can help out with bulk editing if you wish, but I'd need a list of "correct" links. Some are obvious; others such as Clementia don't have a taxon article, though adding " (bivalve)" seems to be a good bet. Certes (talk) 15:03, 2 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Certes: Here are the correct links for the remaining articles your scan picked up:

Abyssal (talk) 18:25, 2 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've gone through the rest of the "Cenozoic by state" lists and identified most of the dodgy links. I've resolved those beginning with A-B as a sample ready for setting up a bulk edit to fix them everywhere in one go. I've had to make a few judgements, such as Anemia being the plant rather then the beetle, and may need your help with a few. (The "lists" links show which state lists each name appears in.) The incomplete list of changes is here. Am I on the right lines? Any obvious errors so far? Feel free to tell me that I'm being a nuisance and should drop this! Certes (talk) 16:41, 3 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Certes:Sorry I've ignored your message, I was actually a good way through dealing with this before I had technical problems and lost all my work. Then I forgot about it until like last night. I have some other projects I need to catch up in the mean time. Mind if I keep you waiting another week or so? Abyssal (talk) 14:44, 8 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No problem at all; there's no deadline. Thanks for looking into it and I hope you didn't have to repeat too much of the work. If we can work out the right link for each word (even if it's red) than I can automate the changes and probably run them on other eras too. I'm reluctant to make assumptions as there are a few traps in there: one tempting link turned out to be a modern apple hybrid. Certes (talk) 15:05, 8 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #020, 12 Oct 2018[edit]

Whew, a lot has been happening.

A bit of defending of the portals has been needed. But, most activity recently has been directed upon maintenance and development of existing portals.

The majority of portals now use the new design, about 2400 of them, leaving around 1200 portals that still employ the old style.

Newest portals

Please inspect these portals, and report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.

MfDs

Since the last issue of this newsletter, Nineteen portals were nominated for deletion. All posted by the same person.

Two portals were deleted.

One resolved as "no consensus".

Sixteen resolved as "keep".

Links to the archived discussions are provided below:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Air France
  2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Alexander Korda
  3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:August Derleth
  4. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Average White Band
  5. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bee-eaters
  6. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ben E. King
  7. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benny Goodman
  8. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bill Bryson
  9. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Billy Idol
  10. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Billy Ocean
  11. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bob Hope
  12. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
  13. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Body piercing
  14. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Canton, Michigan
  15. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Compostela Group of Universities
  16. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Diplo
  17. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Diversity of fish
  18. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Pebble Beach
  19. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Peter, Paul and Mary

Many thanks to those who participated in the discussions.

To watch for future MfD's, keep in mind that the Portals WikiProject is supported by automatic alerts. You can see them at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD

Creation criteria

There was also some discussion of creation criteria for portals. The result was that one of the participants in the discussion reverted the portal guidelines to the old version, which has the minimum number of articles for a portal included in there: "about 20 articles", a guideline that was in place since 2009.

Many of the portals that existed prior to April 2018 do not have that many (being limited to however many subpages the portal creator created), and therefore, these portals need to be upgraded to the new design (which automatically provides many articles for display). Using the new design, exceeding 20 articles for display is very easy.

Linking to the new portals

Efforts have been underway to place links to new portals (all 2200 of them created since April).

  1. Link (portal button) from corresponding category pages.  Done
  2. Link from See also section on corresponding root articles. check Partially implemented
  3. Link from bottom of corresponding templates. check Partially implemented
  4. Link for each portal on Portal:Contents/Portals. check Partially implemented

Your help is needed. It is easy to access the page mentioned in #1, #2, & #3 from the portals themselves.

AWBers could do these tasks even faster (that's how the category pages were done), except #4...

Item #4 above pretty much has to be done by hand. (If you can find a way to speed that up, I would be very impressed). The links needing placement can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.

The conversion effort: news sections

There are still around 1200 old-style portals that have only undergone partial conversion to the new design concepts, still relying on subpages with copied/pasted excerpts that have been going stale for years, out of date (manually posted) news entries, etc.

The section currently being tackled on these is news. You can help by deleting any news section on the old-style portals that has news entries that are years old (that is the dead giveaway to a manual news section). Be sure not to delete the news sections of portals that have up-to-date news, or active maintainers. For maintainers, look at the portal's categories, and/or check the participants list at WP:WPPORT.

Eventually, conditional news sections (that appear only when news items are available for display) will be added using AWB to all portals without a news section.

News items (and even the news sections themselves) are automatically generated for portals that were created using the Basic portal start page. On those portals, there is a hidden comment at the top of the page (that you can see in the edit window), that says this:

<!-- This portal was created using subst:Basic portal start page -->

Design development

Presently, we are in the process of implementing the new design features, creating new portals with them, and installing them in existing portals.

But, what about development of new new design features?

We have a wish department.

Post your wishes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Discussions about possible cool new features, and they might come true. Many have already, and for many of those, this is where they were posted.

Cascade effect

A resource that has been elusive so far will be obtained eventually: categories. That is, the ability to pull category member links to populate a page.

Rather than populate portals directly with such links, it may be more beneficial to the encyclopedia to utilize them in navigation footers, because portals already have the ability to generate themselves based on those.

So, this would create a cascade effect: auto-gathering entries from categories, would enable the construction of new navigation footers, that would in turn support the development of new portals.

The cascade effect would also be felt by existing portals, as existing navigation footers could be expanded using the category harvesting methods, which would in turn expand the coverage of portals that access those navigation footers.

You can help by providing leads about any potential category harvesting methods. Please report anything you know about harvesting categories at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.

Looking into the future: the quantum portal?

One idea that has been floating around is the concept of a pageless portal. That is, a portal that isn't stored anywhere, instead being generated when you click on a menu item or button.

Many of the new portals were generated by a single click, and then saved via a second click.

Therefore, it seems likely that the portals of the future will employ the one-click concept.

Because of the need for customization by users, this concept would need to be augmented with a way to integrate user contributions. This could be done in at least two ways: posting an existing portal, autogenerating one from scratch if such does not yet exist, or have a special data page for user contributions that is folded into the auto-generated portal.

How soon? That is up to you. All that is needed are persons to implement it.

Until next time...

Keep up the good work on portals. They are improving daily. Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   04:06, 12 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #021, 24 Oct 2018[edit]

Portals have passed the 4,000 mark.

More new portals...

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

List of new portals
  • Abbott and Costello
  • Acura
  • Adventure travel
  • AFL
  • African cuisine
  • Agatha Christie
  • AHL
  • Aikido
  • Albert Gleizes
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Alkaloids
  • American Express
  • American Hockey League
  • Analgesics
  • Ancient Olympic Games
  • Andrea Mantegna
  • Antiarrhythmic agents
  • Anticonvulsants
  • Antidepressants
  • Antipsychotics
  • Apollo program
  • Apostles
  • Aquariums
  • Arab Spring
  • Architecture of England
  • Architecture of Greece
  • Architecture of India
  • Architecture of Portugal
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Asterix
  • Austin Powers
  • Australian Football League
  • Ayn Rand
  • Back to the Future
  • Barbecue
  • Bartending
  • BBC Television
  • BDSM
  • Beef
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Beverly Hills Cop
  • Blackjack
  • Blizzard Entertainment
  • BMW
  • Bodybuilding
  • Bosnian War
  • Boston College
  • Buick
  • Bullfighting
  • Butter
  • Cadillac
  • Cakes
  • California State University
  • Cannabinoids
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Capoeira
  • Caravaggio
  • Care Bears
  • Carnivorous plants
  • Caspar David Friedrich
  • CBS
  • CBS Sports
  • Chatham Islands
  • Cheese dishes
  • Chevrolet
  • Chinese Civil War
  • Chinese martial arts
  • Chrysler
  • Citigroup
  • Coagulation
  • Coca-Cola
  • Cocktails
  • Coldplay
  • Compass direction
  • Concrete
  • Condiments
  • Confidence tricks
  • Connective tissues
  • Corticosteroids
  • Cranial nerves
  • CSI: Miami
  • Cue sports
  • Daft Punk
  • Dance Dance Revolution
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • David Cronenberg
  • David Lynch
  • David Mamet
  • Desserts
  • Developmental biology
  • Devo
  • Diabetes
  • Dietary supplements
  • Disneyland
  • Doctor Dolittle
  • Doughnuts
  • Dow Chemical Company
  • DreamWorks Animation
  • Drexel University
  • Édouard Manet
  • Electromagnetic spectrum
  • Elizabeth II
  • Energy drinks
  • English law
  • Enzymes
  • Fallacies
  • Fandom
  • Fast food
  • Female reproductive system
  • Fiat
  • FIFA World Cup
  • Filmmaking
  • Flatbreads
  • Florida Keys
  • Food preservation
  • Food science
  • Football in France
  • Football in Greece
  • Football in Iran
  • Football in Italy
  • Football in Japan
  • Football in Mexico
  • Football in Portugal
  • Football in South Africa
  • Football in Spain
  • Football in Sweden
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Francisco Goya
  • Frans Hals
  • Fred Frith
  • Freight cars
  • Fuel cells
  • Furry fandom
  • Garden tools
  • Gene expression
  • General Dynamics
  • General Electric
  • General Hospital
  • General Motors
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Gilligan's Island
  • Giovanni Bellini
  • GMC
  • Golden Raspberry Awards
  • Gothic architecture
  • Grand Theft Auto
  • Hallucinogens
  • Ham
  • Hand tools
  • Hapkido
  • Health care
  • Henri Matisse
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • High-speed rail
  • Hindu festivals
  • History of Oklahoma
  • Holden
  • Honda
  • Hormones
  • Hosiery
  • Human impact on the environment
  • Human-powered transport
  • Hyundai
  • IBM
  • Ice cream
  • Industries
  • Infiniti
  • Instant foods
  • Intel
  • Internet access
  • Islamic art
  • Islands of Cape Verde
  • Isuzu
  • Ivy League
  • J. M. W. Turner
  • Jacob van Ruisdael
  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Jaguar Cars
  • Japanese martial arts
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Johannes Vermeer
  • John Grisham
  • John Singer Sargent
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Joints
  • Joss Whedon
  • Judo
  • Juice
  • Ken Burns
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Kia
  • Kid Rock
  • Korean diaspora
  • Korean martial arts
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Lancaster University
  • Land Rover
  • Las Vegas Strip
  • Lincoln Motor Company
  • Linear algebra
  • Living Dead
  • Lobbying in the United States
  • Local anesthetics
  • Lymphatic system
  • M. C. Escher
  • Macross
  • Mad Max
  • Male reproductive system
  • Mandy Moore
  • Mazda
  • Mega Man
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Mexican cuisine
  • Microorganisms
  • Missiles
  • Model organisms
  • Modern architecture
  • Muscle tissue
  • Newport
  • Nicolas Poussin
  • Nobel Prize
  • Norman Rockwell
  • Nucleic acids
  • Nuremberg trials
  • Organs
  • Packaging
  • Paralympic Games
  • Pasta
  • Patterns in nature
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Pearl Jam
  • Pens
  • Phenethylamines
  • Philippine cuisine
  • Phylogenetics
  • Pie
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Pies
  • Pieter de Hooch
  • Pigs
  • Pizza
  • Playboy
  • Poker
  • Pope Benedict XVI
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Population
  • Population genetics
  • Porgy and Bess
  • Positivism
  • Power Rangers
  • Power tools
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Propaganda
  • Prostitution in Canada
  • Prostitution in India
  • Prostitution in Japan
  • Psalms
  • Qigong
  • Radiohead
  • Railway electrification
  • Ramones
  • Real estate developments
  • Redwall
  • Religious persecution
  • Renault
  • René Magritte
  • Republics of the Soviet Union
  • Resident Evil
  • Respiration
  • Respiratory physiology
  • Richard Brooks
  • Ridley Scott
  • Robert Altman
  • Robert Zemeckis
  • Robotech
  • Rodents
  • Roller coasters
  • Romanian cuisine
  • Rooms
  • Rowing
  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Rubik's Cube
  • Rugby World Cup
  • Running
  • Saab Automobile
  • Sails
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Sausages
  • Scale modeling
  • Scale models
  • Scandinavian folklore
  • Sewing
  • Sex Pistols
  • Sexual fetishism
  • Sexual revolution
  • Shrek
  • Skyscrapers
  • Soft drinks
  • Soy
  • Stick-fighting
  • Super Bowl
  • Surfing
  • Table tennis
  • Tarot
  • Tells
  • Tetris
  • The Coca-Cola Company
  • Titian
  • Urinary system
  • Vale of Glamorgan
  • Veganism
  • Volvo
  • War on Terror
  • Waste
  • Wastewater
  • Water polo
  • Web search engines
  • Whisky
  • William Blake
  • William Hogarth
  • Winslow Homer
  • Portal:World Series
  • Xenophon
  • Yogurts
  • Zoophilia

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:

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)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Charles Lewis Camp[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Charles Lewis Camp[edit]

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 08:52, 30 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Jabaco Formation[edit]

Hello, it's been a while, but would you be able to add references to this article? Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 21:12, 7 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Boleyn: What little information is in the article was sourced from the scientific database linked to at the bottom of the page. I originally included it in the references section, but for some reason subsequent editors moved it to an external links section. Abyssal (talk) 23:19, 7 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks :) Boleyn (talk) 06:52, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portals WikiProject update #022, 11 Nov 2018[edit]

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   11:38, 11 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Ways to improve Vienna Limestone[edit]

Thanks for creating Vienna Limestone.

A New Page Patroller Boleyn just tagged the page as having some issues to fix, and wrote this note for you:

Please mark very short articles as stubs.

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Boleyn (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Omg so much thanks for using the helix image drawn by me https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Types_of_Helix.svg RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 18:43, 21 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use ((subst:Season's Greetings)) to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

  1. Advanced Micro Devices
  2. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  3. Aquatic ecosystems
  4. Blackberries
  5. Blade
  6. Blake and Mortimer
  7. Climate
  8. Democratic Party
  9. Dua Lipa
  10. Eels
  11. Eggs
  12. Emmy Awards
  13. Fallout
  14. Flutes and whistles
  15. Geophysics
  16. Ghost
  17. Hartford Whalers
  18. HBO
  19. Hot sauces
  20. International System of Units
  21. Jawaharlal Nehru
  22. Kendrick Lamar
  23. KFC
  24. Kingdom of England
  25. M.I.A.
  26. Marvel Comics
  27. Marvel Entertainment
  28. Minerals
  29. Mixed martial arts
  30. Money
  31. MTV
  32. Museums
  33. National Hockey League
  34. Natural resources
  35. Nature
  36. NBC
  37. Nehru–Gandhi family
  38. Orthoptera
  39. PATH
  40. Pears
  41. Physiology
  42. Ponds
  43. Pope Francis
  44. Potatoes
  45. Presidents of the United States
  46. Republican Party
  47. Salad dressings
  48. Santiago
  49. Six Flags
  50. Stan Lee
  51. Starbucks
  52. Stem cells
  53. Systems of measurement
  54. SZA
  55. The West Wing
  56. Tintin
  57. Tomato sauces
  58. Tove Lo
  59. Viticulture
  60. Waffles
  61. Wendy's
  62. White House
  63. Will Smith
  64. Winemaking

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   06:58, 26 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Propose deletion of Geological period category nav templates[edit]

Hi, Abyssal. As you may recall, back in January, we replaced a number of the geological category nav templates (like Template:Cambrian on nav) with a simple see also of the preceding and succeeding time periods, implemented by Template:Geological category see also. The discussion of the replacement was here. The older geological category nav templates are now unused and deprecated, so I'm proposing deleting them. Feel free to join in the deletion discussion. Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 13:39, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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MfD nomination of Draft:Timeline of Dinosaur Park Formation paleontology[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Duquettichnus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Aphrosaurus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:CMN 8547[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Dalpia[edit]

Notice

The article Dalpia has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Created using this reference. Ref was removed in 2009 by an IP who advised that Dalpia was not listed on it. I double checked and it isn't. I can't find any other sources using Dalpia as a genus name. I can only imagine this was a typo or an error? Not suitable for a redirect.

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Your draft article, Draft:Timeline of paleontology in popular culture/sandbox[edit]

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6[edit]

Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)

Participation:

This is the sixth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise.

(To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below)

Now 100 supporters[edit]

At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100!

A demo wiki is up and running![edit]

You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records.

And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2019!


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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018[edit]

Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

Portals status

We now have 4,620 portals.

And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...

Can we make it?

The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.

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

Evad is back!

After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner

User:FR30799386 is working on making ((Portal image banner)) even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.

Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway

Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.

Spotting missing portals that are redirects

In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.

Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.

The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.

Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.

What's new in portal space?

Here are the new portals since the last issue:
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Keep 'em coming!

And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   07:54, 26 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Columbosauripus[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Gypsichnites[edit]

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  • Just to let you know, there is already a page in article space by this name. -- Dolotta (talk) 13:57, 28 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • What the hey? That is also the case with Draft:Iguanodontipus and Draft:Tetrapodosaurus, which are also stale and up for G13.

Your draft article, Draft:Irenesauripus[edit]

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Question[edit]

I am trying to figure out why you would create both a page in article space and draft space for the same subject? It seems to me that it just creates more work. -- Dolotta (talk) 15:14, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Preparation for a WP:DYK via 5x expansion. Abyssal (talk) 02:01, 30 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018[edit]

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

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:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side
Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Becomes this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side
Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

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.

About that end of the year goal...

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!

What's next?

The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:

  1. The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
  2. On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
  3. A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
  4. Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
  5. Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
  6. Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
  7. Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
  8. Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
  9. Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
  10. Update the portal building instructions.
  11. Update the portal guideline.
  12. Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
  13. Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Happy New Year!

Abyssal, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   11:44, 30 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Here are some new ones in your area of interest...[edit]

Let me know what you think. All comments and ideas are welcome.    — The Transhumanist   11:50, 30 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Aquatilavipes[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Fuscinapeda[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the Paleozoic life of Russia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Ornithomimipus[edit]

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Update to scripts by AlexTheWhovian/Alex 21[edit]

Information icon Hello! This is a generic message created and copied to all editors using scripts that I have created. As I have recently changed my username from "User:AlexTheWhovian" to "User:Alex 21", any scripts that I have created that are listed at your common.js page may, at the moment, no longer be working. To fix this, simply update all occurrences of "User:AlexTheWhovian" to "User:Alex 21"; see here for an example. All the best! -- /Alex/21 11:02, 4 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Draft:List of people said to be angels[edit]

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FYI[edit]

A couple of your pages in draft space (see wp:Database reports/Stale drafts) are stale -- Dolotta (talk) 16:08, 16 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019[edit]

Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants

A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:

Harvesting categories tool prototype

DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

  1. Academic publishing
  2. Accounting
  3. Adam and Eve
  4. African Great Lakes
  5. Al Green
  6. Alternative views
  7. America's Next Top Model
  8. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  9. Angles
  10. Applied mathematics
  11. Arabic
  12. Areas of mathematics
  13. Atlanta metropolitan area
  14. Atlantic Ocean
  15. Big Bash League
  16. Bijelo Dugme
  17. Bill Cosby
  18. Boats
  19. Bombardier Aerospace
  20. Bruce Willis
  21. Canadian law
  22. Cannons
  23. Caribbean American
  24. Chinese American
  25. Chinese Canadians
  26. Chinese gardens
  27. Chris Brown
  28. City
  29. Common law
  30. Criminal law
  31. Czechoslovakia
  32. Data
  33. Data warehouses
  34. DC Comics
  35. Deities
  36. DeKalb County
  37. Destiny's Child
  38. Differential equations
  39. Discrete geometry
  40. East Asia
  41. Economy of China
  42. Economy of India
  43. Economy of Malaysia
  44. Economy of the United Kingdom
  45. Ellen DeGeneres
  46. Email clients
  47. E
  48. Equations
  49. European Americans
  50. Filipino Americans
  51. Football in Algeria
  52. Fox Corporation
  53. Fractions and ratios
  54. Functional analysis
  55. Game theory
  56. Girlguiding
  57. Gloucestershire
  58. Grazhdanskaya Oborona
  59. Greek diaspora
  60. Habsburg Monarchy
  61. Hilbert's problems
  62. Hoodoo Gurus
  63. Hyundai Motor Company
  64. Iggy Azalea
  65. Indian Ocean
  66. Infinity
  67. Information theory
  68. Integrals
  69. Irish diaspora
  70. Irrational numbers
  71. Italian diaspora
  72. Japanese diaspora
  73. J. Cole
  74. Jennifer Lopez
  75. Jessica Lange
  76. John Fogerty
  77. Kehlani
  78. Kiev
  79. K. Michelle
  80. Knot theory
  81. Kool & the Gang
  82. Lakes in China
  83. Lake Van
  84. Leonardo DiCaprio
  85. Limerick
  86. Literary composition
  87. Long Island Rail Road
  88. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  89. Lukas Graham
  90. Mathematical optimization
  91. Matt Damon
  92. Merchant ships
  93. Metallic means
  94. Metro-North Railroad
  95. Microsoft Windows
  96. Military of India
  97. Miss America
  98. Modulation
  99. Moon landing
  100. Mozilla
  101. Music of Ireland
  102. Narratives
  103. Nashville
  104. Nassau County
  105. Norfolk
  106. Nottinghamshire
  107. One Life to Live
  108. Overseas Chinese
  109. Percentages
  110. Probability distributions
  111. Public Broadcasting Service
  112. Quezon City
  113. Raven-Symoné
  114. R. Kelly
  115. Rodeo
  116. RuneScape
  117. Sarah Silverman
  118. Saturn rockets
  119. Science and technology
  120. Sesame Street
  121. Seth MacFarlane
  122. Ships
  123. Shipwrecks
  124. Shropshire
  125. Spaceports
  126. Space suits
  127. Spanish diaspora
  128. Steam locomotives
  129. Suffolk
  130. Suzuki
  131. Tanks
  132. Tensors
  133. The CW
  134. Thomas Aquinas
  135. T.I.
  136. TISM
  137. Tom Cruise
  138. Toni Braxton
  139. Toyota
  140. Transportation in the Philippines
  141. True Blood
  142. Violin
  143. Virgin Group
  144. Vladimir Putin
  145. Volkswagen
  146. Volume
  147. Warner Bros.
  148. Warships
  149. Warwickshire
  150. Washington D.C.
  151. [[Portal:Watercraft|
  152. Web syndication
  153. Wikis
  154. Witchcraft
  155. Women's sports
  156. World of Warcraft

What else is going on

There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work.    — The Transhumanist   08:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Nomination of Astronomical bodies in pseudoscience and the paranormal for deletion[edit]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019[edit]

Portal styles

For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.

If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.

Conversion continues

There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".

Flagship portals: the portals on the Main Page

Speaking of upgrades...

The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:

  1. Portal:Arts
  2. Portal:Biography
  3. Portal:Geography
  4. Portal:History
  5. Portal:Mathematics
  6. Portal:Science
  7. Portal:Society
  8. Portal:Technology

Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.

The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.

As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.

Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.

And be sure they are on your watchlist.

New portals since last issue

Keep 'em coming!

Deorphanizing the new portals

As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.

What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.

Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...

Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.

That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!

To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.

It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.

Good news indeed.

Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!

And, that's a wrap

That's all I have to report this time around.

No doubt there will be more to tell soon.

Until then,    — The Transhumanist   13:03, 28 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019[edit]

Here's a quicky status report:

Old-style portals: 1,018
Single-page portals: 4,367
Total portals: 5,385

But of course, there has been more going on than just that...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!

Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.

What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.

We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.

When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.

Get ready...

Get set...

Go!

Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discovered

User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.

When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.

The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:

And the corresponding talk pages:

New portals since the last issue

Keep up the great work

Until next time,    — The Transhumanist   08:47, 4 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Somalia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Algeria[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Ukraine[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Macau[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Tianjin[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Norfolk Island[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of taxa described from Minnesota[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Ludfordian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Sheinwoodian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Homerian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Pridoli life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Norway[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Lochkovian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Antarctica[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:Theropod diet[edit]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019[edit]

Where we are at:

Single-page portals: 4,704
Total portals: 5,705

The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down

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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Indefinitely_semiprotecting_the_refdesk#Proposal_II:_Shut_down_the_Ref_Desks

The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...

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://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch

10,000 portals, here we come...

We're at 5,705 portals and counting.

New portals since issue #28

  1. Portal:Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  2. Portal:Ahold Delhaize
  3. Portal:AKB48
  4. Portal:Åland Islands
  5. Portal:Alaska Airlines
  6. Portal:Albanian Civil War
  7. Portal:Albertsons
  8. Portal:Alevism
  9. Portal:All in the Family
  10. Portal:Alternative metal
  11. Portal:Ambient music
  12. Portal:Ancient Near East mythology
  13. Portal:Ancient Roman religion
  14. Portal:Andrew Cuomo
  15. Portal:Anti-consumerism
  16. Portal:Antimatter
  17. Portal:Arameans
  18. Portal:Arianism
  19. Portal:Australian Crawl
  20. Portal:Bali
  21. Portal:Banten
  22. Portal:Bengkulu
  23. Portal:Black Lives Matter
  24. Portal:Bluegrass music
  25. Portal:Bonnie Tyler
  26. Portal:Breakbeat
  27. Portal:Calypso music
  28. Portal:Cambridgeshire
  29. Portal:Camila Cabello
  30. Portal:Capcom
  31. Portal:Capsicum
  32. Portal:Celtic music
  33. Portal:Central American music
  34. Portal:Central Java
  35. Portal:Central Kalimantan
  36. Portal:Central Sulawesi
  37. Portal:Chanel
  38. Portal:Cinema of Australia
  39. Portal:Cognitive psychology
  40. Portal:Communication studies
  41. Portal:Conservatism in the United States
  42. Portal:Cortina d'Ampezzo
  43. Portal:Cross-Strait relations
  44. Portal:Cryptozoology
  45. Portal:Danish folk music
  46. Portal:Disco
  47. Portal:Dyslexia
  48. Portal:East Java
  49. Portal:East Kalimantan
  50. Portal:East Nusa Tenggara
  51. Portal:Easy listening
  52. Portal:Ed Sheeran
  53. Portal:Ehime
  54. Portal:Electricity
  55. Portal:Electronica
  56. Portal:Electronic rock
  57. Portal:English folk music
  58. Portal:Environmental technology
  59. Portal:Experimental music
  60. Portal:Extreme metal
  61. Portal:Fall Out Boy
  62. Portal:Finnish Defence Forces
  63. Portal:Finnish folk music
  64. Portal:Football in Croatia
  65. Portal:Football in Jordan
  66. Portal:Funk
  67. Portal:Gamelan
  68. Portal:General Mills
  69. Portal:Germanic languages
  70. Portal:German language
  71. Portal:Government of Canada
  72. Portal:Government of Hong Kong
  73. Portal:Government of Indonesia
  74. Portal:Government of Ireland
  75. Portal:Government of Malaysia
  76. Portal:Government of Russia
  77. Portal:Government of Singapore
  78. Portal:Government of Spain
  79. Portal:Government of Thailand
  80. Portal:Grapes
  81. Portal:Green Party of the United States
  82. Portal:Grinspoon
  83. Portal:Gwen Stefani
  84. Portal:Hardcore punk
  85. Portal:Hardcore techno
  86. Portal:Haskell (programming language)
  87. Portal:History of art
  88. Portal:History of North America
  89. Portal:History of Thailand
  90. Portal:Hollywood
  91. Portal:Hotels
  92. Portal:House music
  93. Portal:Hungarian folk music
  94. Portal:Hunters & Collectors
  95. Portal:Hydrogen
  96. Portal:Icelandic folk music
  97. Portal:Indigenous music of North America
  98. Portal:Insomniac Games
  99. Portal:International field hockey
  100. Portal:International trade
  101. Portal:Iranian music
  102. Portal:Islamophobia
  103. Portal:Jambi
  104. Portal:Jet engines
  105. Portal:Jordin Sparks
  106. Portal:Julius Caesar
  107. Portal:Kannur
  108. Portal:Kansas City Spurs
  109. Portal:Kelly Rowland
  110. Portal:Kirby
  111. Portal:Kraft Heinz
  112. Portal:Krasnoyarsk Krai
  113. Portal:Kroger
  114. Portal:Kuala Lumpur
  115. Portal:Lampung
  116. Portal:Larry Kramer
  117. Portal:LeBron James
  118. Portal:Lehigh Valley
  119. Portal:Leicestershire
  120. Portal:Liège
  121. Portal:Liguria
  122. Portal:Los Angeles Aztecs
  123. Portal:Los Angeles Wolves
  124. Portal:Macedonian language
  125. Portal:Magnetism
  126. Portal:Maithripala Sirisena
  127. Portal:Maluku (province)
  128. Portal:Mangoes
  129. Portal:Marco Pierre White
  130. Portal:McLaren
  131. Portal:Menstrual cycle
  132. Portal:Metalcore
  133. Portal:Miami FC
  134. Portal:Microblogging
  135. Portal:Microtonal music
  136. Portal:Midnight Oil
  137. Portal:Minnesota Kicks
  138. Portal:Mission: Impossible
  139. Portal:Modernism (music)
  140. Portal:Moheener Ghoraguli
  141. Portal:Mondelez International
  142. Portal:Music genres
  143. Portal:Music of Bangladesh
  144. Portal:Music of India
  145. Portal:Music of Italy
  146. Portal:Music of Japan
  147. Portal:Music of Korea
  148. Portal:Music of Latin America
  149. Portal:Music of Micronesia
  150. Portal:Music of North Africa
  151. Portal:Music of Pakistan
  152. Portal:Music of Serbia
  153. Portal:Music of the Philippines
  154. Portal:Music of the United States
  155. Portal:Mutations
  156. Portal:National Rugby League
  157. Portal:Neoclassicism (music)
  158. Portal:Netball
  159. Portal:New York City Fire Department
  160. Portal:Nick Jr.
  161. Portal:Nobility
  162. Portal:Nordic countries
  163. Portal:North Africa
  164. Portal:North Kalimantan
  165. Portal:North Maluku
  166. Portal:North Pole
  167. Portal:North Queensland
  168. Portal:North Sulawesi
  169. Portal:North Sumatra
  170. Portal:Norwegian folk music
  171. Portal:Papua (province)
  172. Portal:Peaches
  173. Portal:Politics of Abkhazia
  174. Portal:Politics of Afghanistan
  175. Portal:Politics of Albania
  176. Portal:Politics of Algeria
  177. Portal:Politics of Andorra
  178. Portal:Politics of Angola
  179. Portal:Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
  180. Portal:Politics of Argentina
  181. Portal:Politics of Artsakh
  182. Portal:Politics of Bahrain
  183. Portal:Politics of Bangladesh
  184. Portal:Politics of Bavaria
  185. Portal:Politics of Belarus
  186. Portal:Politics of Belgium
  187. Portal:Politics of Belize
  188. Portal:Politics of Benin
  189. Portal:Politics of Bhutan
  190. Portal:Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  191. Portal:Politics of Botswana
  192. Portal:Politics of Brazil
  193. Portal:Politics of Brunei
  194. Portal:Politics of Bulgaria
  195. Portal:Politics of Burkina Faso
  196. Portal:Politics of Burundi
  197. Portal:Politics of Cambodia
  198. Portal:Politics of Cameroon
  199. Portal:Politics of China
  200. Portal:Politics of São Tomé and Príncipe
  201. Portal:Politics of South Sudan
  202. Portal:Politics of Sudan
  203. Portal:Politics of Tanzania
  204. Portal:Politics of the Republic of the Congo
  205. Portal:Politics of Togo
  206. Portal:Politics of Tunisia
  207. Portal:Politics of Uganda
  208. Portal:Pop rock
  209. Portal:Rap rock
  210. Portal:Ras Al Khaimah
  211. Portal:Riau
  212. Portal:Riau Islands
  213. Portal:Ricky Martin
  214. Portal:Royal Canadian Air Force
  215. Portal:Rutland
  216. Portal:Saxophones
  217. Portal:Semiotics
  218. Portal:Ska
  219. Portal:Soca music
  220. Portal:Soul music
  221. Portal:Sound sculptures
  222. Portal:Southeast Sulawesi
  223. Portal:South Kalimantan
  224. Portal:South Sulawesi
  225. Portal:South Sumatra
  226. Portal:Space: 1999
  227. Portal:Special Region of Yogyakarta
  228. Portal:Swedish folk music
  229. Portal:Tamil language
  230. Portal:Techno
  231. Portal:Terry Brooks
  232. Portal:The Living End
  233. Portal:Thrissur
  234. Portal:Trance music
  235. Portal:Tyrant flycatchers
  236. Portal:Veterinary medicine
  237. Portal:Wayanad
  238. Portal:Welsh folk music
  239. Portal:West Champaran district
  240. Portal:Western dress codes
  241. Portal:West Flanders
  242. Portal:West Java
  243. Portal:West Kalimantan
  244. Portal:West Nusa Tenggara
  245. Portal:West Papua (province)
  246. Portal:West Sulawesi
  247. Portal:West Sumatra
  248. Portal:Wildlife of India
  249. Portal:Wildlife of Nepal
  250. Portal:Windows 10
  251. Portal:Winter War
  252. Portal:Woodpeckers
  253. Portal:Worcestershire
  254. Portal:World economy
  255. Portal:World Ocean
  256. Portal:World Rally Championship
  257. Portal:World views
  258. Portal:XTC
  259. Portal:Yahoo!
  260. Portal:Yoruba people
  261. Portal:You Am I
  262. Portal:Young Wizards
  263. Portal:Yugoslavs

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.

What's next for portal pages?

There are 5 drives for portal development:

  1. Create new portals
  2. Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
  3. Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
  4. Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
  5. Pageless portals

Let's take a closer look at these...

1: Creating new portals

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.

2: Expanding existing portals

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.

3: Converting old portals

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:

A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...
B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.

4: Linking to new portals

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.

5...

See below...

New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...

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).

Keep on keepin' on

...'til next time,    — The Transhumanist   09:57, 14 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts[edit]

You have stale drafts on this report again. -- Dolotta (talk) 16:55, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Kemerovo Oblast[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Primorsky Krai[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Zabaykalsky Krai[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Perm Krai[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Orenburg Oblast[edit]

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Goliathoceras[edit]

Hi Abyssal,

Can you tell me, if the genus Goliathoceras exist? I have this 2 pictures: File:Pu - Goliathoceras sp. - 1.jpg and File:Pu - Goliathoceras sp. - 2.jpg with the Unidentified Goliathoceras sp. in the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough, England. description. But neither here and neither on Google, I don't find any information about it. Meanwhile perhaps became a synonym of another genusname? Regards. DenesFeri (talk) 09:51, 2 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts[edit]

Could you do me a favor and check this page regularly for stuff that you're working on? There is a boat load again. -- Dolotta (talk) 16:20, 6 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There is quite a list of your drafts here again today. -- Dolotta (talk) 14:28, 7 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Permian nav[edit]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Carboniferous epoch nav[edit]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019[edit]

Previous issue:

Single-page portals: 4,704
Total portals: 5,705

This issue:

Single-page portals: 4,562
Total portals: 5,578

The collection of portals has shrunk

All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019

Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
  2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
  3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
  4. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
  5. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
  6. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals

Individual Nominations:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
  2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
  3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
  4. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
  5. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas Deleted
  6. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prostitution in Canada Deleted
  7. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agoura Hills, California Deleted
  8. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urinary system Deleted
  9. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
  10. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cannabis (2nd nomination) Reverted to non-Automated version
  11. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Intermodal containers Deleted
  12. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adventure travel Deleted
  13. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adam Ant Deleted
  14. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benito Juárez, Mexico City Deleted
  15. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spaghetti Deleted
  16. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Wikiatlas Deleted
  17. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Greek alphabet Deleted
  18. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Deleted
  19. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Accounting Deleted G7
  20. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
  21. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
  22. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
  23. Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH

Related WikiProject:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals Demoted

(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)

WikiProject Quantum portals

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.

Hiatus on mass creation of 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.

The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.

Until next issue...

Keep on keepin' on.    — The Transhumanist   03:02, 17 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Frogs and toads[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Oceania[edit]

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MfD nomination of Draft:List of the prehistoric life of France[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Ypresian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Guzhangian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Rhuddanian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Paibian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Aeronian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Hirnantian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Telychian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Messinian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Langhian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Bartonian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Tortonian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Zanclean life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Priabonian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Colombia[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Victoria (Australia)[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Panama[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Chile[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Jamaica[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Costa Rica[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Trinidad and Tobago[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Spain[edit]

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MfD nomination of Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Spain[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of North America[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of South America[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Italy[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Burdigalian life[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Djibouti[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Africa[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Asia[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Prehistory of Europe[edit]

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Your draft article, Draft:List of Piacenzian life[edit]

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Formations without a specified country[edit]

You've generated articles for formations that have no specific place. Does your reference state where Kiyosou-e Formation is, for example? Or Korycanar Formation as another example? This SPARQL Query lists Wikidata articles without countries; perhaps you'll recognize some you've added and can specify the country. Thanks. Trilotat (talk) 00:22, 23 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I can't find my copy of that book. I'll try to look into this whenever I find it. Abyssal (talk) 01:33, 23 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Prehistory portals[edit]

Hello A, thanks for agreeing to take the "Prehistory of . . ." portals into your userspace for continued development. In order to help with this process, I am also going to move all of the subpages of those portals into your userspace as well; as you continue your work if you find any of the subpages are no longer needed, you may add the ((db-userreq)) text to the top of any unneeded subpage, and an administrator will deleted. If you have any questions or need any help in this process, please let me know. Thanks! UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Lepidoptera[edit]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Decade years navbox[edit]

Template:Decade years navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:16, 24 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Precambrian[edit]

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Merger discussion for DeQueen Formation[edit]

An article that you have been involved in editing—DeQueen Formation—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Paine Ellsworth, ed.  put'r there  14:09, 28 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MfD nomination of Portal:Trace fossils[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Pseudosuchians[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Ammonoids[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Trilobites[edit]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #031, 01 May 2019[edit]

Back to the drawing board

Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.

Some of the reasons for the purge are:

Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.

In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.

Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:

These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.

However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.

See you at WT:POG.

Curation

A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.

There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.

See you at WT:POG.

Traffic

An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of ((bpsp)) default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.

And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.

The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?

And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...

Some potential future directions of development

Quantum portals?

An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.

Non-portal integrated components

Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.

What kind of features could this be done with?

The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.

Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).

The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.

Where would that leave curated portals?

Being curated. At least for the time being.

New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.

But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.

Keep on keepin' on

The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.

And who knows what else?

No worries.

Until next issue...    — The Transhumanist   00:13, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Further Portal Userfication?[edit]

Hello A, would you like me to userfy the remaining portals that you worked on and that are not yet at MfD, as we did for User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Asia and the other "Prehistory of . . . " portals, so that you can work on building them out in your userspace and not have to worry about them being brought to MfD and risk being deleted? Let me know. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:29, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@UnitedStatesian: Yes please. Abyssal (talk) 16:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I have done User:Abyssal/Portal:Cambrian, User:Abyssal/Portal:Ediacaran, User:Abyssal/Portal:Ichthyosauromorpha, User:Abyssal/Portal:Lepidosauria, User:Abyssal/Portal:Mosasaurs, and User:Abyssal/Portal:Sauropterygians; I will do the rest in the next day or so; will let you know when complete. Would also encourage you to !vote Userfy to User:Abyssal at the current MfDs if you want the same done to those portals. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:09, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portal links[edit]

Hi,

I've been going through the Redirect special page trying to fix broken links and I've stumbled upon this link which apparently you've redirected to Portal:Cambrian/Topics. Note that, that particular page apparently according to the deletion log was moved to User:Abyssal/Portal:Cambrian/Topics could you kindly fix the first link redirect page here so that it'll redirect to User:Abyssal/Portal:Cambrian/Topics. Thanks! ImpWarfare (talk) 17:09, 7 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Lower Khodzhaosmansk Formation/Khodzhaosmansk Formation[edit]

Is it safe to assume these are the same formation? If so, which is the more correct name to merge them under? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 16:31, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Premeditated Chaos: Yeah, it should be safe to merge the former into the latter. Abyssal (talk) 16:35, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Cheers :) I'm clearing out the orphan bin by category and today's lucky winner is Category:Paleontological site stubs, so you'll probably see me puttering about all over your watchlist for a bit. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 16:38, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Premeditated Chaos:Awesome. Have fun. Abyssal (talk) 16:44, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Another one - is Tujingzi Formation the same as Tuchengzi Formation? Tuchengzi Formation mentions some remains found in Hebei, and Tujingzi Formation says it is in Hebei. Both have similar sounding names, but the Weishampel ref gives different pages, so I'm not 100% sure. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 17:06, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Premeditated Chaos:I'm not sure. A Google Scholar search turned up only one reference to a Tujingzi Formation in the literature since 2010. This was supposedly a Late Cretaceous unit. There were 300 plus references to the Tuchengzi Formation, which is supposedly Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous in age. It's possible that the Tujingzi reference just used outdated spelling/dating information or something but I don't really feel like we can confirm this one way or the other. Abyssal (talk) 17:17, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I managed to find a PDF of the Weishampel book and it gives different locations and different references for each, so they're for sure different places. Thanks for checking for me. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 17:58, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi, can a deleted item be added referance and re-created because there was no previous resource? Khkan.PİL (talk) 14:11, 18 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Thanks[edit]

Stopping by to say thanks, noticed your great edits, like like this on list of the prehistoric life of Arizona. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 14:37, 5 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Many categories[edit]

Just curious, could you explain the reason for the large amount of categories in this edit. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 22:29, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sun Creator:Don't worry about those; they can be removed. Those categories are now or will be list articles. Abyssal (talk) 23:37, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A goat for you![edit]

I love your list entries like "List of the Paleozoic life of Indiana" etc. Can you help me understand how to execute such a search in the PaleoDB/Fossilworks interface? I find it completely unintuitive how to get what I want out of it, but you seem to have figured it out :)

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@Pefty:Thanks for the goat! Yeah, the PBDB is kind of a pain, isn't it? I'm afraid I've forgotten a lot about how to actually use it. What information are you looking for? I'll try to refigure things out. Abyssal (talk) 16:44, 22 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Abyssal:Whoops, just seeing your ping now... As for PBDB, I would like to be able to search for all members of a higher taxon within a certain time period, or within a certain geographic entity. Or other intersections of two of those three criteria. You know? Pefty (talk) 01:53, 25 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Synonymous articles?[edit]

Hello Abyssal, the Paleobiology Database on Fossilworks lists several synonyms for the extinct frog genus Liaobatrachus for which two other Wikipedia articles also exist (Callobatrachus, Mesophryne). Given your editing history on those articles, is this information correct? I am not sure what reliability we assign to the PaleoDB for classification of taxa. If the three genera are indeed synonymous then a merge would be in order. Your thoughts? Loopy30 (talk) 19:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Loopy30:I honestly have no idea. I haven't done anything related to prehistoric amphibians in years. I'm not really qualified to weigh in on potentially contentious taxonomic issues. Abyssal (talk) 19:24, 31 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

OK, thanks. I'll try the WP:PALEO talk page then. 'Cheers, Loopy30 (talk) 19:29, 31 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Chatanooga Shale[edit]

Is this distinct from Chattanooga Shale? You created them within a few days of each other, and I wanted to make sure they were the same before I boldly redirected from the former. It has almost no incoming links, and a quick google search shows that most sources are referring to Chattanooga. kennethaw88 • talk 05:33, 18 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Kennethaw88: They're almost certainly the same, yes. Sorry for the error. Abyssal (talk) 05:43, 18 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I was looking through a specific category when I noticed Draft:Timeline of Dinosaur Park Formation paleontology. This draft was created in 2014 and since August 2018 it's not really improved. Are you planning on coming back to getting it ready for Article space? I ask because (as I can see numerous times on your page) you've recieved information about Draft Namespace not being a permanant repository of content unfit for Article space. Upon further review I see that all the references are to the same two authors, so I'm inclined to believe that this would not survive in Aricle space. Unless I hear otherwise from you in the next 14 days, I intend to take this to MFD as an abandoned draft that has significant problems that would prevent it from being promoted to mainspace. Hasteur (talk) 23:29, 27 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Hasteur:Thanks for the notice. I'll move it to my userspace until I can get around to it. Abyssal (talk) 23:49, 27 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Please don't ...[edit]

... misuse ((coord)) templates, even in sandboxes. If more than one |display=title parameter is included on a page, the page is added to Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags and unnecessarily makes it harder for editors to spot mainspace pages that need fixing. When you're just playing with location maps, the coordinates for the displayed pushpins will work without any |display= fields at all. Deor (talk) 21:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Deor:The coord templates in my userspace are copy-pastes from the main articles, so any errors are presumably duplicated from the source. I did a ctrl-f and couldn't find any use of a "display" field, so I'm not sure what is necessary to remove the code that's causing you problems. Abyssal (talk) 21:54, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Deor:Nvm, I see where you removed them. Abyssal (talk) 23:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Prehistoric life of Ecuador[edit]

Today I looked at your userpage subdirectory User:Abyssal/List of the prehistoric life of Ecuador and was puzzled as to wjy every entry has a † before it. You use the dagger next to Conus and Engina. Those aren't extinct taxa, they're snail genera that are still common today. Khemehekis (talk) 11:35, 6 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Khemehekis:There were enough errors or misformatted data with the extinction field in the Paleobiology Database that it was easier to tag everything as extinct at first and remove the dagger symbol later. Luckily the vast majority of errors of that sort can be done through semi-automated processes and the few remaining ones can be removed individually when spotted. Abyssal (talk) 13:52, 6 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for explaining. It all makes sense now. Khemehekis (talk) 15:41, 6 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Request to move highly incomplete article you created to your userspace[edit]

List of sauropodomorph type specimens should never have been moved from your draftspace in the quality that it is in with only a handful of entries. I am requesting your permission as the articles creator to move it to your userspace. Hemiauchenia (talk) 10:28, 17 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Deletion of old geo stubs?[edit]

I was looking at List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kansas, List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colorado, ect.

I have noticed some links that I think resulted from deletions or draftifies. Under the assumption that when you created the lists, you had already made the stub, and so, Cass Limestone existed at that time.

Unless, you created the lists first, then created the stubs, but never actually made Cass Limestone, or D Sandstone.

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Cass Limestone doesn't seem to have ever been deleted and isn't in my user space, so it's probably free if you're interested in starting it. Abyssal (talk) 04:19, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I noticed a spate of deletion notices in this talk page (some uncontested?). My concern was for deletions of the geologic unit stubs, especially WP:GNG-draftify-deletes. How goes it?
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Parioxis[edit]

Didn't see your note on moving before redirecting this, but I think redirecting to Parioxys is the right thing here? Unless this is considered an unlikely misspelling - there seem to be no published uses - in which case it should just be deleted. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:49, 13 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, that looks even better. The spelling "Parioxis" was used here, so I think we should keep that redirect at least. Abyssal (talk) 14:25, 13 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Aran Volcanic Group[edit]

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Thamnoseris[edit]

There was an article about a monotypic plant genus at Thamnoseris. Its sole species is now placed in Sonchus, so the article is now at Sonchus laceratus, with Thamnoseris a redirect to this article. However, I found there were links from articles to Thamnoseris that were wrong, since they were meant for an extinct coral genus. I changed them to ''[[Thamnoseris (coral)|Thamnoseris]]''. There are many such links in your "User:Abyssal/List of the prehistoric life of ..." pages (see here). It may perhaps be better to change the plant redirect to "Thamnoseris (plant)" and leave the coral genus link at "Thamnoseris" – what do you think? Peter coxhead (talk) 15:11, 12 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sounds good. Abyssal (talk) 15:30, 12 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ok, I've created a sub-stub at Thamnoseris as a place holder for the extinct coral genus, and moved the plant genus redirect to Thamnoseris (plant). The coral genus article could do with some work, but it's not an area I usually work in. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:59, 13 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Bralier Formation/Brallier Formation[edit]

Is it safe to merge the former (which you created) into the latter? Or are these different formations? T. Cadwallader Phloog (talk) 14:54, 22 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's probably safe to merge. Abyssal (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Taxa named by Edward Branson has been nominated for renaming[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Eyrosuchus[edit]

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The article Eyrosuchus has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Suspected hoax. Search of "Eyrosuchus" -wikipedia on GBooks/Scholar comes up with no results.

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I suspect it's a typo for Eryosuchus. Firsfron of Ronchester 21:01, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Middle Jurassic mammals of Asia[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Paleozoic[edit]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:DYK-portal[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Cretaceous[edit]

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MfD nomination of Portal:Mesozoic[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Mesoeucrocodylians[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Paleozoic portals[edit]

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 14:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Paleozoic portal DYK articles[edit]

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