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What are short descriptions, and where are they? Borrowing from a quote by Blaise Pascal, I will simply say...."I have made this short description longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." 😂 Atsme ✍🏻 📧 18:51, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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Portals have passed the 4,000 mark.
Here's a list of portals created since the last issue
Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you.
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)
In the See also section of Tantra you modified the links to:
I haven't seen this before. What is it? Editor2020 ( talk) 01:42, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
I'm just informing you that the formatting you used for the short descriptions of the Moons of Jupiter and Neptune articles were inconsistent with each other and also with the Moons of Saturn and Uranus articles. I have edited their short descriptions so that all four match and are worded exactly the same way, just changing the planet's name. ― Дрейгорич / Dreigorich Talk 23:10, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
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...with the removal of the unsourced sentence, moments ago, in teleology, please do what you can to support it. It is being described as a section blanking–it was a single sentence subsection, without any reference—and may be reverted immediately, as an edit from an un-logged editor. Cheers. 2601:246:CA80:3CB5:2135:4BEC:3A27:18E9 ( talk) 18:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:
Way to go!
Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.
He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.
Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.
Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.
One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.
This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.
Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.
This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.
We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.
We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...
Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:
{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}
Using both maxheight=120px
and overflow=Hidden
produces this:
There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.
Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.
Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.
Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.
See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:45, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
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I was surprised to see you edit-warring without so much as an edit comment. I don't like the portal bars all over the place, and said so clearly in the edit comment. For what it's worth, I think the small box less harmful than the enormous bar, but both are totally useless, just recycling existing materials in an auto-blog sort of way. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 18:52, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
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There are now 4,180 portals.
Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?
I know we can. But, that is up to you!
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}
or
{{subst:bpsp}}
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Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
The following portals have been created since the last issue:
Keep 'em coming!
By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).
We'll keep it short this issue.
Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.
Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:25, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).
Interface administrator changes
Thanks for the note on my phabricator request from last year. There was not a way to ping you, so I just wanted to let you know that I responded. I do not have any strong feelings about naming references, but being able to add names in visual editor is something that I would definitely use. Thanks again, have a great day! JenOttawa ( talk) 14:43, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Pbsouthwood
I am totally lost as to how I am can remove mistakes from outlines, such as
Outline of underwater diving - I have tried looking for the template referred to, but I cannot find it, probably because I am using the wrong syntax.
The problem is in
Outline_of_underwater_diving#Repositories where the word "Reasearch" needs correcting to "Research" - I have searched for {{annotated link|Rubicon Research Repository}} but cannot find this
Please do not just correct this mistake, but please explain where this is, so I can deal with similar problems in the future - Thanks -
Arjayay (
talk)
15:24, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
{{short description|
will take you directly to it. It is also possible for a short description to be generated from another template, like the place name infobox. If that throws up a bad short description, override it by manua\ly adding a short description at the top of the article source code. I will leave the example you mentioned for you to fix, as then I will know my explanation was successful, and I know it is a simple representative example, so should be straightforward. Hope this helps, Cheers, · · ·
Peter (Southwood)
(talk):
16:27, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Instead of giving presents 🎁 this year, I'm giving my opinion. Get excited!! 🎅🏻🎄🤶🎁 Atsme ✍🏻 📧 02:43, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
I've upgraded the following 3 portals that are listed at the top of the Main Page:
I think they might be pushing the envelope on server time. History, especially — accessing Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4/People seems to be taking up a lot of server time, but I don't know how to check that explicitly. Geography and Technology have been up and running for a day or so, and no reports so far.
Let me know if you get any time out errors.
Thank you.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 09:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
P.S.: pinging @ Dreamy Jazz, AfroThundr3007730, Waggers, Bermicourt, AmericanAir88, and Gazamp:
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