Transwiki:Portal

Wikiportals are pages intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics or areas. Wikiportals may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution. If you want to help run one of the Wikiportals listed below, please add yourself to the list. If you want to create a new portal see below.

All Existing Wikiportals
As of December 3rd, 2005, portals are being converted to Wikiportals to conform with Wikipedia standards.

Please list your name below under the appropriate Wikiportal if you want to help keeping it up to date on a regular basis.

Quick links to select portals
Quick links :

All Existing Portals
The following is a list of all known portals on the English Wikipedia together with who founded them and when and who maintains them. Please insert new entries alphabetically and wikify both date and year so personally preferred date formats are inserted for registered users. The "opening" date is the date on which the first completed portal went live or when it was created as per history. Also, add a link to the online portal at main portals (categorized according to Browse) and Portal:Browse (also categorized). When the portal is complete and of good quality, add it to the portal namespace - Portals (N.B. - if portals added to the namespace do not conform with the conventions in WPT:P then they will be removed).

Please list your name below under the appropriate portal if you want to help keeping it up to date on a regular basis.

How to create a new portal?
Portals are not appropriate for every topic. Only create portals for broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers.

To create a new portal on the topic "Topic" follow these steps:

1. Create a new portal at Portal:Topic (where "Topic" is the subject of your portal) and enter the following text Save.

2. Create two subpages: a) Portal:Topic/box-header with the following text

Save.

and b) Portal:Topic/box-footer with the text Save.

3. Return to your portal page Portal:Topic and begin editing (general instructions on editing a portal are below). Basically follow the red links to create sub-pages that will fill the boxes.

4. Place a link to your portal at the top of the appropriate article (of the same name) by placing a portal there, or place portalpar at other various pages. List your portal at portals and main portals

For an explanation of how and why this format works go here.

How to edit the portal
The box portal allows you to edit the portal without editing the main portal page. Simply follow the red links to the sub pages and enter the information there. These sub-pages will be displayed on the main page.

Adding a section (box)
If you wish to add a section (box) using the regular codes, go to your portal page (e.g. []) and simply type in:

where
 * "1" is the box title
 * "2" is the article to be linked to via Template:Ed2. This will appear right under the title bar. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
 *  
 *   (no edit link param, note pipe still in place)
 * "3" is again the article to be linked to (this will appear as a red link until first edited), for example:
 *  
 * "4" is a link that you'd like to display at the bottom-right corner of the box. You may omit this parameter if you don't want an edit link to appear, but you must not omit the pipe, for example:
 *  
 *   (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)

Example 1
The following code:

    

results in -->

Example 2
The following code:

     The following text will appear in the box. This text can be placed on    the portals main page and edited there.Or, alternatly placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.  

The following text will appear in the box. This text can be placed on the portals main page and edited there.Or, alternatly placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.

...when used at the computer and video games portal, will result in what is displayed to the immediate right. -->

The exact same code, used at other portals, will create a box with the exact same content, but the colors may be completely different. This is because each portal has templates at: that add color information, and the pass all the work along to the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-footer templates, which compose everything into a standards-compliant and cross-browser box.
 * 1) "[portal url]/box-header" (e.g. )
 * 2) "[portal url]/box-footer" (e.g. )

Changing colors
The colors of the portal can be changed in the box-header subpage. A list of colors you can use is available at Web colors or List of colors.

How to make a good Wikiportal?
Most Wikiportals contain the following for readers:
 * A featured article and/or picture
 * Links into the main category for the topic and possibly subcategories (some portals actually appear in the description page for the main category)
 * General info about the subject, or links thereto
 * Links to other portals (using templates)

...and for editors:


 * Links to related WikiProjects. You can use to add Wikimedia Sister Projects' links to your portal (links to news, images and so on).


 * Links to specific articles or tasks
 * Collaboration of the week, month, etc.

You may want to embark on an effort to fill the related categories with appropriate articles if this has not been done already (or add it to the portal's "todo" list so visitors can help out).

Wikiportals under construction (alphabetical order)

 * /Agropedia/ (to replace Portal:Agronomy and include both Agronomy and Agriculture topics, which are intimately related, although different)
 * Anarchism
 * /Ancient Germanic culture/
 * /Ancient Greece/
 * Architecture
 * Atmosphere
 * Bulgaria
 * /Community/
 * Democracy
 * England
 * Humor
 * /Italy/
 * Portal:Libya
 * /Middle-earth/
 * /Lithuania/
 * /Philately/
 * Tropical Cyclones
 * /Turkey/

Requested Wikiportals (alphabetical order)
General portals preferred to concrete portals.


 * Portal:Asia
 * /Cooking/
 * Portal:Ecology
 * /Entertainment/
 * /Hinduism/
 * Portal:Internet
 * /Islam/
 * /Linguistics/
 * /Middle East/
 * /Mythology and folklore/
 * /Oceania/
 * /Psychology/
 * Portal:Robotics
 * /Social Science/
 * /Television/
 * /Transport/

Related pages

 * WikiProject Usability
 * WikiProject Categories
 * Portal:Browse
 * Browse