Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals

Wikipedia:Portal

The WikiProject on Portals is a project to better organize information in articles related to Portals. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. At present, there are 129 featured portals, of a total of 576 portals on Wikipedia.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject has been created in order to better organise portals and related templates, so as to allow better integration and co-ordination between portal topic areas and ensure any particular Portal does not become messy, forgotten or unnoticed.

[edit] Parentage

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Council

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

[edit] Participants

Project members may add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Userbox}} to their userpage. The result is this:

This user is a member of WikiProject Portals

[edit] List of participants

Feel free to add yourself to the list at List of participants in WikiProject Portals.

[edit] Structure

To be discussed.

[edit] Policy and criteria

• To see the current policy and other information on Portals in general, see: Wikipedia:Portal.

[edit] New portals

An archived method for proposing portals can be found at Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals.

Currently, there is no process for the proposal and approval of new portals. If you want to create a new portal, see Portal and participate in the discussions there.

You may also talk about your idea for a new portal here. We'll be happy to review your idea and help out where we can.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Goals

1. List all portals and related sub pages in the portal space
2. Discuss and settle upon ways of linking portals of related topics
3. Discuss already created portals and determine their usability, readability, and worth.
4. Discuss, create and harmonise templates and portal boxes.

[edit] Projects

1. Help critique and improve featured portal candidates.
2. Help WikiProject — Portal dynamics coordination and integration.

[edit] Tasks

1. List all portals and related sub pages in the portal space on the discussion page. - Huh? Why would we want them there. We should list them here or on a subpage.

[edit] Related pages

• Wikipedia:Portal/Directory
• Portal:List of portals

[edit] Subpages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Status - List of portals and their status (e.g. Wikipedia:Version 0.5 evaluation)

[edit] Portal creation aids

• {{box portal skeleton}}
• Portal:Topic/box-header
• Portal:Topic/box-footer

[edit] Other templates

• {{Browsebar}} - this is the header used on Portals
• {{Portals}} - this is the footer used on Portals themselves
• {{Portal nav footer}} - this is a footer used on pages about Portals, mostly in Project Space
• {{User WikiProject Portals}} - a userbox for participants in this Project
• {{FPcandidates}}
• {{PortalReviewVolunteers}}

[edit] Portals for deletion at MfD

Please see Portals for deletion at MfD.

[edit] Categories

• Category:Portals
• Category:Portals under construction

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Portals

• Portals

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Portals

• Wikipedia:Portals
• meta:Portals