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Portals or Wikiportals are pages intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics or areas. Portals 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.
Quick links to select portals
All existing Wikiportals
The following is a list of all known Wikiportals 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 Wikipedia: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 Wikiportal 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
{{subst:box portal skeleton| topic=Topic}}
Save.
2. Create two subpages: a) Portal:Topic/box-header with the following text
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header | title={{{1}}}
|editpage={{{2}}}
|border=#aaaaaa <!-- This is the color of the borders around Box Sections -->
|titleforeground=white <!-- This is the color of the Box Section Title Bar text-->
|titlebackground=#aaccff <!-- This is the color of the Box Section Title Bar -->
|background=#f9f9ff <!-- This is the color of the Box Section background -->
|foreground=black}} <!-- This is the color of the Box Section text -->
Save.
and b)Box-footer]] with the text
{{Box-footer | {{{1}}} }}
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. [1]) and simply type in:
{{/box-header| 1 | 2 }}
{{ 3 }}
{{Box-footer| 4 }}
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:
- {{/box-header | Featured article | Portal:Computer and video games/Featured}}
- {{/box-header | Featured article | }} (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:
- {{/Featured}}
- "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:
- {{Box-footer | [[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
- {{Box-footer | }} (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)
Example 1
The following code:
<div style="float:right; width:50%;">
{{/box-header|A random title|Portal:Computer and video games/Featured}}
{{/Featured}}
{{Box-footer|[[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
</div>
results in -->
A random title
Example 2
The following code:
<div style="float:right; width:50%;">
{{/box-header|A random title|Wikipedia talk:Wikiportal/box-header}}
The following text will appear in the [[box]]. This text can be placed on
the [[Wikipedia:Wikiportal|portals]] main page and edited there.Or,
alternatly placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.
{{Box-footer|[[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
</div>
A random title
...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.
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:
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Links to related WikiProjects. You can use {{Sister project links}} 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
- 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
- You may have been redirected to this page from another template page. This is normal. all related template talk pages should redirect here.
This page explains the use of the {{/box-header}} and {{Box-footer}} templates that may exist under your portal page. It also explains the use of the main {{Wikiportal/box-header}} and {{Box-footer}} templates, which you may need to edit if you'd like to change the color scheme on your portal page.
The {{/box-header}} and {{Box-footer}} template codes are used for creating a box inside a portal page. The main {{Wikiportal/box-header}} and {{Box-footer}} template codes are used once in a special sub-page of each portal page to define the colors of the entire portal page.
Portal page usage
To use the regular codes, go to your portal page (e.g. [4]) and simply type in:
{{/box-header| 1 | 2 }}
{{ 3 }}
{{Box-footer| 4 }}
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:
- {{/box-header | Featured article | Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer and video games/Featured}}
- {{/box-header | Featured article | }} (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:
- {{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer and video games/Featured}}
- "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:
- {{Box-footer | [[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
- {{Box-footer | }} (no bottom-right param, note pipe still in place)
Example 1
The following code:
<div style="float:right; width:50%;">
{{/box-header|A random title|Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer_and_video_games/Featured}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer_and_video_games/Featured}}
{{Box-footer|[[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
</div>
results in -->
A random title
Example 2
The following code:
<div style="float:right; width:50%;">
{{/box-header|A random title|Wikipedia talk:Wikiportal/box-header}}
The following text will appear in the [[box]]. This text can be placed on
the [[Wikipedia:Wikiportal|portals]] main page and edited there.Or,
alternatly placed on a sub-page of the portal, which is explained below.
{{Box-footer|[[Computer and video games|More about Computer and video games...]]}}
</div>
A random title
...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.
Stylesheet page usage
Before you can use the above 'regular' templates, you'll need to create (assuming they don't exist) two special "stylesheet" template pages:
In the */header page, you'll need to put:
{{Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header | title={{{1}}}
|editpage={{{2}}}
|border=#aaaaaa
|titleforeground=black
|titlebackground=#deffad
|background=white
|foreground=black}}
All of the parameters may be edited except title and editpage (unless you'd like all of the box titles to be the same). They accept the usual css color definitions. If you ever need to change the colors of the page, return there and change them. You may need to wait for the changes to take place, or add the extra url parameter "?action=purge" / "&action=purge" to the url of the page.
In the */footer page, you'll need to put:
{{Box-footer | {{{1}}} }}
Please add a
#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia talk:Wikiportal/box-header]]
to the talk pages of both newly created templates.
If defined call2
Is it used so the edit template doesn't produce a redlink? Anything else? Is that useful? --MarSch 2 July 2005 15:41 (UTC)
- I can't remember if I tested it the other way, I was concerned that it may spit out the ed template code if no variable was passed. You could try it the other way and use &action=purge to see the changes. Slike2 2 July 2005 21:14 (UTC)
- That would probably be a good thing. Error messages are good. Otherwise people might never know that an argument should be passed. I'll eliminate them. --MarSch 3 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)
- It seems not to break anything :) Now what about the excessive use of padding and margins. I really hate all those small adjustments. It makes it difficult to change anything. Specifically I noticed that the vertical spacing is different from the horizontal spacing between boxes. I would like to fix this, but perhaps you can clean this up? --MarSch 3 July 2005 11:17 (UTC)
- The spacings are due to the differences between % and em - the two divs which cause both sides to float are set to some arbitrary percentages adding up to between 95 and 99%, which means there's a 5-1% gap between the boxes. This means that the actual difference changes based on browser size. The vertical spacing is defined by the box margins, and it's in em. Basically, it's not the box's fault :) (or so I believe). You could try setting the divs to equal 100%, or 99.9%, and add a padding-left:???em; to the div which is floated right, to make it more consistent. Slike2 3 July 2005 23:29 (UTC)
- The ed2 does break some things, (Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Computer_and_video_games - note the edit in the main box showing "{..."), but that may not matter because you may want to enforce the each box has a subpage thing. Slike2 3 July 2005 23:33 (UTC)
- Trevor fixed it by creating that page. --MarSch 4 July 2005 13:21 (UTC)
Portal:Temporary has been proposed for deletion. NickelShoe (Talk) 03:18, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Template:Categorybrowsebar2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. WOSlinker (talk) 19:06, 27 January 2011 (UTC)