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The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. Closing due to lack of comment. WP:VPT may be a better place to seek help. Ajpolino (talk) 22:30, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Description

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ProjectDescription PolymathGirl (talk) 07:45, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group

List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.
Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
I haven't seemed to find anything relevant to this in any searches of existing Projects, and am not sure that Phabricator is the appropriate course to request it.

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Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.

  1. PolymathGirl (talk) 07:45, 30 November 2016 (UTC) - I can provide ideas (if it's not self-explanatory), but don't know the programming/coding mechanisms by which to enact my proposal. Hence needing the help of others[reply]

Discussion

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I still can't tell whether this is a Phabricator or Wikipedia type of task, hence my posting it here just to make sure I've covered my bases and this task somehow gets addressed... I created a phabricator:T151986 ticket that outlines my request and proposal pretty clearly. Which also references concerns I voiced in 2014 at Category talk:All articles with too few wikilinks but had since forgotten about and so just today requrested/asked about at Wikipedia talk:Community portal.

Basically it's a matter where I know that too many users are being discouraged and/or turned away by the current format how articles display in the Community Portal, where 99.9% are irrelevant to whichever user stops by, therefore they have little to no interest in helping out. I'm in search for a way that we can either customize it individually to the user (such that my Community Portal "Help Out" will display different from others', tailored to my user preferences) or that navigating Categories would be easier. Again, an in-detail proposal can be read at my Phabricator request ticket, phabricator:T151986.

All of the currently-existing subcategories only go by date, which doesn't allow users/editors to at-a-glance click "oh, well that interests me and I've got 5 minutes, so I'll help out with that to-do task real quick..."

PolymathGirl (talk) 07:45, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.
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