Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Cleanup

Portal cleanup list

Help improve Wikipedia's portal system!

In the wave of portal-mania that followed WP:ENDPORTALS, several portals were improperly converted to lower quality automated portals. While many of the conversions improved the portal, some introduced problems, and we need your help to get the latter portals back to the best they can be.

How to repair portals edit

Find the last version of the portal before the namespace-wide overhaul.
Compare it to the current version of the portal and note any missing or lower quality sections.
If the only problem is some sections are lower quality (typically the "selected picture" section), try copy-pasting the section's code from the old version of the portal.
If there are larger issues (i.e. some sections are missing, or are broken in the new version and can't be easily copied from the old version), and reverting would solve these issues without creating new ones, create a diff between the current version and the last good version, and use Twinkle to restore the old version.
- If you don't have Twinkle, get it. You won't regret it.
If you are having trouble repairing portals, post a message on WikiProject Portals' talk page.

Notes edit

If reverting to an earlier version, please check if that version has its own substantial problems – further editing may be required beyond the revert itself. For examples, article blurbs that are either so out of date, or otherwise problematic (e.g. not NPOV), that they are effectively content forks.
Formatting or Lua errors can sometimes be easily fixed – such issues can be reported at WT:WPPORT/D (especially if that's all that's wrong with the portal).
Some of the new portal templates allow for manual selection of content – if you want, you can try using {{Transclude lead excerpt}} or {{Transclude random excerpt}} for article excerpts (with appropriate values for the optional parameters), and {{Random slideshow}} for images

What to do with this list edit

Below is the contents of WP:FPO; though inactive, this page can help you find the portals that are most likely to have lost content during the overhaul.

Symbol key edit

Not done: portal has been reviewed, reviewer found problems that have not yet been fixed (please provide diff)
Partly done: portal has problems, some have been fixed but not all (please provide diff and what needs to be done)
Done: portal has been fixed
Already done: portals that were not redesigned
Approved: for portals whose new versions are as good as or better than the originals in terms of content included; fixes may be needed elsewhere but not a full revert
Awaiting administrative action: found a version to revert to but an admin needs to restore some pages first (please provide diff)

Arts and culture (34) edit

Done Architecture

Not done Arts—needs further diff analysis

Done Association football

Done Baseball

Bollywood

Awaiting administrative action [1] Comedy—old has more selected articles

Already done Constructed languages

Already done Cricket

Already done English football

Already done Film

Already done Food

Already done Formula One

Not done Halo

Already done Ice hockey

Already done Journalism

Already done Literature

Already done (Children's literature)

Done Music

Done (Alternative rock,

Already done Heavy metal,

Already done Latin music,

Already done Music of Australia)

Numismatics

Opera

Photography

Approved Poetry

Already done Speculative fiction

Star Trek

Already done Rugby union

Already done Television

Done Tennis

Textile arts

Theatre

Awaiting administrative action The Simpsons—if header is yellow need it undeleted and reverted

Visual arts

Geography and places (57) edit

Not done [2] Atlas

Not done [3] Africa—unclear if necessary

Done Australia

Done California

Done Connecticut

Cuba

Partly done England—reverted to last functioning version, in an ideal world, this portal would be [4]

(Bristol,

Awaiting administrative action [5] Florida—I'm sure the subpages did a much better job at picking the images vs. the algorithms, but we may never know....

Done Geography

Done Germany

Already done Gibraltar

Hong Kong

Done Iceland

Already done Illinois

Done (Chicago)

Not done India

(Kerala,

Done Japan

Already done Massachusetts

Minnesota

Nevada

Already done New England

Already done New York

(Finger Lakes,

Hudson Valley,

Awaiting administrative action [6] New York City)

Done New Zealand

Done Norway—would prefer [7]

Done Peru

Done Rhode Island

Done Russia

Already done Scotland

Not done [8] Spain—needs diff analysis, subpages are deleted

Already done Texas—good to see they didn't mess with Texas... much

Done Ukraine

Already done Utah

Wales

Health and fitness (2) edit

Done Medicine

Already done Sports

History and events (10) edit

Biological warfare

Already done British Empire

Done History

Done History of science

Already done War

Already done (American Civil War,

Already done Italian Wars,

Already done Napoleonic Wars,

Already done World War I,

Already done World War II)

Mathematics and logic (1) edit

Already done Mathematics

Natural and physical sciences (19) edit

Awaiting administrative action [9] Arthropods

Awaiting administrative action [10] Biology—older selected articles are much better/more relevant, box headers are deleted, lead article excerpt looks okay

Already done Cats

Already done Chemistry

Done Cetaceans

Already done Dinosaurs

Already done Dogs

Already done Earth sciences

Already done Environment

Already done Fish

Already done Fungi

Already done Horses

Done Mammals

Already done Physics—selected article needs automation