Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals

Requests for Admin assistance

• Delete subpage Portal:Slovenia/New article announcements, which has not recieved special attention since 2012. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  23:07, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
• Comment – As this is a detailed page that has received a fair amount of edits, it may be better to tag the page atop with the {{historical}} template, which would serve to demonstrate the work that occurred to this aspect of the portal in the past, as well as to retain the page as a general historical reference. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:15, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
• Delete subpages of Portal:Sports/Selected picture, as they are no longer needed. The "Selected pictures" box for Portal:Sports is now generated by a single page: Portal:Sports/Selected picture. —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:29, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Ditto for subpages of Portal:Fish/Selected picture. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:33, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
• Subpages of Portal:Russia/Selected picture, from Portal:Russia/Selected picture/5 till Portal:Russia/Selected picture/25 – they were replaced using {{Portal pictures}} or removed as off-topic, see Special:Diff/989855590/989955952 and Special:Diff/989956373. Note that subpages one through four are still in use. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:57, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

In the previous discussions in 2019 it was understood that the exclusion of subpages must be by MfD. I believe that this section "Requests for Admin assistance " should be removed from this talk page.Guilherme Burn (talk) 12:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Do you have a link to that consensus? My view is that it's legitimate to request assistance for technical changes, such as when replacing Portal:Foo/Articles/1 to /99 by a template in Portal:Foo which produces similar excerpts, but not as part of demolishing a portal (for example, after quietly replacing its main page by a redirect to a broader portal). Certes (talk) 13:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't have the link, I can search for discussions, but this is unnecessary. @Certes: you are a witness, like me, of the thousands of excluded subpages that were restored. I think it is better not to repeat the same mistake again, or we exclude via MfD or leave them in limbo for a while.(Or we propose a new criterion for speed deletions)Guilherme Burn (talk) 14:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Bug collection

This section is only for tracking bugs and feature requests, in the MediaWiki software itself, which affect portals. For general technical help with portals or portal-related templates, create a new section on this talk page.

 Do not report new bugs or feature requests in this section – only list them here after a Phabricator task has been created.

• T196722: Gallery slideshow controls take up more than one line on narrow displays
• T196723: Gallery slideshow flickers when changing images
• T194887: Mode slideshow of gallery tag is not working in phone screens
• T199126: Scribunto/Lua should have a built-in method for retrieving category members

Isle of Wight portal

Portal:Isle of Wight was a victim of the portal deletion wars, on the basis that it didn't have enough scope to be a portal. I disagreed with that then, and I disagree with it now. It's a county, it has many settlements and places of interest and a lot of history - there are loads of articles, biographies and pictures to pick from. I'm minded to take it to Deletion Review but I don't want to do so if it doesn't have a decent chance of success. I want to be clear, I am not canvassing for support; I'm asking for advice on whether we think it would have a good chance of being reinstated. WaggersTALK 08:51, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

It received the usual boilerplate deletion rationale: WP:NOBODYREADSIT; nobody spends all day changing it; all portals are rubbish anyway. The topic is relatively narrow, but the portal was unusual in having a regular maintainer. It may be relevant that the closer acted in 78 portal MfDs, closing 68 as delete, 9 as no consensus and just one as keep (Outer space being a broad enough topic). Certes (talk) 10:08, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Feedback requested at proposal to enhance Module:Excerpt

A proposal is under discussion to enhance transparency and navigability of Module:Excerpt. Your feedback would be appreciated at Module talk:Excerpt#Proposal: pre-load a helpful preview editintro notice on clicking 'edit' in hatnote. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 17:34, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Get a complete list of STEM categories, their subcategories, and page ids

Question - Imagine that I am a STEM educator and wanted to get a complete list of all on-topic categories, subcats, and page ids for just STEM articles on wikipedia. How would I do that?

I've looked at categorylinks table (too over categorized, eg botany->plants->coats of arms with plants), wikidata, and wikiprojects - following up on various suggestions by various other editors. Portals is probably the closest, but there doesn't seem to be any backing effort/database to capture the implicit categorization knowledge being added by portals. Wikiqrdl (talk) 01:07, 25 September 2023 (UTC)