Portal talk:1920s

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The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.

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As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.

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From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. &mdash; The Transhumanist  03:13, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * this is great news. thanks for posting this here!! please keep it up. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 19:12, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Portal updated
This portal has been updated and expanded:
 * Overhauled portal with modernized wiki markup using transclusion from articles to display content, which provides readers with current, up-to-date information.
 * Article content from various portal subpages was moved directly into the portal using transclusions.
 * New content was added to all article sections of the portal.
 * Additional updates, cleanup and layout changes have been performed. North America1000 07:11, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposed changes, February 2020
We now have consensus to use transclusions in portals. overhauled this portal in October 2019 but was reverted by someone who no longer edits in portal space. If there are no objections, I plan to reinstate the overhaul and to make a few further changes: Does that sound reasonable, and are there any suggestions for further improvements? This is the first relevant portal alphabetically, and I'm using it as a testbed in the hope of rolling out similar improvements to about 40 other portals once we have a stable and agreed version. Certes (talk) 13:47, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Replace the selected articles by the FA section of the Recognized content page.
 * Move the list of selected articles to Portal:1920s/Selected article/, an unused page which I have already edited. (We should probably rename that to lose the trailing slash.)  This allows the article list to be stored in one place, and updates the excerpts automatically whenever the article lede is edited.  That page displays all excerpts but, when transcluded, will display a random excerpt with a list of alternatives, as in this test page.  I would treat other lists such as selected biographies similarly.
 * Agree. Your ideas sound fine, . I support these proposed changes. --Sm8900 (talk) 19:09, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , is it possible to create a sub-page to discuss and document these planned improvements as a group? please note, I fully support this entire effort. now that you are commendably thinking of improvements to make across several portals, I would like to see if we can set this up as a sub-page somewhere, ie where interested editors might discuss this as a group, and perhaps offer to help out if they wish. I highly support and encourage all of your views, ideas and efforts on this. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 19:15, 11 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Agree This sounds like a good way forward to me. Dunarc (talk) 19:38, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Agree – A functional means to move forward that will improve the portal. North America1000 05:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

I've started the changes but they will need a few more edits. As says, we should discuss these changes as a group, perhaps at WT:WikiProject_Portals/Design with pointers at VP and on the relevant portals. However, the changes are complex and hard to explain, so it would be useful to be able to point to this portal (once completed) as an example of what we propose to roll out more widely. Certes (talk) 12:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The portal is now the 11 October version with Other articles lists added and the selected articles and biographies moved to subpages where they can be maintained more easily. I've changed my mind and restored 's selection of articles, as they reflect the era's diversity better than the FA list.  Further improvements are welcome but where do we go from here?  We have WP:NOTFINISHED and could tweak indefinitely, but is it now time to seek the wider consensus using this portal as an example? Certes (talk) 13:36, 13 February 2020 (UTC)