Portal talk:Mathematics/About

Structure
This portal is built using a series of subpages&mdash;one for each of the boxes. For details on this see Portal. These subpages may be found at
 * Portal:Mathematics/Intro
 * Portal:Mathematics/Categories
 * Portal:Mathematics/Did you know
 * Portal:Mathematics/Where to start
 * Portal:Mathematics/Projects
 * Portal:Mathematics/Things you can do
 * Portal:Mathematics/MathematicsTopics
 * Portal:Mathematics/Index
 * Portal:Mathematics/RelatedPortals

The box formatting pages are
 * Portal:Mathematics/box-header
 * Portal:Mathematics/box-footer

Archives of the featured articles, pictures, and factoids may be found at
 * Portal:Mathematics/Selected article archive (Selected articles)
 * Portal:Mathematics/Featured picture archive (Picture of the month)
 * Portal:Mathematics/Did you know archive
 * Suggestions for these can be made at: Portal:Mathematics/Suggestions

The following pages are deprecated, because the portal transcludes the relevant sub-sub-page autmatically, depending on the week or month:
 * Portal:Mathematics/Featured article (Article of the week)
 * Portal:Mathematics/Featured picture (Article of the month)

History
This portal was created on 10 February 2005 by User:Ral315. It was initially at Wikiportal/Mathematics. On 16 July 2005 the portal was merged into Category:Mathematics by User:DavidLevinson. The Portal namespace was created around 27 August 2005, but the mathematics portal remained in the category namespace until 21 December 2005 when User:Fplay moved it to its present location at Portal:Mathematics.

The present maintainer of this portal is User:Fropuff (who gladly welcomes anyone else who wishes to participate).