User:Evad37/sandbox/portal

Portal pages
– adds a standard short description – maintenance information and tracking categories – links for browsing portals by subject

Introduction

 * Dynamic excerpt that always matches the source

– purge link for showing new selections

Selected article

 * Same as Transclude lead excerpt, but specify multiple sources within the template call for alternating display; or


 * Same again, but specify multiple sources by linking to them on a separate page or section

Selected anniversary

 * Shows a specific lead of an article for a specific time.

Selected pictures

 * Shows a slideshow gallery of specified files, in a randomised order


 * Same as Random slideshow, but uses images from specified pages

Selected quotation

 * Shows a random quotation, from a specified set of quotations

In the news

 * Shows news about a subject from Portal:Current events.

or User:JJMC89 bot/Wikinews importer
 * Imports news from Wikinews.

Did you know...

 * Shows Did you know? items for a subject from Recent additions.

or User:JL-Bot/Project content
 * Can be customised to show a limited number of DYKs.

Categories

 * Shows an interactive category tree. A category name may be used instead of, if the portal page name doesn't match the most relevant category.

Related portals

 * Shows images and links to specified portals

WikiProjects
No automation templates – configure manually

Things to do
Transclude WikiProject to-do list

Associated Wikimedia

 * Creates a table of interwiki links related to the portal.

– Explanatory and browsing links

With colours
The heading should be white text on a green background, but this only works in some skins.