User:Pbsouthwood/Portal framework for outlines

Topic definition

Portal scope The scope of this portal includes .

Introduction to

How to use this portal

• There are several ways to find content on Wikipedia.

• If you have a useful search string, a Google Search is quite effective.

• Wikipedia search will take you directly to the article if you know the exact name or if Wikipedia has a redirect to the article. It will also suggest other articles in Wikipedia which may be relevant to your search criteria.

• If you want a list of articles in the project that you can browse through, looking for inspiration or a recognisable article title, then there are several other routes:

• Portal: is a work in progress, intended to provide a doorway to our articles on underwater diving in an intuitive and user friendly layout. Please suggest improvements if you have good ideas. Some may be possible with current technology, others may require new tools.

• *The portal comprises:

• **An introduction section, which defines the scope of the portal, provides an introduction taken from the main article for the topic, and this explanation of how to find articles about the topic.

• **A set of sub-topic sections. The header for each section provides the sub-topic title, and the section contains a collapsible outline list of the subtopic articles and a randomly selected excerpt from one of them.

• **A list of recognised content – The best quality articles in this topic on Wikipedia.

• **A slideshow gallery of images from Wikimedia Commons, many of which are used to illustrate the articles.

• **A collapsible category tree. The tree can be opened and closed by clicking on the arrowheads.

• **The navigation boxes for this topic. Each collapsible list provides links to related article in a logically connected group. These groups often overlap. The navigation boxes are also found at the bottom of each article in the associated group.

• **A list of related projects on Wikipedia, with an incomplete list of things that must still be done in this topic area.

• **A list of related portals

• Outline of is a hierarchical list of all the articles.

• Index of is an alphabetical list of the articles.

• The Glossary of terminology is an alphabetical list of terms commonly used in  and their meanings in this context. A useful quick reference. A definition will often contain a link to a detailed main article, or a section of an article on the term.

• Category: and the associated subcategories should also list all the articles, probably in a different hierarchical structure to that used for the portal and outline list. Sometimes the category system can be more appropriate for finding information. It is also helpful for maintenence of Wikipedia and keeping track of the connectedness of articles.

• If you have unlimited time and no special target, you can go down the rabbit-hole – Read the topic root article, and click on any link that looks interesting. Read until you find another interesting link and click on that, otherwise click your browser arrow to go back, and carry on. Stop when reality intrudes or you get bored, tired, thirsty or a fire breaks out.

• None of these systems is perfect or complete. If you find an error or omission let us know, or fix it if you know how. This is a crowdsourced project – you can be one of the crowd.

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