User talk:Emoteplump

January 2019
Hello, I'm Junior5a. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Herman Karl Haeberlin— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. ~ Junior5a   (Talk)   Cont  16:36, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

I added categories to the page & changed Template:uncategorised to Template:morecats. Is this unconstructive? &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  16:38, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No. ~ Junior5a   (Talk)   Cont  16:42, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Welcome...
To the portals project.

Thank you for joining!

The next issue of our newsletter will be coming out very soon.

You can get caught up with recent history of the portal system by reading our newsletter archive.

The main introduction to portals is Portal.

For a list of all portals, see Category:All portals.

To create a new portal, place the code  on a blank portal page, and click on Preview.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:53, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
 * Emoteplump
 * Pakieditor
 * CASSIOPEIA
 * Venomous Sniper
 * DannyS712

Harvesting categories tool prototype
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as in a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

 * 1) Academic publishing
 * 2) Accounting
 * 3) Adam and Eve
 * 4) African Great Lakes
 * 5) Al Green
 * 6) Alternative views
 * 7) America's Next Top Model
 * 8) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 * 9) Angles
 * 10) Applied mathematics
 * 11) Arabic
 * 12) Areas of mathematics
 * 13) Atlanta metropolitan area
 * 14) Atlantic Ocean
 * 15) Big Bash League
 * 16) Bijelo Dugme
 * 17) Bill Cosby
 * 18) Boats
 * 19) Bombardier Aerospace
 * 20) Bruce Willis
 * 21) Canadian law
 * 22) Cannons
 * 23) Caribbean American
 * 24) Chinese American
 * 25) Chinese Canadians
 * 26) Chinese gardens
 * 27) Chris Brown
 * 28) City
 * 29) Common law
 * 30) Criminal law
 * 31) Czechoslovakia
 * 32) Data
 * 33) Data warehouses
 * 34) DC Comics
 * 35) Deities
 * 36) DeKalb County
 * 37) Destiny's Child
 * 38) Differential equations
 * 39) Discrete geometry
 * 40) East Asia
 * 41) Economy of China
 * 42) Economy of India
 * 43) Economy of Malaysia
 * 44) Economy of the United Kingdom
 * 45) Ellen DeGeneres
 * 46) Email clients
 * 47) E
 * 48) Equations
 * 49) European Americans
 * 50) Filipino Americans
 * 51) Football in Algeria
 * 52) Fox Corporation
 * 53) Fractions and ratios
 * 54) Functional analysis
 * 55) Game theory
 * 56) Girlguiding
 * 57) Gloucestershire
 * 58) Grazhdanskaya Oborona
 * 59) Greek diaspora
 * 60) Habsburg Monarchy
 * 61) Hilbert's problems
 * 62) Hoodoo Gurus
 * 63) Hyundai Motor Company
 * 64) Iggy Azalea
 * 65) Indian Ocean
 * 66) Infinity
 * 67) Information theory
 * 68) Integrals
 * 69) Irish diaspora
 * 70) Irrational numbers
 * 71) Italian diaspora
 * 72) Japanese diaspora
 * 73) J. Cole
 * 74) Jennifer Lopez
 * 75) Jessica Lange
 * 76) John Fogerty
 * 77) Kehlani
 * 78) Kiev
 * 79) K. Michelle
 * 80) Knot theory
 * 81) Kool & the Gang
 * 82) Lakes in China
 * 83) Lake Van
 * 84) Leonardo DiCaprio
 * 85) Limerick
 * 86) Literary composition
 * 87) Long Island Rail Road
 * 88) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 * 89) Lukas Graham
 * 90) Mathematical optimization
 * 91) Matt Damon
 * 92) Merchant ships
 * 93) Metallic means
 * 94) Metro-North Railroad
 * 95) Microsoft Windows
 * 96) Military of India
 * 97) Miss America
 * 98) Modulation
 * 99) Moon landing
 * 100) Mozilla
 * 101) Music of Ireland
 * 102) Narratives
 * 103) Nashville
 * 104) Nassau County
 * 105) Norfolk
 * 106) Nottinghamshire
 * 107) One Life to Live
 * 108) Overseas Chinese
 * 109) Percentages
 * 110) Probability distributions
 * 111) Public Broadcasting Service
 * 112) Quezon City
 * 113) Raven-Symoné
 * 114) R. Kelly
 * 115) Rodeo
 * 116) RuneScape
 * 117) Sarah Silverman
 * 118) Saturn rockets
 * 119) Science and technology
 * 120) Sesame Street
 * 121) Seth MacFarlane
 * 122) Ships
 * 123) Shipwrecks
 * 124) Shropshire
 * 125) Spaceports
 * 126) Space suits
 * 127) Spanish diaspora
 * 128) Steam locomotives
 * 129) Suffolk
 * 130) Suzuki
 * 131) Tanks
 * 132) Tensors
 * 133) The CW
 * 134) Thomas Aquinas
 * 135) T.I.
 * 136) TISM
 * 137) Tom Cruise
 * 138) Toni Braxton
 * 139) Toyota
 * 140) Transportation in the Philippines
 * 141) True Blood
 * 142) Violin
 * 143) Virgin Group
 * 144) Vladimir Putin
 * 145) Volkswagen
 * 146) Volume
 * 147) Warner Bros.
 * 148) Warships
 * 149) Warwickshire
 * 150) Washington D.C.
 * 151) Watercraft
 * 152) Web syndication
 * 153) Wikis
 * 154) Witchcraft
 * 155) Women's sports
 * 156) World of Warcraft

What else is going on
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work. &mdash; The Transhumanist  08:02, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Heads up
I noticed that the Did you know section of the portals you have been creating have a different colored header.

If you want to use the main template for creating portals rather than copy/paste another portal's source code in, insert this line onto a blank page before saving:

If you would like to try a more automatic method, install QuickPortal.js, but this is highly experimental. IMPORTANT: if you use this script, turn off WidEd first. I haven't distributed this script yet because WikEd makes it go into an endless loop. So, do not run it while WikEd is turned on.

What QuickPortal does is creates the portal when you click on its redlink.

I know what you are thinking: SAY WHAT?????!

Yep, so you can make a list of redlinks, and ctrl click on them, which makes one new portal per tab. Then you can inspect each tab before saving.

And unleash a portal storm.

LOL. &mdash; The Transhumanist  01:12, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

P.S.: (I've created over 2,000 portals using the thing).

P.P.S.: By changing the bpsp code, by adding "2", "3", "4", or "2-3" to it, you can get a different configuration. See Template:bpsp2, etc., for more details.

P.P.P.S.: QuickPortal also creates an experimental menu item I'm working on, called "Restart portal". It will totally wipe the current portal and start over, but it has to be pressed twice (once while on the portal), and once while on the edit page. (Or just click it while you are on the edit page). It won't work right if WikEd is on. I made "Restart portal" to help convert the old-style portals to the new model.

P.P.P.P.S.: If/when you have any questions, please feel free to ask.


 * Hi, i sub-ed the code you gave to Portal:Friends but the did you know section seems screwed up (not related to the portal's topic). Would you mind fixing it for me? &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  07:26, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:18, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Johor Bahru
The portal is about the city of Johor Bahru, but the Selected general articles section and the subtopics section are about the State of Johor.

See Portal:Johor. &mdash; The Transhumanist  11:43, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * perhaps the only way is to hard code it?? &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  13:06, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Not necessarily. There might be relevant lists. Those work in place of templates for the Selected general articles section. Another option is to build a navigation footer from scratch, or an outline, or both. Or you could "hard code" by using Transclude excerpts as random slideshow. An approach that is better than listing the topics there is to list them in the Subtopics section, and then call the subtopics section from the Selected general articles section, like this:




 * Since building lists by hand is slow, anything to speed that up is beneficial. For harvesting categories, I have the script ViewAsOutline-Category.js installed. You should try it, you might like it. That shows categories in wikicode form, so copy and paste them directly into an edit page.


 * Have fun.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   14:04, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * To be honest, I have no idea on how to use that script. HAHA. &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  14:31, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Veterinary medicine
The portal looks like it is mostly about mutations (from your previous portal). {

Just thought you'd like to know.

To avoid errors in copying/pasting, the code  works very nicely.

I generally use it along with the category about needing links to the new portal, like this:

I hope you find this tip useful.

Keep those new portals coming. You are doing a great job! &mdash; The Transhumanist  12:02, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

✅ – fixed the problem :) &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  13:02, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Carcinogen
I've redirected this one to Portal:Carcinogens. &mdash; The Transhumanist  12:07, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Noted with thanks :) &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  13:03, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Portal magic
If you'd like to try creating a portal in a single click, install User:The Transhumanist/QuickPortal.js, and then click on the following link:

Portal:Walgreens

Let me know what you think. (And remember to turn off WikEd, if you have it installed, that is). &mdash; The Transhumanist  14:13, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Woah! It's easy to use man... Maybe you could modify the script by letting it detect missing sections to fit in the Template:bpsp - Template:bpsp4 automatically, so it will be easier for everyone :) &sub; Emoteplump ( Contributions ) ( Talk )  14:27, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea. Not easy to program, though. But, I'll work on it!
 * I'm glad you like the program. Remember to be careful about the WikEd glitch.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   22:29, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Portal styles
For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.

If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.

Conversion continues
There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".

Flagship portals: the portals on the Main Page
Speaking of upgrades...

The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:


 * 1) Portal:Arts
 * 2) Portal:Biography
 * 3) Portal:Geography
 * 4) Portal:History
 * 5) Portal:Mathematics
 * 6) Portal:Science
 * 7) Portal:Society
 * 8) Portal:Technology

Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.

The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.

As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.

Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.

And be sure they are on your watchlist.

New portals since last issue

 * Accomack County
 * Adair County
 * Adair County
 * Adams County
 * Adidas
 * Airbus
 * Americas
 * Bangladesh Armed Forces
 * Bedfordshire
 * Bicycles
 * Boeing
 * Chester County
 * Conspiracy theories
 * Corals
 * County Durham
 * Culture of the United States
 * DC Universe
 * Dragons
 * Economy of Pakistan
 * Electricity
 * Ethnic groups
 * European Union law
 * Fatimid Caliphate
 * Flanders
 * Frederick County
 * Fujian
 * German language
 * Global issues
 * Greek mathematics
 * Grisons
 * Guangxi
 * Hebei
 * Henan
 * Herefordshire
 * History of North America
 * Hollywood
 * Hubei
 * Hunan
 * Hybrid
 * Inner Mongolia
 * Jet engines
 * Jiangsu
 * Johor
 * Johor Bahru
 * Julius Caesar
 * Kuala Lumpur
 * Lake Constance
 * Lee Kuan Yew
 * Lufthansa
 * Lunar eclipses
 * Magnetism
 * Menstrual cycle
 * Mustelids
 * Mutations
 * New York University
 * Nord-du-Québec
 * North Africa
 * PepsiCo
 * Pitcairn Islands
 * Podcasting
 * Quantum electrodynamics
 * Quantum mechanics
 * Rawalpindi
 * Réunion
 * Roads in Pakistan
 * Rockefeller Center
 * Sichuan
 * St. Gallen
 * State University of New York
 * Temperature
 * Tsunamis
 * Veterinary medicine
 * Vorarlberg
 * Walgreens
 * Walmart
 * Weasels
 * Xinjiang
 * Yunnan

Keep 'em coming!

Deorphanizing the new portals
As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.

What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.

Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...

Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.

That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!

To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.

It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.

Good news indeed.

Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!

And, that's a wrap
That's all I have to report this time around.

No doubt there will be more to tell soon.

Until then,   &mdash; The Transhumanist   13:11, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of Portal:Lufthansa
Portal:Lufthansa, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lufthansa and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Lufthansa during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 04:45, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Airbus
Portal:Airbus, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Airbus and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Airbus during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 23:39, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Government of Japan
Portal:Government of Japan, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Government of Japan and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Government of Japan during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Ethnic groups
Portal:Ethnic groups, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ethnic groups and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Ethnic groups during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:51, 8 April 2019 (UTC)