Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Components

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


 * Dynamically sized banner images randomly selected from a list. As many images and captions as desired may be specified


 * Dynamic excerpt that always matches the source. Normally taken from the lead of the root article. Number of paragraphs and images may be specified.

– purge link for showing new selections


 * Shows images and links to specified portals

No automation templates – configure manually

Transclude WikiProject to-do list


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

– Explanatory and browsing links

Layout components
Here are the components used to generate the boxes above:
 * – start of a layout box. By default, the template will automatically select a color based on the page name.
 * – end of a layout box.
 * – two column layout, with equal-height columns, that switches to one column on narrow screens.

Components for portal talk pages
These should go on the base talk page, not subpages. 1=

(instead of talk header)