Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals

Requests for Admin assistance

 * Delete subpage Portal:Slovenia/New article announcements, which has not recieved special attention since 2012.&thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 23:07, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment – As this is a detailed page that has received a fair amount of edits, it may be better to tag the page atop with the historical template, which would serve to demonstrate the work that occurred to this aspect of the portal in the past, as well as to retain the page as a general historical reference. North America1000 06:15, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete subpages of Portal:Sports/Selected picture, as they are no longer needed. The "Selected pictures" box for Portal:Sports is now generated by a single page: Portal:Sports/Selected picture. —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:29, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Ditto for subpages of Portal:Fish/Selected picture. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:33, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Subpages of Portal:Russia/Selected picture, from Portal:Russia/Selected picture/5 till Portal:Russia/Selected picture/25 – they were replaced using Portal pictures or removed as off-topic, see Special:Diff/989855590/989955952 and Special:Diff/989956373. Note that subpages one through four are still in use. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:57, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

In the previous discussions in 2019 it was understood that the exclusion of subpages must be by MfD. I believe that this section "Requests for Admin assistance " should be removed from this talk page.Guilherme Burn (talk) 12:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Do you have a link to that consensus? My view is that it's legitimate to request assistance for technical changes, such as when replacing Portal:Foo/Articles/1 to /99 by a template in Portal:Foo which produces similar excerpts, but not as part of demolishing a portal (for example, after quietly replacing its main page by a redirect to a broader portal).  Certes (talk) 13:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't have the link, I can search for discussions, but this is unnecessary. you are a witness, like me, of the thousands of excluded subpages that were restored. I think it is better not to repeat the same mistake again, or we exclude via MfD or leave them in limbo for a while.(Or we propose a new criterion for speed deletions)Guilherme Burn (talk) 14:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Bug collection
This section is only for tracking bugs and feature requests, in the MediaWiki software itself, which affect portals. For general technical help with portals or portal-related templates, create a new section on this talk page. – only list them here after a Phabricator task has been created.
 * Gallery slideshow controls take up more than one line on narrow displays
 * Gallery slideshow flickers when changing images
 * Mode slideshow of gallery tag is not working in phone screens
 * Scribunto/Lua should have a built-in method for retrieving category members

Do we want random redirects of deleted portals?
Do these help readers or lead them in the wrong direction for infomation? Moxy 🍁 10:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I suspect they do neither, because there are few if any incoming links. Portal:Boston redirected me to Portal:Massachusetts, which currently shows some content relevant to Boston along with some that isn't.  It's not clear why we might want redirects from Boston and not, say, Springfield: the criterion seems to be having had a portal in the past, but that's not relevant as the portal was deleted rather than merged.  I'm not sure there's a strong enough case to RfD them but I certainly wouldn't support creating any more. Certes (talk) 14:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Portal Icons; 2020s Proposal
Wikipedia began 2001-15-01. When were each of the decadal portals started? (For that matter, only the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s icons are clickable.) The signal event of the 2020s as of this writing is the COVID-19 pandemic, the PHEIC of which was declared by the WHO 2020-01-30. If it's to become Climate change, I propose a mercury wet bulb thermometer at 35 ℃, the combination of humidity and temperature which marks the upper limit of human endurance. A melting globe is passé, but if it came to it we could combine it with the virus, half-and-half. Shall we get some preliminary work done...? kencf0618 (talk) 13:11, 22 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The decade portals were generally started in 2012–2013. The  was created in 2012, deleted in 2019 and recreated in 2020.  That seems rather early, but the French version was created in 2009!  It's a bit early to say what the defining image of the 2020s will be, but most current issues such as climate change are ongoing rather than specific to the decade.  I would suggest something to do with COVID-19, but the obvious image is in use for its own . Certes (talk) 13:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Good point –wouldn't do to have portal conflict. As for the  to my eye the Mollweide-like  gives us more room to work with, and  even more so. I shall noodle around in my sandbox. kencf0618 (talk) 03:52, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Portal trouble
Portal:Alabama and Portal:Arkansas are having issues. They are saying the time allocated for running scripts has expired. Catfurball (talk) 20:36, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I reduced Alabama from the maximum 10 seconds to 6. Arkansas looks OK at the moment but may fail randomly depending which extracts are chosen. Certes (talk) 21:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)