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The Portal task force is involved in updating and maintaining Portal:Trains.
Participants
[edit source]- Slambo (talk · contribs) - lead editor
- Hirohisat (talk · contribs) - nominations and Japanese articles
- Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs) - Can help updating anything
Related WikiProjects
[edit source]To do
[edit source]General
[edit source]- Tag all of the portal pages with {{TrainsWikiProject|class=NA|Portal=yes}}
Selected content
[edit source]- Move all of the remaining past "Featured article" and "Featured picture" pages to "Selected article" and "Selected picture" pages; update links to avoid the redirects and then speedy delete the redirects.
- Ensure that all the content pages use "Selected" instead of "Featured"
Anniversaries
[edit source]- Translate anniversary events from the French (index), German (index) and Japanese (index) Wikis.
- Expand the anniversaries listed to include more non-US events.
- Find free images for the anniversary pages that lack images.
Resources
[edit source]Categories
[edit source]Templates
[edit source]- Selected article
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- {{Trains portal/FA image}} shows the image
- Selected picture
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- {{Trains portal/FI}} shows the image
- Did you know
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- {{Trains portal/Did you know}} shows the main Did you know section
- {{Trains portal/DYK image}} shows an image for the Did you know list (also used in the Anniversaries section)
- Trains news templates
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- {{Trains portal/News image}} shows one image with an optional border
- {{Trains portal/News image 2}} shows two images
- {{Trains portal/News image flag}} shows a national flag
- {{Trains portal/News image and Wikinews}} shows an image (with an optional border) and a Wikinews link to an associated article
Trains news sources
[edit source]Links are listed in alphabetical order and are to the pages in English unless otherwise noted:
- Google News (helpful search:
railroad | railway -underground-railroad) - La Vie du Rail (français)
- Late Breaking Rail Industry News (Railway Age Magazine, North America news); current printed issue is also available for reading online via a java applet (link from the main page).
- Railnews (UK news; site under construction)
- Railway Market (Central and Eastern Europe news)
- Railway People (UK news)
- Railways Africa (Railways Africa Magazine, Africa news)
- Trains (Trains Magazine, mostly US news, login and magazine subscription required to access the Trains News Wire)
Railway regulatory agency news websites:
- Association of American Railroads
- Association of Train Operating Companies (United Kingdom)
- European Railway Agency
- Finnish Rail Administration
Lists of links with more rail news sites:
- ERRAC (European Rail Research Advisory Council)