MyWiki:WikiProject Portals/Cleanup
Portal cleanup list
- Help improve Wikipedia's portal system!
In the wave of portal-mania that followed WP:ENDPORTALS, several portals were improperly converted to lower quality automated portals. While many of the conversions improved the portal, some introduced problems, and we need your help to get the latter portals back to the best they can be.
How to repair portals
[edit source]- Find the last version of the portal before the namespace-wide overhaul.
- Compare it to the current version of the portal and note any missing or lower quality sections.
- If the only problem is some sections are lower quality (typically the "selected picture" section), try copy-pasting the section's code from the old version of the portal.
- If there are larger issues (i.e. some sections are missing, or are broken in the new version and can't be easily copied from the old version), and reverting would solve these issues without creating new ones, create a diff between the current version and the last good version, and use Twinkle to restore the old version.
- If you don't have Twinkle, get it. You won't regret it.
- If you are having trouble repairing portals, post a message on WikiProject Portals' talk page.
Notes
[edit source]- If reverting to an earlier version, please check if that version has its own substantial problems – further editing may be required beyond the revert itself. For examples, article blurbs that are either so out of date, or otherwise problematic (e.g. not NPOV), that they are effectively content forks.
- Formatting or Lua errors can sometimes be easily fixed – such issues can be reported at WT:WPPORT/D (especially if that's all that's wrong with the portal).
- Some of the new portal templates allow for manual selection of content – if you want, you can try using {{Transclude lead excerpt}} or {{Transclude random excerpt}} for article excerpts (with appropriate values for the optional parameters), and {{Random slideshow}} for images
What to do with this list
[edit source]Below is the contents of WP:FPO; though inactive, this page can help you find the portals that are most likely to have lost content during the overhaul.
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Not done: portal has been reviewed, reviewer found problems that have not yet been fixed (please provide diff)
Partly done: portal has problems, some have been fixed but not all (please provide diff and what needs to be done)
Done: portal has been fixed- File:Black check.svg Already done: portals that were not redesigned
- File:Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: for portals whose new versions are as good as or better than the originals in terms of content included; fixes may be needed elsewhere but not a full revert
- Pink clock Awaiting administrative action: found a version to revert to but an admin needs to restore some pages first (please provide diff)
Arts and culture (34)
[edit source] Done Architecture
Not done Arts—needs further diff analysis
Done Association football
Done Baseball
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action [1] Comedy—old has more selected articles
File:Black check.svg Already done Constructed languages
File:Black check.svg Already done Cricket
File:Black check.svg Already done English football
File:Black check.svg Already done Film
File:Black check.svg Already done Food
File:Black check.svg Already done Formula One
Not done Halo
File:Black check.svg Already done Ice hockey
File:Black check.svg Already done Journalism
File:Black check.svg Already done Literature
File:Black check.svg Already done (Children's literature)
Done Music
Done (Alternative rock,
File:Black check.svg Already done Heavy metal,
File:Black check.svg Already done Latin music,
File:Black check.svg Already done Music of Australia)
File:Symbol confirmed.svg Approved Poetry
File:Black check.svg Already done Speculative fiction
File:Black check.svg Already done Rugby union
File:Black check.svg Already done Television
Done Tennis
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action The Simpsons—if header is yellow need it undeleted and reverted
Geography and places (57)
[edit source] Not done [3] Africa—unclear if necessary
Done Australia
Done California
Done Connecticut
Partly done England—reverted to last functioning version, in an ideal world, this portal would be [4]
(Bristol,
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action [5] Florida—I'm sure the subpages did a much better job at picking the images vs. the algorithms, but we may never know....
Done Geography
Done Germany
File:Black check.svg Already done Gibraltar
Done Iceland
File:Black check.svg Already done Illinois
Done (Chicago)
Not done India
(Kerala,
Done Japan
File:Black check.svg Already done Massachusetts
File:Black check.svg Already done New England
File:Black check.svg Already done New York
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action [6] New York City)
Done New Zealand
Done Peru
Done Rhode Island
Done Russia
File:Black check.svg Already done Scotland
Not done [8] Spain—needs diff analysis, subpages are deleted
File:Black check.svg Already done Texas—good to see they didn't mess with Texas... much
Done Ukraine
File:Black check.svg Already done Utah
Health and fitness (2)
[edit source] Done Medicine
File:Black check.svg Already done Sports
History and events (10)
[edit source]File:Black check.svg Already done British Empire
Done History
Done History of science
File:Black check.svg Already done War
File:Black check.svg Already done (American Civil War,
File:Black check.svg Already done Italian Wars,
File:Black check.svg Already done Napoleonic Wars,
File:Black check.svg Already done World War I,
File:Black check.svg Already done World War II)
Mathematics and logic (1)
[edit source]File:Black check.svg Already done Mathematics
Natural and physical sciences (19)
[edit source]Pink clock Awaiting administrative action [9] Arthropods
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action [10] Biology—older selected articles are much better/more relevant, box headers are deleted, lead article excerpt looks okay
File:Black check.svg Already done Cats
File:Black check.svg Already done Chemistry
Done Cetaceans
File:Black check.svg Already done Dinosaurs
File:Black check.svg Already done Dogs
File:Black check.svg Already done Earth sciences
File:Black check.svg Already done Environment
File:Black check.svg Already done Fish
File:Black check.svg Already done Fungi
File:Black check.svg Already done Horses
Done Mammals
File:Black check.svg Already done Physics—selected article needs automation
Done Science
File:Symbol confirmed.svg Approved Sharks
File:Black check.svg Already done Solar System
File:Black check.svg Already done Tropical cyclones
File:Black check.svg Already done Volcanoes
People (2)
[edit source] Done Biography
Done (Barack Obama)
Philosophy and thinking (3)
[edit source]File:Black check.svg Already done Conservatism—has some display issues unrelated to the design considerations that are the scope of this page
Not done [11] Feminism—featured content
File:Black check.svg Already done Philosophy of science
Reference (1)
[edit source]File:Black check.svg Already done Library and information science
Religion (7)
[edit source]File:Black check.svg Already done Religion
File:Black check.svg Already done (Buddhism,
Done Christianity
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action [12] (Anglicanism),
File:Black check.svg Already done Hinduism,
File:Black check.svg Already done Islam,
File:Black check.svg Already done Scientology)
Social sciences and society (19)
[edit source]File:Black check.svg Already done Schools
Supreme Court of the United States
Technology and applied sciences (14)
[edit source] Done Technology
Pink clock Awaiting administrative action (Amusement parks—[13] has better design and splits out selected article in a useful way, LGV has one redlink
Done Animation
File:Black check.svg Already done Aviation
File:Black check.svg Already done Electronics
Done Energy
Not done Internet—[14] has some layout errors
File:Black check.svg Already done London transport
File:Black check.svg Already done Renewable energy
Not done Robotics—[15]: News is outdated (can autotransclude from current events maybe), advantage is the different selected article categories
File:Black check.svg Already done Trains
File:Black check.svg Already done U.S. Roads
File:Black check.svg Already done (California Roads,
File:Black check.svg Already done Maryland Roads,
File:Black check.svg Already done Michigan Highways))
Non-featured portals that have been reverted or flagged
[edit source] Done Hazardous materials
Done Abu Dhabi
Done Tuvalu