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Portal:Pancakes
Enjoy. — The Transhumanist 06:04, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Northamerica1000:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
– AmericanAir88(talk) 18:16, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your fantastic contributions. Now that I am back from Atlanta I cannot wait to do further collaborations. Keep up the good work. If you ever need anything just ask. Your pal AA. AmericanAir88(talk) 18:16, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
@AmericanAir88: If you'd like, you can watchlist my newly created Articles and content page, which I will try to keep updated with content I am working on. If anything interests you, feel free to improve, expand, etc. Also pinging Anna Frodesiak, since she asked me some time ago what happened to my former articles page. Cheers, North America1000 15:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
@Northamerica1000: A fantastic drink! AmericanAir88(talk) 00:27, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
@The Transhumanist: I have went through Template:Portal image banner and have tried various methods to set the height of the banner image I added to Portal:Korean cuisine, but nothing is working. I also used the overflow parameter in various methods, but cannot get the image to resize. The goal is to reduce the images height. So, requesting your assistance. Further instructions on the Portal:Korean cuisine page regarding this matter would be very helpful, as it's likely other users will encounter this issue. North America1000 21:17, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I can't express just how happy I am that you've taken the plunge into portal creation. But I'll try: I am overjoyed!
Woohoo!
It blows me away that in many cases ((Basic portal start page)) almost instantly creates a complete portal. And now someone else besides me has experienced that. This is so cool.
But the conventional method is not quite instant. You still have to type or copy that code onto the page, and that takes precious time. Especially if you are waiting there while the new portal is generated.
Therefore...
I created a tool to speed up the process even more, that I've been using, and I thought you might be interested in it.
Unfortunately, there is a bug: it goes into an endless loop if you have WP:WikEd activated. Therefore, it is essential to turn off WikEd before using it! That's why I haven't told too many people about the tool: because I can't figure out how to fix that bug. Otherwise, the tool works great, and so, I thought you might like to try it.
The tool makes portal creation lightning fast.
It is this script: User:The Transhumanist/QuickPortal.js.
What it does is detects when you open a creation page for a new portal, and then inserts ((subst:Basic portal start page))
, and puts the page into preview mode, ready for inspection, waiting to be saved. It works automatically, without having to click on a menu item. You just click on a red portal link.
When used with auto-tab-opening, it speeds up the process of portal creation immensely.
Using Firefox or Chrome, when you Ctrl+click on a redlink, the browser opens WP's editor in a new tab.
So (whith QuickPortal.js installed), if you create a list of portal redlinks, and Ctrl+click on 50 of them, you get 50 tabs each with a new portal ready for inspection. What I do is close those that aren't complete, and save the complete ones. Then I go on to another batch.
This works best when the tabs are created without focus being shifted to the new tabs. That is, when the focus stays on the page where you are clicking on the redlinks. That way, you can click on redlinks rapid fire.
I used to have some extensions that loaded tabs automatically, but those are no longer compatible due to Firefox's "upgrades". If you find a good one, let me know. I also use Chrome.
If you decide to try it, let me know how QuickPortal.js works for you.
Cheers, — The Transhumanist 02:37, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello NorthA,
I noticed you were focusing on portal creation and fixing. I want to help you with that so I am dedicated myself in addition to my normal cleanup to help do portals. I recently created the Banana Portal and would like you to look it over and explain if anything is not correct or if there is a certain style. I want to help build the food and drink portal category. Take your time, thank you. Your pal AA. AmericanAir88(talk) 23:17, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Northamerica1000: Thank you so much. Any portal categories you want me to help you on? AmericanAir88(talk) 23:15, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
@Northamerica1000: Thank you so much for this. You are a fantastic admin. If you ever need help or assistance in anything, just ask. Your pal AA. AmericanAir88(talk) 23:31, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Let's wax philosophical about food. :)
Eventually (or sooner than we might think), there will likely be hundreds of food portals.
Should all the food portals be listed on all the food portals?
Food for thought, — The Transhumanist 22:36, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
To modify this, I had to clone the two templates that were daisy chained into it, and call those instead of the originals. Because editing the originals would change other templates besides the food template.
So, there are 3 templates involved here: Template:Food portal links horizontal, which calls Template:Related portals3 (new), which calls Template:Related portal item small (new). The last one has the size information in it, and you could easily tweak it. I basically halved all values, and included a font-size.
I'm sure you can handle it from here. ;) — The Transhumanist 16:55, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
P.S.: The changes made above are live, and show up in the food portals.
P.P.S.: Found Portal:Alcoholic drinks, Portal:Apples, Portal:Barley, Portal:Bottled water, Portal:Cereals, Portal:Chocolate, Portal:Cocktails, Portal:Crabapples, before I started falling asleep.
P.P.P.S.: Must find bed, before I pass out. :)
((Cuisine portal links horizontal))
What will happen when there is 1,000 food portals? — The Transhumanist 17:01, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Portalbar
... etc.
Inline
No problemo, right? North America1000 19:10, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Northamerica1000:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
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...for not responding to your Halloween goodwill message. I was too knackered to do anything when I picked it up, then forgot I'm afraid. So, a belated thanks! PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 11:19, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Northamerica1000:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
– ReaderofthePack (。◕‿◕。) 23:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
If you are interested in seeing the script mentioned above in action, with QuickPortal.js installed, and WikEd turned off, Ctrl+click on a bunch of portal redlinks below. ;) If everything goes right, that should give you a bunch of tabs, each with a portal in preview mode waiting to be inspected. — The Transhumanist 00:03, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
(To create the above list of titles, I did a search for cuisine templates using SearchSuite (with wikify on), copied the results, and replaced "Template:" with "Portal:".) — The Transhumanist 00:08, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Ready for an experiment?
Okay, I believe the list is now ready for one-click portal creation. I went through all the links I posted above, to make sure they have a corresponding cuisine template with matching title. To create these portals in one big batch, all you need to do is install User:The Transhumanist/QuickPortal.js and Ctrl-click on all of the redlinks in the list above. Click click click click click... They will all magically appear in tabs, in preview mode, ready for you to inspect them. The only requirement is that you have WikEd turned off. (Otherwise, the script will go into an endless loop in each tab -- I don't know why). If you decide to try it, let me know how it goes. ;) — The Transhumanist 07:25, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
It has been almost a week, so I went ahead and created the rest using the one-click method, except those that had only a few topics. Their navigation templates need to be beefed up, before a portal should be built for them. — The Transhumanist 04:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
To coincide with producing lots of portals, there are techniques for linking to lots of portals.
The main one is WP:AWB. The easiest portal links to place with AWB are on the corresponding category pages, as you can generally get them all in one pass. The others take multiple passes to get them all (due to missing see alsos, etc.).
Another method that works fairly well is multi-tab. First, make a list of portals that need links to them, then edit the list to be root articles or template names or category page title (don't forget the preceding colon). Then ctrl-click on them to make a tab for each. Then process each tab.
I hope these help speed up the process.
Keep up the great work! — The Transhumanist 23:22, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
@The Transhumanist: @Northamerica1000: I will get right on it with linking the portals. I will apply for AWB soon. Thank you for looking out for me, its very much appreciated. AmericanAir88(talk) 11:53, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
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is hereby awarded to Northamerica1000 for dedicated participation in the Portals Project and for ongoing effort to revitalize the portal system, including but not limited to the creation of many portals:
Northamerica1000, keep up your excellent and conscientious work. Kudos to you. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:08, 30 October 2018 (UTC) |
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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Northamerica1000.
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Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:
Way to go!
Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.
He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.
Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.
Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.
One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.
This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.
Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.
This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.
We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.
We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...
Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:
((Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden ))
Using both maxheight=120px
and overflow=Hidden
produces this:
There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.
Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.
Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.
Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.
See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:44, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
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