Portal talk:Underwater diving

Portal name

Oh no, this has a portal also!
Well, according to Wiktionary 'diving' is both 2. The sport of jumping head first into water.
and 3. The practice of swimming underwater, especially using a scuba system, and especially for recreation.
So underwater diving is either: 2. underwater jumping into water or 3. underwater swimming underwater
Neither makes any sense. You cannot jump underwater into water and the other is redundant, since the other meaning of diving already includes underwater in it. In rather same way one could talk about racial racism. Though, in Finland we already have "ikärasismi" (literally "age racism"). 82.141.64.209 (talk) 12:52, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The name is used to avoid ambiguity problems. Natural language tends to be context sensitive, and it saves a lot of confusion and frustration to use a consistent terminology within a project like this. The sport of jumping into the water head first seems to have a slightly greater claim on the word 'diving' on Wikipedia. Possibly it was just the first article with the name, so the disambiguation page referred to underwater swimming as underwater diving and this led to the portal name. Redundancy in names is fairly common, and when used as a disambiguation tool is not particularly offensive in the absence of a better term. Underwater swimming would not be a suitable title as the practice of working underwater is also referred to as diving in English, even when no swimming or jumping into the water is involved, and is a large part of the scope of the portal.

It is not clear from your comment whether you are objecting to the existence of the portal, or that you disapprove of the name choice, or something else. Perhaps you could clarify this point, and if you have a constructive suggestion, please go ahead and make it. Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 17:13, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject

WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.

As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   07:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Been there, doing that, waiting for the T-shirt. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk):

Major rebuild of 2018

The portal has been substantially rebuilt as part of an experiment for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals drive to improve portals in general and make them less reliant on manual updates.

• The new version is a single-page portal, in that the wikitext is all on one page in portal space, and it relies on large numbers of transclusions from mainspace, so will stay up to date as the transcluded material changes.
• The new structure is constructed around Outline of underwater diving, the hierarchical list of the articles categorised as within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Scuba diving, though some optimisation to both the portal and the outline is expected. The maintenance of the outline will directly affect the portal index lists, but not yet the actual sets of randomised articles for display.
• The list of recognised content is updated weekly by a bot. I would like to eventually do the same for the outline and the articles in the random displays. That would make this portal almost entirely self updating.
• Images still have to be collected manually, but there are lots on Commons, and they have been chosen for quality and interest as images, rather than usefulness in the articles of WikiProject Scuba diving.

Constructive comments and suggestions are invited. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 11:30, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Experimental quality assessment

Criteria following Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/General#Refined proposal as of 26 June 2018

Portals are assessed based on how well they serve their purpose as entry points into their respective topic areas. High quality portals are:

1. Useful. Provides:
   • (a) an introduction to the topic or topics the portal covers, which follows the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section § Introductory text guidelines.

     Introduction is transcluded lead of FA root article with same title - Should be good enough.  Done

     Discuss:

   • (b) a variety of sample content and navigational sections, as well as a bridge between reading and editing, per Wikipedia:Portal guidelines § What content to include

     Strongly recommended:

     • Introduction – A short summary of the topic. If possible, this should contain an attractive image emblematic of the topic. Done
     • At least one Selected article section. Some portals have more than one.  Done Several randomly selected articles in each of the following groups:(based on the Outline of underwater diving which should include all articles in the scope of WikiProject Underwater diving, Non-free images automatically filtered out.)
       • Diving modes
       • Diving and support equipment
       • Diving procedures (more to follow)
       • Diving science
       • Occupational diving
       • Recreational diving
       • Hazards safety and law
       • Medicine, disorders and treatment
       • Underwater Tools and weapons
       • History
       • Salvage operations (commercial, naval and archaeological)
       • Military operations
       • Training, registration and certification of divers
       • Diving related organisations
       • Diving related publications
       • Diving related biographies
       • Recreational dive sites
       • Diving related list articles
       • Recognised content
     • A Selected picture section. Images should have captions detailed enough for viewers to understand the context (busy on this). Image size is an issue as template does not work for % width yet. No non-free images used. (slideshow transcluded from Outline article)  Done - slideshow template
     • Categories – Links to the most important categories related to the topic. Done - Category tree
     • Wikimedia – Links to material on other Wikimedia projects. Done - Standard template
     • Portals footer – The brief {{portals}}.  Done

     Recommended:

     • Additional Selected articles sections  Done
       • See list of sections above.
     • Additional Selected picture sections.  Not done This could be done by splitting the current slideshow, but is it worth the trouble?
     • Subportals or Related Portals (if there are any). This section is not required if a topic-specific browsebar is used (e.g., Religion). Done - Related portals
     • Topics – Links to the most important articles related to the topic. Done - Topic areas represented by the projects navboxes
     • Get involved – Links to relevant WikiProjects and other support pages for the subject. Done
       • WikiProject task list (transcluded from project)
       • Related projects

     Other possibilities

     • Browsebar – The general {{browsebar}}  Done
     • In the news  Done Probably not worth the trouble as there is nothing in it
     • Did you know?  Not done Probably not worth the effort - Could be done but would have to be created specially. More entertaining than useful
     • Selected biography  Done
     • Selected anniversaries or On this day – These should be updated automatically based on the date.  Not done Probably not worth the effort - Could be done but would have to be created specially, and not much to work from. More entertaining than useful.
     • Selected quotes  Done May not be worth the effort - I don't see how this could be automated. More entertaining than useful.
     • Additional features:
       • Collapsible outline lists for each box section, serving as section indexes. Done Unique feature as far as I know. Should make portal more useful for topic navigation.
       • Topic definition  Done
       • Portal scope statement  Done
       • How to use the portal  Done

2. Broad in coverage.
   • (a) Each selected content section either has at least 20 items on random rotation, or is automatically updated on at least a monthly basis.

     Some sections have 20 or more, others less. In some cases there cannot be 20 or more, as the list is complete but shorter.

     Updating automatic by random selection from manually created lists. Done Automated updating of the lists is a goal, but some tools not yet available. Bot runs may be needed.

   • (b) Content is representative of the entire topic or topics the portal covers, and not overly focused on specific aspects. Portals should present a worldwide view of the topic.  Done Within the limitations of current content.
3. Up to date. changes to article content are reflected in the portal content, via transclusion or other automated means.  Done As much as is currently possible. Working on it
4. Formatted appropriately. Follows the (draft) guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Portals. Done As I understand the current version of the draft

Based on this I suggest that the this portal meets the current state of the art criteria for Complete, but as tools improve it would have to be changed to stay state of the art. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:03, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

• Update: Box-headers now use standard templates with AAA accessibility · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 20:54, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Proposal to delete all portals

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 16:04, 22 September 2019 (UTC)