Wikipedia: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]- 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]- 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 For examples, article blurbs that are either so out of date, or otherwise problematic (e.g. not NPOV), that they are effectively content forks.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]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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[edit]- 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
- Already done: portals that were not redesigned
- 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
- 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]Done Architecture
Not done Arts—needs further diff analysis
Done Association football
Done Baseball
Awaiting administrative action [1] Comedy—old has more selected articles
Already done Constructed languages
Already done Cricket
Already done English football
Already done Film
Already done Food
Already done Formula One
Not done Halo
Already done Ice hockey
Already done Journalism
Already done Literature
Already done (Children's literature)
Done Music
Done (Alternative rock,
Already done Heavy metal,
Already done Latin music,
Already done Music of Australia)
Approved Poetry
Already done Speculative fiction
Already done Rugby union
Already done Television
Done Tennis
Awaiting administrative action The Simpsons—if header is yellow need it undeleted and reverted
Geography and places (57)
[edit]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,
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
Already done Gibraltar
Done Iceland
Already done Illinois
Done (Chicago)
Not done India
(Kerala,
Done Japan
Already done Massachusetts
Already done New England
Already done New York
Awaiting administrative action [6] New York City)
Done New Zealand
Done Peru
Done Rhode Island
Done Russia
Already done Scotland
Not done [8] Spain—needs diff analysis, subpages are deleted
Already done Texas—good to see they didn't mess with Texas... much
Done Ukraine
Already done Utah
Health and fitness (2)
[edit]Done Medicine
Already done Sports
History and events (10)
[edit]Already done British Empire
Done History
Done History of science
Already done War
Already done (American Civil War,
Already done Italian Wars,
Already done Napoleonic Wars,
Already done World War I,
Already done World War II)
Mathematics and logic (1)
[edit]Already done Mathematics
Natural and physical sciences (19)
[edit]Awaiting administrative action [9] Arthropods
Awaiting administrative action [10] Biology—older selected articles are much better/more relevant, box headers are deleted, lead article excerpt looks okay
Already done Cats
Already done Chemistry
Done Cetaceans
Already done Dinosaurs
Already done Dogs
Already done Earth sciences
Already done Environment
Already done Fish
Already done Fungi
Already done Horses
Done Mammals
Already done Physics—selected article needs automation
Done Science
Approved Sharks
Already done Solar System
Already done Tropical cyclones
Already done Volcanoes
People (2)
[edit]Done Biography
Done (Barack Obama)
Philosophy and thinking (3)
[edit]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
Already done Philosophy of science
Reference (1)
[edit]Already done Library and information science
Religion (7)
[edit]Already done Religion
Already done (Buddhism,
Done Christianity
Awaiting administrative action [12] (Anglicanism),
Already done Hinduism,
Already done Islam,
Already done Scientology)
Social sciences and society (19)
[edit]Already done Schools
Supreme Court of the United States
Technology and applied sciences (14)
[edit]Done Technology
Awaiting administrative action (Amusement parks—[13] has better design and splits out selected article in a useful way, LGV has one redlink
Done Animation
Already done Aviation
Already done Electronics
Done Energy
Not done Internet—[14] has some layout errors
Already done London transport
Already done Renewable energy
Not done Robotics—[15]: News is outdated (can autotransclude from current events maybe), advantage is the different selected article categories
Already done Trains
Already done U.S. Roads
Already done (California Roads,
Already done Maryland Roads,
Already done Michigan Highways))
Non-featured portals that have been reverted or flagged
[edit]Done Hazardous materials
Done Abu Dhabi
Done Tuvalu