Talk:Project portals

Preview script

Per User:McCormack I've been developing User:Splarka/portalpreview.js, which gives you a live preview (via popup) of these portals using a simple document.write, either of the revision content, or of the textarea (when editing). Might it be worthwhile adding to this page under a new section such as "tools"? Splarka 21:45, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for this script! Yes, such a section would be helpful; please don't hesitate to add it. Thanks, Korg 22:35, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikisource

If there are plans to integrate the Wikisource domain into this, please be aware that it is a functioning wiki, and a discussion on the Scriptorium is definitely required. I can see benefits of having that main page managed from here, but there is no way it would work unless the people managing it from here are fully aware of the needs and desires of wikisource, and probably indulge us a little as grapple with this idea. John Vandenberg 14:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

There are no plans to redirect it to a portal page, but in any event the community would be consulted first. Korg 16:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

http://www.wikibooks.org is currently a http redirect loop

whereas http://wikibooks.org (without the www.) brings up the portal page correctly. – B jonas 21:45, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - I'm asking in IRC about this.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 13:29, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, this seems to be a site misconfig issue. Nothing tangible we could do, save for harassing sysadmins on IRC :) --FiliP ██ 14:37, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

2012 update

In the last few weeks/months, a few updates have been done on www.wikipedia.org template that should also be done on the other portals:

• Use HTML5 (simple doctype, simple utf-8 charset, drop redundant attributes)
• Use bits.wikimedia.org and load.php instead of linking to resources directly (which is unstable and has bugs)
• Charset before <title>
• Remove redundant print stuff that is covered by "mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint" in the load.php call
• Remove IE5 css, IE5.5 css
• Use <input type="search" ..> so that it shows the input field in the HTML5 "search" style that newer browsers have implemented.
• Use wikimedia-button.png from //bits.wikimedia.org/images/wikimedia-button.png instead of meta.wikimedia.org or upload.wikimedia.org.
• Remove MSSmartTagsPreventParsing (why was that ever in here?)
• Start using ResourceLoader for CSS (automatically minify). Use MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.css. Avoids duplication of the css, loads faster, and keeps the pages smaller.
• Use new more semantic html structure and css classes ("search-container", "central-featured-lang", "divider", "bookshelf-container" etc.).

The easiest way to make sure everything is updated is to copy www.wikipedia.org template to the /temp of the target portal. And then go top to bottom and replace Wikipedia stuff with the correct values and images (example). –Krinkle^talk 20:32, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

• www.wikimedia.org template:  Done –Krinkle^talk 21:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
• www.wikipedia.org template:  Done –Krinkle^talk 14:37, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
• www.wikinews.org template:  Done –Krinkle^talk 00:51, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
• www.wiktionary.org template: Waiting
• www.wikiquote.org template: Waiting
• www.wikiversity.org template: Waiting
• www.wikibooks.org template: Waiting
• secure.wikimedia.org template:  Done by User:Ruslik0. –Krinkle^talk 11:01, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
• www.wikidata.org template:  Done –Krinkle^talk 01:09, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
• Wikimedia missing site template Waiting

Add search suggestions to wiki-project portals

Originally requested on Bugzilla at bugzilla:15758. Lets add some javascript to these pages to give them search suggestions on prefix when typing in the search box (just like in the Vector skin on Wikipedia). The easier way is probably by implementing it on MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.js (which most portals use now, and those that don't benefit more from updating it to use it then to duplicate our effort). –Krinkle^talk 01:38, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

I added search suggestions to the Wiktionary portal last November. Some time after it was added, something happened to the CSS requiring a padding-left:0 to be added to the ul, which still hasn't been applied to Wiktionary's portal. I suppose the search suggestions code could be duplicated for the other portals. --Yair rand (talk) 17:54, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Update project icons

With the exception of Wikidata (due to a redirect) all of the portals should be updated to use the current icons used by Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikidata. – Allen4names (talk) 17:03, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikivoyage has gone live so I am going to start work on this. Please make any needed corrections to the following code.

<div class="otherprojects-item" id="Wiktionary">
<a href="//www.wiktionary.org/" title="Wiktionary"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/35px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png" alt="Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary"></a>&nbsp;<a href="//www.wiktionary.org/" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>
</div>
 
<div class="otherprojects-item" id="Wikivoyage">
<a href="//www.wikivoyage.org/" title="Wikivoyage"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Wikivoyage-logo.svg/35px-Wikivoyage-logo.svg.png" alt="Wikivoyage" title="Wikivoyage">&nbsp;<a href="//www.wikivoyage.org/" title="Wikivoyage">Wikivoyage</a>
</div>
 
<div class="otherprojects-item" id="Wikidata">
<a href="//www.wikidata.org/" title="Wikidata"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/35px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" alt="Wikidata" title="Wikidata"></a>&nbsp;<a href="//www.wikidata.org/" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>
</div>

I will edit Www.wikipedia.org template/temp first then the others as the main templates are synced. – Allen4names (talk) 19:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Nice, I'll help adding them also. –Krinkle^talk 23:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

I have editted Www.wikinews.org template/temp is it can be checked, corrected (if needed), and the main template synced to it. – Allen4names (talk) 22:26, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Preliminary edits to Www.wiktionary.org template/temp, Www.wikiquote.org template/temp, Www.wikiversity.org template/temp, and Www.wikibooks.org template/temp have now been made. A list of classes for the protals should be made as I needed to edit the stylesheets. If I missed any please let me know or fix them yourself. – Allen4names (talk) 06:18, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

I will now note updates at User:Allen4names#Wikimedia icons to avoid clutter here. – Allen4names (talk) 19:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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I will not be editting any of the project portal pages for a while so feel free to look at Www.wikimedia.org template/sandbox (Allen4names) to see if it can be used as the basis for adding the missing project links. – Allen4names (talk) 16:26, 3 March 2013 (UTC)