Grants:IdeaLab/Portal vs Main Page
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Hello,
I think, that portals could allure users with some topic, they could help them with navigation in that topic and they could offer them also some news and interesting facts about that topic. But so many users still don't even know, what is their purpose. Therefore I've got an idea, which would be worth realizing. Users could check (in Settings/Beta) not to see the Main Page, but to be redirected to their selected portal. I.e. if that user then clicks at Wikipedia logo, or types e.g. en.wikipedia.org in their browser (logged in of course), their selected portal will be openned instead of standard Main Page. This function could help not only with portal and its article of the month (etc.) propagation but also portal topic propagation itself across users. Portal is so called main page of its topic, in which are some users interested, isn't it? Of course it would be a function just for experienced users, which check it in the Settings/Beta and select their preferred portal there. Everybody else would see standard Main Page as usual. I don't know, how to code for MediaWiki, I'm just experienced web programmer and template editor on Czech Wikipedia (cswiki). Therefore I ask for your opinion and for your help and effort to make this idea happen.
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