WP: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.

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How to repair portals

  1. Find the last version of the portal before the namespace-wide overhaul.
  2. Compare it to the current version of the portal and note any missing or lower quality sections.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. *If you don't have Twinkle, get it. You won't regret it.
  6. If you are having trouble repairing portals, post a message on WikiProject Portals' talk page.

=Notes=

  • 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 For examples, article blurbs that are either so out of date, or otherwise problematic (e.g. not NPOV), that they are effectively content forks.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 {{tl|Transclude lead excerpt}} or {{tl|Transclude random excerpt}} for article excerpts (with appropriate values for the optional parameters), and {{tl|Random slideshow}} for images

What to do with this list

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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  • {{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
  • {{Awaitingadmin}}: found a version to revert to but an admin needs to restore some pages first (please provide diff)

{{anchor|Arts and culture}}Arts and culture (34)

{{done}} Architecture

{{not done}} Arts—needs further diff analysis

{{done}} Association football

{{done}} Baseball

Bollywood

{{awaitingadmin}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Comedy&diff=cur&oldid=854551093] 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)

Numismatics

Opera

Photography

{{approved}} Poetry

{{already done}} Speculative fiction

Star Trek

{{already done}} Rugby union

{{already done}} Television

{{done}} Tennis

Textile arts

Theatre

{{awaitingadmin}} The Simpsons—if header is yellow need it undeleted and reverted

Visual arts

{{anchor|Geography and places}}Geography and places (57)

{{not done}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Atlases&oldid=860827232] Atlas

{{not done}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Africa&diff=cur&oldid=856896516] Africa—unclear if necessary

{{done}} Australia

(South Australia)

Bangladesh

Brazil

Bulgaria

{{done}} California

{{done}} Connecticut

Cuba

{{partly done}} England—reverted to last functioning version, in an ideal world, this portal would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:England&diff=887798356&oldid=849213674]

(Bristol,

Cheshire,

London,

North West England,

Somerset)

European Union

{{awaitingadmin}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Florida&diff=884938452&oldid=845442766] 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

Hong Kong

{{done}} Iceland

{{already done}} Illinois

{{done}} (Chicago)

{{not done}} India

(Kerala,

West Bengal)

Indiana

Indonesia

Ireland

{{done}} Japan

Kentucky

(Louisville)

Latin America

{{already done}} Massachusetts

Minnesota

Nevada

{{already done}} New England

{{already done}} New York

(Finger Lakes,

Hudson Valley,

{{awaitingadmin}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:New_York_City&diff=886888308&oldid=849933456] New York City)

{{done}} New Zealand

{{done}} Norway—would prefer [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Norway&diff=885933564&oldid=865541708]

Oklahoma

Oregon

{{done}} Peru

Poland

Puerto Rico

{{done}} Rhode Island

{{done}} Russia

{{already done}} Scotland

{{not done}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Spain&diff=cur&oldid=840979452] 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

Wales

{{anchor|Health and fitness}}Health and fitness (2)

{{done}} Medicine

{{already done}} Sports

{{anchor|History and events}}History and events (10)

Biological warfare

{{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)

{{anchor|Mathematics and logic}}Mathematics and logic (1)

{{already done}} Mathematics

{{anchor|Natural and physical sciences}}Natural and physical sciences (19)

{{awaitingadmin}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Arthropods&diff=cur&oldid=854561662] Arthropods

{{awaitingadmin}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Biology&diff=cur&oldid=857762133] 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

{{anchor|People}}People (2)

{{done}} Biography

{{done}} (Barack Obama)

{{anchor|Philosophy and thinking}}Philosophy and thinking (3)

{{already done}} Conservatism—has some display issues unrelated to the design considerations that are the scope of this page

{{not done}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Feminism&diff=884092432&oldid=854426418] Feminism—featured content

{{already done}} Philosophy of science

{{anchor|Reference}}Reference (1)

{{anchor|Religion}}Religion (7)

{{already done}} Religion

{{already done}} (Buddhism,

{{done}} Christianity

{{awaitingadmin}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Anglicanism&diff=883916604&oldid=854559040] (Anglicanism),

{{already done}} Hinduism,

{{already done}} Islam,

{{already done}} Scientology)

{{anchor|Social sciences and society}}Social sciences and society (19)

{{anchor|Technology and applied sciences}}Technology and applied sciences (14)

{{done}} Technology

{{awaitingadmin}} (Amusement parks—[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Amusement_parks&diff=cur&oldid=854549963] 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—[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Internet&diff=cur&oldid=867895298] has some layout errors

{{already done}} London transport

{{already done}} Renewable energy

{{not done}} Robotics—[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Robotics&oldid=871871509]: 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))