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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
Interface administrator changes
Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.
What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.
We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.
When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.
Get ready...
Get set...
Go!
User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.
When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.
The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 09:03, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Remember the initial discussion we had about quantum portals?
I can't find it.
Can you?
(Please provide a link). — The Transhumanist 07:19, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
It's a convenient location to place research on the subject, and for discussion, planning, etc. Hope to see you there.
—
The Transhumanist
09:30, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Where we are at:
You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).
Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!
Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:
The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...
Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.
For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch
We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.
There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these...
Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.
Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.
Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.
The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...
More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.
By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.
There are two approaches here:
Or "portal deorphanization"...
Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.
And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.
See below...
Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.
What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?
Quantum portals.
What are quantum portals?
Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.
Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:26, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear Pbsouthwood,
Dreamy Jazz Bot is handling this via " Task 2".
It appears to be doing the daily function quite well, linking to all new portals since the previous daily run. This means we are not adding to the orphan problem by creating more portals. Dreamy Jazz has certainly gone beyond the call of duty with this feature. — The Transhumanist 21:26, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
Peter...
Okay, I've got a very rough menu-item-controlled prototype up and running. It shows proof-of-concept by using preview pages as the display page for quantum portals. If a portal already exists, it shows that.
For the prototype, I've added the "Matching portal" menu item to the script User:The Transhumanist/QuickPortal.js.
That script (not the new menu item), along with an assortment of " bpsp" (numbered) templates, is how I've been creating so many portals so quickly.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to integrate all the numbered templates into a single process, but for now, swapping out templates (by adding a number) is done manually during portal creation (at the preview page stage).
Please give the menu item a test run, and let me know what you think.
All ideas, thoughts, comments, observations, questions, and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 21:40, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
P.S.: For non-existing portals, I haven't made the menu item single click yet. When on an article page that doesn't have a portal yet, after clicking on Matching portal, you have to click on the "Start the" link provided on the page that shows up. Then QuickPortal's main feature will kick in and create the portal (in preview mode). — The Transhumanist 22:10, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
P.P.S.: There's a bug in QuickPortal.js; an incompatibility with
WP:wikEd. So you have to have wikEd turned off. Otherwise, QuickPortal will go into an endless loop, creating the portal over and over. That's why I haven't publicly announced the script yet. Alpha software.
—
The Transhumanist
22:17, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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you gonna do that for the rest of the planet? (biodiversity of south africa) - it looks very good but... the precedent issue - that is a hard act to follow for the rest of the planet... JarrahTree 05:56, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
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@ Pbsouthwood: Sadly you are wrong, Portal:Tanagers was created by using List of tanager species. But any way I just found a category that I didn't know about until today. It's called Category:Portals needing attention, I think I'll use this on portals that I asked User:The Transhumanist to create for me. Catfurball ( talk) 18:27, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
@ Pbsouthwood: I added Category:Portals needing attention to the following portals that I asked User:The Transhumanist to create for me. Portal:Cotingas; Portal:Hummingbirds; Portal:Plums; Portal:Tanagers; Portal:Tyrant flycatchers & Portal:Woodpeckers. I just added some new nice pictures to the Introduction section of these portals, but sadly someone will have to clean my work a little. Catfurball ( talk) 19:31, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Copied "Navbox builder script" thread to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Navigation templates#Navbox builder script". — The Transhumanist 18:31, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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If you restore a page, it is a good idea to remove the speedy tag! And, but I admit I often forget, restore the talk page as well. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 14:56, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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The lead entries of outlines are typically formatted the same as other entries in the outlines, annotation style, with an en-dash separating the main entry from its descriptive annotation.
Transclusion doesn't accommodate the en dash, and so, we have a formatting problem.
I've been delaying the use of transcluding leads into outlines, hoping to find or develop a solution to this. Then I got distracted by the
WP:ENDPORTALS RfC.
It may seem like a minor distinction, but it may come into significance when we build an outline parser. In addition to parsing branches of the tree structure down to individual entries, such a parser would also differentiate between each topic and its description. List items are a hell of a lot easier to parse than paragraphs. The en dash differentiates where the topic ends and its description begins, and serves as a disambiguator (ambiguities plague natural language processing algorithms such as text parsers). Parsing a formal outline format is easy, but an informal format, that includes non-outline features such as natural language prose (paragraph format), is exponentially more complex, and in many cases is impossible to disambiguate with the programming resources we have available. Outline parsers are used in outline viewers and outline editors (see Outliner). — The Transhumanist 01:04, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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Previous issue:
This issue:
All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019
Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
Individual Nominations:
Related WikiProject:
(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)
This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).
It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.
At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 03:53, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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