-----Original Message----- From: Sam Korn [mailto:smoddy@gmail.com] Sent: 20 September 2005 5:49 PM To: macgyvermagic@gmail.com; English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Topic warriors
On 9/20/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
True. We should have portals for television shows, video game and
culture, instead of the portals you mentioned. That's what
WikiProjects were made for. Maybe we should have such portals moved to
a subpage of their respective projects?
I think portals should be the "public face" of WikiProjects. A portal
should only exist if there is a formal set of users dedicated to keeping it maintained. If this is not happening, it should be
archived or deleted (preferably archived). Pages like [[Portal:Cricket]], while potentially just fan pages, actually provide
an excellent method of navigating appropriate content. If they are kept up, they do no harm. If they are not kept up, they look messy and a messy portal seems worse than an incomplete article.
Sam
Hm, personally I don't see too much of a link between portals and projects. Astronomy-related projects include telescopes and astronomical objects, neither of which would make a good topic for a portal, while a wikiproject:astronomy would be too broad to work well as a project. I agree with MgM that the portals I listed in my earlier mail cover topics much more suited to a project than to a portal.
WT
On 9/20/05, Worldtraveller wikipedia@world-traveller.org wrote:
Hm, personally I don't see too much of a link between portals and projects. Astronomy-related projects include telescopes and astronomical objects, neither of which would make a good topic for a portal, while a wikiproject:astronomy would be too broad to work well as a project. I agree with MgM that the portals I listed in my earlier mail cover topics much more suited to a project than to a portal.
On the contrary. I thought the entire intention of portals was to provide a comprehensive overview (I don't think that's an oxymoron) of a certain area. I think an astronomy portal would be excellent. There should be the possibility of a good article every month to feature. I guess some of the wikiprojects are too narrow: they should combine to form the portal. If there is enough coverage to keep a portal going, we should have a portal.
Sam