On 27 October 2016 at 05:12, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can we get an update from someone about WMF about work
on Portals in
general? I believe there is, or is planned, a Discovery portal, a Research
portal, an Evaluation portal, and a general-purpose Community portal. I
heard that some work was paused while different teams were syncing their
plans for portals, and that was awhile ago. Can we get a comprehensive
update about portals?
I understand your desire for a comprehensive update. The portals you have
mentioned are very different, being aimed at different audiences and
different use cases. In fact, I'd say they're totally unrelated projects
that just happen to have had the word "portal" put in their title; I
caution against seeing too much meaning in such confluences of terminology.
Given that, I encourage you to reach out to the respective owners of the
individual projects to get more information about them, rather than seeking
a unified report.
Regarding the "Discovery portal", I believe you were referring to
www.wikipedia.org. There is comprehensive documentation on
MediaWiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> which explains the
past, current, and future plans. Please take a look at that, and I'd be
happy to answer any outstanding questions you have.
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation