Anthere anthere5@yahoo.com writes:
Okay. Most of the time a portal is defined as a site which is a convergence of various entities. A Web site being useful like starting point, a door open to a world of information.
But usually, in my experience, web portals are a link to external content. This is explicitly listed among the many things that wikipedia is not. Wikipedia's definition of "Web portal" is different again.
(by providing little services, such as emails accounts, news, weather...).
As I understand if, this is orthogonal to wikipedia's aims.
It is certainly following this open directory definition. It is providing lots of info on very various subjects.
If you want dmoz.org, you know where to find it.
http://www.agriculture.com/worldwide/index.html
- Just provides a dozen of digested hit news from Reuters.
- links to different partners sites (all ag sites from all over the world)
- and somewhere hidden behind, some more stuff to try to keep people up a little bit longuer
i.e. Almost no original content. Again, orthogonal to wikipedia's aims.
- quick information (characteristics of the project, number of "partners",
when each started, maybe the number of articles we are currently having in the base...)
This bears no resemblance to any of the definitions/examples given above. What that is, is a front page.
See? it is just a portal!
Only if you totally redefine "portal".