Dan Garry wrote:
Regarding the move of the portal to a git-based system, as I explained in great detail in my 18 comments on T110070 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070, this move was done in partnership with Mxn, the primary maintainer of the portal in its previous system. Mxn and I spoke in person about the portal at Wikimania 2015, which was what really kicked this project off; I also mentioned that in my very comment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070#1568488 on that T110070. I was also very clear in my comments on the task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070#1653320 that we were specifically trying to improve only wikipedia.org to keep our work manageable and maintain cost effectiveness for our efforts.
Regarding portals other than www.wikipedia.org, perhaps you can respond at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135929?
MZMcBride