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Hello, from the Portals WikiProject...

You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system...

The Portals WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and is going strong. Fifty-nine editors have joined so far, with more joining daily.

We're having a blast, and excitement is high...

Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.

In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make portals more dynamic (self-updating), and to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished two tools so far, with more to come. They are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Discussions are underway about how to further upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.

There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too).

With more to come.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   23:34, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

References

Thank you for contributing to Misplaced Pages. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Jytdog (talk) 00:14, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   18:21, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please {{ping}} me. Thank you. -TT

What has been happening with portals...

Since May, the number of portals has more than doubled. There are over 1500 new portals. (Previously, it took 13 years to create that many).

We have developed a single-page paradigm, in which almost all new portals take up one page each, rather than dozens of subpages like they used to, while still presenting more content than than the old designs. This saves a great deal of time in portal construction. My average construction time for portals has dropped from about 6 hours to around 3 minutes each.

This was made possible by templates with underlying lua modules that pull excerpts and images from articles, and then display them in the sections of a portal.

A major innovation of portals is the application of slideshows (on desktop and laptop computers), for both images and textual excerpts, fed automatically, so editors don't even have to add items to the entry queue, unless they want to. Here are some examples:

• Portal:Don Quixote
• Portal:Egyptian pyramids
• Portal:Los Angeles
• Portal:Mars
• Portal:Monaco
• Portal:Penguins
• more...

Portals are automatically updated, in that they show the latest version of material from the articles they excerpt it from. The same with pagenames pulled from sourcepages. As sourcepages are developed, the selection displayed on the portals that use them progresses along with them.

Other improved features include conditional news, "did you know", and WikiProject sections that only appear if they have content to display. For example, when a news item is reported on a subject in Misplaced Pages's current events department, the subject's portal automatically generates a news section presenting the news item.

And portals are still evolving. For a couple prototypes of what they are heading toward, see Portal:Continents and Portal:New York City.

I hope you liked this update, and that you enjoy using portals as much as we have been enjoying redesigning them.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   08:23, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (March 16)

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==Thank you for this reminder. Others had suggested the topic was not crucial but I think it is worth my time. No need to undelete edits, new information from citations requires overhaul. Stay tuned. Mrphilip (talk) 12:14, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

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Yesterday you edited the biography of a living person to call her a "bastard" based on the circumstances of her birth. You also gratuitously inserted the name of this same person in a photo caption about birth out of wedlock in a patently inappropriate way. Your previous edit before that was to insert the words "delivered direct from a fat cow on" before the date of birth in the lead sentence of another BLP. Your previous edits before that were to insert the words "Birthed from cow" in the infobox of still another BLP. Both of these were blatant vandalism as well as BLP violations. Your other recent edits have included proposing to add two deceased people to LGBT categories based on no sources at all, as well as irrelevant insertions about homosexuality in the haemophilia article.

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