User talk:Qwertyxp2000/Archives/2018/May

Invitation to 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. Sixty-six 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   06:52, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2018)

The entrance of Kerobokan Prison Hello, Qwertyxp2000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Kerobokan Prison Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Paul Anka • Fried potatoes Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 7 May 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2018)

A view of the Sargasso art installation at the BCE Place for Luminato arts festival in 2011 Hello, Qwertyxp2000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Arts festival Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Kerobokan Prison • Paul Anka Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2018)

The Uzi is a weapon. Hello, Qwertyxp2000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Weapon Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Arts festival • Kerobokan Prison Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 21 May 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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   23:29, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2018)

Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company as of 2014. Hello, Qwertyxp2000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Henri Nestlé Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Weapon • Arts festival Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 28 May 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •