Portal talk:Main Page

Dreamers and Doers

 * Just added that to the homepage. Got it from the old forum that is no longer up and running.

Please allow me to share an excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt's 1910 Citizenship in a Republic speech, which I am sure many of you are familiar with, which rings true to me every day:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Novo Navis (talk) 18:51, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

And I was not the man in the arena, you were, but "everybody" thinks it's beautiful to take a breath. Novo Navis (talk) 21:20, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Aardvark! It's going to take several weeks. Novo Navis (talk) 21:36, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The Discussion, or Talk pages attached to Articles on the Wiki are for discussion about an Article's presentation, development, and upkeep. They are neither for general discussion nor commenting or discussing on a page's contents divorced from one of those purposes. If you would like to discuss the content and ideas of The Portal with other listeners of the show, consider joining one of The Portal Discords. If you would like to discuss editing the wiki, join The Portal Group Discord and post in the #lobby-and-introductions that you would like to do so. If you would like further guidance, refer to the MediaWiki documentation on Talk pages for their basic usage. Aardvark (talk) 22:20, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm going to bed. Novo Navis (talk) 23:16, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Why aren't SVG working???

 * https://theportal.wiki/wiki/File_talk:GU_triangle.svg --BeefSandwich27 (talk) 14:45, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Separating Eric Links from Community Links
--BeefSandwich27 (talk) 16:43, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * We should add all of Eric's links, like Facebook, instagram, twitch, etc.
 * Doing this will make the community section too long probably, which means it makes sense to have a community section for community links and an Eric section for Eric links.

Active Discussion is in Discord

 * A lot of discussion is happening in The Portal Discord.

Things we need to fix

 * We've started getting spam. Now it's time to lock down new user creation or it will get out of hand.
 * I'm actively watching the bots/vandals. I'll have time over the weekend to clean things up more. Right now I've temporarily locked down new user creation. --BeefSandwich27 (talk) 16:39, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Are email verifications not being sent? Need to test They are not being sent.
 *  KevB-ing (talk)  I received one but I had to go to my spam folder to find it.  22:02, 4 March 2020 (UTC) 
 * If that's the case, then I need to just super-double-check everything. Seems like it actually is working. --BeefSandwich27 (talk) 11:26, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Better ability to edit tables?
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_tables_with_VisualEditor/2
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/html2wiki.php
 * Mobile isn't good at all.
 *  KevB-ing (talk)  I think the Timeless skin (included as an option by default) may work better on mobile than the OOTB default Vector skin. Also, a Timeless Dark skin is available as an added extension (having both would allow for toggling between with some consistency).
 * Skin:Timeless
 * Timeless-DarkCSS
 *  21:46, 4 March 2020 (UTC) 


 * SVG needs to work.
 * Many other things that I'll add soon.

StructuredDiscussions (aka Flow) (?)
''KevB-ing (talk)
 * Extension:StructuredDiscussions
 * Structured_Discussions
 * Talk:Structured_Discussions

Try it : }
 * Project_talk:Sandbox/Structured_Discussions_test
 * Project_talk:Sandbox

meta
 * Talk_pages_consultation_2019
 * Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Communication
 * Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Communication/Announce/Phase_2

 22:17, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Talk_pages_project

Dev Ideas
KevB-ing (talk)  User:KevB-ing/Initial Dev Ideas  22:38, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Discord
Invite expired from link


 * We're aware that the Discord link is expired. We commented it out until it gets fixed. 12:19, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Big Cover Image
We should remind Brandon to upload a somewhat smaller version of The Portal cover image on the homepage. It's currently larger than it needs to be and sometimes loads in super oversized before the CSS kicks in. (You want it kind of bigger for retina displays, but not quite as big as it currently is.) --BeefSandwich27 (talk) 12:32, 4 February 2021 (UTC)