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Dead project?
This candidate page and the removals page haven't been touched for months. Is this portal project dead? PumpkinSky talk 02:36, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
- Not just reviews, but the whole portal system hasn't been upgraded since a long time. Thus the number of viewers decreased from 300,000 per month in 2008 to about half of that last month. In contrast, better maintained Portal systems on wikis with much lower readership attract higher number of viewers (ex: the French Wiki Portal page attracts 200k viewers).
- Maybe one of the problems is that "Consensus is ... determined by the portal directors: Cirt and OhanaUnited" and not by any admin or editor. Neither is very active recently, and this slows down the process. Many ridiculously low quality and unmaintained portals have stayed "featured" for over a year, discrediting the whole system. --Elekhh (talk) 05:33, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
- IOW, the en wiki portal system is broken big time. New directors that are active and know what they're doing should just step in. I see low participation rates all over en wiki; but this portal thing is the worst so far. There are many reason of course but I think wiki's model has many flaws. PumpkinSky talk 11:58, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
- Cirt is on indefinitely leave at the moment but I'll step in and close everything that needs to be closed within the next few days. A bigger concern is site-wide. Are you guys aware of the overall decline in editing across the entire English Wikipedia? My watchlist from 2010 and 2011 have a lot less activity than when it was 2007 or 2008. OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:27, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
- IOW, the en wiki portal system is broken big time. New directors that are active and know what they're doing should just step in. I see low participation rates all over en wiki; but this portal thing is the worst so far. There are many reason of course but I think wiki's model has many flaws. PumpkinSky talk 11:58, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
OhanaUnited has promoted Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Renewable energy with no-one unconnected with the portal explicitly supporting its promotion, and certainly nothing like the consensus that would be required at any other featured content process. Is this the way forward? Or should nominations that lack supports / oppose be archived without prejudice to renomination, as would happen elsewhere? Comments or other ideas welcome. BencherliteTalk 15:16, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- I certainly would have liked to hear more opinions on the merits of the portal. If you think nominating it for a review, I will welcome further scrutiny. The main issue I see is however the general lack of participation, and as I suggested above I think the whole project would benefit from becoming more open. Another thing which I believe might help is improving the design of the main Portal:Contents/Portals. While I did some minor improvements in the past, I still think it lags behind its German or French equivalent. --Elekhh (talk) 01:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- There seems to be a lot of FPs that are being maintainted, easily seen by looking at them. Then there are the less obvious ones, which are okay to the eye, but really not being maintained as they are living on recycled content.PumpkinSky talk 22:56, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Discussion on whether to deprecate the portal namespace
Wikipedia talk:Portal#Purpose of the Portal space might be of interest to some people here. BencherliteTalk 20:46, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
FYI, featured portal drive
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Portal#Main_Page_Featured_Portal_drive. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 08:30, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
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