Template:Portal

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Module:Portal

This template produces a box with links to a portal or to multiple portals. It is most often used in the "See also" section of an article. If a portal does not exist, then it will not be displayed. This can be overridden with |redlinks=yes.

Usage

Basic usage

{{Portal |Portal 1 |Portal 2 |Portal 3 |... }}

All options

{{Portal
 | Portal 1
 | Portal 2
 | Portal 3
 | ...
 | left = 
 | margin = 
 | break = 
 | boxsize = 
 | redlinks = 
}}

Location

Within articles, this template is meant to be placed at the top of the article's See also section. If there is no See also section, you may put it in the External links section instead; there is no need to create a new section just to house this template. If there is no External links section either, just put it below the article text in the place that seems most appropriate.

There are no particular rules about the placement of portals on other kinds of pages.

Image

The portal image names are stored in subpages of Module:Portal/images, organised by the first letter of the portal name. For example, the first letter of Portal:Feminism is "F", so the image name is stored at Module:Portal/images/f. If there is an entry for a portal on the correct page then the corresponding image will be shown next to the portal link. If no image is found then File:Portal-puzzle.svg will be shown instead.

It is also possible to specify aliases for portal images. For example, the code {{Portal|Detroit}} produces the same image as the code {{Portal|Metro Detroit}}. The "Detroit" alias is found on the page Module:Portal/images/aliases.

The image-detection algorithm is case-insensitive. For example, the code {{Portal|Detroit}} will produce the same image as the code {{Portal|detroit}} (although the portal links will be different). Portal names are stored in lower case in the image subpages, and input is converted to lower case before being checked.

To add new images to the list, please make a protected edit request at Template talk:Portal to get an administrator to edit the correct subpage for you. Portal images must be either in the public domain or available under a free license that allows commercial reuse and derivative works; fair-use images are not acceptable. The template {{Portal icon demonstration}} may be of use when deciding whether an image is suitable for use as a portal icon; it formats an image using the same size and style that the {{Portal}} template uses by default.

A list of portals and aliases of portals without icons can be found at User:Dreamy Jazz Bot/Portals needing icons. It is updated infrequently, so ping the bot owner to update the list.

List of image subpages

Example

Code	Result
{{Portal\|Science}}

Parameters

Name	Value	Description
`1`, `2`, `3` ...	The portal name, e.g. `Literature`	The positional parameters specify the portals to be displayed.
`left`	`yes`	If set to `yes`, the portal appears on the left side of the page instead of the right.
`margin`	CSS margin value, e.g. `1.2em 3em 0.5em 1em`	This allows you to set a custom margin. All valid CSS margin values are accepted.
`break`	`yes`	If set to `yes`, a line break is inserted after the portal name and before the word portal.
`boxsize`	Size in pixels, e.g. `300`	This sets a custom box width in pixels.
`redlinks`	Any of the following values: `yes`, `y`, `true`, or `include`	Redlinks will be displayed. The default is to suppress redlinks.
`nominimum`	Any of the following values: `yes`, `y`, or `true`	Suppresses the warning if no parameters are supplied. This can be useful when Template:Portal is called by another template.
`tracking`	Any of the following values: `no`, `n`, `false`	Tracking categories will be suppressed. The default is to use tracking categories, except on certain namespaces and on pagenames which contain "/archive", "/doc" or "/test".

Error tracking

If the template is used incorrectly, the page will be added to a tracking category.

The tracking categories are not applied if any of the following is true:

Tracking is specially disabled for that usage. This is done by setting the optional parameter |tracking= to any the following values: no, n, false
the template is used on a page in any of these namespaces: Talk, User, User talk, Wikipedia talk, File talk, Template talk, Category talk, Portal talk, Draft, Draft talk, Module talk
The title page on which the template is used includes any of the following case-insensitive strings: "/archive", "/doc", "/test"

Category:Portal templates without a parameter — (population 0)
Category:Portal templates with redlinked portals — (population 0)
Category:Portal templates with all redlinked portals — (population 6)

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A template to create a list of portals

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers block formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Portal (1)	`1`	Inserts the portal image and text. Further portals can be added to the template by increasing the number	String	required
Portal (2)	`2`	Insert the portal image and text	String	optional
Portal (3)	`3`	Insert the portal image and text	String	optional
Side	`left`	If set to yes, the portal appears on the left side of the page instead of the right. Default no	String	optional
Margin size	`margin`	Alters the margin size. Any valid CSS margin is accepted	Number	optional
Line break	`break`	If set to yes, a line break is inserted after the portal name and before the word portal	String	optional
Box size	`boxsize`	This sets a custom box width in pixels.	Number	optional
type	`type`	no description	Unknown	optional

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Portal/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

v t e Portal templates
Visual overview of template usage
Layout and formatting	{{Box portal skeleton}} {{Box-header}} color palettes plain round square watch {{Box-header colour}}¹ {{Box-footer}} {{Flex columns}} {{Plain navboxes}}
Content transclusion	{{Transclude lead excerpt}}² {{Transclude linked excerpt}}² {{Transclude list item excerpt}}² {{Transclude random excerpt}}² {{Transclude selected excerpt}}² {{Excerpt}} {{Transclude DYK}}⁹ {{Transclude selected current events}}³ {{Transclude selected recent additions}}⁴
Content slideshows	{{Random slideshow}}⁵ {{Transclude files as random slideshow}}⁵ {{Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}⁶ {{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}⁶ {{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}⁶
Content randomisation	{{Random portal component}}⁷ {{Random quotation}} {{Random subpage}}
General	{{Portals}} {{Portals browsebar}} {{Portal description}} {{Portal information sidebar}} {{Portal navbar no header2}} {{Purge link portals}} {{Wikimedia for portals}}
Linking templates	{{Portal}} {{Portal bar}} {{Portal-inline}}¹¹ {{Related portals}} {{Related portals2}}
Talk pages / Maintenance	{{Portal talk}} {{Portal maintenance status}}⁸ {{Portal suggestions}} {{Portal toolbox}} {{WikiProject Portals}}⁸
Images	{{Portal dynamic image}} {{Portal image banner}}¹⁰ {{Portal pictures}}¹² {{Portal POTD}}
Modules	¹ Module:Box-header ² Module:Excerpt/portals ³ Module:Selected current events ⁴ Module:Selected recent additions ⁵ Module:Random slideshow ⁶ Module:Excerpt slideshow ⁷ Module:Random portal component ⁸ Module:Portal maintenance status ⁹ Module:Transclude DYK ¹⁰ Module:Portal image banner ¹¹ Module:Portal-inline ¹² Module:Portal pictures
Usage	Wikipedia:Portal Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
For more information, see: Category:Template-Class Portal pages and Category:Wikipedia Portal templates