User:Yatalu/Blog:Portals/en

Dear Brigadiers and other Language Brigade Wiki users,

With this blog, I'm suggesting yet another new feature to be implemented on this wiki: portals! Translations can be posted in User:Yatalu/Blog:Portals until 25th of January. This blog and poll will be running until the end of January. From February, votes and comments are still appreciated, but will not be taken into account anymore for a decision.

What are portals?
Basically, portals are a place to find all important information about one subject. Wikis about a series of games may have a portal for every game. Wikis about a franchise may have portals for the different movies, series and merchandise.

What I would suggest is to have a portal for every language, that lists all important pages on this wiki and shortly describes what purpose they serve. At the same time, I hope for these portals to be a "meeting place" for all people translating/correcting in the same language.

Technical implementation
To get portals, I would be asking staff to give us an extra namespace (called "Portal:"). These portals would count as content articles and will not be i18ned like all other pages on this wiki.

These portals will replace the function of the following:
 * Info at the top of the category pages (for instance Category:EN-English)
 * Language Brigade Wiki:To do-list

And additionally will add the extra function:
 * "Talk page" for discussions related to a specific language (who will do which requests, ...)