Template:Portal maintenance status

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Usage

The {{portal maintenance status}} template should be placed at the top of the portal page, not within a table or another template, due to template limits.

All parameters: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow:auto;">

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Optional parameters

The following parameters should be populated, where possible:

• |date= Date of last template update
• |maintainer[1-4]=Example: Used to specify users who look after the portal in question.
• |subpages= Subpage triage status

  Set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">untriaged</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight> (or leave unset) if the subpages have not yet been checked.

  Once a portal's subpages have been checked, set to:

  <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">checked</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">triaged</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">keep</syntaxhighlight> (or any other value): if any unneeded subpages have been removed.

  <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">none</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">single</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">singlepage</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">no</syntaxhighlight>: if the portal has a single page layout (no subpages exist).

This template can also hold miscellaneous notes:

• |notes=Text goes here: to record notes in plain text or even wikitext markup.

Include the following parameters, if they are applicable; otherwise, omit the parameter (or set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">no</syntaxhighlight>)

• |manual=yes (or any other value): Portal is manually maintained. You should specify at least one maintainer using the |maintainer[1-4]= parameter.
• |upgrade=yes (or any other value): Portal needs upgrading. Use the |notes= field to elaborate.
• |update=yes (or any other value): Portal needs updating. Use the |notes= field to elaborate.
• |broken= Portal has issues needing attention. Use the |notes= field to elaborate.

  Set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight>, <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">major</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">serious</syntaxhighlight>: for portals that have errors or major problems, such as Lua timeouts, template parsing limits exceeded, or completely wrecked layout

  Set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">minor</syntaxhighlight>, <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">access</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">layout</syntaxhighlight>: for portals that have minor problems, such as accessibility issues or minor layout issues

• |nonstandard=yes (or any other value): Portal has a nonstandard layout
• |incomplete=yes (or any other value): Portal is under construction or incomplete

Aliases

• The parameter |note= is recognised as an alias for |notes=. If both |notes= and |note= are present, there may be unexpected results.

How to update the maintenance information for a portal

To change the maintenance information for a portal:

1. Edit the portal using source editor (edit source tab on the portal)
2. In the first few lines of the edit box (not inside of a table or another template), there should be this template ({{Portal maintenance status}})
3. Edit the parameters of this template to change the information as needed; what each parameter does is described above in #Usage.

Tracking categories

When in portal space, this template populates the following hidden categories (or their subcategories):

• Category:Portals with undated maintenance templates – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">date</syntaxhighlight> is unset or missing
• Category:Portals with named maintainer – Added when one or more maintainers are listed
• Category:Portals with no named maintainer – Added when no maintainers are listed
• Category:Automatically maintained portals with listed maintainers – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">manual</syntaxhighlight> is set to no or left out and maintainer(s) have been provided
• Category:All manually maintained portal pages – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">manual</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight>
• Category:Manually maintained portal pages with no date – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">manual</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight> but no <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">date</syntaxhighlight> is listed
• Category:Manually maintained portals without listed maintainers – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">manual</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight>, but no <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">maintainer</syntaxhighlight> parameters have been provided
• Category:Portals that need upgrading – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">upgrade</syntaxhighlight> is set to yes
• Category:Portals that need updating – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">update</syntaxhighlight> is set to yes
• Category:Portals with errors in need of immediate attention – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">broken</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight>
• Category:Portals with minor issues in need of attention – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">broken</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">minor</syntaxhighlight>
• Category:Portals under construction – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">incomplete</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">yes</syntaxhighlight>
• Category:All portals with untriaged subpages – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">subpages</syntaxhighlight> is unset, or set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">untriaged</syntaxhighlight>
• Category:All portals with triaged subpages – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">subpages</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">triaged</syntaxhighlight>
• Category:Single-page portals – Added when <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">subpages</syntaxhighlight> is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">single</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">singlepage</syntaxhighlight>

Display

By default, this template produces no visible output when in portal space.

• To show hidden categories, enable that setting in your preferences ("Appearance" tab, checkbox under "Advanced options")
• To show a message box like the examples below, add the following line to your personal CSS:<syntaxhighlight lang=css>

div.portal-maintenance-status { display:block !important } </syntaxhighlight>

• Alternatively, the messages may be viewed on portal talk pages, inside the {{WikiProject Portals}} banner (which automatically transcludes them)

Examples

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|maintainer1=Example}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|manual=yes}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|broken=yes}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|broken=minor}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|nonstandard=yes}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|incomplete=yes}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|subpages=checked}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|subpages=none}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|upgrade=yes}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|update=yes}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|notes=This is a test note.}}

{{Portal maintenance status|date=May 2025|manual=yes|maintainer1=Example|broken=yes|nonstandard=yes|incomplete=yes|subpages=checked|notes=(some lorem text, you get the idea)}}

TemplateData

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Portal maintenance status in articles based on its TemplateData. TemplateData for Portal maintenance status Hidden notice box used to record portal maintenance metadata Template parameters This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Manually maintained manual Mark portals that are manually maintained Default no Example manual=yes Boolean optional Broken broken Mark portals with errors or layout issues needing attention Default (empty) Example broken=yes, broken=minor String optional Non-standard nonstandard Mark portals with significantly unique layout or markup Default no Example nonstandard=yes Boolean optional Subpages subpages Subpage triage status Default untriaged Example subpages=single, subpages=triaged String suggested Incomplete incomplete Mark portals that are incomplete or under construction Default no Example incomplete=yes Boolean optional Date date Date of template placement Example date=April 2018, date={{subst:DATE}} Date suggested Embed embed Used to embed this template in the WikiProject Portals banner Default no Example embed=yes Boolean optional Additional Note note notes Free-form notes field, can accept wikitext. Default (empty) Example note=This is a test note. String optional Portal Maintainer maintainer maintainer1 Name of primary portal maintainer. Marks the portal as manually maintained. Default (empty) Example maintainer=Example User suggested Portal Maintainer 2 maintainer2 See 'maintainer' Default (empty) User optional Portal Maintainer 3 maintainer3 See 'maintainer' Default (empty) User optional Portal Maintainer 4 maintainer4 See 'maintainer' Default (empty) User optional upgrade upgrade no description Unknown optional update update no description Unknown optional

See also

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Portal maintenance status/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.