Wikifunctions talk:Community portal
Discussing how to use this page
There were a few comments in Telegram about "how will the community portal will be used?", without any firm conclusions.
- Copying my reply, with a few tweaks and some more details:
- It's up to you all, how to use this page - Examining other wikis for inspiration would be great!
- I'd suggest that one core goal should be keeping it distinct from the Help:Contents page. (a lot of wikis have very similar content in both pages, which I think is confusing).
- I was imagining something like Enwiki's setup, which is more of a "here's how you can help/participate" overview and task-sample listing. (w:en:Wikipedia:Community portal) Or something like Envoyage's "Maintenance panel" (voy:en:Wikivoyage:Maintenance panel).
- But it's up to you all!
- There are also a few semi-related notes/links at User:Quiddity (WMF)/List of initial wiki pages which might be useful.
- I hope that helps! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Merge the Task Centre?
I wonder if the Wikifunctions:Task centre might be helpfully merged to here? (Previously suggested at Wikifunctions:Project chat#Task centre (permalink) which is almost due to be auto-archived).
Reasoning: I lean towards m:Mergism, especially on documentation pages, because scattered and prolific docs make things harder for newcomers to find and for docs-maintainers to remember, and increase the risk of inaccurate duplication/fragmentation, and increase the burden on translators. (See also the thread above this for further/related ideas). Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- Makes sense. Currently the Community portal is a little lonely looking, and suggestions of tasks would be an appropriate thing to fill it with. We can always split it off again if necessary. Edward-Woodrow (talk) 21:39, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I've done a basic merge. Hopefully others can further improve it now. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:00, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Let’s stop recommending Suggest a function now
There’s nothing wrong with it, but is it a good place to start? I suggest that the Catalogue is a better place to start but it depends on the user, and trying functions is already promoted on the Main page. Maybe Wikifunctions:Introduction? But that is currently an introduction to functions here, rather than to the site as a whole. GrounderUK (talk) 13:09, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- @GrounderUK: Seems reasonable. (We may also want to make it less prominent on the Main Page, but this isn't the venue for that conversation. :-)) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 13:16, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Funnily enough, I have quite a few comments to make on that page but I always prefer to start on-topic! ; ) GrounderUK (talk) 14:25, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Remove resolved tasks
I would like to suggest to remove tasks that are done. Currently the page looks quite Messe since there are so many discussions that are already resolved. --Ameisenigel (talk) 13:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Also, what's wrong with using section headers? Arlo Barnes (talk) 22:55, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Trying create new simple function
Hi admin, I'd like to try out to create new function and still stumbled upon with disconencted issue on both implementation and test cases. Should I ask the permission or there are missing steps? Kindly guide me how to assemble them properly since I'm novice here. Thanks. Here is my new function https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z29108 Affandy Murad (talk) 03:55, 29 October 2025 (UTC)