Editing BattleTechWiki talk:Project Portals/Portal Prototype

==It's getting there==
I am currently working on how portals well work on BTW and I have the [[User:Deadfire/portal_concept|concept page]], [[Portal:BattleMechs|the very in progress page for Portal:BattleMechs]], and importing all the templates needed as you can see here {{tl|Portal_templates_navbox}} --[[User:Deadfire|Deadfire]] ([[User talk:Deadfire|talk]]) 18:25, 9 March 2023 (EST)
:I just read your concept page.  I think our ideas of the concept and motivation of a portal are similar.  Much of my thinking was influenced by recently reading [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal Wikipedia's page about portals], though I have mixed thoughts about some of the Wikipedia portal examples.  I am definitely interested to see what tools/templates you are developing.  --[[User:Dude RB|Dude RB]] ([[User talk:Dude RB|talk]]) 20:41, 9 March 2023 (EST)
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 I am currently working on how portals well work on BTW and I have the [[User:Deadfire/portal_concept|concept page]], [[Portal:BattleMechs|the very in progress page for Portal:BattleMechs]], and importing all the templates needed as you can see here {{tl|Portal_templates_navbox}} --[[User:Deadfire|Deadfire]] ([[User talk:Deadfire|talk]]) 18:25, 9 March 2023 (EST)
 :I just read your concept page.  I think our ideas of the concept and motivation of a portal are similar.  Much of my thinking was influenced by recently reading [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal Wikipedia's page about portals], though I have mixed thoughts about some of the Wikipedia portal examples.  I am definitely interested to see what tools/templates you are developing.  --[[User:Dude RB|Dude RB]] ([[User talk:Dude RB|talk]]) 20:41, 9 March 2023 (EST)
-== Fiction Portal ==
-A conversation about a fiction portal was started in [[Talk:List of BattleTech Print Novels and Anthologies#Removing Print from Print Novels and Anthologies]] and is now being continued here.
-Frabby, here are some answers to your questions
-) The terms portal, landing page, and masthead are all fairly similar.  I used the term landing page for [[Miniatures]] simply as I wanted to communicate that it had a different style from what I would normally envision for a full portal.  In particular, the inclusion of a category tree/map is something I think a full portal would include but which is not present in [[Miniatures]].  But  portals will likely have differing styles.  In addition to [[BattleTechWiki:Spacecraft Portal]], two other portals are [[BattleTechWiki:BattleMech Portal]] and [[BattleTechWiki:Combat Vehicle Portal]].  Those portals are very directory-ish in terms of style.   My vision of a portal for fiction is that it would incorporate a brief bit of overview or commentary to introduce a reader to the area.
-) Please do feel free to edit/refine this page.  Part of the purpose for creating this page is to create a testbed for discussion.  (Sometimes it is easier to show than to tell.)  I think that we should create a Fiction Portal but also a Product Portal, so this page has both in mind.  The various italic statements at the beginning of each section are a way to communicate the intention or purpose of the section so that it could be ported over to a different context such as products.  But please do fill in what would seem appropriate for the example of fiction.
-One further note:  [[User:Deadfire]] is working on a Portal template.  I don't know what the final implementation will look like, but I think this current test/prototype page should still help in discussing the concept and content.  --[[User:Dude RB|Dude RB]] ([[User talk:Dude RB|talk]]) 08:19, 10 March 2023 (EST)