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Portal:Space - The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then.
Portal:Thinking - "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years.
The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful
Portal:South East England - A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content.
Portal:Philosophy - Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year.
Portal:Arts - Uses random generators to display random featured status selections.
Discussions and collaborations
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Click the Preferences link at the top of the page. Then click the Editing tab. Then check the box next to Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles (JavaScript). And finally, click the Save button.
This only works with browsers that support Javascript (but all of the latest versions of all of the major web browsers do).
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