175:. The purpose of portals is to "help readers and/or editors navigate their way through Knowledge topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page. In essence, portals are useful entry-points to Knowledge content." But apart from displaying the same abstracts of five articles in rotation and listing a few categories, this page is a dead end. Portals need to be regularly maintained, updated and show what a busy site Knowledge is. I can't see the point of setting one up and then abandoning it a few weeks later.
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262:. Portals are not for WikiProjects, but for readers to serve as a portal of entry to the topic. I don't think the group of viruses is too diverse for a portal, there are featured portals on much broader topics (eg Science, Biology). I have some experience with portals, and would be willing to do some work to broaden and improve this one, on behalf of the WikiProject.
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