Tim Starling has set up a portal at
www.wikiversity.org. The way it
works is simple. There are two pages on meta that define the contents:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikiversity.org_portal
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikiversity.org_template
The content of the portal is wikitext which is inserted into the
content of the template, which is HTML (the template therefore needs
to be protected, as it can contain JavaScript and the like). You can
see an elaborate layout at
http://www.wikipedia.org/ , which is made
of:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_template
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikipedia.org_portal
I would suggest that a call for participation is added to the
en.wikiversity.org sitenotice (MediaWiki:Sitenotice) to make a nice
portal.
Because MediaWiki renders the HTML in a very ugly fashion, those who
want to work on the design should probably do so in an HTML editor and
then ask a Meta sysop like myself to copy it into the template page.
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Peace & Love,
Erik