Wiki:Portals

Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. Portals may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution.

The concept of a portal originated in the Polish and German Wikipedias. In early 2005, the portal concept was imported to the English Wikipedia and the first Wikiportals were established. Later that year, a special namespace (Portal:) was created for portals. The idea of a portal is to help readers and/or editors navigate their way through Wikipedia topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page. In essence, portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content.

Portals are subject to the five pillars of Wikipedia, and must comply with Wikipedia's core content policies like:

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view,
Wikipedia:No original research and
Wikipedia:Verifiability.

At present, there are 127 featured portals, of a total of 576 portals on Wikipedia. from WikiPedia.