I'd like to take this microtask. This would help me get familiarised with the codebase. However, I am not sure if more than one person can claim a task.

By templates, if you are referring to everything under the /templates directory, then no. As far as I see, most of the content is the same. However, there are subtle differences in the portals. For example, Wikipedia will not have a link to itself in the other projects section. The same applies to the rest. We could use the templates for all of the portals but have different stuff rendering based on parameters. Again, I might have misunderstood the problem.

We have to create a common folder having templates which would be used by all the sister projects and the wikipedia.org itself. But that won't be as easy because we will also have to modify the gulp.js build pipeline.

Hey everyone! I'm interested in working on this project as a part of GSoC. I have read this thread and understand what needs to be done and have the dev server up and running.