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Someone forgot to add Sinugboanong Binisaya and Winaray to list of Wikipedias with more than 1,000,000 articles, they are in the reference List of Wikipedias — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.77.115.26 ( talk) 23:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
ok never mind, I thought it was a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.77.115.26 ( talk) 00:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
The shortcut redirect to this page, T:MP, has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_May_2#T:MP. Modest Genius talk 10:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
On the main page, it says that there are 6,085,305 articles to edit, although the Special:Stats page says the number is 6,085,316. Please can an admin fix this. XLK123 ( talk) 09:39, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
This isn't really an error at all, but {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
in the TFL code is the only remaining example of a magic word in the Main Page source; the rest have been replaced by the #time parser function. I think that this should be replaced with {{#time:l}}
, which will ensure consistency in the source and allow it to be more easily adapted somewhere else – such as to display content from another day (e.g. on the yesterday and tomorrow display pages), which can then be done with an intuitive modification of the parser function rather than calculating the day names to replace Monday and Friday. —
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Because Hut 8.5 removed my entry on WP:MPE as a non-error, I'm posting it here instead: I'd like to hear someone explain to me how "bouncing anime breasts" made it into a DYK hook on the Main Page of one of the most publicly-viewed websites in the world.-- WaltCip ( talk) 12:15, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
I would not call them anime breasts but maybe call them anime style breasts at least when i downloaded the video onto my phone it was not anime but it was anime style as a watcher of anime I know what anime is like 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 ( talk) 21:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
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09:57, 19 May 2020 (UTC)If the ability to have a separate mobile Main Page is going away, then just turn the thing off now. Then we can decide what we want the one and only Main Page to be. -- Khajidha ( talk) 21:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
body.skin-minerva #mp-tfp tr td:first-child a { text-align: center; display: block; } body.skin-minerva #sister-projects-list > div { width: 49%; }
As page followers may have observed, I've moved the rest out of the main page code (mostly by hand but checking my work with a few of the previous shots at this).
I'd also like to make one further change. This diff would re-add the portal links in Minerva, limit the Minerva 'responsive' version to 840px (so desktop Minerva would mostly see what desktop Vector et al see--there's a bit of scrunchiness in the right column but that's all), and make Timeless a bit more responsive. I found when I went to write the Timeless responsive parts that Minerva already had most of it, but Timeless only needs it around 840px (and Minerva is a similar number), so I thought it made more sense to do it this way and get everyone on the same bandwagon.
You can check it out at WP:Main Page/sandbox and adding ?useskin=skinname. (Where skinname is minerva, timeless, vector, etc.)
Any objection to merging this to live? -- Izno ( talk) 19:35, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
{{ requested move/dated}}
– The styling for the main page is clearly not an article, and should be in the Wikipedia namespace, like Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow, Wikipedia:Main Page/Yesterday, Wikipedia:Main Page/Day before yesterday, Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox, etc. * Pppery * it has begun... 13:03, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
New mobile view looks good. DYK is above ITN now but I don't think I care that much. The TFP section is objectively broken though. -- LaserLegs ( talk) 11:59, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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For this problem, please change body.skin-minerva #mp-tfp tr td:first-child a {
to
body.skin-minerva #mp-tfp tr:first-child td:first-child a {
on the styles.css page. —
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Just a quick note, there's a current proposal at the Village Pump to focus the main page on issues around race. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 19:27, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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The margin for #mp-topbanner
should be reduced from 6px to 4px (none). This change will make the margin consistent with all the other margins between horizontal elements on the page. Since the 4px margin is provided by the element below the top banner, there is no need to specify the bottom margin. margin: 1.2em 0 6px;
should be replaced with margin-top: 1.2em;
at
Wikipedia:Main Page/styles.css as only the top margin needs to be specified. See
Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox to see the change.–
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I know Wikipedia is not censored but Jainism has nothing to do with Nazism and needs a different image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahimsa_Jainism_Gradient.jpg would be a better image as it still has the Jain hand but not the swastika 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 ( talk) 16:15, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
Should we re-target our help page link in" that anyone can edit." top banner?
In April we changed Wikipedia:Introduction to Help:Introduction after a merge talk that consolidated all the neglected multiple page tutorials that people did not complete (this was a good thing). However originally Wikipedia:Introduction contained information about Wikipedia and being bold and vids on how to edit. The current target page of Help:Introduction does not contain this information or any information at all .... nor is it getting potential editors interested in reading on about how to edit. Stats show us that almost no-one is clicking the non-action action buttons to learn more . I am suggest we link to one of our normal overview help page about editing like Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia or Help:Editing that is navigable with a TOC, is formatted for all devices and works with screen readers, TV boxes and does not need people to click and load 66 pages. Not a secret from me that I have a real problem with the fact we are leading potential new editors to a 66 page tutorial that is not in a normal format and a HUGE read. Lets keep this simple and target a page that is small with information on it. Seeing thousands of potential editors giving up before there is any serviceable information is very disheartening...as over the years we have learnt that sending potential editors to huge multiple page tutorials simply does not get us new editors . What do other think here...keep sending potential editors to a tutorial no one is doing or a page with actual information on it? .....-- Moxy 🍁 14:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Should George Floyd protests be added in the "ongoing" section next to Hong Kong protests? A50E10AN500ER ( talk) 14:09, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Should we re-target our help page link in" that anyone can edit." top banner? -- Moxy 🍁 21:32, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
In April we changed Wikipedia:Introduction to Help:Introduction after a merge talk that consolidated all the neglected multiple page tutorials that people did not complete (this was a good thing). However originally Wikipedia:Introduction contained information about Wikipedia and being bold and vids on how to edit. The current target page of Help:Introduction does not contain this information or any information at all .... nor is it getting potential editors interested in reading on about how to edit. Stats show us that almost no-one is clicking the non-action action buttons to learn more . I am suggest we link to one of our normal overview help page about editing like Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia or Help:Editing that is navigable with a TOC, is formatted for all devices and works with screen readers, TV boxes and does not need people to click and load 66 pages. Not a secret from me that I have a real problem with the fact we are leading potential new editors to a 66 page tutorial that is not in a normal format and a HUGE read. Lets keep this simple and target a page that is small with information on it. Seeing thousands of potential editors giving up before there is any serviceable information is very disheartening...as over the years we have learnt that sending potential editors to huge multiple page tutorials simply does not get us new editors . What do other think here...keep sending potential editors to a tutorial no one is doing or a page with actual information on it? .....-- Moxy 🍁 14:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
Welcome}}
and related templates and what projectspace pages they link to; maybe something else needs to be added to my list. I think the Missing Manual page is a reasonable framework from which to start, and is more-or-less good enough to use as-is, even if we don't work it over. —
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I am removing the RfC template, since it makes no sense to have an RfC about the best intro page right now when we are scheduled to shortly have a discussion about which link to use for the new introduction page to be linked from the header. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:04, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
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Should Suicide Articles include a message of support at the top? Usually when searching for methods of suicide wiki articles are at the top. Should we include a message (like google does) of support at the top?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Allyant ( talk • contribs)
I've found it a bit odd that TFA and DYK are both green and ITN and OTD are both blue, even though e.g. TFA is no more closely related to DYK than to OTD. Why the arbitrary grouping? At Help:Using colours#Wikimedia colour schemes, it looks like hues 330 and 030 are unused for the main page, so we could potentially give each box its own color. Has this been considered before? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:32, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
I'm not super knowledgeable about which rabbit hole I need to go down to find information on the FA selection process for the main page. So, I'm trying to determine with a bit of certainty if today's FA was selected due to today also being Juneteenth. Or if this was just a coincidence. From what I can determine, the blurb for the main page was created on 22 May which predates George Floyd's death by three days. So, that's ruled out for a reason and just chalked up to coincidence. But was today selected for this article due to Juneteenth? (Note: I don't have a problem with this. I'm just curious.) Thanks, † dismas†| (talk) 11:24, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
People who click that link are presumably looking for a reader's introduction to the site, not a comprehensive encyclopedic understanding of what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia:About, our primary reader-focused intro, is not in the best shape currently (partly since it's too much like Wikipedia), but it's still the more appropriate target. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 09:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! I was looking at the pageview statistics for the main page here and saw huge, relatively recent cliffs: one in mid-November 2019 that dropped the main page from ~16M daily pageviews to just ~10M, and a second on May 30, 2020 that dropped daily pageviews from ~10M to ~5M.
What happened? Did Wikipedia have a deal to be the home page of some browsers that ended? — Shrinkydinks ( talk) 21:10, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Immediate edit suggestion for Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25. You're missing out, this should be in Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/Holidays_and_observances#Moveable_days so you don't miss out in future years. - hahnch e n 10:53, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
File:Nadar - "Hermaphrodite" (Seventh Gallica image).jpg, an image, named after the words used at the time, notable for its historical importance as the earliest photodocumentation of intersex people, got readded to the list of pictures to be censored from the Main Page, despite the discussion that was quoted to justify it explicitly stating in its closing that the discussion only applied to specifically putting it on Intersex Awareness day.
Wikipedia is WP:NOTCENSORED, and this would be the first image censored for sexual content alone in almost a decade, and the first one for non-sexual nudity since . Although the original discussion framed it as "something done regularly", this is simply false. A check of Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Unused will show that the last image censored for sexual content alone was The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife in 2013 and the last image censored for mere nudity was...
...Now there's a question. As far as the page shows, this would be the first image to ever be so censored, or at least to have been so censored and remain censored. September Morn was censored for the actions of the nominator and worries about the age of the model, and File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg was stated to be "too Cheesecake-y", which is a weird reason, and should probably also be added to the POTD rotation.
We have regularly had nudity on the main page. Why should a historically important image, which I was encouraged to work on by non-binary friends, (and, although I don't bring it up much - because that's kind of the nature of the identity - I consider myself agender, since I have no real definitions of masculinity and femininity to base any gender identification of myself on) be banned from the Main Page? It seems a violation of the principles of Wikipedia to do so.
And I am especially uncomfortable with the ONLY image censored for nudity being an image of an intersex person. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 16:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
despite it not having come up in previous examplesHuh? Nudity on the main page has absolutely been a perennial question. See the "see also" section at WP:CENSORMAIN. Whether or not you agree with me that we ought to keep most nudity off the Main page more generally, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you acknowledge that it is an understandable viewpoint one can hold without being prejudiced against intersex people. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 19:28, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
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How can there be an article about a word that is not existing in the English language? I understand the idea of the word but I believe that the article doesn’t take this into account. There is no explanation how or where the word originated, if it was to exist. Please review. Thanks MrMrMan reigns ( talk) 22:09, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
What will happen? I did this to my own site using mediawiki and nothing happened. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThesenatorO5-2 ( talk • contribs) 06:02, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Total number of edits 4,236. — andrybak ( talk) 11:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Red header says: "Irrelevant posts will be promptly removed without prior warning." A warning is always prior: this is tautologous and should be trimmed. For that matter, if it's done promptly there's no time for a warning anyway. It's sloppy English and in a prominent place. Cheers Spicemix ( talk) 16:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask: Wikipedia:Main Page history, written once a day by a bot, hasn't been written since 16 July, and Amalthea, running the bot, hasn't edited since 18 May. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:30, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:Main Page. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 25#Wikipedia:Main Page until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. the ultra Usurper 05:04, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Following this request at WP:BOTREQ, I've made Template:DYK image. It's similar to Template:Main page image, except it calculates the width automatically based off the dimensions of the supplied image (using a module), so it doesn't need to be manually supplied. Might prevent errors / forgetting to add the width. Feel free to use if it might help. Other than that, thanks for the great work you all do at DYK :) ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 10:23, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
For those not aware, image sizes on the Main Page need constant adjusting. I have had the pleasure of making these adjustments for the past few months and David Levy selflessly filled that role for years before me. ProcrastinatingReader has created Module:DYK image to make this task unnecessary. I thought it would be good to give everyone an opportunity to object before we standardize the use of this module across all sections of the main page and make it an integral part of {{ Main page image}}. This means TFA, TFL, ITN, DYK, and OTD. It may also be possible to integrate into POTD as well which is a bit different. This will make things work easier and better, yet still have an option to override for rare cases when necessary. Are there any objections, comments, or suggestions for improvement? Courtesy ping Ravenpuff who I know is as intimately aware of what talking about. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 09:49, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
|width=
is given it takes priority over the automatic determination of width, so I don't think past archives (which manually supply |width=
) should change.
ProcrastinatingReader (
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10:23, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Here is my plan for implementing this, in the order I plan to implement it.
I should be able to implement all these changes myself, except for ITN and TFL, for which I will need the assistance of an admin. Starting with DYK preps and TFL blurbs should allow us plenty of time to preview before it reaches the Main Page. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 10:06, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
I am slightly confused why we are running four TFAs on military/war back-to-back-to-back-to-back. August 7 was Second Silesian War. August 8 was Cyril Bassett. August 9 was 2nd Red Banner Army. And August 10 will be Battle of Azaz (1030) ( Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2020). Therapyisgood ( talk) 14:39, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Currently, the image is at the right of the template. This means that there is sometimes a word or a few words to the left of the image before the main part of the blurb.
I suggest that placing the image at the left of the column, and using {{ clear}} after the image would be better, as you'd then have the image with its caption, then an unterrupted blurb under the image. Mjroots ( talk) 09:45, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
a word or a few words to the left of the image before the main part of the blurb"? How small is your screen? Have you looked at the main page on mobile? --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 14:33, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
The line for births and deaths looks a little odd on its own. There should be a subheading "Births and deaths" above the line, to separate it from the other events. -- Viennese Waltz 13:26, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
The presence of anything but notable current events on the Main Page jeopardizes the impartiality of Wikipedia both as a lens for directing interest and in its subsequent massing of information. I urge the leadership to consider the impact of what frequently amounts to arbitrary geopolitical agitation on the most sensitive speakers of our language. ModulatorDemodulator ( talk) 11:24, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
In other words "won't somebody please think of the children". And that rather patronizing attitude is rejected just as strenuously now as ever before. We are thinking of the children. We are providing them with information on where we have been so that they may understand where we are and better plan and work on where we are going.-- Khajidha ( talk) 21:36, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Can we revive the fact about Dua Lipa's song Break My Heart tommorow? We'll let you know.-- AnOrionPicturesRelease25 ( talk) 22:32, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
I already reported this at WP:AIV and requested page protection, but John W. Beschter is being incessantly, heavily vandalized by a range of IPs, and it doesn't seem like anyone's gotten around to blocking them or protecting the page yet. Any admin with eyes on this page who could help? Armadillo pteryx 02:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Can I ask why so many TFA subjects are american Roman Catholic priests? Is there some body that puts them forward to be featured in this way? Dean1954 ( talk) 20:56, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt reply. It does seem a bit skewed to me, that we see subjects of one nationality and one confession so often. Nothing to be done, I suppose Dean1954 ( talk) 10:20, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
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Instead of beginning every DYK hook with that, what if we added it to the section heading? It kinda annoys me when I see hooks that don't obey MOS:COMMA like the first blurb in today's DYK where "in 2021" is parenthetical and a comma should come before it. Besides that, there is no need to repeat that eight times.
See how this would look here. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 02:48, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
What's the policy on how many days before an election we stop putting an article related to a candidate on the main page? I stupidly can't seem to find it. —valereee ( talk) 18:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
I just found a very good resolution gif of Hurricane Laura from today (August 27) from NOAA and recommend we change the still image on the main page to the gif:
Victor Grigas ( talk) 14:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Victor Grigas ( talk) 20:20, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I have filed a request for a change in the fully-protected module that controls the size of images on the main page. It is intended to avoid very large image outcomes such as the Corbin Building on DYK today. I propose calculating the image size based on surface area instead of width, which does not account for very tall and thin images and very short and wide images.
Please comment at Module talk:Main page image. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:04, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
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On the page Wikipedia:Main Page/Yesterday, please replace
<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="clear:both; margin:0.5em; background:#cef2e0; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Did you know... <span style="font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;">(For today)</span></h2>
<div id="mp-dyk" style="padding:0.1em 0.6em 0.5em;">{{Did you know}}</div>
with
<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="clear:both; margin:0.5em; background:#cef2e0; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Did you know...</h2>
<div id="mp-dyk" style="padding:0.1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><!-- Take archived DYK section and replace timestamps (which are formatted in bold and italic) with paragraph breaks
-->{{#invoke:String|replace
|source={{#section-h:Wikipedia:Recent additions/{{#time:Y/F|-1 days}}|{{#time:j F Y|-1 days}}}}
|pattern=%*'''''.-'''''
|replace=
|plain=false
}}</div>
This will transclude actual yesterday's DYK hooks from Wikipedia:Recent additions. With timestamps removed, it would show all yesterdays DYK hooks archived to Wikipedia:Recent additions. I have implemented such transclusion of Wikipedia:Recent additions at Wikipedia:Main Page/Day before yesterday.
Did you know...
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— andrybak ( talk) 10:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
'''''
. That pattern sometimes appears within hooks when the target article is bolded and in italics. Have you accounted for that?*'''''
—on
Wikipedia:Recent additions, only the timestamps follow this pattern, while hooks always have ellipsis after the asterisk: * ...
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Among the Sierra Nevada, California, is an 1868 oil-on-canvas painting by
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the
American West. Bierstadt painted the landscape in his Rome studio ...
[[Template:POTD/2020-09-01|Albert Bierstadt]]
to [[Template:POTD/2020-09-01|''Among the Sierra Nevada, California'']]
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"the featured picture is the painting". No, it isn't. It could have been, and now that you've written the article, maybe in another universe it would have been the actual topic of this day's blurb. But in this case, per the coordinators' decision when scheduling it, the FP was a picture highlighting our article about Albert Bierstadt. And that's what should appear on the template as the bolded article, and for the subsequent two days. I wouldn't be averse to a nomination process similar to that for TFA - I think we discussed that a couple of years ago when we were going through a similar round of introspection about POTD... my worry is that there wouldn't really be the volume of interest necessary to make the process sustainable. The big hairy audacious goal would be to get to a point where we no longer feature articles at POTD that wouldn't pass muster for ITN/DYK/OTD. I wasn't able to do that during my time as coordinator, because I simply didn't have enough time to do it daily, and nobody else was helping. POTD has always been something of a poor relation in terms of editor engagement, which is a shame as it does an important job. Cheers — Amakuru ( talk) 22:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
On the "From today's featured article" section, the "Recently featured", "Archive" etc links are not leaving a padding to the right border like it would normally do. Anyone else see this? -- AxG / ✉ 15:27, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
There is some sort of error which is displayed on my Android smartphone as "Expression error: Unexpected < operator". I do not feel confident trying to solve the problem myself. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 00:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
This may be the wrong place for asking. If so, please advise, but why did the 'Featured content' link disappear from the left sidebar? (visible on all pages the way I'm browsing and using 'em on my desktop). --- Sluzzelin talk 23:12, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Instead of linking the "Complete list of Wikipedias" to this abstract listicle, why not just link to wikipedia.org? It's better in my opinion. Gerald WL 17:40, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Main Page is not in any categories, but a redirect to it ( Main page) is in Category:Main Page. I think the Main Page itself should be in this category. JsfasdF252 ( talk) 01:04, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
The main page for this language already existent and located at https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE Kindly add the inter-wiki link to the existing page. Regards. RIT RAJARSHI ( talk) 08:52, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
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I am a bit surprised that the California wildfires are not mentioned the the Main Page. These are the most devastating wildfires ever. Almost all media channels have them on their title page. 194.62.169.86 ( talk) 19:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
The unprecedented magnitude of these multiple fires, which have killed 23 and left hundreds of thousands homeless, is so great that it's very odd indeed not to list the topic. Pulling it from Ongoing was an editorial mistake, IMO. The reading public will not understand its total absence from the Main Page. – Sca ( talk) 12:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Response>>>You can help... On the Main News page, click on Nominate an article. Users need to vote with SUPPORT to get articles displayed. You can help by voting for 2020 California Wildfire. Thanks, SWP13 ( talk) 15:11, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
There is talk of deleting the above "List" which is linked from OTD. I have no opinion on the deletion nomination. It may leave us with a predicament here and we should prepare for the possibility.
I propose we implement the changes I made at {{ SelAnnivFooter/sandbox}} in case the page is deleted. You can preview how it looks at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 16:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Wikipedia languages § Redesign. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 01:22, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
I agree with ur opinion Ejike success chioma ( talk) 19:47, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to say T Debjit singha ( talk) 07:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Completely agree with you T Debjit singha ( talk) 07:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I propose that a change be made to main page, that the main page had a new design, following the examples of the Spanish Wikipedia and the Russian Wikipedia main pages. -- Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 00:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
The projects aren't visible to immediate first sight, when page opens on screen. It would be useful if basic links (without the one-line description) are provided at top of the page (or even as a dropdown menu). --Gpkp u • t • c 07:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! Does anyone know about the reasoning for the wording of Wikidata as a "free knowledge base"? That seems somewhat detached from the reality of Wikidata, that it's a data-based and computer-readable repository. It seems to represent Wikidata as almost a Q&A sort of platform. Has there been any significant discussion on why it's described as a "free knowledge base" and not something like a "computer-readable data source" or a "data information repository", or something of the sorts? ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 06:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
There is more to the world than simply the "Belarus protests", there is currently ongoing the George Floyd Protests (I know it was here for a long time, but the Belorussian protests have been here for longer), protests throughout Chile, pandemics throughout the world, protests throughout Portland, fighting in Karabakh etc... Yet all that is present is apparently simply the "Belarus protests". It's criminal that articles that are so well written and informative, are being overlooked. So why are they being overlooked? That question is beyond me sadly. Thanks. Vallee01 ( talk) 04:40, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
The List of historical anniversaries
link in the OTD footer has been moved to
List of days of the year – please amend the link at {{
SelAnnivFooter}} to avoid the resultant redirect. Thanks. —
RAVENPVFF ·
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When I saw the words "Nominate an article" I assumed that it might refer to nominating one for featured articles, and I was wondering what that's doing in the news section. So I would like to suggest:
direct readers to articles that have been substantially updated to reflect recent or current events of wide interest(taken from WP:ITN). News items themselves are not what is nominated, but instead the article is nominated. I'm unsure of whether a change is needed (as the link is in the "in the news" section and is directly below the current articles in ITN), but I'm not against changing the wording necessarily. I also think "news item" could be improved to a better wording (I would say something which says that you are nominating an article not a news event).
I found the title of main page is wrongly displayed before log in, the hyphen appearing at the beginning of title, just like this: "- Wikipedia", is there anyway to remove the hyphen? -- Great Brightstar ( talk) 12:57, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
This is phab:T265892 Jon (WMF) ( talk) 17:05, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
Can anyone change the link to the arts portal from Arts to The Arts? The title of this article has recently been changed and the links should be updated. Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 11:28, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
All portalslink to
In the news. If a proposal was brought forward to change the entire main page to title case, I'd consider it, but there's no way we should just change this one link, per WP:CONSISTENCY. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 19:05, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
How about proposal 3? Change the portal back to just "arts" and leave this link as is.-- Khajidha ( talk) 22:20, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Main Page history has stopped being archived. It is usually created by Amalthea (bot) (which has not edited in 5 days). The bot's owner Amalthea is not very active these days. This is about the fifth time that the bot has gone down in the past year.
ProcrastinatingReader has a bot replacement ready. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ProcBot 3. @ Xaosflux: we can email Amalthea again and try to get their attention. However, I think we should just activate ProcBot 3 instead. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 17:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Amalthea (bot) also maintains Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview which has not been updated in 5 days. This was last discussed at Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_81#Amalthea_(bot) where Majavah said that DeltaQuadBot can do the same task. Courtesy ping AmandaNP. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 17:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Per above, Amalthea (bot) was also in charge of updating the CCI overview here but it hasnt updated since October 13th. Is there another bot that could take over this task or does a bot need to be requested? -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 03:19, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
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Someone forgot to add Sinugboanong Binisaya and Winaray to list of Wikipedias with more than 1,000,000 articles, they are in the reference List of Wikipedias — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.77.115.26 ( talk) 23:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
ok never mind, I thought it was a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.77.115.26 ( talk) 00:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
The shortcut redirect to this page, T:MP, has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_May_2#T:MP. Modest Genius talk 10:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
On the main page, it says that there are 6,085,305 articles to edit, although the Special:Stats page says the number is 6,085,316. Please can an admin fix this. XLK123 ( talk) 09:39, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
This isn't really an error at all, but {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
in the TFL code is the only remaining example of a magic word in the Main Page source; the rest have been replaced by the #time parser function. I think that this should be replaced with {{#time:l}}
, which will ensure consistency in the source and allow it to be more easily adapted somewhere else – such as to display content from another day (e.g. on the yesterday and tomorrow display pages), which can then be done with an intuitive modification of the parser function rather than calculating the day names to replace Monday and Friday. —
RAVENPVFF ·
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16:39, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Because Hut 8.5 removed my entry on WP:MPE as a non-error, I'm posting it here instead: I'd like to hear someone explain to me how "bouncing anime breasts" made it into a DYK hook on the Main Page of one of the most publicly-viewed websites in the world.-- WaltCip ( talk) 12:15, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
I would not call them anime breasts but maybe call them anime style breasts at least when i downloaded the video onto my phone it was not anime but it was anime style as a watcher of anime I know what anime is like 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 ( talk) 21:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
>>
BEANS X2
t
09:57, 19 May 2020 (UTC)If the ability to have a separate mobile Main Page is going away, then just turn the thing off now. Then we can decide what we want the one and only Main Page to be. -- Khajidha ( talk) 21:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
body.skin-minerva #mp-tfp tr td:first-child a { text-align: center; display: block; } body.skin-minerva #sister-projects-list > div { width: 49%; }
As page followers may have observed, I've moved the rest out of the main page code (mostly by hand but checking my work with a few of the previous shots at this).
I'd also like to make one further change. This diff would re-add the portal links in Minerva, limit the Minerva 'responsive' version to 840px (so desktop Minerva would mostly see what desktop Vector et al see--there's a bit of scrunchiness in the right column but that's all), and make Timeless a bit more responsive. I found when I went to write the Timeless responsive parts that Minerva already had most of it, but Timeless only needs it around 840px (and Minerva is a similar number), so I thought it made more sense to do it this way and get everyone on the same bandwagon.
You can check it out at WP:Main Page/sandbox and adding ?useskin=skinname. (Where skinname is minerva, timeless, vector, etc.)
Any objection to merging this to live? -- Izno ( talk) 19:35, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
{{ requested move/dated}}
– The styling for the main page is clearly not an article, and should be in the Wikipedia namespace, like Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow, Wikipedia:Main Page/Yesterday, Wikipedia:Main Page/Day before yesterday, Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox, etc. * Pppery * it has begun... 13:03, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
New mobile view looks good. DYK is above ITN now but I don't think I care that much. The TFP section is objectively broken though. -- LaserLegs ( talk) 11:59, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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For this problem, please change body.skin-minerva #mp-tfp tr td:first-child a {
to
body.skin-minerva #mp-tfp tr:first-child td:first-child a {
on the styles.css page. —
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Just a quick note, there's a current proposal at the Village Pump to focus the main page on issues around race. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 19:27, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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The margin for #mp-topbanner
should be reduced from 6px to 4px (none). This change will make the margin consistent with all the other margins between horizontal elements on the page. Since the 4px margin is provided by the element below the top banner, there is no need to specify the bottom margin. margin: 1.2em 0 6px;
should be replaced with margin-top: 1.2em;
at
Wikipedia:Main Page/styles.css as only the top margin needs to be specified. See
Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox to see the change.–
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I know Wikipedia is not censored but Jainism has nothing to do with Nazism and needs a different image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahimsa_Jainism_Gradient.jpg would be a better image as it still has the Jain hand but not the swastika 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 ( talk) 16:15, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
Should we re-target our help page link in" that anyone can edit." top banner?
In April we changed Wikipedia:Introduction to Help:Introduction after a merge talk that consolidated all the neglected multiple page tutorials that people did not complete (this was a good thing). However originally Wikipedia:Introduction contained information about Wikipedia and being bold and vids on how to edit. The current target page of Help:Introduction does not contain this information or any information at all .... nor is it getting potential editors interested in reading on about how to edit. Stats show us that almost no-one is clicking the non-action action buttons to learn more . I am suggest we link to one of our normal overview help page about editing like Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia or Help:Editing that is navigable with a TOC, is formatted for all devices and works with screen readers, TV boxes and does not need people to click and load 66 pages. Not a secret from me that I have a real problem with the fact we are leading potential new editors to a 66 page tutorial that is not in a normal format and a HUGE read. Lets keep this simple and target a page that is small with information on it. Seeing thousands of potential editors giving up before there is any serviceable information is very disheartening...as over the years we have learnt that sending potential editors to huge multiple page tutorials simply does not get us new editors . What do other think here...keep sending potential editors to a tutorial no one is doing or a page with actual information on it? .....-- Moxy 🍁 14:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Should George Floyd protests be added in the "ongoing" section next to Hong Kong protests? A50E10AN500ER ( talk) 14:09, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Should we re-target our help page link in" that anyone can edit." top banner? -- Moxy 🍁 21:32, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
In April we changed Wikipedia:Introduction to Help:Introduction after a merge talk that consolidated all the neglected multiple page tutorials that people did not complete (this was a good thing). However originally Wikipedia:Introduction contained information about Wikipedia and being bold and vids on how to edit. The current target page of Help:Introduction does not contain this information or any information at all .... nor is it getting potential editors interested in reading on about how to edit. Stats show us that almost no-one is clicking the non-action action buttons to learn more . I am suggest we link to one of our normal overview help page about editing like Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia or Help:Editing that is navigable with a TOC, is formatted for all devices and works with screen readers, TV boxes and does not need people to click and load 66 pages. Not a secret from me that I have a real problem with the fact we are leading potential new editors to a 66 page tutorial that is not in a normal format and a HUGE read. Lets keep this simple and target a page that is small with information on it. Seeing thousands of potential editors giving up before there is any serviceable information is very disheartening...as over the years we have learnt that sending potential editors to huge multiple page tutorials simply does not get us new editors . What do other think here...keep sending potential editors to a tutorial no one is doing or a page with actual information on it? .....-- Moxy 🍁 14:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
Welcome}}
and related templates and what projectspace pages they link to; maybe something else needs to be added to my list. I think the Missing Manual page is a reasonable framework from which to start, and is more-or-less good enough to use as-is, even if we don't work it over. —
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I am removing the RfC template, since it makes no sense to have an RfC about the best intro page right now when we are scheduled to shortly have a discussion about which link to use for the new introduction page to be linked from the header. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:04, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
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Should Suicide Articles include a message of support at the top? Usually when searching for methods of suicide wiki articles are at the top. Should we include a message (like google does) of support at the top?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Allyant ( talk • contribs)
I've found it a bit odd that TFA and DYK are both green and ITN and OTD are both blue, even though e.g. TFA is no more closely related to DYK than to OTD. Why the arbitrary grouping? At Help:Using colours#Wikimedia colour schemes, it looks like hues 330 and 030 are unused for the main page, so we could potentially give each box its own color. Has this been considered before? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:32, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
I'm not super knowledgeable about which rabbit hole I need to go down to find information on the FA selection process for the main page. So, I'm trying to determine with a bit of certainty if today's FA was selected due to today also being Juneteenth. Or if this was just a coincidence. From what I can determine, the blurb for the main page was created on 22 May which predates George Floyd's death by three days. So, that's ruled out for a reason and just chalked up to coincidence. But was today selected for this article due to Juneteenth? (Note: I don't have a problem with this. I'm just curious.) Thanks, † dismas†| (talk) 11:24, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
People who click that link are presumably looking for a reader's introduction to the site, not a comprehensive encyclopedic understanding of what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia:About, our primary reader-focused intro, is not in the best shape currently (partly since it's too much like Wikipedia), but it's still the more appropriate target. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 09:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! I was looking at the pageview statistics for the main page here and saw huge, relatively recent cliffs: one in mid-November 2019 that dropped the main page from ~16M daily pageviews to just ~10M, and a second on May 30, 2020 that dropped daily pageviews from ~10M to ~5M.
What happened? Did Wikipedia have a deal to be the home page of some browsers that ended? — Shrinkydinks ( talk) 21:10, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Immediate edit suggestion for Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25. You're missing out, this should be in Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/Holidays_and_observances#Moveable_days so you don't miss out in future years. - hahnch e n 10:53, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
File:Nadar - "Hermaphrodite" (Seventh Gallica image).jpg, an image, named after the words used at the time, notable for its historical importance as the earliest photodocumentation of intersex people, got readded to the list of pictures to be censored from the Main Page, despite the discussion that was quoted to justify it explicitly stating in its closing that the discussion only applied to specifically putting it on Intersex Awareness day.
Wikipedia is WP:NOTCENSORED, and this would be the first image censored for sexual content alone in almost a decade, and the first one for non-sexual nudity since . Although the original discussion framed it as "something done regularly", this is simply false. A check of Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Unused will show that the last image censored for sexual content alone was The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife in 2013 and the last image censored for mere nudity was...
...Now there's a question. As far as the page shows, this would be the first image to ever be so censored, or at least to have been so censored and remain censored. September Morn was censored for the actions of the nominator and worries about the age of the model, and File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg was stated to be "too Cheesecake-y", which is a weird reason, and should probably also be added to the POTD rotation.
We have regularly had nudity on the main page. Why should a historically important image, which I was encouraged to work on by non-binary friends, (and, although I don't bring it up much - because that's kind of the nature of the identity - I consider myself agender, since I have no real definitions of masculinity and femininity to base any gender identification of myself on) be banned from the Main Page? It seems a violation of the principles of Wikipedia to do so.
And I am especially uncomfortable with the ONLY image censored for nudity being an image of an intersex person. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 16:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
despite it not having come up in previous examplesHuh? Nudity on the main page has absolutely been a perennial question. See the "see also" section at WP:CENSORMAIN. Whether or not you agree with me that we ought to keep most nudity off the Main page more generally, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you acknowledge that it is an understandable viewpoint one can hold without being prejudiced against intersex people. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 19:28, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
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How can there be an article about a word that is not existing in the English language? I understand the idea of the word but I believe that the article doesn’t take this into account. There is no explanation how or where the word originated, if it was to exist. Please review. Thanks MrMrMan reigns ( talk) 22:09, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
What will happen? I did this to my own site using mediawiki and nothing happened. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThesenatorO5-2 ( talk • contribs) 06:02, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Total number of edits 4,236. — andrybak ( talk) 11:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Red header says: "Irrelevant posts will be promptly removed without prior warning." A warning is always prior: this is tautologous and should be trimmed. For that matter, if it's done promptly there's no time for a warning anyway. It's sloppy English and in a prominent place. Cheers Spicemix ( talk) 16:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask: Wikipedia:Main Page history, written once a day by a bot, hasn't been written since 16 July, and Amalthea, running the bot, hasn't edited since 18 May. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:30, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:Main Page. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 25#Wikipedia:Main Page until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. the ultra Usurper 05:04, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Following this request at WP:BOTREQ, I've made Template:DYK image. It's similar to Template:Main page image, except it calculates the width automatically based off the dimensions of the supplied image (using a module), so it doesn't need to be manually supplied. Might prevent errors / forgetting to add the width. Feel free to use if it might help. Other than that, thanks for the great work you all do at DYK :) ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 10:23, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
For those not aware, image sizes on the Main Page need constant adjusting. I have had the pleasure of making these adjustments for the past few months and David Levy selflessly filled that role for years before me. ProcrastinatingReader has created Module:DYK image to make this task unnecessary. I thought it would be good to give everyone an opportunity to object before we standardize the use of this module across all sections of the main page and make it an integral part of {{ Main page image}}. This means TFA, TFL, ITN, DYK, and OTD. It may also be possible to integrate into POTD as well which is a bit different. This will make things work easier and better, yet still have an option to override for rare cases when necessary. Are there any objections, comments, or suggestions for improvement? Courtesy ping Ravenpuff who I know is as intimately aware of what talking about. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 09:49, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
|width=
is given it takes priority over the automatic determination of width, so I don't think past archives (which manually supply |width=
) should change.
ProcrastinatingReader (
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10:23, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Here is my plan for implementing this, in the order I plan to implement it.
I should be able to implement all these changes myself, except for ITN and TFL, for which I will need the assistance of an admin. Starting with DYK preps and TFL blurbs should allow us plenty of time to preview before it reaches the Main Page. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 10:06, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
I am slightly confused why we are running four TFAs on military/war back-to-back-to-back-to-back. August 7 was Second Silesian War. August 8 was Cyril Bassett. August 9 was 2nd Red Banner Army. And August 10 will be Battle of Azaz (1030) ( Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2020). Therapyisgood ( talk) 14:39, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Currently, the image is at the right of the template. This means that there is sometimes a word or a few words to the left of the image before the main part of the blurb.
I suggest that placing the image at the left of the column, and using {{ clear}} after the image would be better, as you'd then have the image with its caption, then an unterrupted blurb under the image. Mjroots ( talk) 09:45, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
a word or a few words to the left of the image before the main part of the blurb"? How small is your screen? Have you looked at the main page on mobile? --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 14:33, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
The line for births and deaths looks a little odd on its own. There should be a subheading "Births and deaths" above the line, to separate it from the other events. -- Viennese Waltz 13:26, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
The presence of anything but notable current events on the Main Page jeopardizes the impartiality of Wikipedia both as a lens for directing interest and in its subsequent massing of information. I urge the leadership to consider the impact of what frequently amounts to arbitrary geopolitical agitation on the most sensitive speakers of our language. ModulatorDemodulator ( talk) 11:24, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
In other words "won't somebody please think of the children". And that rather patronizing attitude is rejected just as strenuously now as ever before. We are thinking of the children. We are providing them with information on where we have been so that they may understand where we are and better plan and work on where we are going.-- Khajidha ( talk) 21:36, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Can we revive the fact about Dua Lipa's song Break My Heart tommorow? We'll let you know.-- AnOrionPicturesRelease25 ( talk) 22:32, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
I already reported this at WP:AIV and requested page protection, but John W. Beschter is being incessantly, heavily vandalized by a range of IPs, and it doesn't seem like anyone's gotten around to blocking them or protecting the page yet. Any admin with eyes on this page who could help? Armadillo pteryx 02:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Can I ask why so many TFA subjects are american Roman Catholic priests? Is there some body that puts them forward to be featured in this way? Dean1954 ( talk) 20:56, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt reply. It does seem a bit skewed to me, that we see subjects of one nationality and one confession so often. Nothing to be done, I suppose Dean1954 ( talk) 10:20, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
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Instead of beginning every DYK hook with that, what if we added it to the section heading? It kinda annoys me when I see hooks that don't obey MOS:COMMA like the first blurb in today's DYK where "in 2021" is parenthetical and a comma should come before it. Besides that, there is no need to repeat that eight times.
See how this would look here. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 02:48, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
What's the policy on how many days before an election we stop putting an article related to a candidate on the main page? I stupidly can't seem to find it. —valereee ( talk) 18:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
I just found a very good resolution gif of Hurricane Laura from today (August 27) from NOAA and recommend we change the still image on the main page to the gif:
Victor Grigas ( talk) 14:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Victor Grigas ( talk) 20:20, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I have filed a request for a change in the fully-protected module that controls the size of images on the main page. It is intended to avoid very large image outcomes such as the Corbin Building on DYK today. I propose calculating the image size based on surface area instead of width, which does not account for very tall and thin images and very short and wide images.
Please comment at Module talk:Main page image. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:04, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
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On the page Wikipedia:Main Page/Yesterday, please replace
<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="clear:both; margin:0.5em; background:#cef2e0; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Did you know... <span style="font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;">(For today)</span></h2>
<div id="mp-dyk" style="padding:0.1em 0.6em 0.5em;">{{Did you know}}</div>
with
<h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" style="clear:both; margin:0.5em; background:#cef2e0; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Did you know...</h2>
<div id="mp-dyk" style="padding:0.1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><!-- Take archived DYK section and replace timestamps (which are formatted in bold and italic) with paragraph breaks
-->{{#invoke:String|replace
|source={{#section-h:Wikipedia:Recent additions/{{#time:Y/F|-1 days}}|{{#time:j F Y|-1 days}}}}
|pattern=%*'''''.-'''''
|replace=
|plain=false
}}</div>
This will transclude actual yesterday's DYK hooks from Wikipedia:Recent additions. With timestamps removed, it would show all yesterdays DYK hooks archived to Wikipedia:Recent additions. I have implemented such transclusion of Wikipedia:Recent additions at Wikipedia:Main Page/Day before yesterday.
Did you know...
|
— andrybak ( talk) 10:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
'''''
. That pattern sometimes appears within hooks when the target article is bolded and in italics. Have you accounted for that?*'''''
—on
Wikipedia:Recent additions, only the timestamps follow this pattern, while hooks always have ellipsis after the asterisk: * ...
. —
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Among the Sierra Nevada, California, is an 1868 oil-on-canvas painting by
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the
American West. Bierstadt painted the landscape in his Rome studio ...
[[Template:POTD/2020-09-01|Albert Bierstadt]]
to [[Template:POTD/2020-09-01|''Among the Sierra Nevada, California'']]
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"the featured picture is the painting". No, it isn't. It could have been, and now that you've written the article, maybe in another universe it would have been the actual topic of this day's blurb. But in this case, per the coordinators' decision when scheduling it, the FP was a picture highlighting our article about Albert Bierstadt. And that's what should appear on the template as the bolded article, and for the subsequent two days. I wouldn't be averse to a nomination process similar to that for TFA - I think we discussed that a couple of years ago when we were going through a similar round of introspection about POTD... my worry is that there wouldn't really be the volume of interest necessary to make the process sustainable. The big hairy audacious goal would be to get to a point where we no longer feature articles at POTD that wouldn't pass muster for ITN/DYK/OTD. I wasn't able to do that during my time as coordinator, because I simply didn't have enough time to do it daily, and nobody else was helping. POTD has always been something of a poor relation in terms of editor engagement, which is a shame as it does an important job. Cheers — Amakuru ( talk) 22:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
On the "From today's featured article" section, the "Recently featured", "Archive" etc links are not leaving a padding to the right border like it would normally do. Anyone else see this? -- AxG / ✉ 15:27, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
There is some sort of error which is displayed on my Android smartphone as "Expression error: Unexpected < operator". I do not feel confident trying to solve the problem myself. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 00:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
This may be the wrong place for asking. If so, please advise, but why did the 'Featured content' link disappear from the left sidebar? (visible on all pages the way I'm browsing and using 'em on my desktop). --- Sluzzelin talk 23:12, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Instead of linking the "Complete list of Wikipedias" to this abstract listicle, why not just link to wikipedia.org? It's better in my opinion. Gerald WL 17:40, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Main Page is not in any categories, but a redirect to it ( Main page) is in Category:Main Page. I think the Main Page itself should be in this category. JsfasdF252 ( talk) 01:04, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
The main page for this language already existent and located at https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE Kindly add the inter-wiki link to the existing page. Regards. RIT RAJARSHI ( talk) 08:52, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
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I am a bit surprised that the California wildfires are not mentioned the the Main Page. These are the most devastating wildfires ever. Almost all media channels have them on their title page. 194.62.169.86 ( talk) 19:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
The unprecedented magnitude of these multiple fires, which have killed 23 and left hundreds of thousands homeless, is so great that it's very odd indeed not to list the topic. Pulling it from Ongoing was an editorial mistake, IMO. The reading public will not understand its total absence from the Main Page. – Sca ( talk) 12:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Response>>>You can help... On the Main News page, click on Nominate an article. Users need to vote with SUPPORT to get articles displayed. You can help by voting for 2020 California Wildfire. Thanks, SWP13 ( talk) 15:11, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
There is talk of deleting the above "List" which is linked from OTD. I have no opinion on the deletion nomination. It may leave us with a predicament here and we should prepare for the possibility.
I propose we implement the changes I made at {{ SelAnnivFooter/sandbox}} in case the page is deleted. You can preview how it looks at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 13. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 16:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Wikipedia languages § Redesign. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 01:22, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
I agree with ur opinion Ejike success chioma ( talk) 19:47, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to say T Debjit singha ( talk) 07:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Completely agree with you T Debjit singha ( talk) 07:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I propose that a change be made to main page, that the main page had a new design, following the examples of the Spanish Wikipedia and the Russian Wikipedia main pages. -- Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 00:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
The projects aren't visible to immediate first sight, when page opens on screen. It would be useful if basic links (without the one-line description) are provided at top of the page (or even as a dropdown menu). --Gpkp u • t • c 07:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! Does anyone know about the reasoning for the wording of Wikidata as a "free knowledge base"? That seems somewhat detached from the reality of Wikidata, that it's a data-based and computer-readable repository. It seems to represent Wikidata as almost a Q&A sort of platform. Has there been any significant discussion on why it's described as a "free knowledge base" and not something like a "computer-readable data source" or a "data information repository", or something of the sorts? ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 06:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
There is more to the world than simply the "Belarus protests", there is currently ongoing the George Floyd Protests (I know it was here for a long time, but the Belorussian protests have been here for longer), protests throughout Chile, pandemics throughout the world, protests throughout Portland, fighting in Karabakh etc... Yet all that is present is apparently simply the "Belarus protests". It's criminal that articles that are so well written and informative, are being overlooked. So why are they being overlooked? That question is beyond me sadly. Thanks. Vallee01 ( talk) 04:40, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
The List of historical anniversaries
link in the OTD footer has been moved to
List of days of the year – please amend the link at {{
SelAnnivFooter}} to avoid the resultant redirect. Thanks. —
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When I saw the words "Nominate an article" I assumed that it might refer to nominating one for featured articles, and I was wondering what that's doing in the news section. So I would like to suggest:
direct readers to articles that have been substantially updated to reflect recent or current events of wide interest(taken from WP:ITN). News items themselves are not what is nominated, but instead the article is nominated. I'm unsure of whether a change is needed (as the link is in the "in the news" section and is directly below the current articles in ITN), but I'm not against changing the wording necessarily. I also think "news item" could be improved to a better wording (I would say something which says that you are nominating an article not a news event).
I found the title of main page is wrongly displayed before log in, the hyphen appearing at the beginning of title, just like this: "- Wikipedia", is there anyway to remove the hyphen? -- Great Brightstar ( talk) 12:57, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
This is phab:T265892 Jon (WMF) ( talk) 17:05, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
Can anyone change the link to the arts portal from Arts to The Arts? The title of this article has recently been changed and the links should be updated. Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 11:28, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
All portalslink to
In the news. If a proposal was brought forward to change the entire main page to title case, I'd consider it, but there's no way we should just change this one link, per WP:CONSISTENCY. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 19:05, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
How about proposal 3? Change the portal back to just "arts" and leave this link as is.-- Khajidha ( talk) 22:20, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Main Page history has stopped being archived. It is usually created by Amalthea (bot) (which has not edited in 5 days). The bot's owner Amalthea is not very active these days. This is about the fifth time that the bot has gone down in the past year.
ProcrastinatingReader has a bot replacement ready. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ProcBot 3. @ Xaosflux: we can email Amalthea again and try to get their attention. However, I think we should just activate ProcBot 3 instead. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 17:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Amalthea (bot) also maintains Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview which has not been updated in 5 days. This was last discussed at Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_81#Amalthea_(bot) where Majavah said that DeltaQuadBot can do the same task. Courtesy ping AmandaNP. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 17:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Per above, Amalthea (bot) was also in charge of updating the CCI overview here but it hasnt updated since October 13th. Is there another bot that could take over this task or does a bot need to be requested? -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 03:19, 30 October 2020 (UTC)