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After the latest vandalism on the front page link to
Tli Cho it might be appropriate to discuss protecting also pages listed there. Or make an option to add them automatically to watchlists of all admins. Safety measure.
--
Kpjas 07:16, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Question on database schema moved to village pump.
I really dislike that pretentious front page quotation. Firstly, it pushes the actual content of the page even further down on smaller displays. Secondly, it doesn't make any sense concerning Wikipedia. Wikipedia contains lots and lots of (often very good) information, but it is not exactly a source of wisdom! I think the quotation is pretty silly in this context... --Morn
I suggest include a link to disccuss this page in the top part of the page, near to protected page and include a new page named Main Page/simulation to propose changes.
Note: Harley-Davidson and Anniversaries discussion moved to
Wikipedia talk:Selected Articles on the Main Page. --
Jiang 22:24, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers is not linked on the main page. To make the main page more welcoming, I propose we replace "Community" with that link, or at least add it in that section. -- Jiang 05:05, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The "you" doesn't seem prominent enough. We need to make this link very visible. -- Jiang 05:16, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I agree with the decision made on Archive 8 but we need to link it somewhere else. -- Jiang 06:22, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Where can I go to find information about a Television show viewed in the U.S.A. called the Magic Door. A Miniature man that played an accoustic guitar and lived in a mushroom? Back in the 1970's.
I agree.
I'm using IE 6. How do I adjust by screen to see if everything will fit at 800? Install linux.
-- Jiang 04:34, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Seeing the article count at 154006 reminds me of an old issue I have with this count. I think it would be better to always truncate these article counts to the nearest thousand, because
it would read
which I think sounds considerably more exciting. -- Morn
The front page should be changed to mention that the first round logo voting ends Sept 5 20:00 UTC. Jrincayc 02:59, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Dear Sir/ Madam I recently saw a detailed article on Bazilio by Col Joseph Ntare on your page, could you please forward it to me. Thank you James Tawny
I changed the "assassination attempt" link to Anna Lindh to "Anna Lindh" because there have been a few assasination attempts today -- in case people havent read the wires. Its too general a category. - 戴眩sv 01:56, Sep 11, 2003 (UTC)
Surely the September 11 aniversary link should be Salvador Allende rather than Augusto Pinochet.
See the discussion on the link to Wikipedia:MIT Media Lab survey added to the main page of Wikipedia on September 11. Nanobug 23:36, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Shouldn't the "current events" link go to Abu Ala at this point rather than Mahmoud Abbas? -- AdamRaizen 18:22, 2003 Sep 13 (UTC)
Would someone add the article Underemployment to the "New Articles" line? It's a well-written article. (I would, but I made some relatively minor changes -- adding links -- & I feel I should recuse myself.) -- llywrch 05:02, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Shouldn't someone add the Williams sisters' sister's death to the main page?
Moved to Wikipedia:Village pump
Do we have to say "complete and accurate"? As if someone would be creating an inaccurate encyplopaedia? CGS 20:10, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC).
Why hasn't the hurricane ever registered on "In the News"? It's slamming North Carolina right now, and I think deserves mention (and I can't make the edit). -- VV 23:27, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
It needs an article. Does it have one? -- Jiang 23:29, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Yes: Hurricane Isabel. -- VV 00:05, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The tables with the different language doesn't wrap with my setup (Opera 7) and generates a thousands of pixels wide table. Please look into this. Thanks, drx
What newsitem mentions this town? How is it deserving of the first place among current events? Just curious. -- Igor 7:11, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
-- Igor 23:24, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Would someone please update the link to Lists of people? The page was renamed some time ago. -- User:Docu
How do we get to select which people appear on the front page? I think that Jack Brymer is deserving of this (died 15th September), as he was really a very distinguished clarinettist. David Martland 18:54, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I've added Jack Brymer. The relevant guidelines here are:
Angela 20:02, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)
Why is there a separate link for "Software engineering" under "Applied Arts and Sciences"? A link for "Engineering" already is there. 152.163.253.2 01:01, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The "EU enlargement" link should point to Enlargement of the European Union, not to European Union as it currently does. Cabalamat
The link to the Galileo spacecraft should be itealicized to meet standard style. 64.12.96.47 01:34, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I'm stunned that that worked. I couldn't put it back without using an admin account. - BuddhaInside
His passing is at least as significant as that of Robert Palmer. Would someone with the proper access please add George to the list of Recent deaths featured on the Main Page? -- NetEsq 18:46, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I have noticed that while the list of languages (on many wikipedia opening pages) refer to the Arabic Wikipedia as "(Araby)" or something like that, the Arabic script reads at best al-Arabiya (العربية)... and last I checked, we refer to languages rather than regions or countries (also according to the "Araby" transscript mentioned earlier).
Am I correct - Arabic readers please comment and correct - that it would be more appropriate to call this عربي instead? -- Ralesk 18:01, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
PS: the bidi support of Mozilla is terrible :-(
PPS: as a matter of fact, Ericsson mobile phones that support Arabic interface language also write عربي.
Jiang, I fully appreciate the desirablity of having the Main page fit in an 800 x 600 screen, but if you are working on a 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024 screen (as I am) the correct size is not exactly intuitive when you are entering text. Perhaps a solution might be hard-coding the table cell width in the respective locations so that they wrap anything too long, making it directly obvious. Just an idea. -- Viajero 09:08, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
An exhortation for us to become post-larval posted here can be read at
user:Khranus
We are trying to make Wikipedia faster and more responsive. You can help by making a donation.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Phillip K. Dick
(Don't you think wikipedia is at least a step in the direction of freeing up words so as to decentralise control over 'words'? sorry to add a comment to this page if you'd rather it go somewhere else, but seeing as how this is a comment about wikipedia itself...)
I thought it was pretty silly to remove Steve Biko just to make room for an awfully long last name, when a first name will do, because everybody in the world knows who Arnold is. Silly is ov course a nice way of puttin it. 戴眩sv 08:04, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hey!!! Someone Take out the Arabic Text from the main page (العربية). The problem is not with Arabians, no racism intended. The problem is that my browser [Opera 7 http://www.opera.com] generates a thousands pixel wide table, could someone fix that, it happens only with the (العربية) in the main page, not in other pages, could someone fix it or delete it. It appears to be a problem with bidirectional text. Changing web browser, no chance! I use opere for speed and convinience :) Elnoyola 00:27, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hello, Angela, I suppose that you after 7 minutes of my post on the Talk Page corrected the Arabic Link. Thanks, the main page now work well.
Possible solutions:
Write:
Arabic Text Backwards (Like arabic Right to Left without using the (amp sign) (number sign) 8238;, that I think changes the direction of text)
or use a transliteration od the Arabic Name. Thanks for solving the problem really fast, less than 7 minutes after my post.
Are police mug shots public domain? - user:zanimum
As only the administrators can edit the text of the Main Page, how can one get the actual wiki text for adapting it to one of the other Wikipedias (non-en)? I know that the page changes, but some links are invariant, ditto for the formatting. ¬ Dori 01:42, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Could someone with powers put a link to the Albanian Wikipedia (e.g. [http://sq.wikipedia.org/ Shqip]) in the appropriate place? No articles yet, but it might entice a passing-by Albanian less lazy than myself to do something about it :) thanks ¬ Dori 06:32, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)
Might be pushing it but in case somebody agrees, not just any Hollywood actor, this one is getting a lifetime achievement award at 91.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3193816.stm
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=387984§ion=news
This is supposed to be on Selected Articles for the Main Page, but, can we fit in Saint Teresa? We already have John Paul II on the front page, but she seems seperately important. I'd replace another news headline, but all seem so important. - user:zanimum
I think that Eugene Istomin is worth noting as a recent death. Also Denis Quilley - though I'll have to check the articles. Istomin's is taking shape, and perhaps satisfies the requirements. He was at least as well known in music as many of the others that get a mention. David Martland 05:42, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Does drummer Tony Thompson ( Chic, David Bowie, Power Station) merit a mention? Catherine 05:27, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Originally, Philosophy was with "Mathematics and Natural Sciences." I believe that it should be restored to this category. Say what you will about philosphy, but it does not belong beside the social sciences. Traditional views of knowledge categories group philosophy into the same group as mathematics.
I propose slightly modified categories: Philosophy & Mathematics, Natural Science, Applied Science, Social Science, Humanities, and Fine Art.
Psychology was originally seen as being as an elevated branch of philosophy but lost that status in the 20th century when it progressed more toward a science. Philosophy has nothing to do with psychology anymore.
CATEGORY DEFINITIONS to avoid ambiguity!!
Philosophy & Mathematics: Purely analytic ways of knowing. This should be seperated from science because science is not as "pure" as mathematics. (Comptuer science is not self-evident analytic knowledge!!)
Natural Science: Sciences that are concerned with natural phenomena. (e.g. biology, physics, earth science, chemistry, etc.)
Social Science: Sciences that study aspects of society using theories and scientific models. (e.g. sociology, political science, economics, etc.)
Applied Science: Scientific knowledge that is applied to a specific end. (e.g. engineering, health science, computer engineering, computer science, etc.)
Humanities: Knowledge systems that do not require fine art skills and do not accumulate knowledge through scientific means. (e.g. history, mythology, theology, law, etc.)
Fine arts: Any mode of production, including that which is produced, which requires a skill that cannot be learned but through practice and excersises (hence a fine skill or "talent"). (theatre, dance, ballet, music, poetry, opera, film, etc.)
Furthermore... if it is not a system of knowledge (e.g. "tourism") I don't think it belongs on the main page, or at least in a sepearte section.
PETA/ Pamela Anderson/ Kentucky Fried Chicken is in the news. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Nathaniel Heatwole is in the news. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Why does the Abortion in the U.S. link to go Intact dilation and extraction, and not Abortion in the United States? I think it's inaccurate to link to the specific technique when the label does not match. Fuzheado
I went from the Main Page of Wikipedia, until I got into the section with an alphabetical listing of subjects. In that alphabetical listening I found "transexualism" (a missplelling of "transsexualism"), and "transexuality" (a misspelling of "transsexuality"). -DN
Is there a reason for not mentioning
WikiSource in the para. "Syster Projects"?
Found it in the
French Main Page
^^
Dod1 13:48, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Can you please respond to this question? ^^
Dod1 21:03, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I've "changed" my username to Little Orphan Annie before for this exact same purpose, so I'll do it again.
Once again I dawn a red wig to plea to someone to just update the Orphaned pages list. I know the server is slow, that's why it doesn't automatically do it. But they haven't changed since May. I thought after the first time I became the cute red head that the list would update at least every two months. But the list has just sat, and all articles were linked to.
If this doesn't finally get someone on the course of action to update the list every month or so, I seriously will change my username to Little Orphan Annie in protest. - Little Orphan Annie
Why are people not removing the articles on the right and adding to the left? The World Series is still stuck there on the left-hand side, yet the news is getting old now. Someone added Wildfires to the right-hand side, and someone else added the Ian Smith or whatever to the middle!? What is going on here? dave 04:06, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Why does the link say "Iain Duncan Smith" but point to UK Conservative party? -- Wik 07:34, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
Suggestion of new feature in Wikipedia software. How about a User-To-User page that would be a page that associates two users? A URL might look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UserToUser.phtml?User1=MyUserName&User2=YourUserName
The reason is I have people leave me messages on my talk page but I have no idea the context. If I reply to them on my talk page they might never see it unless they happen to be monitoring my talk page. So I go to their talk page and unless I quote their message they won't know the context. If instead any messages where placed on a User-To-User page, and any User-To-User pages that referenced me that have been recently updated would show in my watchlist.
Whadayathink? MikeSchinkel 00:09, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Maybe I am blind, but I see no relevant anniversary date in Lend-lease. What's going on? -- Viajero 18:33, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, how come Week in history gets two lines? Shouldn't In the news and New articles get two lines too? Kingturtle 21:32, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Richard Neustadt died Lirath Q. Pynnor
The "new articles" should be at the bottom of the selected articles list; the other 3 are related to the news; "new articles" is just some random sysops selection of random articles -- however, "anniversaries" is 2 lines long; and, we don't want a two liner admist one liners...so, "new articles" should either be deleted or increased to two lines.
Lirath Q. Pynnor
Without any formal procedure governing what is placed there; its pretty random -- regardless, it is not of the same category as the other 3; and should not be intermingled. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Right...how about acknowledging my actual point (rather than my opinion on some side issue); that the "new articles" shouldn't be interspersed between three lists of articles whose topics are, in some way, related to the current date? Lirath Q. Pynnor
Whoever runs the Main Page should consider adding Edgardo Mortara to the New Articles list. It's beautifully written. Michael Hardy 00:41, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Pardon me if this has been done to death already, but wouldn't it be better to have a comma in the centre of the figure indicating the number of articles being worked on, i.e., 170,323 instead of 170323? Moriori 22:58, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
It would be great, if the measures of the Wikipedia-Logo (wiki.png) could be fixed using HTML width and height attributes, since this could reserve space for the image even it is not loaded and would make rendering faster. 82.82.117.237 17:54, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers is a recent death. -- Cyan 22:59, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Richard Neustadt recently died, its irritating that I have to again suggest this. People with worse articles, who are less notable; get on the recent deaths list -- why are my suggestions being ignored? Lirath Q. Pynnor
I suggest create an online tool to resize jpg and png uploaded images to the ideal wikipedia image size Mac
Please add a link to Japan general election, 2003. Thanks -- Taku 17:30, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)
There is a br-Tag or something similar in the section "Wikipedia in other languages". -- zeno 13:27, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | → | Archive 15 |
After the latest vandalism on the front page link to
Tli Cho it might be appropriate to discuss protecting also pages listed there. Or make an option to add them automatically to watchlists of all admins. Safety measure.
--
Kpjas 07:16, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Question on database schema moved to village pump.
I really dislike that pretentious front page quotation. Firstly, it pushes the actual content of the page even further down on smaller displays. Secondly, it doesn't make any sense concerning Wikipedia. Wikipedia contains lots and lots of (often very good) information, but it is not exactly a source of wisdom! I think the quotation is pretty silly in this context... --Morn
I suggest include a link to disccuss this page in the top part of the page, near to protected page and include a new page named Main Page/simulation to propose changes.
Note: Harley-Davidson and Anniversaries discussion moved to
Wikipedia talk:Selected Articles on the Main Page. --
Jiang 22:24, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers is not linked on the main page. To make the main page more welcoming, I propose we replace "Community" with that link, or at least add it in that section. -- Jiang 05:05, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The "you" doesn't seem prominent enough. We need to make this link very visible. -- Jiang 05:16, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I agree with the decision made on Archive 8 but we need to link it somewhere else. -- Jiang 06:22, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Where can I go to find information about a Television show viewed in the U.S.A. called the Magic Door. A Miniature man that played an accoustic guitar and lived in a mushroom? Back in the 1970's.
I agree.
I'm using IE 6. How do I adjust by screen to see if everything will fit at 800? Install linux.
-- Jiang 04:34, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Seeing the article count at 154006 reminds me of an old issue I have with this count. I think it would be better to always truncate these article counts to the nearest thousand, because
it would read
which I think sounds considerably more exciting. -- Morn
The front page should be changed to mention that the first round logo voting ends Sept 5 20:00 UTC. Jrincayc 02:59, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Dear Sir/ Madam I recently saw a detailed article on Bazilio by Col Joseph Ntare on your page, could you please forward it to me. Thank you James Tawny
I changed the "assassination attempt" link to Anna Lindh to "Anna Lindh" because there have been a few assasination attempts today -- in case people havent read the wires. Its too general a category. - 戴眩sv 01:56, Sep 11, 2003 (UTC)
Surely the September 11 aniversary link should be Salvador Allende rather than Augusto Pinochet.
See the discussion on the link to Wikipedia:MIT Media Lab survey added to the main page of Wikipedia on September 11. Nanobug 23:36, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Shouldn't the "current events" link go to Abu Ala at this point rather than Mahmoud Abbas? -- AdamRaizen 18:22, 2003 Sep 13 (UTC)
Would someone add the article Underemployment to the "New Articles" line? It's a well-written article. (I would, but I made some relatively minor changes -- adding links -- & I feel I should recuse myself.) -- llywrch 05:02, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Shouldn't someone add the Williams sisters' sister's death to the main page?
Moved to Wikipedia:Village pump
Do we have to say "complete and accurate"? As if someone would be creating an inaccurate encyplopaedia? CGS 20:10, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC).
Why hasn't the hurricane ever registered on "In the News"? It's slamming North Carolina right now, and I think deserves mention (and I can't make the edit). -- VV 23:27, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
It needs an article. Does it have one? -- Jiang 23:29, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Yes: Hurricane Isabel. -- VV 00:05, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The tables with the different language doesn't wrap with my setup (Opera 7) and generates a thousands of pixels wide table. Please look into this. Thanks, drx
What newsitem mentions this town? How is it deserving of the first place among current events? Just curious. -- Igor 7:11, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
-- Igor 23:24, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Would someone please update the link to Lists of people? The page was renamed some time ago. -- User:Docu
How do we get to select which people appear on the front page? I think that Jack Brymer is deserving of this (died 15th September), as he was really a very distinguished clarinettist. David Martland 18:54, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I've added Jack Brymer. The relevant guidelines here are:
Angela 20:02, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)
Why is there a separate link for "Software engineering" under "Applied Arts and Sciences"? A link for "Engineering" already is there. 152.163.253.2 01:01, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The "EU enlargement" link should point to Enlargement of the European Union, not to European Union as it currently does. Cabalamat
The link to the Galileo spacecraft should be itealicized to meet standard style. 64.12.96.47 01:34, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I'm stunned that that worked. I couldn't put it back without using an admin account. - BuddhaInside
His passing is at least as significant as that of Robert Palmer. Would someone with the proper access please add George to the list of Recent deaths featured on the Main Page? -- NetEsq 18:46, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I have noticed that while the list of languages (on many wikipedia opening pages) refer to the Arabic Wikipedia as "(Araby)" or something like that, the Arabic script reads at best al-Arabiya (العربية)... and last I checked, we refer to languages rather than regions or countries (also according to the "Araby" transscript mentioned earlier).
Am I correct - Arabic readers please comment and correct - that it would be more appropriate to call this عربي instead? -- Ralesk 18:01, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
PS: the bidi support of Mozilla is terrible :-(
PPS: as a matter of fact, Ericsson mobile phones that support Arabic interface language also write عربي.
Jiang, I fully appreciate the desirablity of having the Main page fit in an 800 x 600 screen, but if you are working on a 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024 screen (as I am) the correct size is not exactly intuitive when you are entering text. Perhaps a solution might be hard-coding the table cell width in the respective locations so that they wrap anything too long, making it directly obvious. Just an idea. -- Viajero 09:08, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
An exhortation for us to become post-larval posted here can be read at
user:Khranus
We are trying to make Wikipedia faster and more responsive. You can help by making a donation.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Phillip K. Dick
(Don't you think wikipedia is at least a step in the direction of freeing up words so as to decentralise control over 'words'? sorry to add a comment to this page if you'd rather it go somewhere else, but seeing as how this is a comment about wikipedia itself...)
I thought it was pretty silly to remove Steve Biko just to make room for an awfully long last name, when a first name will do, because everybody in the world knows who Arnold is. Silly is ov course a nice way of puttin it. 戴眩sv 08:04, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hey!!! Someone Take out the Arabic Text from the main page (العربية). The problem is not with Arabians, no racism intended. The problem is that my browser [Opera 7 http://www.opera.com] generates a thousands pixel wide table, could someone fix that, it happens only with the (العربية) in the main page, not in other pages, could someone fix it or delete it. It appears to be a problem with bidirectional text. Changing web browser, no chance! I use opere for speed and convinience :) Elnoyola 00:27, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hello, Angela, I suppose that you after 7 minutes of my post on the Talk Page corrected the Arabic Link. Thanks, the main page now work well.
Possible solutions:
Write:
Arabic Text Backwards (Like arabic Right to Left without using the (amp sign) (number sign) 8238;, that I think changes the direction of text)
or use a transliteration od the Arabic Name. Thanks for solving the problem really fast, less than 7 minutes after my post.
Are police mug shots public domain? - user:zanimum
As only the administrators can edit the text of the Main Page, how can one get the actual wiki text for adapting it to one of the other Wikipedias (non-en)? I know that the page changes, but some links are invariant, ditto for the formatting. ¬ Dori 01:42, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Could someone with powers put a link to the Albanian Wikipedia (e.g. [http://sq.wikipedia.org/ Shqip]) in the appropriate place? No articles yet, but it might entice a passing-by Albanian less lazy than myself to do something about it :) thanks ¬ Dori 06:32, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)
Might be pushing it but in case somebody agrees, not just any Hollywood actor, this one is getting a lifetime achievement award at 91.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3193816.stm
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=387984§ion=news
This is supposed to be on Selected Articles for the Main Page, but, can we fit in Saint Teresa? We already have John Paul II on the front page, but she seems seperately important. I'd replace another news headline, but all seem so important. - user:zanimum
I think that Eugene Istomin is worth noting as a recent death. Also Denis Quilley - though I'll have to check the articles. Istomin's is taking shape, and perhaps satisfies the requirements. He was at least as well known in music as many of the others that get a mention. David Martland 05:42, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Does drummer Tony Thompson ( Chic, David Bowie, Power Station) merit a mention? Catherine 05:27, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Originally, Philosophy was with "Mathematics and Natural Sciences." I believe that it should be restored to this category. Say what you will about philosphy, but it does not belong beside the social sciences. Traditional views of knowledge categories group philosophy into the same group as mathematics.
I propose slightly modified categories: Philosophy & Mathematics, Natural Science, Applied Science, Social Science, Humanities, and Fine Art.
Psychology was originally seen as being as an elevated branch of philosophy but lost that status in the 20th century when it progressed more toward a science. Philosophy has nothing to do with psychology anymore.
CATEGORY DEFINITIONS to avoid ambiguity!!
Philosophy & Mathematics: Purely analytic ways of knowing. This should be seperated from science because science is not as "pure" as mathematics. (Comptuer science is not self-evident analytic knowledge!!)
Natural Science: Sciences that are concerned with natural phenomena. (e.g. biology, physics, earth science, chemistry, etc.)
Social Science: Sciences that study aspects of society using theories and scientific models. (e.g. sociology, political science, economics, etc.)
Applied Science: Scientific knowledge that is applied to a specific end. (e.g. engineering, health science, computer engineering, computer science, etc.)
Humanities: Knowledge systems that do not require fine art skills and do not accumulate knowledge through scientific means. (e.g. history, mythology, theology, law, etc.)
Fine arts: Any mode of production, including that which is produced, which requires a skill that cannot be learned but through practice and excersises (hence a fine skill or "talent"). (theatre, dance, ballet, music, poetry, opera, film, etc.)
Furthermore... if it is not a system of knowledge (e.g. "tourism") I don't think it belongs on the main page, or at least in a sepearte section.
PETA/ Pamela Anderson/ Kentucky Fried Chicken is in the news. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Nathaniel Heatwole is in the news. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Why does the Abortion in the U.S. link to go Intact dilation and extraction, and not Abortion in the United States? I think it's inaccurate to link to the specific technique when the label does not match. Fuzheado
I went from the Main Page of Wikipedia, until I got into the section with an alphabetical listing of subjects. In that alphabetical listening I found "transexualism" (a missplelling of "transsexualism"), and "transexuality" (a misspelling of "transsexuality"). -DN
Is there a reason for not mentioning
WikiSource in the para. "Syster Projects"?
Found it in the
French Main Page
^^
Dod1 13:48, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Can you please respond to this question? ^^
Dod1 21:03, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I've "changed" my username to Little Orphan Annie before for this exact same purpose, so I'll do it again.
Once again I dawn a red wig to plea to someone to just update the Orphaned pages list. I know the server is slow, that's why it doesn't automatically do it. But they haven't changed since May. I thought after the first time I became the cute red head that the list would update at least every two months. But the list has just sat, and all articles were linked to.
If this doesn't finally get someone on the course of action to update the list every month or so, I seriously will change my username to Little Orphan Annie in protest. - Little Orphan Annie
Why are people not removing the articles on the right and adding to the left? The World Series is still stuck there on the left-hand side, yet the news is getting old now. Someone added Wildfires to the right-hand side, and someone else added the Ian Smith or whatever to the middle!? What is going on here? dave 04:06, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Why does the link say "Iain Duncan Smith" but point to UK Conservative party? -- Wik 07:34, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
Suggestion of new feature in Wikipedia software. How about a User-To-User page that would be a page that associates two users? A URL might look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UserToUser.phtml?User1=MyUserName&User2=YourUserName
The reason is I have people leave me messages on my talk page but I have no idea the context. If I reply to them on my talk page they might never see it unless they happen to be monitoring my talk page. So I go to their talk page and unless I quote their message they won't know the context. If instead any messages where placed on a User-To-User page, and any User-To-User pages that referenced me that have been recently updated would show in my watchlist.
Whadayathink? MikeSchinkel 00:09, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Maybe I am blind, but I see no relevant anniversary date in Lend-lease. What's going on? -- Viajero 18:33, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, how come Week in history gets two lines? Shouldn't In the news and New articles get two lines too? Kingturtle 21:32, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Richard Neustadt died Lirath Q. Pynnor
The "new articles" should be at the bottom of the selected articles list; the other 3 are related to the news; "new articles" is just some random sysops selection of random articles -- however, "anniversaries" is 2 lines long; and, we don't want a two liner admist one liners...so, "new articles" should either be deleted or increased to two lines.
Lirath Q. Pynnor
Without any formal procedure governing what is placed there; its pretty random -- regardless, it is not of the same category as the other 3; and should not be intermingled. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Right...how about acknowledging my actual point (rather than my opinion on some side issue); that the "new articles" shouldn't be interspersed between three lists of articles whose topics are, in some way, related to the current date? Lirath Q. Pynnor
Whoever runs the Main Page should consider adding Edgardo Mortara to the New Articles list. It's beautifully written. Michael Hardy 00:41, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Pardon me if this has been done to death already, but wouldn't it be better to have a comma in the centre of the figure indicating the number of articles being worked on, i.e., 170,323 instead of 170323? Moriori 22:58, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
It would be great, if the measures of the Wikipedia-Logo (wiki.png) could be fixed using HTML width and height attributes, since this could reserve space for the image even it is not loaded and would make rendering faster. 82.82.117.237 17:54, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers is a recent death. -- Cyan 22:59, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Richard Neustadt recently died, its irritating that I have to again suggest this. People with worse articles, who are less notable; get on the recent deaths list -- why are my suggestions being ignored? Lirath Q. Pynnor
I suggest create an online tool to resize jpg and png uploaded images to the ideal wikipedia image size Mac
Please add a link to Japan general election, 2003. Thanks -- Taku 17:30, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)
There is a br-Tag or something similar in the section "Wikipedia in other languages". -- zeno 13:27, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)