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>1948 - The Marshall Plan, an economic recovery program established by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall >to assist the post-World War II re-building of Europe, was signed into law.
This is very biased! The programme was intended to re-build ONLY western Europe (the self-declared "free world" part only), not the entire Europe. The soviet sphere of influence (USSR and eastern-european satellite states) were purposefully excluded by crafting humiliating conditions which were not acceptable considering that WWII destruction was at least 5x more severe east of the Elbe.
Therefore the above sentence is dishonest.!
With these kind of "America is always right" style worded articles there is no wonder that scholars consider traditional encyclopaedias more trusted. Those are done by researchers who are bound by the inherent honesty of scientific methodology. Here on the Internet the numerically superior anglo-saxon netpopulation rewords history to its own liking regardless of the truth. Regards, Tamas Feher from Hungary. 195.70.32.136 08:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
"look TAMAS FEHER. is interesting to see your view from ex-east sphere country. You talk about humilliating conditions, and about the real intention of the marshall plan being to benefit only west sphere. Whats the news in that. INternational competition against the soviet sphere was sometheing ovious then and now. The real benefits of americans plan is being feel only nowadays by east-european countries, with their captation within the european union, which economic goodstanding is a consecuence of american effort, as eastern european countries possibility to join it is too. I hope you dont understand my words as vulgar proamerican ideology since it could have been exactly the other way round, if the USSR could have found a way for its economic and political problems for an international structure based on socialism. But its leaders were too obstinated, and its sphere countries had to wait the 1990s for political definition and the 2000s for economic. Leandro from Argentina.
The Marshall Plan WAS NOT intended only to rebuild western Europe. Unless Stalin played a role in creating the plan, which of course is highly improbable. However, Stalin did play a role in carrying out the plan, as he viewed the plan as a ploy to trick the Soviet Union into conforming to capitalism. Stalin would not allow the plan to apply to his iron curtain-protected European countries, as the plan was the ultimate form of international capitalism. This my friends is why western Europe recovered from the aftermath of WWII much more quickly than eastern Europe. This plan helped to bring people left in poverty by the war back to a level of economic feasability. As for what the second anti-Marshall commentator said on this strain, it is his "must find something wrong with an American accomplishment" ideology that is the true source of bias. It is shameful to misconstrue the Cold War status of eastern Europe as America's fault. How easily we forget the tanks poised on the Soviet side of the Berlin wall, preventing any access to help the impovershed people in eastern Europe, or the Berlin arilift, or the countless other humanitarian efforts of the United States to aid eastern Europe. How can the United States be blamed for Stalin's evil, yes evil, desire to spread his Communist sphere of influence by keeping nations in poverty? Perhaps the flaw lies in his ideology, or in Communism as a whole (ps- if I hear another anti-western, uninformed person hate on the US for using the atomic bomb to end the fascist campaign of Japan, I may vomit). Conclusivly, Stalin was wrong, Marshall was right, the text in the article is accurate. It appears all of Stalin's propaganda still lingers in eastern Europe. Regards, Hendrickson03 21:02, 10 April 2006 (UTC) from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Why have all the clickable words become underlined?`It is very annoying I think!
Cyrruss 08:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
You should be able to set whether underlines are displayed in your preferences on the 'Misc' page. -- CBDunkerson 01:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't see why they wouldn't be underlined. It's like that on the rest of the Web... Dragon Expert 15:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Ok this is driving me crazy, unless these underlines go away I will be totally unable to continue to contribute sainly to wikipedia... PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!! --- T-rex 16:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
ten German nuclear scientists were detained and secretly microphoned at a house in England
How does one "microphone" someone? Were these scientists secretly struck about the head with a large foam-covered microphone? "Microphone" is a noun not a verb... and I doubt it can even exist as "microphoned". Thankfully the above text does not appear to be present in the body of the article... it is surprising to see it on the main page.
-- TecBrat 22:56, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I believe wiretap would apply to something like telephone. Perhaps secretly recorded using hidden microphones would be the most faithful representation of the truth, if they were in fact microphoned. --
129.15.169.147 20:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Something which has been bugging me ever since I've first seen the main page: isnt it possible to list the article with the picture next to the picture. Its mighty confusing, even for regular users (I still find myself occasionally surprised, and then remind myself of the fact that its not necessarily adjacent). The fact that its a recurring complaint by anons (meaning simple readers) means that its confusing to a larger audience as well.
Should be hard to implement methinks?
Cheers, The Minist e r of War (Peace) 11:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Why is today's featured article "The New England Patriots," when today is:
1) Opening Day for most of Major League Baseball's 30 teams; and 2) The day that the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship will be decided.
I am a diehard Patriots fan, but this seems kind of silly, especially since the Patriots did not even play in the most recent Super Bowl. I would rather have seen the Boston Red Sox as today's feature, or maybe even the Boston Marathon, which will be run two weeks from today on April 17.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.204.134.1 ( talk • contribs)
I feel that the bolding of the title and slogan looks very childish and over-the-top. It looks a bit like a persons first go at programming HTML, using all of the ways of formatting text as he can. What do other people think? -- Cel es tianpower háblame 14:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
"that the Autumn of Nations, which begun in Poland, marked the end of the Cold War?" - Kind of anal, but it should read "began" rather than "begun" - Elmer Clark 22:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The first sentence of today's featured article has incorrect grammar. It reads "The history of Limerick, the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland and a major cultural and industrial centre, stretches back to its establishment by the Vikings as a walled city on "King's Island" (an island in the River Shannon) in 812, and received its charter in 1197." Stripping out adjectives, appositives, and such this becomes "The history of Limerick stretches back to its establishment and received its charter in 1197." The easiest fix would be just to remove the word "received," though that's still sylistically sub-par. LWizard @ 00:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The In the News section states:
That seems like quite an exaggeration. It sounds as though Moussaoui is responsible for the deaths of all those who were killed on 9|11. In addition, the part about the death penalty phase to me sounds a bit redundant. Clearly, the death penalty phase involves execution. Perhaps it would be more accurate and concise to say...
joturn e r 02:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
No, the original is more clear because it includes important procedural phases of the verdict process that the later, more summed-up version leaves out. However, I'll submit that the original is a little unclear. It should read: "A jury finds Zacarias Moussaoui (pictured) guilty in conspiracy to murder those killed in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. The trial now moves into the death penalty phase, where the jury will decide first whether Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, and if so, whether that will be his sentence." Hendrickson03 20:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
what timezone is the main page displaying? according to my watch, it is only the 3rd. Joeyramoney 02:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
An article in the DYK section mentions "Congressional Medal of Honor", but in the CMOH article, it says that this is actually incorrect.
Further to people's complaints above regarding how it is confusing at first as to which article belongs to the picture; There is a little (pictured) caption in the text so it's not a huge issue but how about somethig like this?.. (Rough mockup, it might look stupid in your browser)
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Zacarias Moussaoui | ||
Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events... |
...to highlight the appropriate article entry? -- Monotonehell 06:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
What's wrong with using ALT on the image ? Just move the mouse over and the text would pop on screen. So easy.... -- 199.71.174.100 15:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Atnetion: In the News says Zacarias is pictures, but its the Canadian Prime-minister who appears! Its not on purpose, now is it? :) muriel@pt 12:09, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
A jury finds Zacarias Moussaoui (pictured) liable for the deaths in the September 11 attacks: Moussaoui is not pictured - it's Stephen Harper. ▫ UrbaneLegend talk 12:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
It's the new Canadian bigwig and not the guy found guilty who is depicted. Could you please correct this? -- 62.67.194.45 12:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC) (Ah, I see that while I was typing this somebody else has already pointed it out.)
The opening of the 39th parliament has Governor-General....this is incorrect...there is no hyphen. I realize it redirects but this should still be corrected. KsprayDad 13:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Fixed -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 14:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
In the opening of the 39th parliament, the Speech from the Throne should be delivered by the Governor General on behalf of the Queen of Canada, and written by the newly-elected government of Stephen Harper. dancheng 01:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Um, it became extinct in 1930 because of Spanish missionaries? My knowledge of American history is imperfect, but hadn't California already been admitted to the union by then? Surely it therefore became extinct because no-one in the US made any attempt to preserve it..? AND- can someone explain to me what this means- "...that the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?". Maybe a bit more QC-ing for the main page could be in order. Badgerpatrol 15:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone else think Tom Delay's resignation might deserve a space on "In the news"? I think it does. But then again, there is important stuff already there... Could the Thai newspaper get bumped off? (Trying not to have a U.S. bias...) Grand master ka 15:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I think "emergency" should link to the meaning of the term "Emergency," not "The Emergency." If they are talking about "The Emergency," They should say "...famine, and The Emergency." instead of "...famine, and emergency." Dragon Expert 15:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Recently, Esperanto Wikipedia decided to not uppercase anymore the surnames in people articles (e.g.: John LENNON). Please feel free to check if interwiki links to Esperanto Wikipedia are working good, since the most of the aforementioned pages are being moved to new title articles (e.g.: John Lennon). Mxcatania 16:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't know where to ask this. I looked through the FAQ's and everything! Anyway, I made a new article today that I'm very proud of. John Chain. I wanted to know if it could go on the main page in the Did You Know box? How do we do this sort of thing? Thanks! Sarah crane 18:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
It seems that the picture of the day's text is aligned to the vertical middle of its container. This seems to be illogical, and, most importantly, inconsistent with the rest of the main page's design. I'm not exactly sure how the templates work, but would it be a good idea to have the text content of that table or div align to the top rather than to the middle? I think it would look better that way. -- Michiel Sikma 21:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a spot for fun facts on the home page? At 1:02:03AM later today, the clock will read: 01:02:03 04/05/06 and I think that's cool enough to get a spot on the home page. In about 3 hours as of this writing UTC will read that time. Europe will have to wait another month because they swap the month and day. Here is a news story about it: [1]
Can someone Wikify " tomboy" in the featured article. -- 130.184.211.35 00:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Ummm? KayEss | talk 06:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Minor thing -- Today's "Did You Know?" section refers to a "baseball match," but baseball contests are known as "games," not "matches." -- Mwalcoff 07:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I study Architecture and i am preparing my final project. The topic is Nomadic Architecture. I would love to see what people have to say about Nomadism and the answers would be very important and very helpful for me. Thank you very much!!
Where did the term "Onion Snow" come from as a reference to the last snow of the winter season? (I live in PA - maybe this is a local thing?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.236.197.226 ( talk • contribs)
Why do the Wikinews stories not have direct links to those stories? Clicking the Wikinews link takes you to the list of stories and I never seem to be able to find the story I am looking for.
I think the bullet should link directly to the Wikinews story. Whaddaythink?
Cyferx 16:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, why is it? —This unsigned comment was added by JohnOw ( talk • contribs) 16:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC).
In the third Did You Know item, "agressive" should be "aggressive". Art LaPella 19:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
WTC Cross has been moved to World Trade Center cross, so the DYK's piped link should be fixed to avoid an unneeded redirect. Staxringold 21:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be past tense ? Instead of 'lead', should it be 'led' ? -- 199.71.174.100 21:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't we avoid advertising this article ? KH is not important. I'm starting to have doubts about wikipedia based on the featured articles lately.
Apollo 17 may have been the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program, but there were five more flights using Apollo hardware that were arguably part of the Apollo program: Skylab 1-4 (the laboratory plus three manned flights in 1973-74) and finally the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. So it would be more accurate to simply say that Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. -- Karn 04:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Gems should be linked to Gemstones, not to the disambiguation page JanSuchy 08:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that there seem to be small changes happening to the main page, mostly with the top banner (AFAICS). Are these changes done via concensus? I can't see any discussion even being done wrt them. The reason I'm pointing this out now is because the most recent change (as of ~13:40 GMT) has caused there to be 4 lines in the top box. Since 3 was considered a bit much for a fair number of people, I can only guess that this is a mistake? - Drrngrvy 12:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
In my opinion, Admins should edit it how they wish and, if people dislike it, they should voice their opinion on this talkpage and a rational discussion would ensue. That's how the Wiki works and this case is no different. The worst Admins would do is make it look marginally worse for a few hours. We've entrusted these people with the powers, just let them get on and use them. -- Cel es tianpower háblame 13:46, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Today's main page has an article about AI that Wikinews does not seem to have. Why & how ? Thanks. DLL, -- 193.56.241.75 14:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I accidentally cleared the page when I was trying to add a comment last time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.157.84.24 ( talk • contribs) . (in regards to this edit)
Like a page with articles that are empty, etc?
Pece Kocovski 09:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any thing going on with having Wikipedia digitally published? Possibly a DVD set or so?
The "Anna Marly" Did You Know item should start with the word "that", like the other items. Art LaPella 19:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
There should be a period at the end of the Palestinian Authority news item. zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
The link for aid (Humanitarian aid) is misleading, since Humanitarian aid is NOT suspened, only political/payroll aid. There is no wiki article for that, that I found, so just remove the link alltogether.
I'm not sure where this feedback should go, but the random article link goes to a 404 for me now (just started happening about 3 minutes ago). Steve 02:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
How is the "Main Page" that would ordinarily be at the top of a mediawiki main page supressed on Wikipedia? I can't figure it out. Is it a special hack for Wikipedia? Is there a magic keyword I should know about? -- Dwiki 03:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
if
statement in
MediaWiki:Monobook.js that's true if you're looking at the main page and its not a diff includes this line:document.write('<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ #siteSub, #contentSub, h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; } /*]]>*/</style>');
Could someone add the missing space (ha!) to 2001: A Space Odyssey? Thanks. -- Bryan Nguyen | Talk 04:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
It seems ironic that the "The encyclopedia anyone can edit" starts off with a completely blocked page. I for one would like to crrect some formatting minor discrepancies, but, alas can't. -- Tbeatty 15:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Also, the Main Page is not an article. For example, I would have no problem deleting anything someone left on my user page, because it's not an article and I'm free to do with it as I
The go-go's that are linked were not around in 1964. (Dr. Who Spoofs)
- Robbrown
The article on Handel's Messiah clearly states that its premiere was on April 13, and not April 8. I just checked another source and confirmed the 13. It looks like Wikipedia is jumping the gun about five days or so. MusicMaker5376 23:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
hey, how can i put the colored boxes around text like on the main page of this site? you, for like news etc.
By using table markup, like this. |
You should use colored boxes sparingly though.- gadfium 00:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC) |
In the last Did You Know item, "cracked down" is an intransitive verb. It could be corrected by substituting "quashed" or a similar transitive verb, instead of "cracked down". Art LaPella 00:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
It might be useful to have a random article link, that went to a non-fiction page. Of course this maybe out of the current softwares capability.
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Archive 60 | ← | Archive 62 | Archive 63 | Archive 64 | Archive 65 | Archive 66 | → | Archive 70 |
>1948 - The Marshall Plan, an economic recovery program established by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall >to assist the post-World War II re-building of Europe, was signed into law.
This is very biased! The programme was intended to re-build ONLY western Europe (the self-declared "free world" part only), not the entire Europe. The soviet sphere of influence (USSR and eastern-european satellite states) were purposefully excluded by crafting humiliating conditions which were not acceptable considering that WWII destruction was at least 5x more severe east of the Elbe.
Therefore the above sentence is dishonest.!
With these kind of "America is always right" style worded articles there is no wonder that scholars consider traditional encyclopaedias more trusted. Those are done by researchers who are bound by the inherent honesty of scientific methodology. Here on the Internet the numerically superior anglo-saxon netpopulation rewords history to its own liking regardless of the truth. Regards, Tamas Feher from Hungary. 195.70.32.136 08:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
"look TAMAS FEHER. is interesting to see your view from ex-east sphere country. You talk about humilliating conditions, and about the real intention of the marshall plan being to benefit only west sphere. Whats the news in that. INternational competition against the soviet sphere was sometheing ovious then and now. The real benefits of americans plan is being feel only nowadays by east-european countries, with their captation within the european union, which economic goodstanding is a consecuence of american effort, as eastern european countries possibility to join it is too. I hope you dont understand my words as vulgar proamerican ideology since it could have been exactly the other way round, if the USSR could have found a way for its economic and political problems for an international structure based on socialism. But its leaders were too obstinated, and its sphere countries had to wait the 1990s for political definition and the 2000s for economic. Leandro from Argentina.
The Marshall Plan WAS NOT intended only to rebuild western Europe. Unless Stalin played a role in creating the plan, which of course is highly improbable. However, Stalin did play a role in carrying out the plan, as he viewed the plan as a ploy to trick the Soviet Union into conforming to capitalism. Stalin would not allow the plan to apply to his iron curtain-protected European countries, as the plan was the ultimate form of international capitalism. This my friends is why western Europe recovered from the aftermath of WWII much more quickly than eastern Europe. This plan helped to bring people left in poverty by the war back to a level of economic feasability. As for what the second anti-Marshall commentator said on this strain, it is his "must find something wrong with an American accomplishment" ideology that is the true source of bias. It is shameful to misconstrue the Cold War status of eastern Europe as America's fault. How easily we forget the tanks poised on the Soviet side of the Berlin wall, preventing any access to help the impovershed people in eastern Europe, or the Berlin arilift, or the countless other humanitarian efforts of the United States to aid eastern Europe. How can the United States be blamed for Stalin's evil, yes evil, desire to spread his Communist sphere of influence by keeping nations in poverty? Perhaps the flaw lies in his ideology, or in Communism as a whole (ps- if I hear another anti-western, uninformed person hate on the US for using the atomic bomb to end the fascist campaign of Japan, I may vomit). Conclusivly, Stalin was wrong, Marshall was right, the text in the article is accurate. It appears all of Stalin's propaganda still lingers in eastern Europe. Regards, Hendrickson03 21:02, 10 April 2006 (UTC) from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Why have all the clickable words become underlined?`It is very annoying I think!
Cyrruss 08:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
You should be able to set whether underlines are displayed in your preferences on the 'Misc' page. -- CBDunkerson 01:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't see why they wouldn't be underlined. It's like that on the rest of the Web... Dragon Expert 15:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Ok this is driving me crazy, unless these underlines go away I will be totally unable to continue to contribute sainly to wikipedia... PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!! --- T-rex 16:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
ten German nuclear scientists were detained and secretly microphoned at a house in England
How does one "microphone" someone? Were these scientists secretly struck about the head with a large foam-covered microphone? "Microphone" is a noun not a verb... and I doubt it can even exist as "microphoned". Thankfully the above text does not appear to be present in the body of the article... it is surprising to see it on the main page.
-- TecBrat 22:56, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I believe wiretap would apply to something like telephone. Perhaps secretly recorded using hidden microphones would be the most faithful representation of the truth, if they were in fact microphoned. --
129.15.169.147 20:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Something which has been bugging me ever since I've first seen the main page: isnt it possible to list the article with the picture next to the picture. Its mighty confusing, even for regular users (I still find myself occasionally surprised, and then remind myself of the fact that its not necessarily adjacent). The fact that its a recurring complaint by anons (meaning simple readers) means that its confusing to a larger audience as well.
Should be hard to implement methinks?
Cheers, The Minist e r of War (Peace) 11:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Why is today's featured article "The New England Patriots," when today is:
1) Opening Day for most of Major League Baseball's 30 teams; and 2) The day that the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship will be decided.
I am a diehard Patriots fan, but this seems kind of silly, especially since the Patriots did not even play in the most recent Super Bowl. I would rather have seen the Boston Red Sox as today's feature, or maybe even the Boston Marathon, which will be run two weeks from today on April 17.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.204.134.1 ( talk • contribs)
I feel that the bolding of the title and slogan looks very childish and over-the-top. It looks a bit like a persons first go at programming HTML, using all of the ways of formatting text as he can. What do other people think? -- Cel es tianpower háblame 14:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
"that the Autumn of Nations, which begun in Poland, marked the end of the Cold War?" - Kind of anal, but it should read "began" rather than "begun" - Elmer Clark 22:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The first sentence of today's featured article has incorrect grammar. It reads "The history of Limerick, the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland and a major cultural and industrial centre, stretches back to its establishment by the Vikings as a walled city on "King's Island" (an island in the River Shannon) in 812, and received its charter in 1197." Stripping out adjectives, appositives, and such this becomes "The history of Limerick stretches back to its establishment and received its charter in 1197." The easiest fix would be just to remove the word "received," though that's still sylistically sub-par. LWizard @ 00:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The In the News section states:
That seems like quite an exaggeration. It sounds as though Moussaoui is responsible for the deaths of all those who were killed on 9|11. In addition, the part about the death penalty phase to me sounds a bit redundant. Clearly, the death penalty phase involves execution. Perhaps it would be more accurate and concise to say...
joturn e r 02:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
No, the original is more clear because it includes important procedural phases of the verdict process that the later, more summed-up version leaves out. However, I'll submit that the original is a little unclear. It should read: "A jury finds Zacarias Moussaoui (pictured) guilty in conspiracy to murder those killed in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. The trial now moves into the death penalty phase, where the jury will decide first whether Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, and if so, whether that will be his sentence." Hendrickson03 20:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
what timezone is the main page displaying? according to my watch, it is only the 3rd. Joeyramoney 02:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
An article in the DYK section mentions "Congressional Medal of Honor", but in the CMOH article, it says that this is actually incorrect.
Further to people's complaints above regarding how it is confusing at first as to which article belongs to the picture; There is a little (pictured) caption in the text so it's not a huge issue but how about somethig like this?.. (Rough mockup, it might look stupid in your browser)
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Zacarias Moussaoui | ||
Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events... |
...to highlight the appropriate article entry? -- Monotonehell 06:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
What's wrong with using ALT on the image ? Just move the mouse over and the text would pop on screen. So easy.... -- 199.71.174.100 15:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Atnetion: In the News says Zacarias is pictures, but its the Canadian Prime-minister who appears! Its not on purpose, now is it? :) muriel@pt 12:09, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
A jury finds Zacarias Moussaoui (pictured) liable for the deaths in the September 11 attacks: Moussaoui is not pictured - it's Stephen Harper. ▫ UrbaneLegend talk 12:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
It's the new Canadian bigwig and not the guy found guilty who is depicted. Could you please correct this? -- 62.67.194.45 12:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC) (Ah, I see that while I was typing this somebody else has already pointed it out.)
The opening of the 39th parliament has Governor-General....this is incorrect...there is no hyphen. I realize it redirects but this should still be corrected. KsprayDad 13:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Fixed -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 14:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
In the opening of the 39th parliament, the Speech from the Throne should be delivered by the Governor General on behalf of the Queen of Canada, and written by the newly-elected government of Stephen Harper. dancheng 01:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Um, it became extinct in 1930 because of Spanish missionaries? My knowledge of American history is imperfect, but hadn't California already been admitted to the union by then? Surely it therefore became extinct because no-one in the US made any attempt to preserve it..? AND- can someone explain to me what this means- "...that the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?". Maybe a bit more QC-ing for the main page could be in order. Badgerpatrol 15:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone else think Tom Delay's resignation might deserve a space on "In the news"? I think it does. But then again, there is important stuff already there... Could the Thai newspaper get bumped off? (Trying not to have a U.S. bias...) Grand master ka 15:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I think "emergency" should link to the meaning of the term "Emergency," not "The Emergency." If they are talking about "The Emergency," They should say "...famine, and The Emergency." instead of "...famine, and emergency." Dragon Expert 15:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Recently, Esperanto Wikipedia decided to not uppercase anymore the surnames in people articles (e.g.: John LENNON). Please feel free to check if interwiki links to Esperanto Wikipedia are working good, since the most of the aforementioned pages are being moved to new title articles (e.g.: John Lennon). Mxcatania 16:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't know where to ask this. I looked through the FAQ's and everything! Anyway, I made a new article today that I'm very proud of. John Chain. I wanted to know if it could go on the main page in the Did You Know box? How do we do this sort of thing? Thanks! Sarah crane 18:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
It seems that the picture of the day's text is aligned to the vertical middle of its container. This seems to be illogical, and, most importantly, inconsistent with the rest of the main page's design. I'm not exactly sure how the templates work, but would it be a good idea to have the text content of that table or div align to the top rather than to the middle? I think it would look better that way. -- Michiel Sikma 21:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a spot for fun facts on the home page? At 1:02:03AM later today, the clock will read: 01:02:03 04/05/06 and I think that's cool enough to get a spot on the home page. In about 3 hours as of this writing UTC will read that time. Europe will have to wait another month because they swap the month and day. Here is a news story about it: [1]
Can someone Wikify " tomboy" in the featured article. -- 130.184.211.35 00:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Ummm? KayEss | talk 06:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Minor thing -- Today's "Did You Know?" section refers to a "baseball match," but baseball contests are known as "games," not "matches." -- Mwalcoff 07:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I study Architecture and i am preparing my final project. The topic is Nomadic Architecture. I would love to see what people have to say about Nomadism and the answers would be very important and very helpful for me. Thank you very much!!
Where did the term "Onion Snow" come from as a reference to the last snow of the winter season? (I live in PA - maybe this is a local thing?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.236.197.226 ( talk • contribs)
Why do the Wikinews stories not have direct links to those stories? Clicking the Wikinews link takes you to the list of stories and I never seem to be able to find the story I am looking for.
I think the bullet should link directly to the Wikinews story. Whaddaythink?
Cyferx 16:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, why is it? —This unsigned comment was added by JohnOw ( talk • contribs) 16:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC).
In the third Did You Know item, "agressive" should be "aggressive". Art LaPella 19:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
WTC Cross has been moved to World Trade Center cross, so the DYK's piped link should be fixed to avoid an unneeded redirect. Staxringold 21:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be past tense ? Instead of 'lead', should it be 'led' ? -- 199.71.174.100 21:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't we avoid advertising this article ? KH is not important. I'm starting to have doubts about wikipedia based on the featured articles lately.
Apollo 17 may have been the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program, but there were five more flights using Apollo hardware that were arguably part of the Apollo program: Skylab 1-4 (the laboratory plus three manned flights in 1973-74) and finally the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. So it would be more accurate to simply say that Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. -- Karn 04:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Gems should be linked to Gemstones, not to the disambiguation page JanSuchy 08:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that there seem to be small changes happening to the main page, mostly with the top banner (AFAICS). Are these changes done via concensus? I can't see any discussion even being done wrt them. The reason I'm pointing this out now is because the most recent change (as of ~13:40 GMT) has caused there to be 4 lines in the top box. Since 3 was considered a bit much for a fair number of people, I can only guess that this is a mistake? - Drrngrvy 12:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
In my opinion, Admins should edit it how they wish and, if people dislike it, they should voice their opinion on this talkpage and a rational discussion would ensue. That's how the Wiki works and this case is no different. The worst Admins would do is make it look marginally worse for a few hours. We've entrusted these people with the powers, just let them get on and use them. -- Cel es tianpower háblame 13:46, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Today's main page has an article about AI that Wikinews does not seem to have. Why & how ? Thanks. DLL, -- 193.56.241.75 14:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I accidentally cleared the page when I was trying to add a comment last time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.157.84.24 ( talk • contribs) . (in regards to this edit)
Like a page with articles that are empty, etc?
Pece Kocovski 09:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any thing going on with having Wikipedia digitally published? Possibly a DVD set or so?
The "Anna Marly" Did You Know item should start with the word "that", like the other items. Art LaPella 19:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
There should be a period at the end of the Palestinian Authority news item. zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
The link for aid (Humanitarian aid) is misleading, since Humanitarian aid is NOT suspened, only political/payroll aid. There is no wiki article for that, that I found, so just remove the link alltogether.
I'm not sure where this feedback should go, but the random article link goes to a 404 for me now (just started happening about 3 minutes ago). Steve 02:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
How is the "Main Page" that would ordinarily be at the top of a mediawiki main page supressed on Wikipedia? I can't figure it out. Is it a special hack for Wikipedia? Is there a magic keyword I should know about? -- Dwiki 03:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
if
statement in
MediaWiki:Monobook.js that's true if you're looking at the main page and its not a diff includes this line:document.write('<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ #siteSub, #contentSub, h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; } /*]]>*/</style>');
Could someone add the missing space (ha!) to 2001: A Space Odyssey? Thanks. -- Bryan Nguyen | Talk 04:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
It seems ironic that the "The encyclopedia anyone can edit" starts off with a completely blocked page. I for one would like to crrect some formatting minor discrepancies, but, alas can't. -- Tbeatty 15:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Also, the Main Page is not an article. For example, I would have no problem deleting anything someone left on my user page, because it's not an article and I'm free to do with it as I
The go-go's that are linked were not around in 1964. (Dr. Who Spoofs)
- Robbrown
The article on Handel's Messiah clearly states that its premiere was on April 13, and not April 8. I just checked another source and confirmed the 13. It looks like Wikipedia is jumping the gun about five days or so. MusicMaker5376 23:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
hey, how can i put the colored boxes around text like on the main page of this site? you, for like news etc.
By using table markup, like this. |
You should use colored boxes sparingly though.- gadfium 00:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC) |
In the last Did You Know item, "cracked down" is an intransitive verb. It could be corrected by substituting "quashed" or a similar transitive verb, instead of "cracked down". Art LaPella 00:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
It might be useful to have a random article link, that went to a non-fiction page. Of course this maybe out of the current softwares capability.