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"# 1982 - The Conch Republic facetiously declared independence from the United States."
"Normative" does not mean "current," as the first sentence of the featured article today seems to suggest, but rather "adhering to a standard" (often a subconcious standard based on "current" mores, admittedly). Was there something less than "normative" about Turkish literature in its Ottoman form? Aside from this semantic quibble, I found today's lead sentence poor, with its lengthy note between dashes and its repetition of the subject ("this literature is literature that...").
This is a really really pedantic, I know. But I'll admit it: I often only read one sentence of articles and then leave them. I'm sure I'm not the only one. If the lead in general ought be good, the lead sentence to the lead ought to be very good. I've often wondered whether the "normative" Wiki rule of immediately having the article title in bold actually leads us into syntactically awkward phrasing. Couldn't the first sentence just be the one that flows best, rather than the one that makes the title of the article stand out? Marskell 22:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't think the main page should be in the Article namespace. What if you want to actually look up an article on "Main Page". -- George Mon e y Talk Contribs 00:15, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
There's a sentence in today's featured article that begins with...
Unfortunately, whoever summarized the intro of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 removed the part that mentioned the full names of Strindberg and Frænkel. As a result, someone reading that sentence may be confused as to where those names came from. Therefore I believe it should read:
or more preferably...
Thanks in advance. joturn e r 02:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
"1916 - Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood started a rebellion in Ireland."
This is very misleading and subjective description of the rising. Leaders of the IRB had a substantial part but it was a very complicated story involving the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army and various other elements. How about just changing it to 'The Easter 1916 rising took place in Ireland". - User:Dalta
Osama bin Laden has spoken to jihadists of the world once again. Why is the emir not worthy of mention in the news section?
Time Magazine is holding polls and letting us decide who the most influential people this year is. Jimmy Wales is a candidate, we can go there and vote for him... or whoever you think is the most influential. I know the discussion is for talking about the page only, but Jimmy is losing and this is the only way to get enough attention to turn the tide. You can go and vote for him here [1] Pseudoanonymous 19:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I did not even know about this. If I knew this I would probably do the same. Thanks for telling everyone because this is very important to most wikipedians. FellowWikipedian talk 4:10 pm 24 April 2006 (UTC-4)
No advertising for Jimbo is not allowed. This isn't even allowed, but I am hoping that they will make an exception, for this. : ) Pseudoanonymous 03:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
He made the list! Go and see for yourself here [2] or here [3]. Which is strange, because we came second last. Thanks for voting everyone! Pseudoanonymous 22:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I have an issue with the addition of...
Three explosions hit Dahab, a tourist town on Egypt's Sinai peninsular.
...in In the News. To begin with it should be Sinai Peninsula instead of Sinai peninsular. But furthermore, Wikipedia is not a news organization and therefore should not jump the gun on adding news items. In normal situations, a news item wouldn't make it to the Main Page unless the article in question included a decent amount of information on the subject. The Dahab article mentions one short sentence on the blasts. Perhaps the item should be removed until more information is added on the blasts (which should, by the way, go in 2006 Dahab bombings). joturn e r 20:08, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia has the wrong time. At 8:00 pm 24 April 2006 (UTC) it changed to 12:00 am 25 April 2006 (UTC). The featured article was changed and the featured picture was changed and On this day was also changed. What happend? Can anybody fix this? FellowWikipedian 8:27 pm 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Please excuse, but why isn't it mentioned in the main headline that islamic fundamentalists caused these explosions? It wasn't like there was a gas line explosion or something. These were terrorists that killed innocent muslims and Christians. The current headline is way too vague. Thanks, Salva 02:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Fine, I suppose that since the identities of the attackers are not "confirmed" yet, it would be unprofessional to "jump to conclusions." And uhh, yeah it is relevant. Because they're the ones that frequently target innocents in acts of terrorism. Why should that not be mentioned? Why hide the fact that islamic fundamentalists are the primary instigators of terrorism? By the way, when did I say anything about race? Just for the record, you're the first one to say anything at all about "race." Thanks again, =) Salva 03:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
How about just "verminous, terrorist scum?" Just an idea. 165.173.126.76 17:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Fine, I suppose that since the identities of the attackers are not "confirmed" yet, it would be unprofessional to "jump to conclusions." How odd. Your use of "" suggests you view this approach as silly. Shall I just jump to the conclusion that you did it, and write that on the front page of a website that we hope to keep/make reputable and trustworthy? Fine, I suppose since jumping out of the window to my death would be "foolish and suicidal" I'll just have to stay "alive". Anything can be made to look silly like this. I think I have a new game. 57.66.51.165 11:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This was reported nationwide on Saturday about five IU Jacobs School of Music students who died in a plane crash near Bloomington on late Thursday night, all five were musicians.
-- 65.54.155.14 03:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The template has not been updated since Monday. Can't we update it more regularly? -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
There's a metric typo: "...100m freestyle" should read "...100 m freestyle" Blaise 21:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
ITN also needs to be updated. I have 3 suggestions on the ITN Candidates page. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 06:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Nepal's Parliament was not dissolved in 2005. It was dissolved in 2002 by the king on the advise of the prime minister. The king would later overthrow that Prime Minister in 2002 and again in 2005.
Parliament was dissolved by the king on advice of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on May 2002. King fired Deuba on Oct 4 2002.
Appointed Lokendra Bahadur Chand as prime minister.
June 2003, Chand resigns. King appoints Surya Bahadur Thapa as prime minister.
June 2004, due to popular demand, Sher Bahadur Deuba was reinstated as Prime Minister on June 2003. Deuba led an all-party government which was to hold elections.
Feb 1, 2005 King claims that Deuba government is not moving toward elections. Therefore he arrests the heads of most political parties and personally leads a royalist government.
April 24, 2006 King gives into popular protests and calls for the reinstatement of Parliament. The next day the SPA appoints Girija Prasad Koirala as Prime Minister.
It isn't fair to blame the king for the original dissolution of parliament. He did offically dissolve it. However this was done on advice of the prime minister. A better headline would state "that was dissolved"
I think that you should have some more info about Thales the one who invented geometry and abstract please and if you get some more info i might get it from here. Thank you
I don't know whether this is my workstation displaying it wrong, but there's a picture of a cyclone next to a blurb about the king of nepal...
Look, this is ridiculous. The attackers of the 2006 Dahab bombings were terrorists. Even though we all know already that they're Islamic fundamentalists, it's no doubt appropriate to wait for official confirmation. Aside from that, the current headline is so uneloquently vague. What the hell caused the explosions? Was it a volcano, a gas line, nuclear power plants...??? The main fact is that the attackers were terrorists, not that there were just "explosions." An explosion caused naturally and one caused by a terrorist are two very different things. Please fix this. 165.173.126.76 17:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Currently the sentence reads:
Please note that she denies the charges. On the other hand, McCarthy was definitely fired. I would suggest the alternate phrasing:
Crust 18:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks (to whoever is responsible) for correcting the front page. Crust 20:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I tend to be a heavy user of the "random article" link in the main nav menu on the left side.
Most of what it returns is sorta silly because it's little 1 to 3 sentence blurbs about some obscure phrase, person, etc.
I suggest filtering the "Random Articles" so that only articles with significant content lenghth (> 500 words, or including at least 1 photo) are returned when clicking the link.
Anachron 20:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
If the 'Random article' wasn't random, that would be false advertising. Or as we call it where I come from - lying. Eixo 22:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
At lest not have 'disambiguation' pages of the random list. Disambiguation is not a article. 68.239.243.201 20:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Below, someone suggested listing Shakespeare's day of death, and someone said that that is not usually done. Why not? How about putting in a box somewhere with "Born/Died On this Day:"? Sir Elderberry 22:45, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I currently see Hong Kong action cinema as Today's Featured Article, but it's supposed to be the featured article for April 26, 2006. It's 23:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC) right now, so does anyone know what's going on? joturn e r 23:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The panorama pic of the day is 700px. This doesn't fit on a 800x600 display; I would hope this can be avoided for the main page. - Roy Boy 800 03:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This was an article formally on the front page but there seems to be no reference to it anymore,typing "Grand Comet Hikareteku" into Search comes up with absolutely NUTHIN'. Can we dig up that particular article so that in future it appears in searches? By the way, I noticed that capitals need to be used for the words Navigation, Search and Toolbox on the left side of the screen, it looks more professionaL in my opinion. Danmeister 6:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
In the "Did you know" section about the Mustang the link to Porsche in "chasing Porsches for a living" is pointing to Porche (however there is a redirect from Porche to Porsche) - nevertheless, this should be corrected. MikeZ 11:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This is the english page, and I've noticed that seldomly is there a news headline about something that happens in an English speaking country. Just an observation, perhaps we could filter in more headlines about things that directly affect us? NIRVANA2764 20:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
that Wikipedia used to look like this?
Sorry, I know this doesn't belong here. I just felt like sharing it. -- 69.145.122.209 22:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Congrats, Wikipedia. --- D ralwi k| Have a Chat My "Great Project"
It doesn't have a H1 header saying "Main Page" at the top. How did you get rid of that? I asked this before and someone pointed me to Monobook.css, but I couldn't find where. Can someone tell me specifically how to remove the title on the Main Page? Appreciate a reply on my Talk page. -- Alfakim -- talk 00:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The picture in the 'Did You Know' section doesn't have any label. None of the data points have the '(pictured)' label to go with it, to point to the picture. Can one of the admins add it ? I can't even figure out what it goes with. Seems to say 'Drosera anglica' but what does that tie in with ?
I notice that Wiktionary now requires AOL users to log in through SSL. Good idea! Can we implement this on Wikipedia? - Ta bu shi da yu 07:20, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
In the did you know item about the Croÿ family, "millenium" should be "millennium". -- Graham talk 10:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The number of articles in the main portal (wikipedia.org) is not updated since several days. This concerns all the wikipedias. gala.martin ( what?) 16:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia was mentioned in the May cover article of .net magazine, " Create sites with impact" (subscription only), which includes a list of ten websites that have "instant impact".
A screenshot of the wikipedia.org portal was accompanied by brief commentary: "Wikipedia pages aren't much to look at. The collaborative encyclopedia overcomes this with two landing pages. The first is a high-impact splash page with language options, search and navigation, while the second [the Main Page] highlights current content." Some of the other sites chosen include Google, Flickr and BBC News Online.
How many articles does a Wikipedia need to be included in the ten Wikipedias surrounding the globe? I remember when Spanish had something like 80,000 or so articles and it was included in the list, so does it need 75,000, or has that number changed now that the number of articles in the Wikipedias in the 10,000+ category has increased, pushing the number up to 100,000 now that Spanish has more than that? The Russian Wikipedia's article count is closing in on 75,000 (with 71,861 as of April 27), so would it be included if it gains 3,139 articles? If so, how would the splash screen be changed? If not, what is the new threshold? BirdValiant 00:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I also think that the language portal page design is particularly nice. — Michiel Sikma, 08:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I think to solve the disputes about Articles for deletion on Wikipedia, we should have an daily poll of the daywhere users vote on whether specific article(s) should be delted or not. You would have to enter your username and password and then cast your ballot. You can only vote once. 1028 19:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Ads you can see, having a poll of the day is a good idea 1028 00:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Should we add " Arbor Day in the United States ( 2006)" to 'On This Day' ? Notable enough ? It looks kind of empty there without any holidays anywhere in the world today. -- 199.71.174.100 00:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I think it would be a good idea to mention how long it has taken to build the tower. Something like, "After x many years of delay, the Freedom Tower..." -- Cumbiagermen 01:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
In the 4/28/96 "On this day" entry, "injuried" should be "injured". Every dictionary I checked shows "injury" as a noun only. Art LaPella 02:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
DYK: ...that Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, a castle in the Rhine that Victor Hugo described as a “ship of stone”, also used it's well as a dungeon? should be its not it's -- mervyn 07:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone enlighten me, how it is achieved that the h1 caption "Main Page" is invisible on the main page? -- Pjacobi 12:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
h1 { display:none}
to the page if its the main page, on load.--
Alfakim --
talk 13:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC)How did today's picture (a transformer) warrent a space on the main page, or even become featured in the first place? It isn't even in any article! Dave 16:23, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Question where does urethral sounds come from?
Is the flag in "In the news" that of the Solomon Islands, Nepal, Egypt, or Australia? One shouldn't have to mouseover the image or click it to find out. -- Cam 00:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody else think that it might help if the link to help:contents in main page header was made bold? It would make the header look like this:
|
Overview · Searching · Editing · Questions · Help |
@ 04:56, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Since noone seems to care much, could an admin perhaps try it out to see what the reaction is?It's a small word, easy to ignore, but visible enough to stand out to someone who doesn't know what to do. -- drrngrvy tlk @ 14:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't have anything to do with images on Wikipedia so I don't know if this is possible, but surely the image of Diane Keaton should have focused on her face (the important bit, surely)? By shrinking the whole image - including desk and windows - to 100 pixels wide, it included lots of extraneous detail but left her face as only a few pixels across. El T 14:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't Keaton be referred to as an actress rather than an actor? -- the Dannycas 21:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
People who speak only a little english will not be looking in the languages for simple english. There should be a link in plan sight for the simple english wikipedia.
In the last Did You Know entry, "restistance" should be "resistance", "figter" should be "fighter", "againt" should be "against" and "Soviet NKVD" should be "the Soviet NKVD". Art LaPella 21:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if it's too soon to complain about this, but the picture of the day, Image:Caerulea3 crop.jpg, isn't protected. Melchoir 00:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Come to think of it, neither is Image:Starship troopers2.jpg. Melchoir 00:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
That's the second frog in a month. What's the deal with that?
The featured picture description notes the frog's average lifespan in captivity twice, once by spelling out the number "sixteen", and once by using the numerals "16". It's a little redundant. :^)
–
Minh Nguyễn (
talk,
contribs) 01:11, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
what so big deal about it??? "a little redundant" for ASIAN means "a bit too much"....we are not attending the court of law,we are in a dicussion,so....what the fuss about grammar in it???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.71.100.76 ( talk • contribs) 09:31, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Sheesh, that was just my way of not sounding so blunt! – Minh Nguyễn ( talk, contribs) 19:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The current 'in the news' section shows the South Korean flag (referencing the first news item), but the third news item says that the Solomon Islands flag is pictured :
Snyder Rini resigns as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (flag pictured), avoiding a motion of no confidence in parliament.
Should be changed? Comrade42 08:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Can somebody please look @ a suggestion I have made for a ITN headline. -- Hamedog Talk| @ 09:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
May 1 is also the Worker's Day in Brazil. Carioca 21:29, 1 May 2006 (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. |
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"# 1982 - The Conch Republic facetiously declared independence from the United States."
"Normative" does not mean "current," as the first sentence of the featured article today seems to suggest, but rather "adhering to a standard" (often a subconcious standard based on "current" mores, admittedly). Was there something less than "normative" about Turkish literature in its Ottoman form? Aside from this semantic quibble, I found today's lead sentence poor, with its lengthy note between dashes and its repetition of the subject ("this literature is literature that...").
This is a really really pedantic, I know. But I'll admit it: I often only read one sentence of articles and then leave them. I'm sure I'm not the only one. If the lead in general ought be good, the lead sentence to the lead ought to be very good. I've often wondered whether the "normative" Wiki rule of immediately having the article title in bold actually leads us into syntactically awkward phrasing. Couldn't the first sentence just be the one that flows best, rather than the one that makes the title of the article stand out? Marskell 22:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't think the main page should be in the Article namespace. What if you want to actually look up an article on "Main Page". -- George Mon e y Talk Contribs 00:15, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
There's a sentence in today's featured article that begins with...
Unfortunately, whoever summarized the intro of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 removed the part that mentioned the full names of Strindberg and Frænkel. As a result, someone reading that sentence may be confused as to where those names came from. Therefore I believe it should read:
or more preferably...
Thanks in advance. joturn e r 02:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
"1916 - Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood started a rebellion in Ireland."
This is very misleading and subjective description of the rising. Leaders of the IRB had a substantial part but it was a very complicated story involving the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army and various other elements. How about just changing it to 'The Easter 1916 rising took place in Ireland". - User:Dalta
Osama bin Laden has spoken to jihadists of the world once again. Why is the emir not worthy of mention in the news section?
Time Magazine is holding polls and letting us decide who the most influential people this year is. Jimmy Wales is a candidate, we can go there and vote for him... or whoever you think is the most influential. I know the discussion is for talking about the page only, but Jimmy is losing and this is the only way to get enough attention to turn the tide. You can go and vote for him here [1] Pseudoanonymous 19:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I did not even know about this. If I knew this I would probably do the same. Thanks for telling everyone because this is very important to most wikipedians. FellowWikipedian talk 4:10 pm 24 April 2006 (UTC-4)
No advertising for Jimbo is not allowed. This isn't even allowed, but I am hoping that they will make an exception, for this. : ) Pseudoanonymous 03:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
He made the list! Go and see for yourself here [2] or here [3]. Which is strange, because we came second last. Thanks for voting everyone! Pseudoanonymous 22:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I have an issue with the addition of...
Three explosions hit Dahab, a tourist town on Egypt's Sinai peninsular.
...in In the News. To begin with it should be Sinai Peninsula instead of Sinai peninsular. But furthermore, Wikipedia is not a news organization and therefore should not jump the gun on adding news items. In normal situations, a news item wouldn't make it to the Main Page unless the article in question included a decent amount of information on the subject. The Dahab article mentions one short sentence on the blasts. Perhaps the item should be removed until more information is added on the blasts (which should, by the way, go in 2006 Dahab bombings). joturn e r 20:08, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia has the wrong time. At 8:00 pm 24 April 2006 (UTC) it changed to 12:00 am 25 April 2006 (UTC). The featured article was changed and the featured picture was changed and On this day was also changed. What happend? Can anybody fix this? FellowWikipedian 8:27 pm 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Please excuse, but why isn't it mentioned in the main headline that islamic fundamentalists caused these explosions? It wasn't like there was a gas line explosion or something. These were terrorists that killed innocent muslims and Christians. The current headline is way too vague. Thanks, Salva 02:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Fine, I suppose that since the identities of the attackers are not "confirmed" yet, it would be unprofessional to "jump to conclusions." And uhh, yeah it is relevant. Because they're the ones that frequently target innocents in acts of terrorism. Why should that not be mentioned? Why hide the fact that islamic fundamentalists are the primary instigators of terrorism? By the way, when did I say anything about race? Just for the record, you're the first one to say anything at all about "race." Thanks again, =) Salva 03:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
How about just "verminous, terrorist scum?" Just an idea. 165.173.126.76 17:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Fine, I suppose that since the identities of the attackers are not "confirmed" yet, it would be unprofessional to "jump to conclusions." How odd. Your use of "" suggests you view this approach as silly. Shall I just jump to the conclusion that you did it, and write that on the front page of a website that we hope to keep/make reputable and trustworthy? Fine, I suppose since jumping out of the window to my death would be "foolish and suicidal" I'll just have to stay "alive". Anything can be made to look silly like this. I think I have a new game. 57.66.51.165 11:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This was reported nationwide on Saturday about five IU Jacobs School of Music students who died in a plane crash near Bloomington on late Thursday night, all five were musicians.
-- 65.54.155.14 03:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The template has not been updated since Monday. Can't we update it more regularly? -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
There's a metric typo: "...100m freestyle" should read "...100 m freestyle" Blaise 21:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
ITN also needs to be updated. I have 3 suggestions on the ITN Candidates page. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 06:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Nepal's Parliament was not dissolved in 2005. It was dissolved in 2002 by the king on the advise of the prime minister. The king would later overthrow that Prime Minister in 2002 and again in 2005.
Parliament was dissolved by the king on advice of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on May 2002. King fired Deuba on Oct 4 2002.
Appointed Lokendra Bahadur Chand as prime minister.
June 2003, Chand resigns. King appoints Surya Bahadur Thapa as prime minister.
June 2004, due to popular demand, Sher Bahadur Deuba was reinstated as Prime Minister on June 2003. Deuba led an all-party government which was to hold elections.
Feb 1, 2005 King claims that Deuba government is not moving toward elections. Therefore he arrests the heads of most political parties and personally leads a royalist government.
April 24, 2006 King gives into popular protests and calls for the reinstatement of Parliament. The next day the SPA appoints Girija Prasad Koirala as Prime Minister.
It isn't fair to blame the king for the original dissolution of parliament. He did offically dissolve it. However this was done on advice of the prime minister. A better headline would state "that was dissolved"
I think that you should have some more info about Thales the one who invented geometry and abstract please and if you get some more info i might get it from here. Thank you
I don't know whether this is my workstation displaying it wrong, but there's a picture of a cyclone next to a blurb about the king of nepal...
Look, this is ridiculous. The attackers of the 2006 Dahab bombings were terrorists. Even though we all know already that they're Islamic fundamentalists, it's no doubt appropriate to wait for official confirmation. Aside from that, the current headline is so uneloquently vague. What the hell caused the explosions? Was it a volcano, a gas line, nuclear power plants...??? The main fact is that the attackers were terrorists, not that there were just "explosions." An explosion caused naturally and one caused by a terrorist are two very different things. Please fix this. 165.173.126.76 17:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Currently the sentence reads:
Please note that she denies the charges. On the other hand, McCarthy was definitely fired. I would suggest the alternate phrasing:
Crust 18:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks (to whoever is responsible) for correcting the front page. Crust 20:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I tend to be a heavy user of the "random article" link in the main nav menu on the left side.
Most of what it returns is sorta silly because it's little 1 to 3 sentence blurbs about some obscure phrase, person, etc.
I suggest filtering the "Random Articles" so that only articles with significant content lenghth (> 500 words, or including at least 1 photo) are returned when clicking the link.
Anachron 20:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
If the 'Random article' wasn't random, that would be false advertising. Or as we call it where I come from - lying. Eixo 22:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
At lest not have 'disambiguation' pages of the random list. Disambiguation is not a article. 68.239.243.201 20:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Below, someone suggested listing Shakespeare's day of death, and someone said that that is not usually done. Why not? How about putting in a box somewhere with "Born/Died On this Day:"? Sir Elderberry 22:45, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
I currently see Hong Kong action cinema as Today's Featured Article, but it's supposed to be the featured article for April 26, 2006. It's 23:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC) right now, so does anyone know what's going on? joturn e r 23:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The panorama pic of the day is 700px. This doesn't fit on a 800x600 display; I would hope this can be avoided for the main page. - Roy Boy 800 03:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This was an article formally on the front page but there seems to be no reference to it anymore,typing "Grand Comet Hikareteku" into Search comes up with absolutely NUTHIN'. Can we dig up that particular article so that in future it appears in searches? By the way, I noticed that capitals need to be used for the words Navigation, Search and Toolbox on the left side of the screen, it looks more professionaL in my opinion. Danmeister 6:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
In the "Did you know" section about the Mustang the link to Porsche in "chasing Porsches for a living" is pointing to Porche (however there is a redirect from Porche to Porsche) - nevertheless, this should be corrected. MikeZ 11:48, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This is the english page, and I've noticed that seldomly is there a news headline about something that happens in an English speaking country. Just an observation, perhaps we could filter in more headlines about things that directly affect us? NIRVANA2764 20:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
that Wikipedia used to look like this?
Sorry, I know this doesn't belong here. I just felt like sharing it. -- 69.145.122.209 22:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Congrats, Wikipedia. --- D ralwi k| Have a Chat My "Great Project"
It doesn't have a H1 header saying "Main Page" at the top. How did you get rid of that? I asked this before and someone pointed me to Monobook.css, but I couldn't find where. Can someone tell me specifically how to remove the title on the Main Page? Appreciate a reply on my Talk page. -- Alfakim -- talk 00:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The picture in the 'Did You Know' section doesn't have any label. None of the data points have the '(pictured)' label to go with it, to point to the picture. Can one of the admins add it ? I can't even figure out what it goes with. Seems to say 'Drosera anglica' but what does that tie in with ?
I notice that Wiktionary now requires AOL users to log in through SSL. Good idea! Can we implement this on Wikipedia? - Ta bu shi da yu 07:20, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
In the did you know item about the Croÿ family, "millenium" should be "millennium". -- Graham talk 10:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The number of articles in the main portal (wikipedia.org) is not updated since several days. This concerns all the wikipedias. gala.martin ( what?) 16:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia was mentioned in the May cover article of .net magazine, " Create sites with impact" (subscription only), which includes a list of ten websites that have "instant impact".
A screenshot of the wikipedia.org portal was accompanied by brief commentary: "Wikipedia pages aren't much to look at. The collaborative encyclopedia overcomes this with two landing pages. The first is a high-impact splash page with language options, search and navigation, while the second [the Main Page] highlights current content." Some of the other sites chosen include Google, Flickr and BBC News Online.
How many articles does a Wikipedia need to be included in the ten Wikipedias surrounding the globe? I remember when Spanish had something like 80,000 or so articles and it was included in the list, so does it need 75,000, or has that number changed now that the number of articles in the Wikipedias in the 10,000+ category has increased, pushing the number up to 100,000 now that Spanish has more than that? The Russian Wikipedia's article count is closing in on 75,000 (with 71,861 as of April 27), so would it be included if it gains 3,139 articles? If so, how would the splash screen be changed? If not, what is the new threshold? BirdValiant 00:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I also think that the language portal page design is particularly nice. — Michiel Sikma, 08:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I think to solve the disputes about Articles for deletion on Wikipedia, we should have an daily poll of the daywhere users vote on whether specific article(s) should be delted or not. You would have to enter your username and password and then cast your ballot. You can only vote once. 1028 19:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Ads you can see, having a poll of the day is a good idea 1028 00:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Should we add " Arbor Day in the United States ( 2006)" to 'On This Day' ? Notable enough ? It looks kind of empty there without any holidays anywhere in the world today. -- 199.71.174.100 00:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I think it would be a good idea to mention how long it has taken to build the tower. Something like, "After x many years of delay, the Freedom Tower..." -- Cumbiagermen 01:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
In the 4/28/96 "On this day" entry, "injuried" should be "injured". Every dictionary I checked shows "injury" as a noun only. Art LaPella 02:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
DYK: ...that Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, a castle in the Rhine that Victor Hugo described as a “ship of stone”, also used it's well as a dungeon? should be its not it's -- mervyn 07:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone enlighten me, how it is achieved that the h1 caption "Main Page" is invisible on the main page? -- Pjacobi 12:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
h1 { display:none}
to the page if its the main page, on load.--
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talk 13:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC)How did today's picture (a transformer) warrent a space on the main page, or even become featured in the first place? It isn't even in any article! Dave 16:23, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Question where does urethral sounds come from?
Is the flag in "In the news" that of the Solomon Islands, Nepal, Egypt, or Australia? One shouldn't have to mouseover the image or click it to find out. -- Cam 00:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody else think that it might help if the link to help:contents in main page header was made bold? It would make the header look like this:
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Overview · Searching · Editing · Questions · Help |
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Since noone seems to care much, could an admin perhaps try it out to see what the reaction is?It's a small word, easy to ignore, but visible enough to stand out to someone who doesn't know what to do. -- drrngrvy tlk @ 14:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't have anything to do with images on Wikipedia so I don't know if this is possible, but surely the image of Diane Keaton should have focused on her face (the important bit, surely)? By shrinking the whole image - including desk and windows - to 100 pixels wide, it included lots of extraneous detail but left her face as only a few pixels across. El T 14:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't Keaton be referred to as an actress rather than an actor? -- the Dannycas 21:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
People who speak only a little english will not be looking in the languages for simple english. There should be a link in plan sight for the simple english wikipedia.
In the last Did You Know entry, "restistance" should be "resistance", "figter" should be "fighter", "againt" should be "against" and "Soviet NKVD" should be "the Soviet NKVD". Art LaPella 21:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if it's too soon to complain about this, but the picture of the day, Image:Caerulea3 crop.jpg, isn't protected. Melchoir 00:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Come to think of it, neither is Image:Starship troopers2.jpg. Melchoir 00:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
That's the second frog in a month. What's the deal with that?
The featured picture description notes the frog's average lifespan in captivity twice, once by spelling out the number "sixteen", and once by using the numerals "16". It's a little redundant. :^)
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what so big deal about it??? "a little redundant" for ASIAN means "a bit too much"....we are not attending the court of law,we are in a dicussion,so....what the fuss about grammar in it???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.71.100.76 ( talk • contribs) 09:31, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Sheesh, that was just my way of not sounding so blunt! – Minh Nguyễn ( talk, contribs) 19:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The current 'in the news' section shows the South Korean flag (referencing the first news item), but the third news item says that the Solomon Islands flag is pictured :
Snyder Rini resigns as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (flag pictured), avoiding a motion of no confidence in parliament.
Should be changed? Comrade42 08:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Can somebody please look @ a suggestion I have made for a ITN headline. -- Hamedog Talk| @ 09:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
May 1 is also the Worker's Day in Brazil. Carioca 21:29, 1 May 2006 (UTC)