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Does anybody know how wikipedia was programmed so that the main page doesn't feature "Main Page" as an opener? (Go to any other article on wikipedia and you'll see that article's name is the first thing in the article -- except for the Main Page)06:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC) 60.227.109.168 17:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Ahh, I've found a workaround (Note that there was a magic word that was included in the software that was supposed to do all this work but had too many bugs so it is no longer enabled/supported. What follows is the current workaround):
{| style="position:absolute; top:0; width:100%; background:#F8FCFF; color:#888;" valign="middle"
|-
|
Type your replacement heading text here
|}
-just replace the color part with your desired colour, and
-replace "Type your replacement heading text here" with whatever content you want -- you can put a table there if you like, or a big heading using <big> or <h1> tags.
Problemo solved.
Rfwoolf 18:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Main Page layout fixes
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Zzyzx11
(Talk) 13:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
/* Don't display some stuff on the main page */ body.page-Main_Page #lastmod, body.page-Main_Page #siteSub, body.page-Main_Page #contentSub, body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; }
well that basically tells it not to display the subtitle, h1 (the top header/title), the content subtitle, and whatever lastmod means. Anyway, this is pretty simple to understand. It just tells monobook NOT to load these, and so it doesn't. Thats that.
Alex43223
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There was a template to do this, but I think it was deleted to prevent misuse. What page do you want to change the title of? You can try to puzzle out the code from Wikipedia:Template messages/General#Title-related messages (the {{ lowercase}} template uses the trick), otherwise you should ask for help from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) where you're likely to get better informed (and more relevantly located) feedback :) -- Quiddity 23:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
<div id="title-override" class="topicon" style="float: left; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0px; width: 100%; padding-top: 5px; display:none"><div style="background: {{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|white|#F8FCFF}}; font-size: 200%; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.1em; position:relative; left:0.5em; font-family:Papyrus; font-weight:none;">Your title here</div></div>
One example of this being used is at User:Malber. Alex43223 Talk | Contribs | E-mail | C 04:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
In MediaWiki:Monobook.css, the following code is used to remove elements from the Main Page.
/* Don't display some stuff on the main page */ body.page-Main_Page #lastmod, body.page-Main_Page #siteSub, body.page-Main_Page #contentSub, body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; }
My question is: where is this stuff documented? I can't find where "body.page-Main_Page" is defined, nor any documentation on it. The same with "h1.firstHeading". Does anyone know?
The Transhumanist 17:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I thought I saw some news about an epidemic in Paraguay. Where is it? -- Aldo L 21:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
But you could have given it some more time —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pozhan ( talk • contribs)
Hello, do you guys have a Wikipedia News section on the main page? Today, the German Wikipedia reached 1000 excellent articles (simular to the English featured articles). I think this is worth mentioning! -- Tantalos 12:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Why don't we have a link to the English Wikipedia Embassy on the main page like the Italian Wikipedia has? Mr.Z-man talk ¢ Review! 22:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Why not? 72.184.201.3 03:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
It's quite embarrassing that we do not offer any kind of RSS syndication of our newest content. Is something like this in the works? mstroeck 09:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Why doesn't Wikipedia have any article on Conservopedia: http://www.conservopedia.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.230.205.56 ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
Today's Featured Article is three characters long. Is this the shortest ever? Borisblue 00:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion as to what shortest means. The first few discussions were not about the FA article being the shortest, but the title being the shortest (e.g. Law is only three characters). Obviously no FA would be three characters. Tourskin.
On Feb. 27th I recommended a new section to the Main Page's section "Wikipedia languages" with
It received the following answers:
As I don't look into the English Wikipedia every day, I may be allowed to make some remarks today: Since when is the section "Wikipedia Languages" a " Category" of Wikipedia. It is a just section listing efforts in different languages, and if ONE (1) country exceeds 500,000 articles, that should by all means be worth to be included in this section (especially as the English Wikipedia seems to be so proud of having over 1 Million articles (about the quality of atomized lemmata to reach this number we should not talk at this point)). And it will not last long until the French also reaches this level. And "check the archives" was very helpfull, thank you for this prolific comment. -- Wittkowsky 17:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
See Omo remains. Fix this please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abelani ( talk • contribs) 10:11, 7 March 2007
I've just noticed that this page has the time in the top right (alongside Talk:Main Page). I assume this is generated by the code
<div style="right:10px;display:none;" class="metadata topicon">'''{{CURRENTDATE}}'''</div>
Any reason why this is present, and if it's useful, why it isn't on other talk pages? MrBeast 16:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_credentials
So, are "essjay's" contributing articles in religion going to be altered given the news of his non-credentials? I can't help but wonder what harm he's caused followers of religions because of any authoritative statements he made, which were not allowed to be corrected because of his status on Wiki. Jlujan69 21:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
This discussion doesn't have anything to do with MainPage. Please feel free to discuss this further at the Village Pump instead. Thanks. -- PFHLai 22:07, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Would it be appropriate to put a warning on the Main Page? "BEWARE! All information in this encyclopedia, as well as some administrators, may be fraudulent." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.8.1.2 ( talk) 06:00, March 8, 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, or does it seems that a lot of Eurovision songs have been in the did-you-know section? It might be exciting for some, but I believe there are much more interesting articles to be featured than that of the Eurovision festival. My two cents for today. -- Soetermans 21:39, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else agree that bands are featured far to much in this? Tenacious D Fans ( talk) 19:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
No, I seriously did not know that Assyrians in Finland lived mostly in that city. I forgot its name already. Well, I'm satisfied. But I wonder what they were doing there. Tourskin 06:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Woah, calm down! I am not criticizing others work. That was a great piece of info. You should stop criticizing other's criticism. Tourskin 02:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Could not a better picture be used on the main page. Instead of some crummy photo - that doesn't even feature the title character - we could instead use the screenshot of the opening title sequence, or the cast in makeup. Surely its still fair use oon the main page? -- Kronecker 01:13, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm, not sure the caption is doing much to combat WP:BIAS. I live in the UK, and Buffy first aired for me on channel 4, then on Sky One. Fair enough mentioning writers and production companies, as well as the success it bought them, but I'm not so sure about those who brought the show to the American masses. Perhaps I'm missing something? — Jack · talk · 01:47, Saturday, 10 March 2007
How can I email today's picture to someone - can I email it? I think we should hacve that option, if possible. Tourskin 18:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Please change this. Becasue Turkish Wikipedia is over 50.000 subject. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.244.131.250 ( talk) 07:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC).
I went to have a look at the Wikipedia Statistics "Charts and Table" section, and I found that it has not been updated since October. Who updates it and how - I would be happy to assist, but I feel that someone should certainly be doing it. David Spart 11:08, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I think that the todays featured article should be blocked from editing by anyone except admins. This article is the focus of many vandalism attempts, and it would make it easier on everyone to just block it from editors. Smbarnzy 06:58, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
The first news item is about the capture of a Taliban official. The eye moves to the right and immediately lands on a photo of Abdoulaye Wade, recently reelected as president of Senegal. That news item is a significant number of lines down from the photo. The photo placement implies a connection between the Taliban and Wade, and that insinuation, whether intended or not, is inappropriate. Not all readers, skimming the page, will read that Wade is in fact president of Senegal. — Emiellaiendiay 08:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
The first woman in space turns seventy today, but our Main Page is perfectly ignorant of the fact. Ditto about Gabriel García Márquez, who turns eighty. Please fix it. -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
How about Osama bin Laden's big 50 today? -- 74.13.131.119 18:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I've often thought Wikipedia is very US-centric. Looks like these featured articles confirm that, given that every one of them relates to the US is some form or another.
Shame really. Fizzackerly 13:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Can we have the total count of FA on main page?
6,478 Featured Articles as on today!!!
-- Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 14:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
As User:Werdnabot is currently unavailable due to a malfuction, I've been bold, removed the Werdnabot stuff (wouldn't want them fighting) and put in a request to User:MiszaBot/Archive requests Nil Einne 21:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. On very small screens or small windows it is evident that the text under the first box of the main page that is aligned to the left (reading "Overview · Editing · Questions · Help") is not level with the text aligned right (which reads "Contents · Categories · Featured content · A–Z index"). In the interest of standardisation, the text from "end portals" should read:
<!-- End Portals --> {|style="width:100%;background:none;margin:-.8em 0 -.7em 0" |style="font-size:95%;padding:10px 0;margin:0px;text-align:left;white-space:nowrap;color:#000"| [[Wikipedia:About|Overview]] '''·''' [[Wikipedia:Tutorial|Editing]] '''·''' [[Wikipedia:Questions|Questions]] '''·''' [[Help:Contents|Help]]
— Jack · talk · 01:15, Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Did you know that ethical dilemmas result from medical research scientists (pictured) working with animals and animal products, such as stem cells? ---- Um, no kidding? I would suggest that pretty much everyone knows this? Normally I look forward to the interesting tidbits of info in Did You Know, but this one seems kind of self-evident, does anyone agree? Sorry to nitpick, whoever writes these does a great job most of the time. Spebudmak 22:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
An entry references medical research scientists regarding ethical issues in animal testing, but the former article contains no relevant information except a single reference to the latter. In addition the entry calls "stem cells" an "animal product", which is literally true but which confuses the point that the controversial kind of stem cells are human stem cells. The medical research scientists article is rather basic and in places debatable, but if some fact must be extracted from it for a Did You Know entry, I'd pick "Did you know... the average salary for biotechnology research scientists in the United States is $66,393." (although this is also a little off - the source does not include some specialties of "medical research scientists" from the article e.g. biochemists, and the article describes this as simply the salary for "research scientists" without qualification). Mike Serfas 23:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually I would argue a DYK on ethical issue facing scientists would be relevant since even if it should seem obvious scientist face ethical issues, a lot of people especially animal rights people seem to think scientists are cruel inhumane people who don't care about anything except their research when in reality ethical issues will always come up when animals are involved. But I agree, the stem cells wasn't the best example since the biggest controversies there are when it comes to humans (who are animals of course). Animal testing is a better example of an area where ethical issues play a greater role. Nil Einne 06:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Where is bosnian language here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.92.237.133 ( talk) 22:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
A link to Cebuano wiki is shown on the Main Page of English wiki, and languages which are apparently much better, but have fewer articles than Cebuano are not. Is this not a reason to reconsider the criteria interwiki links appear on the Main Page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.45.81.145 ( talk) 05:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
The Main page, in last few months have gone too Indian.Especially Today's Fa contains mostly Indian contents.Pl take a notice of this practice.Fa should be from all over the wikipedia not only related to single subject. User talk:Yousaf465
I agree with you that these one are Rated FA but at least these should be chosen from a range of Fa ones.I would suggest on each date specify a article Fa from each of the different fields.And related to different regions of world e.g. in first week of certain month article related to Africa will do, in next week Fa from Europe might do.On certain date a article from science on other a article on arts and so on and so froth. User talk:Yousaf465 04:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Pl don't make everthing a conflict between Indo-Pakistan.I was just suggesteing to make it more diverse. User talk:Yousaf465
I agree with that,but it doesn't mean every second Tya should be related to a certain project.It should be from different Projects there are hundreds of them. User talk:Yousaf465 06:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Boog pl don't make it a Indo-Pakistan conflict.What link do indians have with my last post.Are all of them teaching homosexuality? nor I'm saying that Pakistani project's Fa should also be displayed what I'm saying is pl choose Fa article from different project e.g. wikiprioject geopraphy might have many of them. User talk:Yousaf465 06:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
The human brain is constructed in such a way that one of its functions is to make order from chaos. As a result people see bias everywhere on Wikipedia. If they notice something that tweaks their ire they claim bias. Except for some systemic bias, which is a result of statistics not discrimination, most claims of bias can be show to be complete rubbish if we go back and count the number of inclusions over a 12 month period. There is a little reverse discrimination in the case of centricism as US, Australian and other editors are "over represented" due to Internet availability in those places, but generally the answer to any perceived bias is to stop expending energy complaining and GO DO SOME WORK. -- Monotonehell 08:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I should remind people, especially Boogaboohoo of WP:NPA and WP:AGF. Yousaf never made any mention of Pakistan Nil Einne 11:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Nil Einne and Stormalon were absolutely right I didn't mention anything about Pakistan.I was only saying that there is a large frequency comparatively large f. of India related articles on main page wikipedia is not a place to mention only content related to a single subject it should be from diverse fields.Mention some article related to japan other about Usa and next related to russia next something about any product's Fa which is used all over the world.So as to spread Knowledge about different things. User talk:Yousaf465
Meh, all this talk of biased FA's I garantee that if someone sat down and hand picked the next years worth of FA's it would still have some sort of pattern. Thats the way randomness works, it has to include clusters.
Ferdia O'Brien The Archiver And The Vandal Watchman 13:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree we should try to diversify the coverage of contents of wikipedia thus eliminating the question of "being Bias" thing.This will remove the misconception that do arises from this.The pop culture aurgment I think was correct as i also found a number of Pop culture article in the proposed list For January 2007.SO this should be diversified. User talk:Yousaf465
Yousaf465, FAs are taken from different categories. Arts, geography, history , culture etc. Just because there happen to be India-related topics in those categories, doesn't mean we have to not feature them. The India-related workgroup produces at least 1 FA per month, so seeing one FA per month would be very consistent. Ideally the topics should be more regionally diverse, but to hit back at your points, would there be anyone to bring up topics to FA from other countries? =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:39, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
This section really needs a bullet. -- Haizum μολὼν λαβέ 09:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
A very warm thanks to Nil Einne for his support of me on this issue he correctly say that I was not discussing Pakisatnin this regard. User talk:Yousaf465 13:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
This whole bias thing is getting old. And by old, I mean really annoying. Pacific Coast Highway { Kiss me! • I'm irish!} 14:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Cricket is an interesting sport but takes skill and talent, i dont think the discussion of cricket is necessary. Isn't there more important things that should be discussed for example global warming!
i am sure that england is biased towards cricket as when england won the cricket world cup, a competition not remotely cared about in most countries, especially america and other western european countries. the whole team recieved awards from the queen. however when liverpool won the europeaan champions league non of them recieved medals from the queen when it is the most prestigous sporting event in europe, and reveared throughout the world. and to do it in the manner in which they did was all the more impressive. however, the main reason i dnt favour cricket as much as other sports is because they are not athletes, they are like snooker players- skill but not athletisism, which is why i respact rugby, football, and other real sports far more than cricket.
Cricket is an interesting sport but takes skill and talent, i dont think the discussion
Cricket is not the most "physical" of sports, but to argue it does not require athleticism is ridiculous. The average man plucked off the street to play in a Test match batting and bowling would end up exhausted and with concussion. 10:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that there are quite a few articles (too many!) and references to cricket of late in the main page. Cricket is a sport popular in just a handful of countries...It looks like a bias to me, really. Perhaps what I am saying makes no sense, but it is my impression.
vaceituno 00:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Regardless of whether Cricket gets too many references, it deserves one today, the start of the world cup is an important event for the sport, and therefore hundreds of millions in South Asia and many elsewhere. Shane1
That argument gives far greater justification for preventing baseball and American football articles from being featured on the Main Page. As it happens, this World Cup has a global audience estimated at 2 BILLION. Yes, we know that not many of them happen to live in America. There were >600,000 bums on seats at the 2003 event. That's a lot of people. -- Dweller 19:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
cricket must be given front page coverage. It the most popular sports and world cup ocurrs once in four year........
Cricket is a religion in these countries with billoins of followers..........
"There were >600,000 bums on seats at the 2003 event" Actually thats not a huge number for an international sports tournament, though the viewing figures (if they were known accurately) would be huge. In any case I haven't noticed any Cricket bias, though admittedly I am a fan. Perhaps Cricket is over represented relative to the global sport of football, but then we go back to the argument of whether English wikipedia is for native speakers (majority North American) or for anyone with a smidgin of English.
WP:CRIC carries a list of Cricket's 11 (current) Featured Articles and their appearances on the Main Page. Four have never appeared on the Main Page. Of the other seven, one was yesterday, the previous one was over a year ago and you have to go back to August 2005 for the one before that. (There was also a former FA that appeared in Feb '06) One or two per year (!) doesn't really seem excessive. Two per year is less than 0.6%. -- Dweller 10:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't detect much of a bias towards cricket articles to be honest- these kind of debates crop up from time to time and seem to just be a natural aspect of the global Wikipedia family's workings....it may be easy however for American readers to not realise just quite how incredibly popular cricket is in e.g. India and Pakistan (=about 1/4 of the world's population, and a very significant anglophone audience) just as some non-American readers may underestimate the popularity of, for example, baseball and basketball in e.g. latin America/the Carib/Japan/Eastern Europe etc. This is the pre-eminent competition for one of the most popular sports on the planet (maybe #2 after football?)- not inherently inappropriate for the main page imho. But as always- if we want a greater diversity of articles, let's write more FAs. Badgerpatrol 11:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
To all the people arguing that "such and such a sport is more popular than this and that other sport", please understand that a subject's popularity plays NO direct part in being featured in any of the sections on the main page. (In fact there could be something said for featuring things that people generally know little about, but may find that they are interested in.) For a subject to appear in Today's Featured Article, it must first be edited up to Featured Article quality, then be selected for inclusion. Popularity plays no part there. For an item to be listed in In The News, it need only be of international interest, be a subject in the News Media, have a substantial article in Wikipedia that has been updated with the current concerns and contain more background encyclopedic information than a reader would normally find in a newspaper. Again nothing to do with how many people follow a sport. Anyone thinking of having a running scoreboard in ITN can put that out of their mind. Only the final result of any one competition can be displayed at the conclusion of the competition. -- Monotonehell 11:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I think it is worth mentioning that cricket is highly popular in former English colonies and those countries have high percentages of English speaking people. Since this is the English Wikipedia, topics relating to English based subjects are more likely to be written about and therefore, have a higher chance of becoming featured articles. S. Randall 14:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
England has not won the Cricket World Cup, they have won the football in 1966 and the rugby in 2003.
Believe it or not, very few people care about Liverpool winning some cup. There are MILLIONS of cricket fans throughout the world, who can attend a local or international match without resorting to violence.
Begimogik 15:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to tick off the folks over at Conservapedia, I move that we move all of the Cricket-related articles over there. They'll just LOVE them! ;-) Dr. Cash 04:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I would love to be able to look at a random article in science/technology. Is there any way to do something like this? Vincecate 23:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
No no there is a way. I have already tried it out. Ill get back with the details Pozhan 09:05, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
What is the most complicated function that Wikipedia can perform? Ahadland 21:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I think someone should create a software using which we can easily create pages in a graphical interface. The software can resemble Microsoft Frontpage or any other web designing software. The software should then be able to convert the web page into a Wikipedia style page. You know it's difficult to use the editing interface currently offered. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.130.9.24 ( talk) 15:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC).
I was wondering wether the 6 nations final (won by France) should be included in the news. It is by no means a minor sporting event, and the Superball was included. Matt. P 22:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that so far no one has actually properly proposed the Six Nations final result for ITN as I suggested above. While I personally am not sure it should go up I'm just one person. If people feel so strongly it does then you should go ahead and read the guidelines and propose it. You won't know until you try. The criteria is here BTW Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page Nil Einne 21:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
to the tips on where else a user might want to go for assistance besides this talk page? On February 15, for example, under the "Main Page and beyond" box, there was a link to Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia, a server status page, and the important bullet point (in bold) "If you have an opinion, comment, question or are looking for help regarding Wikipedia in general, find the place where your post will get the most attention here. Just that last link alone would be helpful, I think. -- zenohockey 01:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Would it technically be possible to have tabs for the ITN section, to satisfy readers with seperate World / North America / South America / Africa and the Middle East / Asia / Europe feeds? See the new homepage for USA Today, which features "Headlines" and "News notes". -- Zanimum 18:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
display
property would switch from none
to block
and A's display
property would switch from block
to none
. (Actually the specific term block
is unnecessary, if you simply clear the property (style.display='';
) it will act just the same). This requires coding like onclick="document.getElementById('B').style.display='block';"
. From my experience, wikis deactivate coding like this, unless there is a provision somewhere for purposes like these. Zanimum, if you are seriously interested in creating some kind of tab system, I would suggest you do a trial somewhere deep within the encyclopedia instead of trying to get it here on the main page. There would be a lot of controversy getting it placed somewhere so highly visible because of browser compatibility and user confusion.. etc. One place where I've tried for quite a while to get a tabbed system working is {{
Navigation tabs}}. If you look at the edit history, you'll see I've gotten quite frustrated trying out many approaches. --
drumguy8800
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T 05:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)Is there anyway to stop anonymous IPs from at least editing the main pages? It seems like most of the good edits to these pages are performed by those who care to login. Just my $0.02. Thank you. -- BlindEagle talk 18:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Given today's featured article, I'll just go ahead and say it before someone else does - OMG WIKIPEDIA IS COMMUNISM!! (I can't help myself) Raul654 01:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia isn't "communism" -- not unless it is run by a ruthless, self-appointed "vanguard party" seeking unlimited state power and willing to kill absolutely anyone in its way. In theory, Wikipedia is a non-profit foundation independent of state control, which means that it is illegal under communism. And neither China and Vietnam are republics. They are oligarchical collectivist states. Neither is governed by constitutional principles at the top.
As it is, this article is absurdly biased and should never have made it to the main page. (Actually, the capitalist countries pretty much didn't care what the Trots did, so long as they didn't hurt anyone. They had no power, anyway, and spent most of their time splitting into smaller and smaller factions.) Scott Adler 11:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Why is "cite this article" in the sidebar toolbox on the main page? I know it is (for some reason) in the article namespace, but is there not a small fix available for this? It just seems embarrassing, especially after all the effort that has clearly gone into this page. — Jack · talk · 15:01, Thursday, 22 March 2007
{{ editprotected}} A very good question, but it is not clear to me how to edit the source of this page to change the sidebar. So I will resolve the editprotected tag. You might want to raise this issue on WP:VP/T. CMummert · talk 05:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
.page-Main_Page #t-cite {display: none}
Now that German wikipedia has exceeded 500,000 articles and French is set to do so soon, does anyone agree that it's time to create an "over 500,000 articles" heading?-- Humphrey20020 17:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
1,700,000 articles! Yay! -- WikiSlasher 11:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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Does anybody know how wikipedia was programmed so that the main page doesn't feature "Main Page" as an opener? (Go to any other article on wikipedia and you'll see that article's name is the first thing in the article -- except for the Main Page)06:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC) 60.227.109.168 17:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Ahh, I've found a workaround (Note that there was a magic word that was included in the software that was supposed to do all this work but had too many bugs so it is no longer enabled/supported. What follows is the current workaround):
{| style="position:absolute; top:0; width:100%; background:#F8FCFF; color:#888;" valign="middle"
|-
|
Type your replacement heading text here
|}
-just replace the color part with your desired colour, and
-replace "Type your replacement heading text here" with whatever content you want -- you can put a table there if you like, or a big heading using <big> or <h1> tags.
Problemo solved.
Rfwoolf 18:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Main Page layout fixes
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Zzyzx11
(Talk) 13:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
/* Don't display some stuff on the main page */ body.page-Main_Page #lastmod, body.page-Main_Page #siteSub, body.page-Main_Page #contentSub, body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; }
well that basically tells it not to display the subtitle, h1 (the top header/title), the content subtitle, and whatever lastmod means. Anyway, this is pretty simple to understand. It just tells monobook NOT to load these, and so it doesn't. Thats that.
Alex43223
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C 02:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
There was a template to do this, but I think it was deleted to prevent misuse. What page do you want to change the title of? You can try to puzzle out the code from Wikipedia:Template messages/General#Title-related messages (the {{ lowercase}} template uses the trick), otherwise you should ask for help from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) where you're likely to get better informed (and more relevantly located) feedback :) -- Quiddity 23:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
<div id="title-override" class="topicon" style="float: left; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0px; width: 100%; padding-top: 5px; display:none"><div style="background: {{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|white|#F8FCFF}}; font-size: 200%; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.1em; position:relative; left:0.5em; font-family:Papyrus; font-weight:none;">Your title here</div></div>
One example of this being used is at User:Malber. Alex43223 Talk | Contribs | E-mail | C 04:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
In MediaWiki:Monobook.css, the following code is used to remove elements from the Main Page.
/* Don't display some stuff on the main page */ body.page-Main_Page #lastmod, body.page-Main_Page #siteSub, body.page-Main_Page #contentSub, body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; }
My question is: where is this stuff documented? I can't find where "body.page-Main_Page" is defined, nor any documentation on it. The same with "h1.firstHeading". Does anyone know?
The Transhumanist 17:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I thought I saw some news about an epidemic in Paraguay. Where is it? -- Aldo L 21:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
But you could have given it some more time —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pozhan ( talk • contribs)
Hello, do you guys have a Wikipedia News section on the main page? Today, the German Wikipedia reached 1000 excellent articles (simular to the English featured articles). I think this is worth mentioning! -- Tantalos 12:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Why don't we have a link to the English Wikipedia Embassy on the main page like the Italian Wikipedia has? Mr.Z-man talk ¢ Review! 22:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Why not? 72.184.201.3 03:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
It's quite embarrassing that we do not offer any kind of RSS syndication of our newest content. Is something like this in the works? mstroeck 09:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Why doesn't Wikipedia have any article on Conservopedia: http://www.conservopedia.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.230.205.56 ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
Today's Featured Article is three characters long. Is this the shortest ever? Borisblue 00:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion as to what shortest means. The first few discussions were not about the FA article being the shortest, but the title being the shortest (e.g. Law is only three characters). Obviously no FA would be three characters. Tourskin.
On Feb. 27th I recommended a new section to the Main Page's section "Wikipedia languages" with
It received the following answers:
As I don't look into the English Wikipedia every day, I may be allowed to make some remarks today: Since when is the section "Wikipedia Languages" a " Category" of Wikipedia. It is a just section listing efforts in different languages, and if ONE (1) country exceeds 500,000 articles, that should by all means be worth to be included in this section (especially as the English Wikipedia seems to be so proud of having over 1 Million articles (about the quality of atomized lemmata to reach this number we should not talk at this point)). And it will not last long until the French also reaches this level. And "check the archives" was very helpfull, thank you for this prolific comment. -- Wittkowsky 17:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
See Omo remains. Fix this please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abelani ( talk • contribs) 10:11, 7 March 2007
I've just noticed that this page has the time in the top right (alongside Talk:Main Page). I assume this is generated by the code
<div style="right:10px;display:none;" class="metadata topicon">'''{{CURRENTDATE}}'''</div>
Any reason why this is present, and if it's useful, why it isn't on other talk pages? MrBeast 16:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_credentials
So, are "essjay's" contributing articles in religion going to be altered given the news of his non-credentials? I can't help but wonder what harm he's caused followers of religions because of any authoritative statements he made, which were not allowed to be corrected because of his status on Wiki. Jlujan69 21:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
This discussion doesn't have anything to do with MainPage. Please feel free to discuss this further at the Village Pump instead. Thanks. -- PFHLai 22:07, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Would it be appropriate to put a warning on the Main Page? "BEWARE! All information in this encyclopedia, as well as some administrators, may be fraudulent." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.8.1.2 ( talk) 06:00, March 8, 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, or does it seems that a lot of Eurovision songs have been in the did-you-know section? It might be exciting for some, but I believe there are much more interesting articles to be featured than that of the Eurovision festival. My two cents for today. -- Soetermans 21:39, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else agree that bands are featured far to much in this? Tenacious D Fans ( talk) 19:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
No, I seriously did not know that Assyrians in Finland lived mostly in that city. I forgot its name already. Well, I'm satisfied. But I wonder what they were doing there. Tourskin 06:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Woah, calm down! I am not criticizing others work. That was a great piece of info. You should stop criticizing other's criticism. Tourskin 02:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Could not a better picture be used on the main page. Instead of some crummy photo - that doesn't even feature the title character - we could instead use the screenshot of the opening title sequence, or the cast in makeup. Surely its still fair use oon the main page? -- Kronecker 01:13, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm, not sure the caption is doing much to combat WP:BIAS. I live in the UK, and Buffy first aired for me on channel 4, then on Sky One. Fair enough mentioning writers and production companies, as well as the success it bought them, but I'm not so sure about those who brought the show to the American masses. Perhaps I'm missing something? — Jack · talk · 01:47, Saturday, 10 March 2007
How can I email today's picture to someone - can I email it? I think we should hacve that option, if possible. Tourskin 18:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Please change this. Becasue Turkish Wikipedia is over 50.000 subject. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.244.131.250 ( talk) 07:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC).
I went to have a look at the Wikipedia Statistics "Charts and Table" section, and I found that it has not been updated since October. Who updates it and how - I would be happy to assist, but I feel that someone should certainly be doing it. David Spart 11:08, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I think that the todays featured article should be blocked from editing by anyone except admins. This article is the focus of many vandalism attempts, and it would make it easier on everyone to just block it from editors. Smbarnzy 06:58, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
The first news item is about the capture of a Taliban official. The eye moves to the right and immediately lands on a photo of Abdoulaye Wade, recently reelected as president of Senegal. That news item is a significant number of lines down from the photo. The photo placement implies a connection between the Taliban and Wade, and that insinuation, whether intended or not, is inappropriate. Not all readers, skimming the page, will read that Wade is in fact president of Senegal. — Emiellaiendiay 08:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
The first woman in space turns seventy today, but our Main Page is perfectly ignorant of the fact. Ditto about Gabriel García Márquez, who turns eighty. Please fix it. -- Ghirla -трёп- 14:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
How about Osama bin Laden's big 50 today? -- 74.13.131.119 18:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I've often thought Wikipedia is very US-centric. Looks like these featured articles confirm that, given that every one of them relates to the US is some form or another.
Shame really. Fizzackerly 13:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Can we have the total count of FA on main page?
6,478 Featured Articles as on today!!!
-- Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 14:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
As User:Werdnabot is currently unavailable due to a malfuction, I've been bold, removed the Werdnabot stuff (wouldn't want them fighting) and put in a request to User:MiszaBot/Archive requests Nil Einne 21:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. On very small screens or small windows it is evident that the text under the first box of the main page that is aligned to the left (reading "Overview · Editing · Questions · Help") is not level with the text aligned right (which reads "Contents · Categories · Featured content · A–Z index"). In the interest of standardisation, the text from "end portals" should read:
<!-- End Portals --> {|style="width:100%;background:none;margin:-.8em 0 -.7em 0" |style="font-size:95%;padding:10px 0;margin:0px;text-align:left;white-space:nowrap;color:#000"| [[Wikipedia:About|Overview]] '''·''' [[Wikipedia:Tutorial|Editing]] '''·''' [[Wikipedia:Questions|Questions]] '''·''' [[Help:Contents|Help]]
— Jack · talk · 01:15, Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Did you know that ethical dilemmas result from medical research scientists (pictured) working with animals and animal products, such as stem cells? ---- Um, no kidding? I would suggest that pretty much everyone knows this? Normally I look forward to the interesting tidbits of info in Did You Know, but this one seems kind of self-evident, does anyone agree? Sorry to nitpick, whoever writes these does a great job most of the time. Spebudmak 22:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
An entry references medical research scientists regarding ethical issues in animal testing, but the former article contains no relevant information except a single reference to the latter. In addition the entry calls "stem cells" an "animal product", which is literally true but which confuses the point that the controversial kind of stem cells are human stem cells. The medical research scientists article is rather basic and in places debatable, but if some fact must be extracted from it for a Did You Know entry, I'd pick "Did you know... the average salary for biotechnology research scientists in the United States is $66,393." (although this is also a little off - the source does not include some specialties of "medical research scientists" from the article e.g. biochemists, and the article describes this as simply the salary for "research scientists" without qualification). Mike Serfas 23:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually I would argue a DYK on ethical issue facing scientists would be relevant since even if it should seem obvious scientist face ethical issues, a lot of people especially animal rights people seem to think scientists are cruel inhumane people who don't care about anything except their research when in reality ethical issues will always come up when animals are involved. But I agree, the stem cells wasn't the best example since the biggest controversies there are when it comes to humans (who are animals of course). Animal testing is a better example of an area where ethical issues play a greater role. Nil Einne 06:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Where is bosnian language here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.92.237.133 ( talk) 22:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
A link to Cebuano wiki is shown on the Main Page of English wiki, and languages which are apparently much better, but have fewer articles than Cebuano are not. Is this not a reason to reconsider the criteria interwiki links appear on the Main Page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.45.81.145 ( talk) 05:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
The Main page, in last few months have gone too Indian.Especially Today's Fa contains mostly Indian contents.Pl take a notice of this practice.Fa should be from all over the wikipedia not only related to single subject. User talk:Yousaf465
I agree with you that these one are Rated FA but at least these should be chosen from a range of Fa ones.I would suggest on each date specify a article Fa from each of the different fields.And related to different regions of world e.g. in first week of certain month article related to Africa will do, in next week Fa from Europe might do.On certain date a article from science on other a article on arts and so on and so froth. User talk:Yousaf465 04:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Pl don't make everthing a conflict between Indo-Pakistan.I was just suggesteing to make it more diverse. User talk:Yousaf465
I agree with that,but it doesn't mean every second Tya should be related to a certain project.It should be from different Projects there are hundreds of them. User talk:Yousaf465 06:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Boog pl don't make it a Indo-Pakistan conflict.What link do indians have with my last post.Are all of them teaching homosexuality? nor I'm saying that Pakistani project's Fa should also be displayed what I'm saying is pl choose Fa article from different project e.g. wikiprioject geopraphy might have many of them. User talk:Yousaf465 06:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
The human brain is constructed in such a way that one of its functions is to make order from chaos. As a result people see bias everywhere on Wikipedia. If they notice something that tweaks their ire they claim bias. Except for some systemic bias, which is a result of statistics not discrimination, most claims of bias can be show to be complete rubbish if we go back and count the number of inclusions over a 12 month period. There is a little reverse discrimination in the case of centricism as US, Australian and other editors are "over represented" due to Internet availability in those places, but generally the answer to any perceived bias is to stop expending energy complaining and GO DO SOME WORK. -- Monotonehell 08:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I should remind people, especially Boogaboohoo of WP:NPA and WP:AGF. Yousaf never made any mention of Pakistan Nil Einne 11:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Nil Einne and Stormalon were absolutely right I didn't mention anything about Pakistan.I was only saying that there is a large frequency comparatively large f. of India related articles on main page wikipedia is not a place to mention only content related to a single subject it should be from diverse fields.Mention some article related to japan other about Usa and next related to russia next something about any product's Fa which is used all over the world.So as to spread Knowledge about different things. User talk:Yousaf465
Meh, all this talk of biased FA's I garantee that if someone sat down and hand picked the next years worth of FA's it would still have some sort of pattern. Thats the way randomness works, it has to include clusters.
Ferdia O'Brien The Archiver And The Vandal Watchman 13:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree we should try to diversify the coverage of contents of wikipedia thus eliminating the question of "being Bias" thing.This will remove the misconception that do arises from this.The pop culture aurgment I think was correct as i also found a number of Pop culture article in the proposed list For January 2007.SO this should be diversified. User talk:Yousaf465
Yousaf465, FAs are taken from different categories. Arts, geography, history , culture etc. Just because there happen to be India-related topics in those categories, doesn't mean we have to not feature them. The India-related workgroup produces at least 1 FA per month, so seeing one FA per month would be very consistent. Ideally the topics should be more regionally diverse, but to hit back at your points, would there be anyone to bring up topics to FA from other countries? =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:39, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
This section really needs a bullet. -- Haizum μολὼν λαβέ 09:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
A very warm thanks to Nil Einne for his support of me on this issue he correctly say that I was not discussing Pakisatnin this regard. User talk:Yousaf465 13:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
This whole bias thing is getting old. And by old, I mean really annoying. Pacific Coast Highway { Kiss me! • I'm irish!} 14:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Cricket is an interesting sport but takes skill and talent, i dont think the discussion of cricket is necessary. Isn't there more important things that should be discussed for example global warming!
i am sure that england is biased towards cricket as when england won the cricket world cup, a competition not remotely cared about in most countries, especially america and other western european countries. the whole team recieved awards from the queen. however when liverpool won the europeaan champions league non of them recieved medals from the queen when it is the most prestigous sporting event in europe, and reveared throughout the world. and to do it in the manner in which they did was all the more impressive. however, the main reason i dnt favour cricket as much as other sports is because they are not athletes, they are like snooker players- skill but not athletisism, which is why i respact rugby, football, and other real sports far more than cricket.
Cricket is an interesting sport but takes skill and talent, i dont think the discussion
Cricket is not the most "physical" of sports, but to argue it does not require athleticism is ridiculous. The average man plucked off the street to play in a Test match batting and bowling would end up exhausted and with concussion. 10:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that there are quite a few articles (too many!) and references to cricket of late in the main page. Cricket is a sport popular in just a handful of countries...It looks like a bias to me, really. Perhaps what I am saying makes no sense, but it is my impression.
vaceituno 00:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Regardless of whether Cricket gets too many references, it deserves one today, the start of the world cup is an important event for the sport, and therefore hundreds of millions in South Asia and many elsewhere. Shane1
That argument gives far greater justification for preventing baseball and American football articles from being featured on the Main Page. As it happens, this World Cup has a global audience estimated at 2 BILLION. Yes, we know that not many of them happen to live in America. There were >600,000 bums on seats at the 2003 event. That's a lot of people. -- Dweller 19:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
cricket must be given front page coverage. It the most popular sports and world cup ocurrs once in four year........
Cricket is a religion in these countries with billoins of followers..........
"There were >600,000 bums on seats at the 2003 event" Actually thats not a huge number for an international sports tournament, though the viewing figures (if they were known accurately) would be huge. In any case I haven't noticed any Cricket bias, though admittedly I am a fan. Perhaps Cricket is over represented relative to the global sport of football, but then we go back to the argument of whether English wikipedia is for native speakers (majority North American) or for anyone with a smidgin of English.
WP:CRIC carries a list of Cricket's 11 (current) Featured Articles and their appearances on the Main Page. Four have never appeared on the Main Page. Of the other seven, one was yesterday, the previous one was over a year ago and you have to go back to August 2005 for the one before that. (There was also a former FA that appeared in Feb '06) One or two per year (!) doesn't really seem excessive. Two per year is less than 0.6%. -- Dweller 10:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't detect much of a bias towards cricket articles to be honest- these kind of debates crop up from time to time and seem to just be a natural aspect of the global Wikipedia family's workings....it may be easy however for American readers to not realise just quite how incredibly popular cricket is in e.g. India and Pakistan (=about 1/4 of the world's population, and a very significant anglophone audience) just as some non-American readers may underestimate the popularity of, for example, baseball and basketball in e.g. latin America/the Carib/Japan/Eastern Europe etc. This is the pre-eminent competition for one of the most popular sports on the planet (maybe #2 after football?)- not inherently inappropriate for the main page imho. But as always- if we want a greater diversity of articles, let's write more FAs. Badgerpatrol 11:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
To all the people arguing that "such and such a sport is more popular than this and that other sport", please understand that a subject's popularity plays NO direct part in being featured in any of the sections on the main page. (In fact there could be something said for featuring things that people generally know little about, but may find that they are interested in.) For a subject to appear in Today's Featured Article, it must first be edited up to Featured Article quality, then be selected for inclusion. Popularity plays no part there. For an item to be listed in In The News, it need only be of international interest, be a subject in the News Media, have a substantial article in Wikipedia that has been updated with the current concerns and contain more background encyclopedic information than a reader would normally find in a newspaper. Again nothing to do with how many people follow a sport. Anyone thinking of having a running scoreboard in ITN can put that out of their mind. Only the final result of any one competition can be displayed at the conclusion of the competition. -- Monotonehell 11:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I think it is worth mentioning that cricket is highly popular in former English colonies and those countries have high percentages of English speaking people. Since this is the English Wikipedia, topics relating to English based subjects are more likely to be written about and therefore, have a higher chance of becoming featured articles. S. Randall 14:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
England has not won the Cricket World Cup, they have won the football in 1966 and the rugby in 2003.
Believe it or not, very few people care about Liverpool winning some cup. There are MILLIONS of cricket fans throughout the world, who can attend a local or international match without resorting to violence.
Begimogik 15:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to tick off the folks over at Conservapedia, I move that we move all of the Cricket-related articles over there. They'll just LOVE them! ;-) Dr. Cash 04:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I would love to be able to look at a random article in science/technology. Is there any way to do something like this? Vincecate 23:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
No no there is a way. I have already tried it out. Ill get back with the details Pozhan 09:05, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
What is the most complicated function that Wikipedia can perform? Ahadland 21:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I think someone should create a software using which we can easily create pages in a graphical interface. The software can resemble Microsoft Frontpage or any other web designing software. The software should then be able to convert the web page into a Wikipedia style page. You know it's difficult to use the editing interface currently offered. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.130.9.24 ( talk) 15:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC).
I was wondering wether the 6 nations final (won by France) should be included in the news. It is by no means a minor sporting event, and the Superball was included. Matt. P 22:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that so far no one has actually properly proposed the Six Nations final result for ITN as I suggested above. While I personally am not sure it should go up I'm just one person. If people feel so strongly it does then you should go ahead and read the guidelines and propose it. You won't know until you try. The criteria is here BTW Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page Nil Einne 21:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
to the tips on where else a user might want to go for assistance besides this talk page? On February 15, for example, under the "Main Page and beyond" box, there was a link to Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia, a server status page, and the important bullet point (in bold) "If you have an opinion, comment, question or are looking for help regarding Wikipedia in general, find the place where your post will get the most attention here. Just that last link alone would be helpful, I think. -- zenohockey 01:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Would it technically be possible to have tabs for the ITN section, to satisfy readers with seperate World / North America / South America / Africa and the Middle East / Asia / Europe feeds? See the new homepage for USA Today, which features "Headlines" and "News notes". -- Zanimum 18:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
display
property would switch from none
to block
and A's display
property would switch from block
to none
. (Actually the specific term block
is unnecessary, if you simply clear the property (style.display='';
) it will act just the same). This requires coding like onclick="document.getElementById('B').style.display='block';"
. From my experience, wikis deactivate coding like this, unless there is a provision somewhere for purposes like these. Zanimum, if you are seriously interested in creating some kind of tab system, I would suggest you do a trial somewhere deep within the encyclopedia instead of trying to get it here on the main page. There would be a lot of controversy getting it placed somewhere so highly visible because of browser compatibility and user confusion.. etc. One place where I've tried for quite a while to get a tabbed system working is {{
Navigation tabs}}. If you look at the edit history, you'll see I've gotten quite frustrated trying out many approaches. --
drumguy8800
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T 05:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)Is there anyway to stop anonymous IPs from at least editing the main pages? It seems like most of the good edits to these pages are performed by those who care to login. Just my $0.02. Thank you. -- BlindEagle talk 18:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Given today's featured article, I'll just go ahead and say it before someone else does - OMG WIKIPEDIA IS COMMUNISM!! (I can't help myself) Raul654 01:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia isn't "communism" -- not unless it is run by a ruthless, self-appointed "vanguard party" seeking unlimited state power and willing to kill absolutely anyone in its way. In theory, Wikipedia is a non-profit foundation independent of state control, which means that it is illegal under communism. And neither China and Vietnam are republics. They are oligarchical collectivist states. Neither is governed by constitutional principles at the top.
As it is, this article is absurdly biased and should never have made it to the main page. (Actually, the capitalist countries pretty much didn't care what the Trots did, so long as they didn't hurt anyone. They had no power, anyway, and spent most of their time splitting into smaller and smaller factions.) Scott Adler 11:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Why is "cite this article" in the sidebar toolbox on the main page? I know it is (for some reason) in the article namespace, but is there not a small fix available for this? It just seems embarrassing, especially after all the effort that has clearly gone into this page. — Jack · talk · 15:01, Thursday, 22 March 2007
{{ editprotected}} A very good question, but it is not clear to me how to edit the source of this page to change the sidebar. So I will resolve the editprotected tag. You might want to raise this issue on WP:VP/T. CMummert · talk 05:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
.page-Main_Page #t-cite {display: none}
Now that German wikipedia has exceeded 500,000 articles and French is set to do so soon, does anyone agree that it's time to create an "over 500,000 articles" heading?-- Humphrey20020 17:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
1,700,000 articles! Yay! -- WikiSlasher 11:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)