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German Wiki
The German Wiki reached 500.000 articles two days ago. Shouldnt on the Main Page the chapter Misplaced Pages languages changed to reflect that?--Tresckow 03:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Please see German Misplaced Pages 500,000th entry. The bottom line is that it would be illogical to create a new tier for one Misplaced Pages. —David Levy 04:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- a new tier? i was more thinkinking of 500.000 german. its ahuge gap between more than 100.000 and 500.000 one would think--85.180.60.152 13:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- No, this is exactly what ass David Levy said. While 500k is a major achievement, until we have at least three others that have reached this level, it's fruitless to devote two whole lines of the main page to one project. End of story. -- Zanimum 18:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- When there was "50.000 or more articles", this statement was true. "100.000 or more articles" just seems to be like a logarithmic system. The start with at least 20.000 articles is only to keep a proper size since there are a lot Wikipediae with about 10.000 - 20.000 articles. Since the French Misplaced Pages will very soon reach the 400.000th article. That should be reflected as well. At the moment, the 100.000 is well enough. It would make more sense mentioning at the start page that the largest 3 Wikipediae have reached new limits wihtin a few days. (And that from a guy who's mainly active at the German Misplaced Pages.) --32X 20:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- The German Misplaced Pages put our 1,500,000 achievement on their main page, maybe we should put thier achievement on our main page??-- Coasttocoast 21:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- I second that. --Jan.Smolik 12:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
1,500,000
What was this article? Was there a reason it wasn't included, as Jordanhill Railway Station was?Freakin Duh.
- See above. Noone happened to catch it at the right time, so it's a case of rounding to the nearest one that remains fairly stable at that figure. GeeJo ⁄(c) • 06:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Can someone please remove the 1,500,000 tag. While I am very pleased that we have reached 1,500,000 articles do you realize how many are stubs? I doubt half of these qulaify as articles yet. But great work just remove the tag asapErnst Stavro Blofeld 12:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Please calm down your tone. The banner's only been up for a little over a day, and it will be coming down shortly. In the mean time, you can try reading one or two of our other great articles besides the main page :P. AmiDaniel (talk) 12:43, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
In the news
first item
The Socialist Party gains in Dutch elections, while Jan Peter Balkenende's (pictured) Christian Democrats retain their plurality
is it plurality or popularity ?--Pixel ;-) 12:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Plurality. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+plurality Rafy 13:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Cool, doctored pictures
A new low I guess, an obviously Photoshopped image on the front page - a picture that's supposed to represent a real place. In an encyclopedia. Very nice. 68.231.49.252
- Which one? — ceejayoz 04:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- The user is most likely referring to Image:Hills_south_west_of_Sanandaj_near_the_village_of_Kilaneh.jpg which at a glance might look photoshopped. JoshuaZ 04:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Duke Picture
This might be the wrong place for this, and I apologize if it is, but on the Featured Article I think it would be a lot better to have the Duke Chapel or at the very least the Emblem featured as the picture to go with the Featured Article for today rather than those science buildings. They're much more interesting to look at and represent Duke a lot better.
Suggestions:
Image:Duke shield.PNG
Mientkiewicz5508 03:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- The third wouldn't work, as fair use images are prohibited while there's another option. GeeJo ⁄(c) • 09:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Not a bad idea, Mientkiewicz5508, but it's too late now. Next time, you may want leave a message on the talkpage of the FA template in question, or on The TFA director's usertalkpage. You may get a quicker response. --PFHLai 19:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Emperor Penguin
Why does the Emperor Penguin travel such distances as part of the mating instinct? Why don't they stay near the sea so they can obtain food instead of starving themselves and remain with their mates? 69.40.184.248 03:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)RKimb@aol.com
- This page is for discussion of the Main Page only; you can make your question at the Reference Desk. Good luck!--cloviz 04:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Duke Picture
Is it just me or did the Duke picture get messed up?
This is what it looks like for me:
Nishkid64 17:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Looks fine to me. --Majorly (Talk) 17:13, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hmmm...strange. What's even weirder is that this is only happening in Firefox. It appears perfectly normal in Internet Explorer. Also, the picture was normal yesterday when I last went on Misplaced Pages. Nishkid64 17:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- It works in my Firefox. Have you tried cleared your cache? --Majorly (Talk) 17:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I cleared my cache multiple times to no avail. I also went to the exact page for the FA, and the image looks the same (disfigured and all). Nishkid64 17:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Well that is weird. Have you checked the exact picture file? Otherwise, I'm all out of ideas :S --Majorly (Talk) 17:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I cleared my cache multiple times to no avail. I also went to the exact page for the FA, and the image looks the same (disfigured and all). Nishkid64 17:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I did. What's even stranger is that when I click that disfigured image, I'm linked to the proper LevineScienceResearchCtr.jpg image, and it looks all normal. I have no clue what happened. Nishkid64 17:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- It works in my Firefox. Have you tried cleared your cache? --Majorly (Talk) 17:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Haha, this is crazy. It has now changed to the Misplaced Pages black "W" (except it's 10x as huge and is distorted). Nishkid64 18:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Looks perfectly fine to me in my Firefox as well. -- tariqabjotu 18:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- It looks normal to me.--Tom, 18:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Looks pixelized in my Firefox window. Oh well. Could we please change the picture to something slightly more interesting? Like the Chapel perhaps? I mentioned this yesterday, but it hasn't been addressed yet. Boring science buildings aren't very representative of the University.
- It looks normal to me.--Tom, 18:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- Looks perfectly fine to me in my Firefox as well. -- tariqabjotu 18:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Mientkiewicz5508 20:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- I see it fine in Firefox. Try clearing all your temporary Internet files, clearing your cache, and reloading. Prodego 20:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- This frequently happens to me on various websites - the images "replace" one another. Most of the time, a hard refresh (CTRL+F5) works for me, as well as clearing the cache. Kalani 02:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- I see it fine in Firefox. Try clearing all your temporary Internet files, clearing your cache, and reloading. Prodego 20:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
IGN.COM's message board is among the most popular? If that's the case then...
If IGN.COM's message boards are among one of the most popular on the internet, then what IS the most popular? Do we even know? And if so, will we need to start up an article about it? Or the website that hosts it? Zabrak 17:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- According to internet forum the largest forum is 2channel (which as you can see we have a quite substantial article on). http://www.big-boards.com/ is a site that ranks internet forums by size, but it doesn't seem to include Japanese sites so 2channel is not listed. the wub "?!" 18:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Please be reminded that this talkpage is intended for discussions on topics related to MainPage only. --PFHLai 19:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages languages
The above 20 000 article group is not under alphabetical order. Could someone fix that? Thanks, --Vanka5 00:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Done. I'm not sure how Danish and Czech got to the wrong place. —Cuiviénen 00:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I really like the current selection of language links, both in the bottom section and the sidebar (+ the "complete list" link in sidebar). Good work, whoever all is responsible for the current incarnation of this much-discussed segment.. :) -Quiddity 03:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I second that Quiddity-statement. --Monotonehell 06:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Language links at the bottom of the main page
When you mouse over the links, it gives the two letter prefix that the link goes to (e.g. Français shows "fr:"). However, there are two problems with this:
- It is not user friendly--mousing over a name in a foreign language does not give the English language equivalent for someone who is curious as to what the language is (especially important for Arabic, etc). Instead, it gives a useless two letter abbreviation.
- Telugu bucks the trend, and instead of the two-letter abbreviation, gives the full name.
Either Telugu should be fixed, or all the mouseover texts should be changed. — Dark Shikari /contribs 02:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good idea! Just wrap the language name in span tags, as I did here for French. That should get the English word for the language and the interwiki prefix on mouseover. —Mets501 (talk) 03:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- No, 'tis not difficult to do at all. Lemme give it a shot .. will be up in a minute. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Done Let me know if I screwed any up. AmiDaniel (talk) 06:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- You screwed up. LOL ... Shouldn't Catala be Catalan? Would you consider using non-breaking spaces on the two word languages so they don't break over a line? Just a thought. Great job by the way. --Monotonehell 06:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- And done again :). AmiDaniel (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Exxxxcelent... :) --Monotonehell 07:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sweet, good job =) — Dark Shikari /contribs 11:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Exxxxcelent... :) --Monotonehell 07:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- And done again :). AmiDaniel (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- You screwed up. LOL ... Shouldn't Catala be Catalan? Would you consider using non-breaking spaces on the two word languages so they don't break over a line? Just a thought. Great job by the way. --Monotonehell 06:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- No, 'tis not difficult to do at all. Lemme give it a shot .. will be up in a minute. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Quality/Quantity FA
As of late we have recognized that as a community, we need to focus more on quality than on quantity. Yet we continue to prominantly list the number of articles on EN (at the top, left-hand corner of the main page) while hiding the less-impressive total of Featured Articles. At the very least, we should list the two figures side by side. We're doing just fine in terms of numbers of articles but badly in terms of F.A.'s Let's stop patting ourselves on the back and start listing the number of F.A.'s on the front page. --Zantastik talk 23:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
This has been discussed before. See Talk:Main Page/Archive 79. Hope these help. Tennis DyNamiTe 23:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I won't push it; community consensus is important, and furthermore, the main page really *is* for readers, not wikipedians. The former won't know anything about featured articles, but they will be impressed with how many articles we have. Still, of course, our focus as wikipedians needs to well-written articles (FA or not), not quantity. --Zantastik talk 01:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Collaborations on front page
Ten articles of high importance and unspectacular quality should be placed onto the front page each week. Maybe replace DYK, lawl. OK that was mean Rampart 01:01, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- See WP:AID. There are also lots of collaborative projects for specific WikiProjects. DYK rocks! (I think) Nishkid64 01:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- You're both right. Articles on DYK are typically around a Start class on the Article grading scheme - they're "solid", but not necessarily the best we have to offer. DYK rocks in that articles featured in the section seem to attract a lot of good contributions without the crapstorm that hits every Featured Article on the Main Page. It also works to greatly boost the enthusiasm of new editors who've had their work picked out of Special:Newpages (which is happening a lot more often recently). GeeJo ⁄(c) • 01:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- True, but I'd just like to mention not all articles in DYK are start class. List of South America tropical cyclones was a list that I found in DYK that I nominated at WP:FLC. It ended up becoming featured unanimously. Tennis DyNamiTe 02:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- You're both right. Articles on DYK are typically around a Start class on the Article grading scheme - they're "solid", but not necessarily the best we have to offer. DYK rocks in that articles featured in the section seem to attract a lot of good contributions without the crapstorm that hits every Featured Article on the Main Page. It also works to greatly boost the enthusiasm of new editors who've had their work picked out of Special:Newpages (which is happening a lot more often recently). GeeJo ⁄(c) • 01:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
News Picture
Any chance of a picture of Correa going up, someone who's just won an election, instead of Balkenende, who may well have lost his premiership in an election days ago?--Nema Fakei 12:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree but it'll help if you suggest this in a better place. As the info at the top suggests, you should start of here Misplaced Pages:In the news section on the Main Page before you end up here Misplaced Pages:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates Nil Einne 13:10, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
What the...
Eh, what happened to the Wiki logo? Who is that?
- Note that this occurred around 1:25-1:30 AM EST. Wiki logo returned around 1:35 AM EST.
Link to Mediawiki among sister projects?
Any particular reason there isn't a link to (Wait! see below -- this isn't the link I meant) MediaWiki from the English Misplaced Pages Main Page, for example among Sister Projects? Is it because they don't want people going there unless they've been around long enough to find it somehow? --Coppertwig 12:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC) OK, I'm confused. That link wasn't what I meant. That was wikimedia/Meta-wiki. I meant MediaWiki -- the pages with a sunflower as the logo: MediaWiki. Misplaced Pages has Meta listed under Sister Projects, but not MediaWiki. How are people supposed to find MediaWiki? Or bugzilla? Maybe a link should be added. --Coppertwig 12:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- The link "...a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:" gets you to the list of projects which then mentions Mediawiki at the end. Is that enough? --Monotonehell 14:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Reduction of links on the Main Page
I propose to reduce the number of links on the main page to put more emphasis on the important topics, and to make the text easier to read. So only the links that are bold at the moment should stay (as plain links). At the moment, the page is really a mess. --Nina 13:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm a little torn on this proposal. On one hand this is hypertext, on the other hand I agree it currently looks a little over linked. How do we decide what is "important" or not. I often click on links to get context for the main subject. --Monotonehell 14:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, things are over-linked compared to the rest of the Internet, but this shows how we cover every aspect of important topics. -- Zanimum 17:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- As long as the other links besides the bolded ones are relevant to the main links, they should remain. For example in taoday's FA (Jaws) 'Steven Spielberg' and 'Great White Shark' should remian linked, but perhaps 'Amity Island' should not be, as it is linked in the article itself as well. Only the most relevant parts deserve links. At least that's my two cents. Antimatter 21:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- But what if someone wants to learn about Amity Island, but thinks we don't have a seperate article on it, and gets discouraged, because they don't want to fish (no pun intended) through the article for little bits and pieces about the locale? -- Zanimum 22:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
If someone is looking for something, he/she will find it in wikipedia. If you show a featured article on the front page and want to show every relevant topic as well, you just spoil the message. Then you don't need the text- you could simply display a list of links. --Nina 22:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. When it is linked on the main page, that reduces data entry into the search box and makes it easier to browse for first time users, who are the ones you want to start reading the encyclopedia. Have you tried setting your options not to underline the links, and to merely leave them blue, but not underlined? Ancheta Wis 23:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Please correct
The entry about the Japan Diet refers to the Reichstag as an institution, which is wrong here, it should point to the Reichstag building article. See "On this day"-box November29 1890
- Next time, post any Main Page errors at WP:ERRORS. Nishkid64 00:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- Wait, the Japanese Diet is a legislature and so was the Reichstag. There is no mistake. Nishkid64 00:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Words
When someone types in words related to and then the word it should come up with a list of at least 10 words.
- Can you please elaborate? I don't really understand what you are saying. Nishkid64 01:55, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Erotic picture/article
NOT appropriate for the first page, please change it
- Totally agree. Is someone asleep at the switch, or just tone-deaf?? While we don't want to bowlderize the encyclopedia, we need to keep the front page clean and above reproach.
I predict this featured article will see a record number of vandalisms. Carcharoth 03:03, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
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