main page doesn t contain the infrastructural improvements needed 160 129 138 186 s comments are spot on Your rationale boils down to Considering multiple design proposals is never fruitful so let s just vote on my personal favorite Ah we re getting somewhere We should redesign the site to attract new readers is not change for change s sake It s change for attracting new readers sake Now all you need to do is flesh out your argument that attracting readers with buzz is something we want to do and that switching to the new version would be the best way to do it Again you ll have to convince others with your arguments so I have a gut feeling that this might be the case probably isn t going to work too well provide evidence and cite sources No compelling reason to change Really How about The currect design is from the middle ages of the internet What were considered good design priciples then are considered obsolete and even detrimental methods today In 2006 we had no mobile devices even the iPad didn t exist we only had desktops and all was good Our current main page is a dinosaur both in structure and design it relies on tables for layout Bad and blocky block blocks designed to scream LOOK AT ME I CAN DO BORDERS ALL other project have newer page design except us If we want to present Wikipedia as a website that has any affinity with the present it needs to look the part I think mine does and takes all modern design aspects to heart which makes it very mobile small screen friendly WP users will range from keep the visual layout format as it is to a new layout each day month with most people somewhere in the middle so long as it at least as user friendly as before it can be got used to and so long as they don t change it around as frequently as they do things in the supermarkets Should there be various different skins available eg borrowing Wikia s Monobook or should there be a customize your WP layout setup the equivalent of the screen arrangement setup on a PC To paraphrase the Delphic Oracle when asked for a prediction that would always be applicable and Abraham Lincoln there will always be calls for changes to the WP layout and you can not please all the people all the time Your argument would be bolstered by enumerating the design principles the current page employs that are now considered obsolete and detrimental and providing concrete examples of why they are detrimental Preferably with referenced support rather than nebulous unsupported statements as to their badness Just trust me I m a random schlub on the internet who thinks he knows better than you tends to fail as a persuasive argument You start to go down that path by talking about mobile support but expanding on that explaining the issues and why your change fixes things would probably help Also there s a mobile specific version of the Main Page you probably also want to explain why you need to alter the standard version of the Main Page for better mobile support rather than just the mobile version Exactly And Edokter could you explain what makes your version different To someone like myself who doesn t know ANYTHING about programming your version and the current one look pretty much the same Just view it on a small screen or resize the window on your desktop to 800 pixels or below Which of your redesigns are you promoting here This one or this one Because looking at the archives you got quite a bit of support on the former the only issue being that it needed to be