Talk:Main Page/Archive 24

message: Did not Rome first become an empire during the reign of Caesar Augustus (around 23 BC)?  This is well after the date of the Battle of Cannae during which time Rome is generally considered to be a republic.
Roman empire should be changed to Roman republic in selected anniversaries.
davidzuccaro 05:10, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. And yes, Octavian Caesar set up the empire and gave himself the name Augustus.  Ilyanep (Talk) 05:15, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman Empire or Roman Republic 

message: Just a small typo: under the Wikipedia’s Sister Projects section of the Main Page, the following code is used:
donation.
The period should appear outside of the link. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 03:03, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there might be a bug here. Putting the '.' outside of the link makes it jump the gap and appear adjacent to the first letter of the next sentence. Mintguy (T) 03:44, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the method used to hide the external link arrow icon after an external link is faulty - it hides the icon, but leaves blank the space in which it would otherwise appear. - Mark 05:07, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I logged a bug on this the other day , and the response was that it's already been fixed in CVS. So I guess that means the problem will go away when the fixed code makes it to the Wikipedia site, though I don't know how often that happens. - Brian Kendig 16:38, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: What's the most appropriate category to request an article about a small automobile manufacturer?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles Enochlau 12:06, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  What category for request? 

message: [Main Page]] is a protected page. I have created a page to suggest news to include in the Main Page-In the news Section: Main Page News. Have appeared a lot of important news about human cloning  and nothing in  Main Page News.Mac 06:51, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You can actually edit that yourself. See Wikipedia:Editing the main page and Template:In the news. I'm moving Main Page News to Template talk:In the news ❝Sverdrup❞ 11:21, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections 

message: We seem to have five articles on the US on the main page (note, especially, the Selected Anniversaries section). -- Emsworth 02:38, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You can edit the main page sections, you know. If you see a bias in the numbers of articles linked to, then edit it to remove such bias. - Mark 06:50, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: And this on a day when the power in Liechtenstein was passed from Hans-Adam II to his son Alois! I'm shocked! - Nunh-huh 06:55, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Who? :) -- Cyrius|✎ 07:20, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Yawn.  Boring.  So do something about it instead of complain.  RickK 06:56, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
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--156.153.255.195 15:16, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: US Bias

message: Hi, I just saw, for a couple of minutes, the Wikipedia title image changed to "BAD IDEA INC." with an "x" through the picture. Was that vandalism or do people do that a lot here for a purpose?
As you can guess, I'm a newbie.
Jonathan Jmenon 15:51, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was that vandalism on the Main Page image? 

message: Guys, someone vandalized the Wikipedia logo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/b/bc/Wiki.png
— Toytoy 15:54, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
::Image:Wiki.PNG has been reverted and protected now, with the vandalized revisions deleted. Angela. 19:05, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
::This is not right.  Why do you people insist on destroying the edit history of things just because they are vandalized?   Vandalism, is, after all, a part of Wikipedia's history. — Mr. Grinch (Talk) 14:48, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: We only destroy edit histories of pages we delete. The vandalism seen on the Main Page was likely vandalism to one of the template pages that are automatically inserted onto the Main Page - anyone can edit them. See the links to them at the top of this discussion page. - Mark 14:59, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If every user has access to the image revert button, then there isn't a problem, because someone could easily click "rev" to vandalism.  By the way, what happened to User:Shquid and User:I'm Not Good who uploaded the file? — Mr. Grinch (Talk) 15:44, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Idea Inc.?

message: I tried searching for a #Browse Wikipedia by topic in the source. No luck. Any reason for the "1" in this heading on the Main Page? Ancheta Wis 01:54, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see any "1" before the title there on the main page. Could you give us a screenshot, or tell us which browser you are using? - Mark 02:23, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Good news, the "1" is not there any more. Maybe a Main Page cache purge worked to clear out the "1" . Ancheta Wis 03:46, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Good spotting. The problem should be fixed now. - Mark 04:38, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 1 Browse Wikipedia by topic

message: What about adding Simple English to the shorter languages bar (as well as the larger one) for the main page?  I think it'd be logical to have that on the main English page along with the other widespread languages. Brettz9 (talk) 05:19, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The other languages there have 10000+ articles, simple: has only 1743. Goplat 05:26, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  I figured that, but if it is the English page... Brettz9 (talk) 17:48, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Languages - Simple English 

message: Check out WordIQ.com. If you type in any search you'll see that the results are a direct rip of wikipedia.
Obviously they are doing this to profit since each page contains related banner ads at the bottom.
What is the legality of this site?
user:Jawed 
:They are not the only one who do this. There are loads of them, with varying degrees of responsibility. See  Mirrors_and_forks and high_degree_of_compliance Mintguy (T)
:Wikipedia material can be republished as long it is republished under the terms of the GDFL.  As the wordiq does this I see no problem. 
:davidzuccaro 02:43, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  wordiq.com ripping off wikipedia content? 

message: I was dissapointed when I oppened wikipedia on PDA first. I changed skin to Nostalgia and oppened 'no tables' version, but there was still languages and sister's project which slows down loading page. So I decided to create 'lite' version of mainpage. Main_Page_(lite) 
I think is worthy to add link to it to mainpage.
--miEro 10:16, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I saw this on Special:Newpages and wondered what it was about. Anything that makes wikipedia more accessible on more more devices sounds like a good idea to me. -- Bonalaw 12:01, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: kudos is given!  bravo!  More access = more awareness = a better world  Good Job Miero!66.245.208.240 16:46, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mainpage on PDA (Pocket IE) 

message: Is there an easy way to simply revert a diff that a vandal did on a page?
Obviously I can manually hand-edit the article to remove the vandalism, but I'd rather do it with one simple action. I didn't see any option anywhere to undo the last edit.
:Quick rollback does exist -- admins get it; regular users don't (but they can always go in the page history, view the previous, and save that) →Raul654 06:53, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)
:See Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version.  It takes 4 clicks.  —AlanBarrett 10:38, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  how to easily undo vandalism? 

message: Hello, I was looking for the meaning of Australasia and I have found that the explanation given in Wikipedia and in another website called  is exactly the same. I don't know if this ok, but I thought I should make sure. --FeMeMe 23:58, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-cat 

message: There have been many red links (like this one) appearing on the Main Page recently, especially in the Olympics section.  Please create the articles before listing it on the Main Page.  14:58, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avoid red links 

message: It looks to me user Grunt's account has been compromised. The intruder is now adding stupid things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&hideminor=0&target=Grunt&limit=500&offset=0
-- Toytoy 15:37, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
:No, my account has not been compromised. This was in fact the work of a vandal, User:The Willy on Wheels who is the wiilly on wheels? who was moving articles (in this case it was Television) from their proper names to bad location; I was helping to move them back. Please discuss this with User:Mark Ryan and User:Kate who helped combat this. -- Grunt (talk) 15:38, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)
Sorry, keep on doing your good job. This Willy boy has some kind of strange humor.
: Education
: (Redirected from McDonalds advertisng)
I actually love this one. :)
-- Toytoy 15:46, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
::I can in fact confirm that Grunt's user account is not compromised. - Mark 16:10, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't post notices like this to Talk:Main Page. This page is for discussing the main page, not general discussion. Use the Wikipedia:Village pump for that. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:08, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: They probably *are* two year olds with a web browser. ^_~ -- Whoa chill i am not a 2 yr old i'm just trying to learn here i love wikipedia it is so useful!!!! MY FAVOURITE WEBPAGE!! Schnee 22:50, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Report: [[HEY EVERYBODY! I'M VANDALIZING THE WIKIPEDIA]]