Talk:Main Page/Archive 30

message: Shouldn't 2001 be 2001? --Elijah 06:27, 2004 Nov 28 (UTC)
From time to time, someone removes many of the not very necessary links in the intro text; later, they creep back in in a form of link bloat. Trying to say as much as possible in a few sentences makes linking to everything tempting, but we should think about that some of the links are really important, like the links telling people about us and our history, about our specialities (editing and licensing) etc. We shouldn't have too much of other links, like 2001 which doesn't provide anything remotely interesting in comparison, to obscure the important ones. ✏ Sverdrup 16:20, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 2001 

message: I've never seen Tehran spelled any other way, so please excuse my ignorance if it is spelled correctly.  Tim 20:53, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tehran mispelled as Teheran 

message: The print version of the main page includes : 
All
New articles: 5 10 15
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Orphans:
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Categories:
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 The links are expanded to ugly, useless pieces of text on paper. Also, the new CSS version is completely messed up in printing, on both Firefox and Win2000 IE6. JRM 12:17, 2004 Nov 30 (UTC)
:Not sure what you are referring to, but I assume with print version you mean the "table free" version? I do not see any lenghty list with categories in that view, do you have screenshots of that issue? The CSS version indeed looks messed up in print preview, I'm not a CSS expert so I don't know how easy that is to fix. -- Solitude\talk 12:30, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
::Sure: go to :Image:Main page print preview 2004-11-30.jpg. This applies to both Firefox and IE (though they give slightly different previews, obviously.) I am assuming that this is WYSIWYG, of course, and that it's not a mistake of either browser (I haven't actually printed it, mind you). JRM 12:54, 2004 Nov 30 (UTC)
::It also occurs to me that we are probably talking past each other; for the record, I mean the print preview of the vanilla main page as it pops up in your GUI browser), not any alternate versions. (And contrary to what might be expected, this has been known to print rather nicely—for some revisions. :-) JRM 13:04, 2004 Nov 30 (UTC)
:::I tried putting an "@media:print" styling in the template to hide it, but it didn't seem to work. Maybe we could get a Developer to add a class in the print stylesheet that will hide it... - IMSoP 18:56, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Print version of the main page 

message: I noticed on a cross reference that there was no entry for Gump Worsley so I did one.  Now it is apparent that there are two - see Canadian hockey players then search Gump Worsley.
There should not be two.
(Above entered 01:09, 3 Dec 2004 UST by 205.206.187.4]])
: I took care of this by merging the two articles.  If you go to Lorne Gump Worsley now it should redirect you to the merged article.  Please review it and let me know if I got anything wrong. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:38, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lorne 'Gump' Worsley 

message: Hello, today i created a new template for all sister projects for german wikipedia, commons and wikinews. Perhaps you can have a look and transfer it to this main page if you want :-) See: template for commons, all the textless images are stored there. --Bdk 08:28, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Sister projects

message: Just two question, how can I make my own skin for wikipedia? Is there in planning a new skin in general? Thanks --ThomasK 17:33, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
:It's in the preferences (log in and click preferences on the top right. Then click "skin" and you can choose). I prefer "classic" (aka, the old skin). →Raul654 18:11, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
I know this already, but there is under Preferences "My Skin". So how I can I make it and is there a new skin available soon? --ThomasK 18:48, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
:The "My Skin" allows you to replace the entire CSS of the monobook skin with the content of User:ThomasK/myskin.css, and thus change more-or-less any aspect of it. Alternatively, you can select the monobook skin (as a "base") and use User:ThomasK/monobook.css to override specific rules. See Help:User style and meta:Gallery of user styles. 
:As for new "official" skins, the next version of the software makes it easier for developers to make even more major skin customizations, so while there is no new skin currently under development, there may be increased third-party activity in that area soon (although, now I look at the customisation gallery myself, some of those are approaching the status of skins in their own right). - IMSoP 19:30, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried making my own skin a while back, but when I downloaded the Wikipedia code I realized to my horror that much of the stylesheet was closely tied to some php code.  Basically, it's nearly impossible to change the overall look of wikipedia without major hacks and ugly css.  I'd wait until someone goes through and rehashes the code. -- Sean Kelly 17:07, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Skin

message: December 6 anniveraries, search and replace "leadin to" with "leading to". --MarkSweep 02:02, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing it out, fixed now.gadfium 04:15, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo in "Selected anniversaries" 

message: Can we have a link in the News section of Main Page to Wikinews, 
Seabhcán 16:05, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiNews]

message: The summary should say "palladian" not "palladianism". The article itself is correct. 68.81.231.127 01:09, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article typo (Palladian architecture) 

message: The last sentence of the "Today's featured article" section (Palladian architecture) is incomplete: "To explain fully the term Palladian as used outside of Italy one must first understand true Palladian as designed by the master architect" Also, this sentence doesn't make any sense on its own; it seems to lead into another thought which isn't present. Would someone please delete this last sentence? I'd delete it myself, but the page is locked from editing. - Brian Kendig 12:44, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete sentence 

message: On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page there are the two 
language names 
        Norsk (Norwegian) 
        Nynorsk 
This is inaccurate and confusing. There are two official 
languages in Norway, in our languages called "Bokmål" and 
"Nynorsk". So the first one "Norsk (Norwegian)" is really 
"Bokmål". I guess that there was no "Nynorsk" articles when the 
first Norwegian entered articles, so he just called his Bokmål 
"Norwegian". This is somewhat correct, but inaccurate. Somewhat 
- but not quite - similar to using a language name "Canadian" 
for either English or French.
: This is wrong. On the main Norwegian wikipedia you can use both Bokmål and Nynorsk, as it plainly says on the Norwegian main page: "Målform – Bidragsytere kan skrive på alle norske målformer (bokmål, riksmål og nynorsk)." So the name is not inaccurate. However, it may be confusing that "Nynorsk" is not translated into English. DBrane 10:08, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Nynorsk should remain as it is because it is the old language as it was used back in the time that is used to write articles in :nn:. Maybe it is useful to change the way they are written on the Main page but it should remain Bokmål and Nynorsk in the statistical pages for an easier way to recognise both. Also, beause the reglementation was abandonned in 2002, both languages went farther apart that before and went almost back to their origin. 24.201.116.26 18:16, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwegian/Norsk/Bokmål/Nynorsk