Talk:Main Page/Archive 11

message: Currently, the main page opens like this:
:Main Page
:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 
:Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia. We started in January 2001 and are currently working on  articles in the English version. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can edit any article right now.
I suggest a slight change to this:
:Main Page
:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 
:,  , 
:Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia. We started in January 2001 and are currently working on  articles in the English version. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can edit any article right now.
I think that it would make it more "professional looking" if the main page has the current date shown. 
-- Paul Rfc1394 03:01, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The day is already shown in the Anniversaries section. --mav 04:27, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

text: My suggestion Main Page/iTemp has plenty of todays... ilya 00:36, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion for appearance of main page

message: It's Tintin's 75th birthday. Please include on main page. Thanks - Hemanshu 04:40, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That's actually not the wikipedia software, it's just that the apache web server is running with its default error documents - what it should do is print a (better, branded) message, and then redirect (after maybe 5 seconds) to the main page, or (if we're being clever) the search page. -- Finlay McWalter 12:34, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tintin 

message: I really enjoy the Anniversaries section of the main page. Is there any reason we can't have it two lines long anymore? Kingturtle 06:05, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well we kinda gave up the second line to make room for a 'Featured articles' line... --mav 09:21, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

text: Actually I kinda miss the second line too. I'll go ahead and add it and see if it causes a fuss. --mav
Think that I already saved a couple lines by changing the divisor of the second half from 58 to 53%. --Jiang 09:33, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anniversaries 

message: Isn't working properly in Opera versions 7.20+ - the community box is all stretched! --Steinsky 23:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a known issue, and appears to be a serious bug in later (7.1+) versions of Opera's handling of R->L fonts (in this case, it's the arabic text).  It works fine in opera 6 and earlier versions of opera7 (but still broken in 7.23, which I think is the latest).  Apparently the later versions of 7.x have a number of significant rendering issues with lots of websites.  A look at the (gnarly, but legal) HTML source for the main page shows the problem really is an opera rendering bug.  While we do try to support every possible version of every browser, there are limits, and our not having R->L fonts in table cells is beyond ours.  I believe there are any number of bug reports filed at opera software. -- Finlay McWalter 00:01, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Main Page layout

message: maybe someone could create an article for Ann Miller so we can include her on the main page. Kingturtle 22:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: done --snoyes 23:18, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  ann miller died 

message: Change India to Constitution of India. - Hemanshu 07:44, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[India]] 

message: Can people please make more of an effort to keep the "Selected Articles" area neat? I often stumble on some very ugly looking layouts. When I have time, I make asjustments to help make the rows line up. But I don't have the extra time lately. Sincerely, Kingturtle 03:46, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected Articles 

message: I am rather pleased with Laocoon and his Sons. I nominate it for "New Articles." Adam 15:11, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. -- Viajero 17:01, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Vanity, vanity

message: I suggest putting a link to Wikipedia:Celebrating 200,000 on the main page, a place where people can congradulate each other and express the wikilove. Specially because I feel we'll soon be suffering a slashdotting. →Raul654 01:53, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
:That link is still acting as if the page isn't there, and it's annoying me. Maybe this edit will force it to be re-checked. - IMSoP 02:03, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion for Wikipedia:Celebrating 200,000

message: Marzipan... delicious, but the article is pretty small to be on the main page at 621 bytes. (Mmmm, 621 bites of marzipan, mmmm... *ahem* excuse me...) I don't know that we've ever made it formal policy, but I seem to remember some discussion a while back that 2,000 bytes or more is prefered as minimum size for a new article featured on the front page. What do others think? -- Infrogmation 18:25, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out, I've replaced it with the Hawkfish article which also has a pretty picture. - snoyes 18:37, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  New articles: Not too short 

message: Could someone, please, add the bulgarian Wikipedia to the language list. --Borislav 06:56, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure. As the list is in native languages, please tell us what "Bulgarian" is in Bulgarian. Cheers, Kosebamse 09:56, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Български is the Bulgarian word for Bulgarian. --webkid 13:49, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

text: Done. Cheers, Kosebamse 14:26, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia language list