Talk:Main Page/Archive 29

message: "U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reiterate calls for a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict."
"Two-state solution" redirects to "two state solution." This should be fixed. Mkilly 19:55, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arab-Israeli conflict 

message: Authorizing, in the Nixon calendar item.  Baylink 01:21, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: On American topics, American English should be used (see the guidelines on US vs. UK English). If you still want to edit, go ahead --Eddi 20:30, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry: I wasn't clear.  It was mispelt even for American english.  And it appeared to be locked, or I *would* have fixed it myself.  Baylink 21:18, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I should be sorry for not checking history. Stupid me. :) --Eddi 21:25, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/11/16/1319242.shtml?tid=95&tid=1
(somebody go fix Alexander Hamilton ;o) it was of course fixed before I even got there. dab 14:32, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia

message: After reading the earlier discussion about the domain wikipedia.info, I visited the domain in question, and got a "wiki does not exist" message. When I go to wikipedia.com, I'm "redirected" to wikipedia.org.  Why not with wikipedia.info? -- Adolph Wales 18:03, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia.info redirection? 

message: Perhaps we ought to protect any images used on the main page for the duration of that use? That way first-time visitors won't be surprised with goatse images (or worse). —No-One Jones (m) 19:47, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, for obvious reasons the images are way more vulnerable because of the way they are implemented in MediaWiki. An admin only front page is the weak answer, I think textwise we're dealing with vandalism very quickly, and thanks to the large amount of editors working on it we have a very dynamic front page which is good, keeps things interesting, people putting goatse images on main should get a perm ban. -- Solitude\talk 20:44, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
Because the amount of vandalism of the featured article write up has increased dramatically recently, I am strongly leaning towards protecting them from now on. →Raul654 21:00, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
So you all know the discussion of this particular vandal is at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 16, 2004.  --  user:zanimum
I had to turn off the 'In the News' template. I don't think that'll stop the vandalism, but it might get across the point that we're having problems to the people who can protect the pages. -Litefantastic 22:07, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image vandalism and protection 

message: Wikipedia seems to be very interesting! I'm on a research for a suitable writing script for my language. I want ot combine chinese and japanese scripts with a tutorial in english. At this stage I have no clue whether Wikipedia will help me in my project!
Any help out here?
deebee
:you can ask your question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. Also, it might help if you told us, which is your language -- are we talking about a fictional language? Also, feel free to actually read the articles, Chinese script, Japanese_language#Writing_system. dab 14:14, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any help out here? 

message: We just hit the 400,000-articles barrier, people! dab 15:57, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 4E5

message: better remove this immediately!
* I'll elabourate on that.  The image "Newiraqflag.gif" appears to be a gif animation.  After a few seconds of displaying Iraq's flag, the message "Governor Adolph Bush did it only for the oil!" appears.  (Also, the source of the image is not specified.)
Falsifian 21:37, 2004 Nov 20 (UTC)
Again, this is why we need to protect images that go on the main page! —Lowellian (talk) 22:33, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
* It appears that this image was never modified, so protection wouldn't have done anything.  The original version had the message.  Maybe the solution is just to be very wary of gifs.  (Are there any other common image formats that support animation?)  --Falsifian 23:06, 2004 Nov 20 (UTC)
** I have removed the message from the image and replaced it. Tom- 01:06, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iraq flag contains propaganda! 

message: Minor quibble, but in this line:
...that development on Star Wars Quake lasted for six years, and is probably the most famous Quake mod to never be completed?
"Star Wars Quake" and "Quake" should both be italicized. I know that Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting) only specifies books and movie names, but lately most Wiki pages italicize game names as well for largely the same reasons (the whole "longer work" deal and all). --Shadow Hog 16:36, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Fredrik | talk 16:43, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. --Shadow Hog 18:10, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quake "Did you know" 

message: Typo: "the Indus Civilization cvered ..." should be "covered".
Sorry about the blanking.  I thought I was just editing a new comment. :(
:I don't think that that was you. -- ABCD | Talk 02:02, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo on main page. 

message: I've re-done the Main Page using CSS instead of tables as much as I can (just one table with two cells remains). Please help test it in any browser you have, it should be almost identical to the current Main Page. Please list any problems on the test page's talk page. Thanks, Tom- 22:15, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. I hope that comment was at least a little bit ironic; some people really don't like being told to "upgrade or else", you know... In fact, somebody on the Help desk the other day was complaining that "Wikipedia crashes Netscape" - they haven't responded to my request for clarification yet, but they seemed to be implying it was just this one page that was triggering the problem; so I wondered if it was the relatively complex CSS that was causing this, but haven't got round to testing it. Do the dates check out with your recoding, or was it still mainly tables at the time that comment was left? - IMSoP 21:56, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, you're officially absolved of blame for this; I've just tested, and it's a whole lot weirder than one version working and another not... - IMSoP 22:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Meh. Now I'm just confused! First I thought your changes might actually be breaking the browser; then they seemed to be irrelevant, and I was getting weird differences between .../wiki/Main_Page (crashed) and .../w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page (didn't); now I can't get it to crash at all! I can only think that the weirdness was just a caching issue (this testing was all done after you'd made the change, but not long after). So, um, thanks; and sorry. Um... - IMSoP 22:44, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The non-CSS version (with lots of tables) was crashing NS4. The new almost-only-CSS version doesn't crash NS4. You were probably seeing the old version due to caching. Tom- 23:03, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Page - remake in CSS 

message: It says today that "1642 - Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania." I would like to disagree.  From a NPOV, it would seem like Abel Tasman was the first European (or white person, or whomever) to voyage to Tasmania, as there were an estimated 5000 indigenous peoples living there at the time of his voyage.  I would strongly recommend this be changed, I feel it's not NPOV and that it makes Wikipedia seem European-centric, which it should not be. User:Machinebuster
:perhap[s change it to "1642 - Abel Tasman was the first European voyager to map Tasmania." Or some such similar. The same should also be said of any explorer opening up regions which are already inhabited. --BrianWalker 07:18, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The Tazmania article seems to deal with it well, writing that Tasman was the first European voyager to sight Tasmania (I think this is more accurate than "map").--Nectarflowed 08:07, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discovery of Tasmania? 

message: Suggested in Wikipedia:Wikimedia for Nobel Peace Prize
--Mac 17:52, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimedia for the Nobel Peace Prize