Talk:Main Page/Archive 34

message: And still not reflected here.
[Catalan Vikipedia]
--82.151.209.209 14:00, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catalan Edition arrived 10.000 articles 5 months ago! 

message: Discussion has been moved to Talk:Military history of the Soviet Union. --Fangz 02:20, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''The Military History of the Soviet Union''' 

message: I often want to print Wikipedia's Main Page or many of its articles. Is there a printer friendly mode I could use to achieve this? --Exigentsky
: Actually, all the pages of Wikipedia are printer friendly. When you print, pretty much everything by way of formatting is taken away from the page. Try File > Print Preview to see the difference. If you have any suggestions on how to make this Print Friendly format even better, please suggest. -- user:zanimum
:Still there's a lot of external links to other projects which mess up the layout as they show the full link in printing. I suggest you just select the text you want before printing and print your selection. Mgm|(talk) 00:35, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
::In the Classic, Cologne Blue, and Nostalgia skins, there's a "Printable version" link.  I don't know why it isn't in Monobook (the default). —Korath (Talk) 00:57, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
:::Something about skinning issues: the way that this skin is set up makes it nigh impossible to add "Printer Friendly" functionality without majorly rearranging the page. I'd like to see this sort of feature added in the future though. Ambush Commander 19:03, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
::::Yep--you don't need to click "printer friendly" to get it.  Just click (hide) on the TOC and go into print preview.  that's printer friendly.4.27.233.172 00:11, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printer Friendly Version 

message: I think a good chunk of this page ought to be archived soon.  It's getting unwieldy.  Feel free to erase this message when (if) that gets done. :D Cigarette 22:10, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  MP Discussion Archive 

message: Make that Helicobacter pylori; the article has it correct.  Gene Nygaard 01:03, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, thanks for catching that. — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:19, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genus, species are ''italic'' 

message: The little summary of the political situation in Kyrgyzstan has a link to Kurmanbek Bakiev, this should be changed to Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Dralwik 02:29, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect in "In the News"

message: Looks like the outbreak of Ebola-like Marburg virus is heating up in Angola.  Might want to keep an eye on this one for the news as it appears to be spreading, and there's an incubation period which means an explosion of cases could be imminent.  The Marburg and filovirus articles could use some work, as could the (I think improperly named -- somebody check capitalization of "province") Uige Province article; I've done what I can. Neurophyre 04:42, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Marburg outbreak in Angola

message: I just found out about wikipedia, and bookmarked the main page.  The default URL name (if that's the correct term) was ~"Main Page - wikipedia - the free encyclopedia".   Because "Main Page" won't mean much to me when I'm looking for wikipedia, I changed the name (for me) to "Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia - main page"     I suggest changing the default name to that, or at least inserting 'Wikipedia' in front of the current name as per other pages.
:That's a good idea. I will suggest it to the Developers, who are responsible for creating the MediaWiki software on which this site is run. - Mark 06:09, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Page URL name 

message: The line on the front page, "the free-content encyclopedia that Italic anyone can edit", is dishonest. Yes, anyone can edit most pages. And chances are your edit will be reverted or otherwise removed within 10 minutes.
This makes no mention of policies with regard to the editing of articles. There should at least be a link if you guys are going to wander from article to article changing things you think aren't "objective" enough, which really ends up meaning a rewrite in the passive voice.
:"If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it." Wandering from article to article changing things is how Wikipedia works. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to change text on the front page. 

message: Glad to see that insanity won out in the end.  Brilliant article. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 07:28, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Toilet paper holders

message: OK, could the Wikipedia admins be a little quicker in handling vandalism.  The main page story about hostile takeover is amusing, but has remained unfixed for at least the past 2 hours when I came on to the site.  Please fix!!!
There's no point in writing "Wikimædia" it just looks stupid. "media" does not come from "maedia"
:no, no I can assure you, this is what happened. I am writing this note at gunpoint, they have just taken over my office, too. dab (ᛏ) 08:51, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please fix this, already!!! 

message: OK guys, we've got the idea. Now can the main page be back to normal? It's just not funny anymore, and not appropriate for an encyclopedia.
:Exactly. One featured article was all we needed. This isn't pranksterism, it's vandalism. Slac speak up! 09:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 1st 

message: Um...sorry to be a Latin pedant; but technically speaking Veneralia is plural — so we can't wish everybody "a safe and happy Veneralia." Could we remove the article? (The indefinite article a, I mean.) Doops 09:08, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but how will we phrase it? Maybe the number should be fixed on Veneralia itself, first. Still, Veneralia is a festival, it's not "festivals". dab (ᛏ) 09:36, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Veneralia 

message: The Vatican denies that the Pope is in a coma. See: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050401/ap_on_re_eu/pope
Please update the front page news on his health!
:I concur; at this moment the fact (or not) that the Pope is in a coma is mere conjecture. He suffered heart failure and received the last rites, and most Vatican officials are expressing the opinion that his time rapidly draws near. That is all that is known. Wally 09:44, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pope's "coma" 

message: NO! over here in the far west April is less than four hours old! that is THOUSANDS of people who will be deprived! the only reason I know about it is because im supposed to be writing a paper. Matholomew 3:22 am, 1 Apr 2005 (Alaska time)
:He has a point. It's not April 1st somewhere, at all times. We could at least keep ETPH, which is not a hoax, i.e. it doesn't try to fool people, it's simply a hilarious parody. dab (ᛏ) 12:32, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: No its not

message: Do you know what would be real funny? If the line at the top of the page said "...we are currently working on 514357 articles. Only  226004 to go!" Yeah. That would be funny. Doops 17:45, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  If you close your eyes you can picture it 

message: I noticed that the admins haven't completely fixed all of the tabs that ended up being renamed. When I go to my talk page, the "user page" tab still says "suspect profile." bob rulz 23:34, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
*Are you sure you aren't watching a cached version? Mgm|(talk) 13:51, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
*what really cracked me up was the "crush by elephant" instead of "block". thanks for a couple of good laughs, everybody. dab (ᛏ) 15:45, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still some bad tabs 

message: Today, on April 2, it is 200 years since a famous writer Hans Christian Andersen was born. Beside of Brothers Grimm, he was probably the greatest world fairy tale writer. I guess, it is such an important person and anniversary that it should be on the Main Page today. Miraceti 07:49, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I added him. He should probably be removed tomorrow, so that he won't resurface in 2006 (not that I'd mind). dab (ᛏ) 15:52, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hans Christian Andersen 

message: "Cardinal Richelieu was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman."
"Cardinal Richelieu" should be "The Cardinal de Richelieu". "de Richelieu" was his name, "Cardinal" was his title. Maybe the "the" can be skipped, the "de" shouldn't.
But there's worse: "Jules Cardinal Mazarin" should either be "the Cardinal Mazarin", or "Cardinal Mazarin", or even "Jules Mazarin" (but nobody calls a cardinal Jules :-) ). Other valid options are "Cardinal Jules Mazarin", "the Cardinal Jules Mazarin" - but *NOT* "Jules Cardinal Mazarin" : that's like "George President Bush".
--Hillel 18:34, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
*I don't think that you should use "the Cardinal Jules Mazarin". You generally don't use "the" infront of titles. You don't wirte "the President Bush". You either write "President Bush" or just " the president". Otherwise you are correct, "Jules Cardinal Mazarin" is pretty bad. Jeltz talk 19:42, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: * Unless it originated as an adjective, such as "the Reverend".  ;)  Cigarette 02:10, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 Errors on Main Page 

message: I think it would be a good idea to do something like google, and when one types an article in, but they make a typo, for instance "Eurotpean Union", wikipedia could correct them instead of saying it doesn't exist.
*That's why we've got the search button next to the go-button. :) Mgm|(talk) 12:39, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
**The user has a good point though, Mgm. Once the servers get ahead of the demand (if that ever happens), and we can reactivate deprecated functions, then I think it would be a good idea to look at doing this somehow. - Mark 12:45, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Correction on Articles

message: Ralph Steadman is certainly not best known for his illustrations of Hunter S Thompson. At least, not ouside the US- where most of us live - and where Hunter S Thompson (if he is known at all) is at best considered a rather marginal figure of an ephemeral literary genre. Steadman on the other hand is an extremely famous caricaturist and political satirist. Can we have a less USA centric view of things, please?
:Why are you telling us this here? -- Cyrius|✎ 21:54, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cyrius — .  The version of Template:Did you know before the current version had the item "...that Flying Dog Brewery employs the unusual artwork of Ralph Steadman on its labels, best known for his work as the illustrator of the works of Hunter S. Thompson?" BLANKFAZE | (что??) 22:03, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ralph Steadman and Hunter S Thompson 

message: The sentence "A F5 tornado hit Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233." should be "An F5 tornado...". I would also propose
making "F5" a link to Fujita scale. Spike 12:02, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 5 Selected Anniversaries 

message: Please redirect or delete
Viktor Moritz Goldschmidt
as this is the wrong spelling and there is already a page, Victor Goldschmidt, with more information and, most importantly, the correct spelling.
:I have merged it. dab (ᛏ) 16:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  PLEASE MOVE 

message: This is reproducable:
1) Invoke a Safari Browser running on OSX Jaguar.
2) go to http://www.wikipedia.org
3) click on English
4) you should now be at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
5) in the search box, type "abortion"
6) click on "go"
7) you will get a single page that says "don't kill your child...you baby killer!"
8) close the Safari Browser
9) Invoke an IE Browser runnin on OSX Jaguar
10) go to http://www.wikipedia.org
11) click on English
12) you should now be at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
13) in the search box, type "abortion"
14) click on "go"
15) You will get the originally intended wikipedia entry on abortion, including 
Contents [showhide]
1 Methods of abortion
2 Possible side effects
2.1 Postabortion psychological issues
2.2 Postabortion physical issues
3 Abortion law
4 Abortion as a political issue
5 Debate on abortion
5.1 Legislative effectiveness debates
6 Related topics
7 External links
7.1 Politically neutral links
7.2 Pro-choice links
7.3 Pro-life links
Can someone fix this?
:It is fixed. The article was vandalised saying "don't kill your child...you baby killer!" for 4 minutes, after which it was reverted by another user back to its previous state. You must have loaded the article in Safari during those 4 minutes, and by the time you'd loaded Internet Explorer, it was fixed. In Safari, try refreshing/reloading the page; it should appear as fixed now. One of the downsides of being editable by everyone means we have a hell of a lot of vandalism to fix. - Mark 07:12, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone has hacked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion on Safari browsers 

message: Things should be in past tense. Thanks. -- 18:50, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone with sysop powers fix up today's Selected Anniversaries, please ? 

message: How come clicking the link next to the above section shows me to the edit screen of a complete different section? Mgm|(talk) 22:15, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
:It's a bug in MediaWiki, see Bugzilla:966. Goplat 22:55, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&action=edit&section=73] 

message: 09680328563 2400:AC40:61C:67A:693E:1560:DBB3:78B6 (talk) 14:37, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
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