Talk:Main Page/Archive 31

message: Hamid Karzai (pictured right) 
:No, he isn't pictured right ;)
Sam Spade Wants you to vote! 13:12, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the news 

message: Every page I open starts with an error message about a syntaxiserror. I have to click 'yes' to see anything. It doesn't happen on German and Dutch Wikis and it started a week ago. It's not a big pain but I just wanna let you know. Greets, B kimmel 14:44, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error message 

message: I just had access to wikipedia. If you wanted to learn all about wikipedia guide you through learning about chemistry from basic to the more advanced stuff?but i'm really stoned right now...Dessert island.
One problem is that Wikipedia doesn't know who the reader is and what the reader doesn't know. The articles can't all be written to people stranded on a desert island?actually, a topic they would like to see.   Could be so that one could easily toggle between the entry's incarnation that's mostly suited for those people who know so much about the topic that they can barely communicate with non-knowers, and something that is actually geared for someone who might just be stopping by.   Which does actually exist in developing the implementation of it a bit.  
One written towards those presumed to have incarnation of this kinda thing could be adopted just by convention, without the idea of taking it towards Wikibooks.   I think it's important to keep their experience at the forefront of our minds.
:::Anyhoo, just a thought.  Ozzyslovechild 17:13, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Methods to Learn topics 

message: can anyone help me understand the aristotelian model? - Transferred your question to the reference  desk. Ancheta Wis 05:03, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  help. aristotelian model of compassion vs. dalai lama's view 

message: has more than 100 articles - please add it to the list
:I was about to, but it looks like it has already been done.   --  TomPreuss 17:09, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  ml.wikipedia.org 

message: Sorry to yell, but last time I mentioned this here it was ignored and fell into the archive. On the ninth ("other languages") code line of the Main Page, </i> should be </li>. Kdau 06:49, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)
:Good spotting there. Thanks, it should be fixed now. You win a cookie. - Mark 13:00, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, I just ate some of those. Chocolate chip cookies rule. Along with Bruce Springsteen, they are one of the few unilaterally positive things to come from the United States. Of course, they had to borrow the word for them from us, but still... 82.92.119.11 21:17, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easy-to-fix CODE TYPO on Main Page 

message: Should say "Portuguese" Juppiter 04:05, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. (be bold!) 68.81.231.127 09:51, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portugese 

message: On the main page, as we speak, the word Defecation is being pipe-linked to Defecate. This seems unnecessary, as the Wikipedia article concerning this topic is found at Defecation (unpiped) anyway. I hope I'm not splitting hairs. Bobo192 08:01, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, little errors should be fixed (even mine ). I fixed it, but in the future, feel free to be be bold! 68.81.231.127 09:08, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defecation 

message: "To the previously unknown and recently-founded Baikalfinansgroup." If they registered it last week, maybe it's not so strange no body has heard of it. - Jerryseinfeld 21:27, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yukos 

message: Something strange is happening now.. When I want to upload a new image, it tells me, that there already is one, but isn't! I agree to save it, but the image page opens, but the image itself is empty. I have to reupload again, but it appears twice in history. It happened with my :Image:tartaric acids.png and :Image:L-tartaric acid.png. The latter wasn't actually reuploaded, so the oddity can be seen in action. --Mykhal 22:46, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologize. The warning message was not about that there already is such image, but about name change. And the upload now also seem so work properly. --Mykhal 23:54, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange upload behaviour 

message: This sentence is incorrect:  "The phrase "up to us" is vague admits of a variety of interpretations."  You can afford carelessness like this on the rest of the Wikipedia, but not on a page that is uneditable.  Proofread, people.
:Thanks, fixed.-gadfium (talk) 01:12, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad grammar on main page 

message: on my screen, the entire section of the Did you know... section appears in a smaller font than the rest of the main page. is this happening with anyone else? can this be fixed? Kingturtle 15:38, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  today's "Did you know..." 

message: I noticed that when using a content filter program (i.e. parental filter) that they warn that wikipedia pages do not have a content rating.  I suggest that all pages of wikipedia get a content rating (I think a snippet of code can accomplish this).  Specifically, the content should be rated as "educational"--jabelar 14:07, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)
:While this sounds like a good idea, this page is for discussion of the main page. You might repeat your suggestion at the village pump. Rdsmith4— Dan | Talk 21:49, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Content Rating

message: Wikipedia upgraded to 1.4b3 tonight.  Can we put this somewhere on the Main Page along with a change log?--Sean Kelly 03:54, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upgrade 

message: Is it just me, or is the Wikipedia logo looking out of focus this evening?  172.175.127.8 06:03, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Must be you (or at least it looks fine for me). -- Schneelocke (cheeks clone)  06:12, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  The logo is rendered twice, slightly horizontally offset causing an out-of-focus appearance for me too. (XP IE6/SP2) --218.50.191.197 06:16, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, exactly.  172.175.127.8 06:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: Known bug, being investigated. -- Cyrius|✎ 07:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fixed. It was an old work-around mucking up a new work-around! Tom- 15:24, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Logo

message: Can I suggest that the text 'Recently featured' be bolded, to distinguish it more noticeably from the text of the article above it? Dan100 15:24, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
*User:Raul654 is the "director" of the featured article template.  Perhaps you might want to bring it up with him. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 19:17, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Today's featured article

message: I posted a message about the logo being out of focus, now I don't even see anything in the history which shows that that discussion ever took place.  172.196.66.177 04:06, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the discussions that were here yesterday? 

message: I'm not too much into all these icons anyway, but that 'other languges' one, I don't know, it's particularly nondescript. A globe, fair enough. An arabic kaf, a french c-cedille, and a chinese, what, 'man' or something? how does that translate to 'languages'? if we really (really really) need an icon for 'languages', better make it  a talking head or something, along the lines of Ferdinand de Saussure's  dab (ᛏ) 20:21, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I designed it (or tried to, I'm not that artistic!), tried to get a feeling of lots of different languages in a multilingual way. Feel free to make a better design. Tom- 20:30, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: no offence, Tom. It boils down to a matter of taste, I suppose. dab (ᛏ) 20:36, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 'languages' icon

message: If someone can explain this please do
:Well, I will, but I confess I'm confused as to why this comes up on the Main Page talk page....
These are phrases that describe abnormal conditions of the lungs...probably used by a radiologist. "Lung fibrosis" means that the lung tissue itself has become thicker (more "fibrotic") than normal, probably to a degree that might interfere with oxygenation of the blood and might cause shortness of breath. When used by a radiologist, it simply means the lung tissue appears "whiter" on an x-ray than normal - though this finding can be simulated by an underexposed x-ray. "Atelectasis" is a collapse of the small airways of the lung. Each lung is anatomically divided into "segments", and so "subsegmental" means that the condition doesn't involve a whole segment. "Minimal" more or less speaks for itself. "Minimal subsegmental atelectasis" means that the radiologist has again seen, or is again describing, an area of whiteness in a small area of the lung that is not particularly severe. The interpretation of those radiological findings will be based on the clinical condition and other symptoms of the patient (and on the reason an x-ray was done in the first place). Atelectasis is sometimes found in pneumonias. - Nunh-huh 00:17, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  what does lung fibrosis or minimal subsegmental [[atelectasis]] mean?