Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 1

message: All main pages, Main Page, Main Page/Test and Wikipedia:Main Page seem ugly to me. The reason is the use of tables which result in making the life difficult to users who have low screen resolution or doesn't like having maximised browser windows. Optim 02:33, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Man I've just had about 8 edit conflicts in a row chasing this article from the Village Pump, with Optim one step ahead all the way :) -- finally got my oar in though!  Anyway, regarding Optim's comments I think that in the long term Wikipedia needs to look good to a web-savvy public.  This may not be an issue yet but at some point we need to be an encyclopedia for the public who want Information but don't care about contributing.  Whereas most sites suffer from style over content, WP is currently a bit too far in the other direction.  I'm not suggesting anything particularly flash (sic) but if you're ruling out tables then really you might as well ask for a plain text site, which is really not going to help! --HappyDog 02:43, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: All main pages seem ugly to me

message: See Wikipedia:Plain vanilla main page. Optim 02:54, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Plain vanilla main page

message: This page has major overlapping problems with this combination. Most people use IE6!! ChrisG
:OK, I've done my best to fix this by adding some more white space.  It now looks good to me in Cologne Blue using IE6 - tell me if it's still bad for you.  Note to others, please don't take the extra blank lines and top-padding out; it's needed badly in the above combination.  :)  fabiform | talk 02:56, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you do upload a screenshot to show people who might know (better than me) how to fix it?  Cheers, fabiform | talk 21:29, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me except the headers are a bit on the big side. --Brion 10:38, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Major probs with this page and IE6 and Cologne Blue skin 

message: A button for "Community Main Page" should be placed between the "Main Page" button and the "Recent changes" button on the quickbar. Kingturtle 03:56, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, a button like "Community page" should be in the bar.  Also, "Current events" is not necessary since the Main Page is in fact 90% current events, and not much more than that.  I still do not like the fact that this community info is so hard to find, but that's another battle. Fuzheado 04:21, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

text: Agreed, button to this page would be useful. Also agree that the main page (not this main page) is starting to look more like a news magazine than an encyclopedia. mydogategodshat 04:24, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

text: Same with me (button and not-so-cool news magazine look), but see discussion two above. -- till we *) 09:01, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Let me say this more forcely....We need to have a button on the quickbar for the Community Page. Kingturtle 20:10, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  quickbar 

message: Since Zap's been moving things around, WP:Main Page has been moved to Community Page... I don't really mind the new name all that much, but we should be all going through consensus decisions first, so you can express views on a possible move to a new name here. Dysprosia 11:27, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Zap!|Zap]] moving pages 

message: Why is Featured article stuck on Bible codes? There appears to be a successor article in the queue. Selected anniversaries changes daily, why not Featured article? 169.207.89.21 11:14, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: try holding down ctrl and click refresh(F5) to refresh it. Perl 15:22, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured Article is static

message: Should we add a prominent link to Wikipedia:Community Portal and if so, where?
Sidebar, and keep all other links
Votes in favor:
# Kingturtle 06:57, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The sidebar is at a location more accessible than the top bar. Why not move current events, which is much less important, to the top if it is to be kept at all? --Jiang 02:37, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

text: Move "Random page" into the body of the new look Main Page, and allow space for both "Main Page" and "Community Portal" in the Quickbar.  We could make a little feature of it below "Did you know...". - Gaz 14:13, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visibility poll 

message: While developing for MetaWiki a set of use cases and a draft system architecture for a virtual atlas keyed to Wikipedia, I found a need to do some market research. I wanted to know how schools and health educators react to an open source educational document. The results of that survey I developed as an article for MetaWiki titled Wikipedia in Schools. Then I located this refurbished page and notice the FAQ section here. 
It seems this list of questions and answers for schools would be an appropriate FAQ to include on that list. I will likely rework the lead slightly (if nobody else does), but if no objections appear here in the next short while, I plan to move that MetaWiki article into Wikipedia with a link from the Community Portal page. Bird 16:53, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: School FAQ

message: Hi, 
I've come to the conclusion that the best way to get the CP link into the sidebar is to remove the sysop links from there - they're already duplicated at the bottom. I'll put them in a nice box and that's that. I'm sure some people will appreciate no longer accidentally clicking on "Protect this page", too.
By the way: There's a new skin system being tested at http://test.wikipedia.org that will give us a lot more flexibility with regard to design. There are already two new skins which you can test in the prefs (still very very much beta).
—Eloquence 03:40, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
:I tried them. Is feedback welcome yet, or would I just be bugging the developers with bugs they already know about? Montparnasse looks very snazzy. Paddington has layout problems right now. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:31, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The sysop sidebar functions already take up too much space (in 1024x768 resolution) using tabbed browsing in mozilla with default toolbars shown. Look at this screenshot:   Perl 02:19, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Portal link