Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Draft/Archive 1

message: I have generated a list of pages in the Wikipedia namespace, from the January 25th enwiki db dump.  The total number of pages is 102,574, so I have weeded out duplicate RFA, VFD, POTD, ... pages to a more manageable number.  I also sorted the list by # of hits, and have listed the 1,000 most popular pages:
* Sorted by popularity
* Sorted alphabetically
I have begun sorting through these pages, as well as those beyond the 1,000 most popular.  This will be useful to better organize the community portal, as well as Help:Contents. --Aude (talk | contribs) 16:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Index of Wikipedia namespace pages 

message: I suggest the community portal adopt the same design styles used in the main page draft.  The TOC can go right in the header and include key links, such as Wikipedia:About as well as links to sections below in the community portal page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Design style 

message: I like the archives added, though I'm thinking that the "About Wikipedia" section makes the community portal page too lengthy.  All this information is more appropriate in Wikipedia:About, and there could just be a link from here to there.  Or maybe just include the very most important and popular "about wikipedia" links here, and a "see also" link to Wikipedia:About --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Wikipedia 

message: Let's make a draft with all the contents of Community Portal plus Goings-on, stick it up on the Community Portal, and then start reworking the content in the draft.  You're conversion of the material to the main page design gives it a slick look, BTW.  --Go for it! 20:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First things first 

message: I just moved the feature status announcements beneath the main goings-on.  Perhaps, instead of each featured item going on the next line, as a bulleted list, we could list them all in the same row (with word wrap, when necessary).  For example:
* Articles that gained "featured" status:
** Prostitution in the People's Republic of China (December 15), De Lorean DMC-12 (December 15), Fred Phelps (December 15), White's tree frog (December 15), History of the Australian Capital Territory (December 15), Dietrich v The Queen (December 15), Douglas Adams (December 15), Blues (December 15), The West Wing (television) (December 15)
This might not be a perfect solution, but I don't think we should push all the collaboration and project info way down, that one needs to scroll to see it. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rows are good.  --Go for it! 20:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured status announcements 

message: I think you are faster than me at reformatting that kind of stuff.  --Go for it! 20:08, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that too.  Will look into it later.  --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The boxes starting with Writer Refs don't line up to the ones above 

message: I would like to suggest including in the How to help section the following:
* Pick a topic you enjoy and read a book about it.  Use what you learn to make improvements in articles covering your topic.
For what it's worth, my own experience is that when I do this, I learn all sorts of new things and make my most useful edits.  Moreover, for many topics, there's quite a bit more information available in books than on the Internet.  
I'd be curious to know if other people think this is a good idea (or not).  Opus33 18:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we encourage editors to read books? 

message: I don't like the colors...esp. the blue border. I like the Revision as of 21:23, 5 March 2006 onw, although the heading didn't match up w/ the CBB. Osbus 02:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nvm, compared to the current main page, this design looks much better, even w/ the blue border. It's cleaner and more organized...Osbus 17:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestion