Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 9

message: I would like to place the following item in the Things to do section of the Community Portal:
*Read a book on a topic you like and use what you learn to improve related articles.  
I think this is a good way to improve the accuracy and completeness of articles and should be encouraged.  It has the further benefit of making it easy to cite your reference sources.
Comments? -Opus33 17:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, because the point of that section is for links to specific tasks. Improving articles are an obvious thing to do (that nobdoy does!).--HereToHelp 17:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree with HereToHelp. Too obvious a suggestion. I guess it could potentially be added to Wikipedia:Requests for expansion though (which is linked from the "Here are some tasks you can do:" section, to the right of "Things to do"). -Quiddity 19:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed additional item

message: Just curious, is anyone interested in changing the main page's banner styles to be more like the ones here (e.g., cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" for "Today's featured article" etc.)? To me the style here is a little crisper and more attractive. Rfrisbietalk 19:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. (I don't have time to help right now though). I'd suggest Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability#Converting main page to CSS would possibly be the place to raise it? -Quiddity 20:24, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main & this page's banner styles 

message: My display doesn't show all of the text in the left column of Collaborations.  The "Edit" link crosses the line as well.  I've seen this sort of problem with some infoboxes too.  Is this a "bug" or something else? Rfrisbietalk 23:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What browser/OS/screen-res? (i'm guessing IE6, as that's the one browser i don't have on hand to test with... :( -Quiddity 17:44, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You guessed it! Windows IE6 @ 1024X768 :-) Rfrisbietalk 18:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Probably the same issue as at Help:Contents. Possibly related to it being a div floated with a table. Might all get fixed once someone (sigh) gets the layout into css. I keep procrastinating relearning tables just so i can fix these. Tables are evil! Not having IE6 to test crossbrowser bugs doesnt help matters. that's my excuse anyway.... </ramble> -Quiddity 02:44, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If what I did causes some other problem, just revert. I don't know enough about css to help with that. :-(  Rfrisbietalk 02:51, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaborations columns overlap 

message: Since the main page has a featured article/picture, couldn't something similar be displayed in the CP? Specifically I'd propose a Featured/Selected Portal/Wikiproject presented weekly to draw attention to wikipedians' good work maintaining a certain topic. Currently Wikipedia:Featured portals has 13 Portals. There are no featured wikiprojects being selected. Perhaps well working wikiprojects could be proposed to be displayed. They would be displayed for a week (7 days), since there aren't too many to choose from right now. How does this sound? feydey 21:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting.--HereToHelp 22:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New item?

message: Can we shorten the discussion page? Maybe clean it out occasionally. It could do with a good shortening.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bad Astronomer (talk • contribs) 
:This is nothing. See WP:ARCHIVE.--HereToHelp 11:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Length 

message: For ages the new portals, WikiProjects and Collaborations section keeps being renamed, moved, split up stuck back together and so on. I propose that we try to agree what it should be named and where it should go and say if you rename it or move it without community consent then it gets reverted and you get punished (maybe).
So please list suggestions for a permanent title and permanent layout under the subheadings below, then if my idea is a good idea and lots of ideas are submitted then it will go to a voting (I know - evil) thing where we can decide once and for all. Lcarsdata Talk | @ | Contribs 15:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We're working on that already ;) see the top thread on this page: CBB redesign. Currently stalled due to problems with the "Notices"'s edit link mis-floating. -Quiddity 16:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New pages seeking contributors (or was it New Projects, Collaborations and Portals) 

message: *New WikiProjects, Collaborations and Portals --Lcarsdata Talk | @ | Contribs 15:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Title Suggestions

message: Down the left hand side below the Signpost. See my sandbox for more, needs a bit doing to it. --Lcarsdata Talk | @ | Contribs 15:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We're working on that already ;) see the top thread on this page: CBB redesign. Currently stalled due to problems with the "Notices"'s edit link mis-floating. -Quiddity 16:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Layout Suggestions

message: I have seen that the current article improvement drive is mathematics ( Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive ) yet on the community portal it still says Gagauzia. Matwat22 19:26, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone can do it, just follow the directions at Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive/Maintenance, or nag the project manager/s. :) -Quiddity 20:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Change the Article Improvement Drive

message: The top of the project page looks terrible. I suggest, a) making the contents and date/time boxes the same width and placing them on the same side of the window, b) losing the bullet points in the text. Alan Pascoe 19:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed it does, at 800x600 (or large fonted browsers). Hmmm. Maybe the datebox could be moved into the CBB's header. I'm not sure it really needs to be here anyway, this page is cluttered enough as it is! --Quiddity 20:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also dislike the date code inserted in teh CBB. --Osbus 22:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i've removed it altogether. -Quiddity 22:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awful! 

message: I want to know where a page went once it was renamed. The history only shows it after it's new name. Typing the old name in search only shows that it is redirected.  KarenAnn 01:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can I get question answered not listed in any of numerous help pages? 

message: Could someone please help me? The Billy Talent talk page is constantly riddled with unapplicable comments and I'd like to blacklist these people. Is this possible?Correction officer06 19:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless comments 

message: could be possible create a new standard with kbibtex developer to make easer add a wikipedia article as reference into a thesis? 
For example add at the end of each wikipedia articles a little portion of code that kbibtex is able to read and with wich it can create a 
reference at wikipedia artcile web page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.46.248.128 (talk • contribs) .
:The place to ask questions about wikipedia is Wikipedia:Help desk. Thanks. -Quiddity 18:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In any case, AFAIK - we already include BibTeX citation format.  Here's an example for the Debian article. 66.81.17.66 19:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  a new standard 

message: I just noticed the right-hand column for Guidelines, Help, and Resources displays beyond the right border for me.  I use IE6.  I had the same type of problem with Collaborations until I put the image in a table.  Any suggestions? Rfrisbietalk 02:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the sistertemplate's table's center alignment; did that help/change it at all? -Quiddity 05:23, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No change, thanks for trying. Rfrisbietalk 06:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: After uncentering the headings in Template:Wikipediasister-list and Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 1, 2006, the display problem was fixed.  Unfortunately, changing every Tip of the day seems a bit "unelegant."" Rfrisbietalk 18:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any chance we can convince you to switch to firefox? microsoft, and specifically IE, are eeeevil... ;) --Quiddity 18:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mu-hahahahaha!!!! Some here would say that's my middle name! ;-) I asked the TOD folks if they would be willing to left-justify their heading.  Otherwise, I'll just live with being half-tipped. Rfrisbietalk 18:19, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's elegant evil, like the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, or mini-golf in hell. And then there's bad evil, like IE, or screaming-themselves-hoarse babies. IE is really, really, insidiously bad. Bad layout engine, incredibly bad security, bad respect for standards, bad respect for consumers. Unless you're locked in, because of a bad-evil company IT dept, then seriously, switch browsers . :) -Quiddity 18:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am working under a "no downloads" policy, but I'll take a look. :) Rfrisbietalk 19:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guidelines, Help, and Resources display problem 

message: I remember there was one, but I cannot find it. Was it moved? deleted? Renata 23:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: see above. essentially, there were no active maintainers, and users weren't archiving when they added, so we mothballed the archives. i guess it seemed non-essential make-work, and we'd be more productive writing articles than hand-archiving notices. And everything stays up there for at least 7 days, so the history is a little easier to search through than otherwise. -Quiddity 02:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine with me. I was just looking for something on CBB explaining what happened because I knew that there were archives somewhere... you know, sort of "we don't archive this thing anymore." :) Thanks for reply! Renata 03:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CBB archive?

message: I've just removed three sites that were totally unrelated to Virgin and obviously sponging off it. Could a few good Wikipedians volunteer some time to keep an occasional eye on it? Much appreciated. Richard Branson 05:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Richard Branson Page Constantly Spammed