Talk:Main Page/Archive 18

message: When I'm logged out, Joshua A. Norton is still the featured article. Why is this? - Woodrow 02:20, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the anon cache had not been purged when you did so. See the top of this page. --mav 04:58, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about logging in

message: I feel that Wikipedia is not a news report nor a Slashdot/CNN RDF feed.  The version of the main page with the reversed layout is here. silsor 07:43, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)
"In the news" on top
# →Raul654 06:49, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)
# Eloquence* 07:50, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC) (changed my mind after it was live for a while - having them next to anniversaries confuses my brain's timekeeping functionality)
# 172 07:57, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Poll: in the news or did you know

message: the german wikipedia has made an red box with a protest against software-patents in europe on there main page. i think this is a very importaint thing for our digital rights and free sofware. more information about this topic: . 
thanks for reading this --marti7D3
:Full ACK! This website and most software will be illegal in Europe if software patents see the light of day in the EU! -- 195.158.147.135 09:49, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  protest against software-patents 

message: Why does the front page of Wikipedia contain daily American-centric news? Nichalp 19:44, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
:Because its mostly the American editors who add events? (If it were truly American-centric, you might have seen events like the snowstorm in the Eastern United States, while Oregon had record high temperates over the weekend.) I see that you hail from Bombay, India; please add any significant events you know of from your corner of the world to the Current Events page. -- llywrch 21:28, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  American centric news 

message: I just noticed that under Mozilla 1.6 the top margin of the text (e.g. the gap between "Featured articles" and the box) is quite big.  While under Internet Explorer 6.0 the titles are much closer to the top of the box.  Yet the left and right hand margins appear to be normal for both browsers. -- Popsracer 11:18, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main page displaying differently under different browsers 

message: Can we try a way to see the list of topics higher up on the page? Rigth now there's way too much space dedicated to news and the featured article. Also who cares about anniversaries/ did you know/ ... they belong to the front page but underneath the topics list. If anything, make the searchbox more visible. 192.245.119.190
:A better idea would be to remove the index from the Main Page and add a link to Browse by topic in the sidebar. This would work real well with the new default skin being developed at http://test.wikipedia.org/. --mav 07:42, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, if I want information on a subject, I don't browse by topic -- I just search for it. However, News and Features change quite often, so when I open my browser I'm eager to see the difference. I wouldn't mind seeing "Browse by Topic" in the sidebar, since it seems more useful to have it always at hand, if you actually do use it. ~ FriedMilk 00:31, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much space for featured arts/news 

message: There is something in the link on the Main Page to the article on Titanium that locks up my Browser while retrieving JPG and GIF files.  K7jeb 03:19, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titanium Article 

message: In the languages block: Hugarian → Hungarian. Thanks. --grin ✎ 06:45, 2004 Apr 23 (UTC)
:Done, it's from Template:Wikipedialang, and is not protected.  fabiform | talk 07:50, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please fix "hugarian" 

message: The Main Page "In the news" summary of the Ryongchon disaster indicates that it was a collision while current news reports refute this.  In my view this is an indication of the folly of trying to include breaking/developing news stories in Wikipedia, and especially on the main page.  Jgm 20:17, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  "behind" the news 

message: Shouldn't the Turkish vote also be mentioned? It was 65% in favor of Annan plan. Ato
:Probably not here, in the very brief "headline" format this page uses. There's plenty of space for figures in the referendum article when the results are published and, in any case, the "story" (in journalistic terms) here is the rejection by the Greek side. –Hajor 20:19, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  cyprus referendum 

message: On the main page it current says:
Recent press coverage (notably in Newsweek and Salon.com, and about our Webby Award nominations) has Wikipedia's servers suffering a bit of a Slashdot effect. Wikipedia may be loading slowly until the buzz wears off--please accept our apologies, and enjoy your visit! Thanks.
Is this correct, I thought that any current slow down has more to to with the Squid server Browne being offline.  Looking at the stats  shows that Coronelli is serving twice as many requests as it normally does, but only because it is serving all the requests Browne would normally.  Based on the total number of requests there does not seem to have been recent sudden increase in usage.  Or is the message on the main page just way of putting a nice spin on the server problems. -- Popsracer 01:06, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the press coverage is the cause of the problem, so I removed it. Press releases should stay at Wikipedia:Press coverage and speculation about server issues at Wikipedia:Hardware status. Angela. 01:21, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)
Pops, I put that note up there. I just assumed that was why (assume, ASS, U, ME, I know), but there is a shameless spin component. I think it's bad jujubees for newbies to come b/c Newsweek sent 'em and have them find that the site is SLOOOOWWW. Also, it's a nice change to brag. :) jengod 01:24, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia is (probably) currently being slashdotted - they have a link on their front page stub to Model view controller at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/27/1429237. Wiki's all a bit unusably slow :( --Tagishsimon 20:42, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Nah, slashdot isn't big enough to take on WP anymore... even the 200,000 article ABOUT WP didn't really affect the servers. As others have said, hardware issues have been the problem. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 15:07, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The reason why Wikipedia is slow?

message: The main page seems to want to DL as a file, that can't be displayed. To see it at all I have to point at: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page 
instead of
http://www.wikipedia.org
Am I screwed up on my end or wikipedia's end? Dominick 13:10, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Works here. Fredrik 13:32, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  IE 6.0 problem?