Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 2

message: Shouldn't the Community Portal page be protected just as much as the Main Page is? RickK 02:24, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Protecting this page

message: I noticed today that since there is the new Wikipedia software (or at least since today), I see squares instead of characters with carons (lie š,č..., e.g. in Slovak language). Could someone tell me, what the problem might be? Juro
:The new skin specifies the font more specifically, and thus your browser may not be able to find a font that contains the slavic characters. A temporary fix is to go to preferences and use the standard (old) skin. ✏ Sverdrup 11:33, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Wikipedia 

message: Hello. I'm in a class, and I've copied information on Ayn Rand to paper. Since we are all paranoid, my teacher INSISTS on giving credit to all the authors of the page. Knowing my teacher, she doesn't know of (or understand?) the GNU license. What should I do? What does Wikipedia say? Do I just have to say "I got it from Ayn Rand"? That seems to satisify myself... What do most people do in these situations? How can I teach my educators about Free Software, the GNU licenses, and that it's possible that some material is meant for education (in such my case)?
:The article has been edited by 61 users (Aravindet, Bedevere, BigFatBuddha, Blanchette, Brenton, Calieber, Cantus, Carbuncle, ChessPlayer, Chinju, Clutch, Daniel Quinlan, Delirium, DHN, Enkrates, Graft, GreedyCapitalist, Ihcoyc, Infrogmation, IZAK, JamesReyes, Jasper Chua, Jiang, JoXn, Lacrimosus, LarryGilbert, Liftarn, Loweeel, Lucidish, Martijn faassen, Maveric149, Merovingian, Michael Hardy, Mike Krakora, Millerc, Mirv, Mkweise, Mkweise, Neilc, Nikai, Octothorn, Oliver Pereira, Philwelch, Polynova, Radgeek, RickK, Ronabop, Ruhrjung, Sciabarra, Scottryan, Seth Ilys, Simonides, Someone else, SWAdair, Synaptic, Synthetik, Timo Honkasalo, Wik, Wiki109, Wile E. Heresiarch and Zoe), plus 51 anon IPs and 2 bots. The GFDL says you should list the 5 main authors, but I don't know how you would pick out the main 5. If the main authors are those who have made the most non-minor edits, then they might be Neilc, Octothorn, Wik, Sciabarra and Loweeel, but this is basically a guess. Angela. 16:45, Aug 27, 2004 (UTC)
::Could you possibly autogenerate that text? Ambush Commander 02:29, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyrights and so on..

message: Something appears to be broken on this page, as the various links headings suddenly are crammed into the Tip of the day box. --Michael Snow 21:32, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it's fixed, but all section headings are suddenly numbered, so I take it there must be some MediaWiki updates being worked on. --Michael Snow 21:34, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the color of the bottom two borders to the same grey the top four boxes use. As I was trying to do it, I was previewing, and someone messed up the thing before I could submit. So somehow, I resubmitted the mess - or something like that. I copied and pasted from the text editor I was using, and the thing fixed thank God. Is there any reason the bottom two boxes are black? --Wilz (Talk) 17:11, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page layout 

message: I'm not sure if this should belong here, but does anyone else think that the paragraphs in Wikipedia are a little too closely cramped together? I hope it's not presumptuous for a newbie to be questioning such a long-time tradition but I find that my eyes have trouble differentiating one paragraph from another, especially in long articles where there are many paragraphs to a section/sub-section. It would serve readers better if article paragraphs are spaced out just a bit more so that paragraphs are distinguishable through jungles of text. This is of course a technical issue which can only be solved across Wikipedia by the programmers - but a quick change of a single variable in the CSS should do it. Wilz (Talk) 16:51, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Wikipedia Spacing 

message: Maybe I'm blind, but every time I spot some vandalism I struggle to find the page(s) on Wikipedia describing what to do about it. I can't see it on the main page or on this page, which is to me the obivous place to look. If I'm right, could we have a link to the relevant pages from this page? Thanks. -- S
:Here's a tutor:---- Rainbird 05:53, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention vandalism on this page? 

message: Should the subCOTWs articles be listed there in the COTW section? IMO yes, either remove the quote from the main COTW text or downsize the text. Then, add the subCOTWs something like this:
*Aussie COTW: Article X
*Literature COTW: some book article
*Irish COTW: Irish topic article
*and so on
What do people think? JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 17:00, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sub cotws