Talk:Main Page/Archive 23

message: Why does this talk about the US?
When I hear "separation of powers" I think first of the French Republic, and secular republics in general, before I think of America.  The Main Page makes it sound like a purely American principle.   — Chameleon My page/My talk 21:41, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separation of powers 

message: There is a blank line at the top of the main page. Possibly there are 2 right now. Why doesn't this get fixed? Thue | talk 10:57, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Blank line at top of page

message: The current line on the front page is incorrect.  The Marines were established on November 10, 1775 -- they were re-established in 1798. --Alexwcovington 08:15, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Marine Corps Establishment

message: Immer höre ich nur Englisch, das ist ja total langweilig, kann hier jemand Deutsch? (ja ich weiß, ich gehöre in die deutsche Wikipedia, aber man kann auch in fremdsprachigen Wikipedias seinen Spaß haben!!!)--217.2.41.199 12:56, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Man kann hier seinen Spaß haben, als man auf Englisch sprecht, natürlich.   — Chameleon My page/My talk 16:42, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Seing as I don't know German:   Vaß? Ilyanep (Talk) 15:46, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Random German comment

message: Lion Beer is possibly the first brand of beer in Asia. Beer was first brewed in Mesopotamia, and after that in Anatolia, both of which are in Asia. ato 02:10, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: First Beer 

message: Is this the new way to resort to beggary? I thougt Bomis makes money with pornographic content - and not with begging?!
PS The red bordered design is real stylish - or better - more than ugly. Shame on you... I would prefer a minimum of 10 pop-under windows and a blinking bold red border:
To help support Wikipedia, please visit the fundraising page, or read about what we use the money for.
:15 Popup windows and at least 2 blinking borders -- Rainbow Colored Ilyanep (Talk) 23:58, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: How do you get the border to blink? Must be some inane Internet Explorer bug. :) - Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 19:53, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  BegPedia? Shame on you 

message: Lysine was complaining in IRC about tables which set the background color but not the font color (which resulted in one case with white on white, depending on browser prefrences), so I inserted several style="color:black;" and equivalent. - Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 19:50, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table color stuff 

message: Some people don't seem to know this so I'll post it here--if you want to edit a redirect, go to any page and click the edit this page button.  Then, for instance, look at the web address:  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Triangle&action=edit
Replace the title= with the redirect you want to change, say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Triangles&action=edit  and press Enter on your keyboard.  You'll be taken to the redirect's edit page.  This is a clever tip they don't teach you in school.--naryathegreat 22:06, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
Why would you want to do something as convolute as that? Simply type the name of the redirect. Then click on the "Redirected from" link under the title of the article you reach, and you go to the actual page that you can change through edit. Aris Katsaris 01:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing Redirects

message: All I see is a black box with no image in it.  When I click on where the image should be, it takes me to a large IKHTHUS image, which I assume is what we're supposed to be seeing.  Am I the only one having this problem?  RickK 19:55, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
:Knowing you're using IE, I went to have a look, and the problem indeed seems to be IE's bad PNG transparency support.  I'm going to try to fix the image so it doesn't use transparency.  — Chameleon My page/My talk 22:03, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It is now fixed.  However, the thumbnail on the front page still seems to be derived from the old image, despite my reloading.  What was wrong with the cross, anyway? — Chameleon My page/My talk 22:15, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  The image accompanying the Christianity article 

message: The Henson article on the front page .. "most important puppeteer in relevision history" - looks really bad for Wikipedia if we cant notice typos on our face to the world. Palnu 03:58, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You could have fixed it yourself. The main page is editable by any user who knows how. Read Wikipedia:Editing the main page. Guanaco 04:09, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, didnt know that one. Palnu 04:22, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  TYPO ON THE FRONT PAGE! 

message: "Browse by category" should replace "Browse Wikipedia by topic" on the main page. This would make it much easier to browse Wikipedia. Den fjättrade ankan 22:51, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Change the other articles to corresponding Catregories then, and add new Categories. That's what we have done on Swedish Wikipedia. Den fjättrade ankan 23:36, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: In other words, the 13 sub-categories in Category:main page need to bump up to over 70 sub-categories in alphabetical order, and probably there also needs to be a tree hierarchy as well? Then the 70-odd major articles need a systematic review to ensure that the sub-categories cover them? What else can we help out on? Ancheta Wis 00:32, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Browse by category 

message: Wikipedia costs money and it needs money. It receives hundreds of thousands of visitors daily and they need to be aware that while Wikipedia is free, maintaining and improving it is very expensive.
I suggest an unintrusive bolded donation button, perhaps using a slightly darker blue color as well. It is simple, elegant and fits right in with the design since it is the last button in the navigation panel. At the same time it does attract more attention initially. --Exigentsky
: Highlighting that link would be nice.  How about changing its color, as exigentsky suggested below?  +sj+ 21:09, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no bolded Donation button? 

message: Shouldn't this page really be at Main page, in accordance with the manual of style?  Right now, Main page is a redirect, while Main Page is the real article.  The capitalized 'p' doesn't make sense, especially in the context of the other articles on WP.  Also, this maybe the first comment on this talk page actually about this page (and not about a template)...  - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:42, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
:The Manual of Style is capitalised in the same way as this page, and I don't think that has to apply to non-articles anyway. It always surprised me the village pump wasn't like this too. Angela. 01:35, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)
::Hmm, Manual of Style is more like the title of a book, and so it makes sense that it's capitalized.  However, look at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Requests for comment, Wikipedia:Help desk, Wikipedia:Reference desk, Wikipedia:Featured articles, Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries and almost everything else.  I thought we would want to discourage over-capitalization.  However, I kind of get the feeling that the Main Page is coded down somewhere deep in mediawiki, so this probably can't be changed...- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 13:54, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)
:::See MediaWiki:mainpage. It is capitalized only due to the fact that it always has. --mav 22:20, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hmm... 

message: On the main page; wikipedia in other languages section, I get the series of squares for the languages Khmer and Cherokee. I use Opera 7.53 with encoding set to automatic. The same is visible in IE6 (SP1). It seems to me that there is no script for these languages. Hope this glitch can be rectified. ¶ nichalp | Talk 18:48, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)
:You need the correct fonts to view them properly. Install these fonts and it should work. (Khmer and Cherokee)  21:59, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Khmer and Cherokee 

message: Why was the featured article changed from "Gender role" to "typewriter"? I came soon after midnight (the start of July 31st) and it was the former, but then later in the day I visited again and it was different. I was just curious about why/when this can happen.
:It seems there's a neutrality dispute at gender role (see talk:gender role), and Krik thought it would be best to swap with an undisputed article (with text that isn't being reverted or changed radically). -- Hadal 06:10, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article change?