Andrew Dalby on the warts and all of Wikipedia - Should be available on podcast
14/12/09 9am (UTC) UK only
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Peter Coombe
thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
The portal doesn't select from all featured articles, only those that
have been on the main page.
I do agree that the Featured Content portal is under-promoted though
(in fact portals generally are)
Yes, I don't
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
Yes, I don't really understand the decision taken on en not to show
portals on article pages. On fr, for example, if you read a chemistry
article, there's a Chemistry Portal banner at the bottom of the
page. It works quite well.
...there's such a
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
Yes, I don't really understand the decision taken on en not to show
portals on article pages. On fr, for example, if you read a chemistry
article, there's a Chemistry
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
On en, I can't think of any path I'm ever likely to take that would
lead me to one of the portals. Which really is a pity.
I would support more use of the more unknown featured content on the
main page, such as
I have a standing offer to assist the conversion of featured pictures to
featured media so that it highlights sounds as well as images. There
appears to be a moderate but surmountable obstacle with the monthly roster
template; Howcheng knows the details.
In order to facilitate the change with
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
deteriorating from brilliant prose into mediocre prose). If the community
approved a featured star display for caption boxes the problem would
Has this been proposed? It seems logical and inoffensive.
Steve
Proposed by Durova:
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Featured content stars for featured pictures
Inoffensive? To some, not to others.
~A
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:04, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
Probably (without looking at the discussion) the same objections as
for photographer credits or an more information link next to
pictures. Or, even, the objections people raise to having featured
articles marked with a star.
Carcharoth
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Amory Meltzer
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