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 minimal inconvenience to anyone else, I would withdraw my own featured pictures from the main page queue. Now that museum partnerships have developed to where institutions are providing material upon request that offer would need to be modified. But basically no other featured picture contributor would need to wait much longer for a turn on the main page. If the community supports this shift it would help the featured sounds program. Also, there is an ongoing problem with removal of featured pictures from articles. The only way to tell that an image is featured is by clicking in at the file hosting page. Many editors never check, which means that on a somewhat random basis featured pictures get taken out or replaced with lower quality material. (This is the media corrolary to featured articles deteriorating from brilliant prose into mediocre prose). If the community approved a featured star display for caption boxes the problem would decrease significantly, and casual readers would have the advantage of a cue to the site's best illustrations. Non-featured pictures are rarely worth a view at full resolution, but featured pictures reward a close examination. -Durova On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 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 featured portals, and featured topics. But the > current design is hard to get changed to include that sort of thing. > You either have to change the grid of four main areas, or introduce > rotation. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
