Portal talk:Current events/Inclusion

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 142.183.119.218 in topic Odd, sexist phrasing


5 may edit

{{editprotected}} Please add the 5th. -- Cat chi? 04:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

 N Already done, it seems. Sandstein 06:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Show wikinews only if there are headlines edit

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but sometimes wikinews doesn't publish any articles on a paticular day (This happens frequently at about midnight UTC when its a new day, but no one has published anything yet). Perhaps the wikinews template should onlt be shown if not empty. I propose changing the wikinews transclusion to be

 {{#ifeq:{{Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today}}| | |
 {{{!}} style="width:{{{width|100%}}}; margin-bottom:7px; border:2px solid #cedff2; padding:2px; background-color:#f5faff"
 {{!}}- bgcolor="#cedff2" 
 {{!}}align="left" style="font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold; padding:5px"{{!}}{{#time:F j, Y}} [[n:Main Page|Wikinews]] articles 
 {{!}}-
 {{!}}{{{pediapage|{{Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today}} }}}
 {{!}}}
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(With similiar changes for today-1 and related templates). Thoughts? Bawolff (talk) 03:08, 16 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

It is only a short period of time when this occurs, I don't see a compelling need to change it. Cirt (talk) 03:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)Reply
Yesterday it was empty for 4 hours, and the day before that it was empty for 6 hours. Its not that long a time, but its not insignificant either. Bawolff (talk) 13:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)Reply
Sometimes the other one, the one filled on Wikipedia, is empty as well, for a brief period of time. Cirt (talk) 13:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

The Wikinews stories seem to be off by a day, i.e. stories published on the 13th are showing up in a box for the 14th. the wub "?!" 00:21, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

We've been addressing this in a thread at the water cooler technical page at Wikinews, but I thought it had been fixed. Cirt (talk) 04:19, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Protected edit request on 14 October 2017 edit

Please copy from Portal:Current events/Inclusion/sandbox. The switch to new day-by-day templates has added extra white space between the boxes. The sandbox fixes this by losing the blank lines. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:52, 14 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Done by Mr. Stradivarius -- John of Reading (talk) 06:02, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Adapting to mobile view: replacing subbullet-points with arrows edit

Please take a look at the page on your mobile phone.

Subbullet points currently cause the text to move to the right so that it's barely readable on small screens, with only very little space for the text.

Example:

  • COVID-19 pandemic
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • Content

I propose to replace all subbullet points with arrows, if possible by Oct. 1, like so (or similar):

  • COVID-19 pandemic → COVID-19 pandemic in India
    • Content

or:

  • COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland
    • Content

--Prototyperspective (talk) 19:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

There is a problem with the above suggested solution. Further discussion here. --Prototyperspective (talk) 09:54, 7 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
I suggest that headings be used instead. KaraLG84 (talk) 17:30, 16 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Odd, sexist phrasing edit

"The first trial for rape during the war in Ukraine is set to begin in absentia against a 32-year-old Russian soldier accused of murdering a civilian and repeatedly raping his wife during the offensive in Kyiv. (Reuters)" Wouldn't this be better as "accused of murdering one civilian and repeatedly raping another"? The implication of the current version is that the wife is not a civilian, for one thing. IAmNitpicking (talk) 19:32, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wives aren't and can't be civilians? 142.183.119.218 (talk) 00:19, 28 June 2022 (UTC)Reply