Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Draft/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

Index of Wikipedia namespace pages

I have generated a list of pages in the Wikipedia namespace, from the January 25th enwiki db dump. The total number of pages is 102,574, so I have weeded out duplicate RFA, VFD, POTD, ... pages to a more manageable number. I also sorted the list by # of hits, and have listed the 1,000 most popular pages:

• Sorted by popularity
• Sorted alphabetically

I have begun sorting through these pages, as well as those beyond the 1,000 most popular. This will be useful to better organize the community portal, as well as Help:Contents. --Aude (talk | contribs) 16:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Design style

I suggest the community portal adopt the same design styles used in the main page draft. The TOC can go right in the header and include key links, such as Wikipedia:About as well as links to sections below in the community portal page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

About Wikipedia

I like the archives added, though I'm thinking that the "About Wikipedia" section makes the community portal page too lengthy. All this information is more appropriate in Wikipedia:About, and there could just be a link from here to there. Or maybe just include the very most important and popular "about wikipedia" links here, and a "see also" link to Wikipedia:About --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

First things first

Let's make a draft with all the contents of Community Portal plus Goings-on, stick it up on the Community Portal, and then start reworking the content in the draft. You're conversion of the material to the main page design gives it a slick look, BTW. --Go for it! 20:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Featured status announcements

I just moved the feature status announcements beneath the main goings-on. Perhaps, instead of each featured item going on the next line, as a bulleted list, we could list them all in the same row (with word wrap, when necessary). For example:

• Articles that gained "featured" status:
  • Prostitution in the People's Republic of China (December 15), De Lorean DMC-12 (December 15), Fred Phelps (December 15), White's tree frog (December 15), History of the Australian Capital Territory (December 15), Dietrich v The Queen (December 15), Douglas Adams (December 15), Blues (December 15), The West Wing (television) (December 15)

This might not be a perfect solution, but I don't think we should push all the collaboration and project info way down, that one needs to scroll to see it. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Rows are good. --Go for it! 20:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

The boxes starting with Writer Refs don't line up to the ones above

I think you are faster than me at reformatting that kind of stuff. --Go for it! 20:08, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that too. Will look into it later. --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Should we encourage editors to read books?

I would like to suggest including in the How to help section the following:

• Pick a topic you enjoy and read a book about it. Use what you learn to make improvements in articles covering your topic.

For what it's worth, my own experience is that when I do this, I learn all sorts of new things and make my most useful edits. Moreover, for many topics, there's quite a bit more information available in books than on the Internet.

I'd be curious to know if other people think this is a good idea (or not). Opus33 18:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

suggestion

I don't like the colors...esp. the blue border. I like the Revision as of 21:23, 5 March 2006 onw, although the heading didn't match up w/ the CBB. Osbus 02:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Nvm, compared to the current main page, this design looks much better, even w/ the blue border. It's cleaner and more organized...Osbus 17:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)