Template talk:Main Page banner

1,000,000 article!
Anything planned? --Banana04131 00:55, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll put something up. --  user:zanimum

Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,000,000 articles. Our millionth article is ????.

We just passed 1,000,000 articles a few minutes ago. It'd be kind of cool to have this up soon.--naryathegreat | (talk) 23:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I fell asleep at the switch. I'm waiting for a confirmation on 1M. --  user:zanimum

Wikified link
Perhaps this would look better if the first link used this code:. Since it's a wikified link, it wouldn't have yet another external link arrow after it.
 * Yes, I was thinking the same thing myself. We should use interwiki wherever possible, shouldn't we? Phoenix-forgotten 23:13, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * The complete URL is better because if someone is mirroring the site, it should still go to here. Pages which reference Wikipedia itself in normal articles should use full URLs (there is a rule somewhere about it?) - Stoph 00:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It all follows from Avoid self-references, though it is a bit convoluted in this case. --W(t) 00:39, 2005 Jun 26 (UTC)

This looks HUGE
Hi!

This banner is simply *huge* - in my resolution and font size, all I see is the banners on the first page! I think this is a big problem - only seeing banners. It's like a bad office where all you can see are POST-ITs all over the place. I use a big resolution (1152x852) but rather big fonts (Konqueror, 14pt Nimbus Sans). I believe others can have the same problem with smaller res&font size.

Do we *really* need this yellow stuff? The donate banner is on the top anyways!

Msoos 10:35, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Agreed. We can do better with a smaller banner... and slightly less new-message orange.  Perhaps even more colorful, if possible?  Some ideas below:

There are nine days left in the Wikimedia fundraiser. Find out more from the Board letter and the fundraiser reports. 

This should go away
We already have two banners on the top of every page to admire, which is one more than we need. We don't need this banner on the Mainpage too. &Euml;vilphoenix Burn! 03:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed; done. Dan100 (Talk) 09:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Interwiki link to vi:
Please add an interwiki link to the Vietnamese Wikipedia without transcluding it:

vi:Tiêu bản:Thông báo từ Trang Chính

Thanks.

– Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 09:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Shorter message
Thanks to our contributors for over one million English articles . Article #1,000,000: Jordanhill railway station

Discussion on Main Page banner
I saw that the Main Page banner announcing 1,000,000 articles had disappeared, and was trying to find any discussion of why it was removed and the reasoning behind the timing of its appearance and disappearance. Thanks. Carcharoth 13:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Raul654 took it down, because it was "more than 2 days now". Personally I think we should keep it up for a little bit longer, until the press mentions actual kick into full swing, as I presume they will by at least Wednesday. --  user:zanimum


 * This is begining to puzzle me, I am sure that 1 million articles was ages ago now... We are at over 1,100,000. Ian13/ talk 18:48, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Which is precisely why it's been changed to state 1000 featured articles, IE articles that are featured on the main page. Cowman109Talk 21:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

1,500,000
What is the subject of the 1,500,000th article? GameKeeper 09:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * There were four possibles, I'm being bold an awarding it to Kanab Ambersnail, as it has the most potential. --  Zanimum 18:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * There are a few questions on Talk: Kanab Ambersnail about other milestone Wikipedia articles. Any objections to adding a link to Category:Milestone Wikipedia articles to the tmeplate in order to head off those qustions? (I'd be bold & do it myself, but I'm a little shy about taking the risk of breaking a template everyone will see.) -- llywrch 20:22, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

New color scheme
The hex triplets used in this template do not match the saturation, darkness, etc. of those now used on the page. i propose we use the colors found on the Community Portal (listed at Colours) to produce the following:

The English language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,500,000 articles! Article #1,500,000: Kanab Ambersnail

Thoughts?--HereToHelp 19:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * that is very light colour background to me, to distinguish it I would prefer something darker. The original looks better IMHO GameKeeper 20:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * (I know, very late reply) I like it, it blend perfectly with the rest of the page. — Edokter • Talk  — 16:25, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Why was the vi inter-wiki link removed?
Can someone put the vi inter-wiki link back in? --- RockMFR 22:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Article
The article was removed as it took an entire line of the main page. The only reason this happened was because of that user's webbrowser width. The article is important. This sort of 'event' means randomly selected articles get an intense makeover. This leaves a great example of how an otherwise unnoticed subject can be covered in depth. The previous 1,000,000 article is still worth a look Jordanhill railway station. In addition this may be covered by some press, the more info that is given the fuller any article can be. Please restore this GameKeeper 00:44, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The reason was actually the presence of a  in the wikitext, meaning it occupies an entire line regardless of screen size etc. &mdash; Dan | talk 00:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * OK my mistake on that, is there a way to restore the article link on one line? GameKeeper 00:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * looks like someone has restored the 2 line version. You are making valid point Dan regarding 2 lines. Can anyone suggest a solution? Can the 2nd lines text be reduced in size or something? GameKeeper 00:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Milestone message
"The English language Wikipedia thanks its contributors..." seems a little meaningless. The encyclopedia itself is not thanking its contributors, nor is it capable of doing so. Is the community thanking itself for achieving the milestone? I think we should take this out and use something a little more concise in future milestone announcements ("The English-language Wikipedia has reached X million articles."). Any opinions? --Oldak Quill 07:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

10M overall
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the Hungarian language article on English artist Nicholas Hilliard (see article) was the 10 millionth article added to a Wikipedia project.

Anyone have any serious objections to this? Feel free to make changes. I plan to post this at 1 pm ET --  Zanimum (talk) 14:55, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Why not do it now?  Maxim (talk)  15:15, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I changed the external link to the Foundation wiki into an interwiki; aside from wondering about the wording, this looks fine. Nihiltres { t .l } 15:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Good news, and it's good to see the article's on such a great topic, but I don't think we should have it on the main page. I don't like these 'look how great we are!' messages, I think they look very unprofessional. The header that only logged in users can see would perhaps be a good location, but not the main page. This basically opens up the door to all sorts of notices on the main page. J Milburn (talk) 15:32, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure it's a good overall milestone, but it's not what we want on the English Wikipedia. Here at least we want quality, not quantity. How about a banner for so many WP:Featured articles? We're almost at 2,000. Reywas92 Talk


 * I disagree that that's the main message - it'll tell people there are other Wikipedias. I frequently do press requests from other countries that have a Wikipedia in their language that they've never heard of, because they just use the English one.


 * And I think putting this up would be a good Foundation-y thing for en:wp to do - show that we're not just the biggest kid in the playpen [*], that the other kids exist - David Gerard (talk) 15:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * [*] WMF has three bloody huge database servers. One does en:wp only, the other two do everything else - David Gerard (talk) 15:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, and we should definitely have one for 2000 FAs. A press release might be good on that subject, in fact - David Gerard (talk) 15:52, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Also ... it isn't 10 millionth article overall but 10 millionth wikipedia article overall, ie plenty of articles on the other projects ;-P --AlisonW (talk) 16:55, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I know, and I'm very pleased that other language Wikipedias are growing. I just don't want to glorify it when when Enwiki gets to 3 mil articles when many are low-quality stubs.   Reywas92 Talk  18:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, by 'other projects' I was thinking about all the articles on Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, etc. --AlisonW (talk) 18:46, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm surprised to see that this template is using the Verdana font rather than sans-serif, which is used everywhere else on Wikipedia. The font makes it look awkward in its current position. Gary King (talk) 21:07, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Colors
I have noticed that the color of the notice looks very much like the new messages notice.

Compare the following:

with...

The Wikimedia Foundation is celebrating the ten millionth Wikipedia article, written in Hungarian about the English artist Nicholas Hilliard. (Read the press release)

While they are different, the two long, thin boxes look similar for a fraction of a second. Maybe a different color scheme?  Soxred93 | talk bot 15:48, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's the color that makes them look similar; it's the format - as you said, they are both long, thin boxes. Only a color that stands out a lot on Wikipedia, like red or green, would vastly differentiate it - and I'm pretty sure that Wikipedia would rather not want to have a brightly colored box on the homepage. Gary King (talk) 19:44, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

How long will this be on the homepage?
I'm just curious as to typically how long these messages are on the homepage? I'm guessing somewhere between 1–7 days at the most? Gary King (talk) 19:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

2,500 featured articles!
I know this template hasn't been used for a while, but think this is a great achievement of ours that should be recognized! Here's what It could look like:

<div id="mpbanner" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; width:100%; background-color:#F2E6CE; padding:.2em 0; border:1px solid #BFB1A3; color:#000; margin-top:+.2em;">The English Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 2,500 Featured articles.

Thanks! Reywas92 <sup style="color:#45E03A;">Talk 12:36, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I tweaked the format a bit, make it more like the standard one. I think the background could do with a change, but that's what we usually use.  I approve of highlighting our FA milestone in this fashion. <b style="color:forestgreen;">Happy</b>‑<b style="color:darkorange;">melon</b> 13:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Great idea. I have asked for feedback at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:50, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed the capitalization (Featured Articles->Featured articles) per our usual practice. Maralia (talk) 15:46, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. I would invite comments on how long this should stay up. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:34, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See Talk:Main_Page. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Excellent! So what was #2500? Scartol  •  Tok  20:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Accordng to this edit and the FA log, 6 articles were passed at once, achieving 2,500: Nancy Drew, Arthur Henry Cobby, Bruce Castle, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Fort Ticonderoga, and Franklin Knight Lane. I hope we will get to 3,000 soon! I think this should stay up at least a few days (or as long as possible). People quickly complained when we had 2,500,000 articles, but it's quality, not quantity! Reywas92 <sup style="color:#45E03A;">Talk  22:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Taking a literal interpretation of that page, the 2,500th article was the penultimate one of Karanacs' batch, which would be Arthur Henry Cobby. It's a lovely article, well worth the title! <b style="color:forestgreen;">Happy</b>‑<b style="color:darkorange;">melon</b> 08:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

1,000,000,000
What do people think about recognising the billion total edits on all Wikimedia projects? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm very much in favor of it. I think it's a big shame this milestone hasn't been spouted feverishly by our communities. __meco (talk) 15:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * According to http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=287466429242 it was actually on the 16 April. It would be nice to know what the billionth edit was. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:09, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. -- can  dle &bull; wicke  18:49, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Editprotected request
Current code:

Rendered:

<span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary ! To mark the occasion, Wikipedia is showcasing content not normally featured on the main page.

Proposed code:

Rendered:

<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" class="plainlinks"> Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary! To mark the occasion, Wikipedia is showcasing content not normally featured on the main page.

Thanks! --MZMcBride (talk) 00:37, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I previewed it and the text changed from center to left alignment. Is that the correct behavior? Raul654 (talk) 00:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The actual text-align is already in the source of Main Page (specifically ). --MZMcBride (talk) 00:42, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

4,000,000 articles
Hi. Keeping with tradition, I think the banner should be used to mark the creation of 4,000,000 articles here at the English Wikipedia. --MZMcBride (talk) 15:06, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Done by Nikkimaria.
 * As you know, opinions expressed at Talk:Main Page have been mixed, but I'm not going to fight this. I've long since learned that it's futile.  —David Levy 15:35, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

5 Millionth Article
A number of editors have been working on a letter to the community and our leadership to encourage contributions from new members. We were initially going to link to the message from the changed logo, but realized that doing this would make the 5 millionth article message the main page. Here's a proposed banner which will serve to link to the message, and also keep to the tradition of creating banners for milestone articles. Note that this uses the code for the millionth article banner. <div style="width: 100%; background-color:#fff7cb; padding: .2em 0; border: 1px solid #ffad80; color: #000; margin-top:+.2em"><span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;">Thanks to our contributors for over five million English articles ! Article #5,000,000: Article Spirit of Eagle (talk) 23:17, 30 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Revised version (closer to the banner used to celebrate the 4,000,000th article, whose wording reflected extensive discussion):

<div style="text-align:center; width: 100%; background-color:#fff7cb; padding: .2em 0; border: 1px solid #ffad80; color: #000; margin-top:+.2em">The English-language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating more than five million articles! Learn how you can take part in the encyclopedia's continued improvement.


 * For users whose display configurations require two lines, each sentence occupies a different one.
 * The 5,000,000th article will be highlighted at Five million articles, so it needn't be linked from the banner. —David Levy 01:06, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That looks a lot cleaner, and I agree that linking to the five millionth article would be kind of redundant given the focus the 5 millionth message places on it. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:11, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Note the banner only accepts (formatted) text; no divs/borders etc. as the main page already takes care of that. 20:34, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * wording sandboxed on Template:Main Page banner/sandbox, and the rendered result can be seen at Main Page/sandbox. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Some styling (unstyled div, font etc.) is allowed, just don't use a box with background and borders.  21:59, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Sam Walton (talk) 13:00, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Six million articles
When will this be updated with a link to WP:Six million articles? 2001:569:BD7D:6E00:4C86:6868:1EF:FDD9 (talk) 01:32, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi 2001... this is being discussed at Wikipedia_talk:Six_million_articles. — xaosflux  Talk 01:44, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 29 February 2020
Can you please delete this template? It is currently blanked. Interstellarity (talk) 15:56, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Sometimes it is blanked. That's pretty normal. Izno (talk) 16:13, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 23 December 2021
This template, which creates a banner on the Main Page for special occasions like the 20th anniversary, ought to have some documentation. Could you please add the following?

Thanks, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 01:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ but I kept it all on 1 line, nervous about line breaks! — xaosflux  Talk 01:25, 23 December 2021 (UTC)