Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 14

Things to do
Overall there is an issue of style with you. The original items where all posed as conversation questions but new items have not been. Either we need to ditch the old style or come up with a bunch of new questions and be vigilant in maintaining this style with future additions. I would prefer to ditch the question style, purely because that appears to be what happens naturally. Making all items pure statements would help to trim it as well. When I claim that a link is "bad" below, I mean it does not direct people to something to do. Not necessarily that the idea itself is bad.-- Birgitte SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Assess articles by quality or by importance - pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.)
 * For a long time "Assess articles" has been the first item on this list. However, the links do not go to instruction pages like the links on all these other "things to do", and it is not obvious to a beginner like me what I am supposed to do with these massive lists.  I have poked around to find the instruction pages, and I found them inadequate to help me begin to do this kind of work.  I moved this point lower in the list so that it will get less prominence.  Blue Rasberry  21:13, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion.
 * First link is bad although the process is active. However RFC's are already handled quite well in the bulletin board maybe they should drop from here. Second link is good and active. Third link is good and questionably active.-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Adopt a basic topic list to develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia.
 * This link is bad, although the process is active. Needs a better link-- Birgitte SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Give a requested editor review.
 * Link is good and backlogged.-- Birgitte SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
 * Link is OK, but it directs you on how to request pictures rather than how to find request to fulfill. Activity is questionable.-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
 * Both links are good and active.-- Birgitte SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article review.
 * Link is OK and backlogged. It is the right place but instructions for reviewers are hidden while instructions for listing/delisting are prominent.  It is impossible to simply direct this link to reviewing information with #.-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
 * First link is good but questionably active. Second is good and active.-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you good at doing youphoto editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab.
 * First link is informational. Second is bad is instructional, but has too much focus on placing the tag. Third is OK but a very jumbled and backlogged category.  Fourth link is good.  I would like to rework the stuff at the second link into the category page but that is a little beyond the scope here. -- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
 * First link is informational. Second is good and questionably active.-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a finished translation.
 * Link is good and active.-- Birgitte SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
 * Link is OK and active. I would change the link to this however.-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.
 * Link is bad and appears inactive. The link explains how to use the tool but not what articles need the tool.  Page and talk haven't been edited since June.  I think this item can be dropped entirely-- Birgitte  SB  21:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Fix-up projects
Good means there is something to fix up at the link. Categories can't be Bad or Inactive.-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Article Categorization
 * Backlogged category-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Bad category names
 * Category but instructions could be improved-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Bad links
 * Bad Empty-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Category needs checking
 * Category. Purpose and instructions are vague.-- Birgitte  SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Core topics needing cleanup
 * Good but likely out of date. Inactive from July.  I think this can be dropped.-- Birgitte  SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Dead-end pages
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Disambig pages with links
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Elements of Style
 * Good but inactive. However use of google means updating is not an issue-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * External links
 * Good and active. Intructions could be improved.-- Birgitte  SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * League of Copyeditors
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Linkrot
 * OK but really poor instructions. Questionable if project is active and data up to date.-- Birgitte  SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Notability
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Punctuation
 * Bad. Out-of Date. Inactive.  I would cut this one.-- Birgitte  SB  22:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Missing articles
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Most wanted articles
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Most wanted stubs
 * Good and active. However there are only 12 items and barring a new dump this will soon be empty-- Birgitte  SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Name disambiguation
 * Good and backlogged-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Stub sorting
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki log cleanup
 * Good but inactive. Most projects are using import now instead of this process.  I would drop this from here.-- Birgitte  SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Typos
 * Good and active-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Unreferenced articles
 * Good and backlogged-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Untagged images
 * Good and backlogged-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Articles written by a single editor
 * Good and questionably active-- Birgitte SB  15:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Great job, much thanks. I'll try to take a look at some of these, but you're welcome to do whatever you feel is best. I'm the only regular/active maintainer here I think, and would appreciate any help :) -- Quiddity (talk) 06:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for cleaning up the page, it looks much nicer. I have been busier than I expected lately.-- Birgitte  SB  18:19, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Main page
When I go to the main page all I get is "<meta nam" (ie without the final e). Is this a temporary glitch? Jackiespeel (talk) 23:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Main page, do you mean ? It works for me here, maybe there was a problem and it was fixed. Do you still get the same problem ? Nicolas1981 (talk) 16:29, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Misalignment
Does anyone know why under "Project pages seeking contributors", one item from "WikiProjects & Task Forces" always spill over into the column of "Portals & Collaborations"? I have tested things many time in preview but the spillover just won't budge or move. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Because it is using column templates. Our column templates play hell with other floating elements. I'm just going to revert to tables for now. -- Quiddity (talk) 01:04, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Pressing Contents nr. 4 does not work
When I press the Contents box nr. 4: Guidelines etc., this does not give a reaction. Pressing 3 does. Could someone with the right expertise please fix this? Thanx Dick Bos (talk) 22:03, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Contents' "4 Guidelines, help, and resources" link doesn't work
4 Guidelines, help, and resources link in Contents at top of page doesn't link correctly. Propose changing the id of intended section to "Guidelines" and changing the link accordingly. --Henin42 (talk) 23:18, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * --Unpopular Opinion (talk) 07:40, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Comunity announcements
Would it be wise for the community portal people to send us all a user page message about the most important stuff like 10 million articles, FlaggedRevs, and other WikiLegends? I cannot see the down fall in it. Who runs this portal? Is the stuff on the noticeboard usually good enough to send a message to the whole community? Main page redesign, Fundraising time etc...? ~ R . T . G  03:56, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The WP:Signpost newspaper will send a notification to your talkpage when it updates, if you want. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:59, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Very weird pop-up
When I type wikipedia.org into my url box it brings me to what it normally would but there is this pop-up covering part of the screen saying that the content is protected and it asks me to complete a survey but the link leads to a smiley down-load website. What is this about? Wait, now it has dissapered! Weirder and weirder.81.108.237.26 (talk) 17:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe you should type www.wikipedia.org or even http://www.wikipedia.org or http://wikipedia.org.

If your default search engine was changed by evil softwares, it could lead to smiley sites. tablo 03:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjinho213 (talk • contribs)
 * Adware. Try Trend-Micro's housecall, and then get an anti-virus program. avast! is a good free program. mynameinc 20:47, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Core Topics collaboration
The Core Topics collaboration, which is highlighted on this page, is now largely inactive. I'd like to remove the template from this page - does anyone object? I don't want to mess up the formatting, and the organizers of this page might like to think about the best layout for the collaborations section. Cheers, Walkerma (talk) 14:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm a brand new user so my opinion might not carry much weight, but I think you should take it out since it's been dead for 5-6 months. I was discouraged from contributing when I visited the COTF/COTM pages and found nothing to collaborate on. Is the concept dying out? Wetenschap (talk) 04:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Both mentions have now been removed. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for Collaborations section
I'd like to suggest a "Featured Collaboration of the Week" for the Collaborations section. I.e. each week one of the collaborations is chosen for featured presentation in the header section. It should probably be limited to collaborations that have recently been selected, rather than those that are months old. What do you think?&mdash;RJH (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If you're willing to do the work, anything is possible :) -- Quiddity (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Hotel Consultants
I would like start a discussion on Hotel Consultants, their scope of work, their competencies, their profiles and their use. as a hotelier i often find ambiguity in what a hotel consultant is expected to deliver. Does a 20 year experience in hospitality qualify one to be a consultant? I guess not. So what competencies does one need to develop to be adequately armed to bequalify as a consultant? Sanjaywork (talk) 06:41, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a forum. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

The party is also well known for its anti-Vietnamese sentiments and usage of derogatory name "youn" towards Vietnamese in party's newspaper Sralanh Khmer.
i don't khow where u get your information on our khmer language. but u need to corrected "youn" is our word that stand for vietnamese. instead of getting your information right you just insulted our language by saying one of our word is a derogatory name for vietnamese. our people never had a idenity crissis, that go the same for our language. our people has been speaking khmer for thousands of years, so who are you to label one of our words to be derogatory. Wikipedia please get your imformation right before you posted information that doesn't have any creditablity —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.35.92 (talk) 05:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not written by one person, or any overseeing authority, it is written by millions of ordinary people just like you. If you see a mistake, fix it yourself! You can edit any page (except the Main Page) by clicking 'edit this page' at the top. If you see errors, correct them. If you add facts, remember to provide sources, so the article complies with WP:NPOV and WP:V. Take the Tutorial to find out the basics of editing Wikipedia, including the Five pillars that govern how we run ourselves and of course How to edit a page. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 09:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

New naming convention for actors, directors, films and television series awards lists
I just wanted to mention that as consensus has been reached, Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films), any awards list from the categories mentioned above will be renamed: List of awards and nominations received by (Actor/Film).--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 18:21, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

New template
Hi, I created new template. You may want to modify this. This is about Tibet.

User tibet

--The Wandering Traveler (talk) 14:42, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

We need help
 Tagalog Wikipedia Campaign March 2009! Tagalog Wikipedia is campaigning for your participation in writing, editing, assessing and translating articles! The purpose of this campaign is to expand and improve articles at Tagalog Wikipedia. Your participation will be highly appreciated by the community.

There are over 21,000 articles to view, read, review, edit, and expand, so please visit the Wikipedia Café and the WikiProject Philippines at Tagalog Wikipedia to help out!

The campaign includes seeking your assistance in:
 * Providing requested pages
 * Providing requested articles
 * Providing articles required for all language Wikipedias
 * Starting or improving pages that need translation

Or just anything you can do to help us just like what you are doing there at the English Wikipedia.

Thank you in advance and regards, Tagalog Wikipedia Community --The Wandering Traveler (talk) 15:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Why is there not an article about the cult horror film "The Boogens"
Why on Earth has not an article been posted here about this horror cult classic? The Boogens --By PunkMaister 6:07 PM —Preceding unsigned comment added by PunkMaister (talk • contribs) 23:08, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is free for anyone to edit, so you can go ahead and create your article by clicking this link: The Boogens - but please remember to check out our tutorial first, and familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines, especially those relating to movies like this. In fact, I suggest you hold your horses before creating the article, and just browse around Wikipedia for a few days, noting how it works and checking out articles for other, similar movies. That way, you can create a professional looking article quickly. If you don't write the article according to our guidelines, there's a risk it may be deleted, so don't just charge in. Thanks. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Error
Why is it Wikipedia sites displaying error most of the time? Do you experience the same? •LeMaR• 我爱土木工程!  05:18, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Ralph Bakshi/archive7
Ralph Bakshi is easily one of the best articles on Wikipedia, and it still hasn't been listed as a FA. Could you please review the FAC and, if possible, make any improvements that need to be made? (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 19:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC))

New Portal:Lyon
We are creating a new portal and it's our first experience in the domain. You are welcome to help us (portal:Lyon) Lulu97417 (talk) 17:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

What does "ADD a 1 WEEK hence PULLDATE" mean?
What does "ADD a 1 WEEK hence PULLDATE" mean?--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 00:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It means that when you add a new entry (or 'hook') to the Community Bulletin Board, you must include a pulldate (a date when the hook is to be removed (or 'pulled') from the CBB) that is one week from the date when you added the hook. For example, our current top entry:
 * The results of the licensing update vote are publicly available.
 * is coded as . The pulldate is put in   so it only shows when editing the page, and is the date one week after the entry was added (so this was added on May 21, and will be removed on May 28). —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:07, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Portal with Rounded Corner
Hello, I just make a little try on the Portal:Lyon. I change all the design, to make it possible to see rounded corner in different sections. But only, people using Firefox can see them. So take a look and write me a message if you like this design. Binnette (talk) 13:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Human spaceflight
Just a quick message to announce the arrival of Portal:Human spaceflight! :-) Colds7ream (talk) 17:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

I want to edit something on the Community Portal page
How do I find the editing area for "There is currently A discussion on amending WP:POLITICIAN to take into account unelected, hereditary members of the House of Lords. Wider participation in the discussion is welcomed." I want to change it read "a discussion here" (with a lower-case a) and add the word "here," so people will know enough to click there (which I did not). Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 07:09, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That can be edited at the community bulletin board (WP:CBB), though someone else has already fixed the caps problem. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I need advice/explanation
I wan to announce a new project via the Community Bulletin Board and I am not sure how to do it. I am not sure how I have to format the announcement, or where/how to post it. I would appreciate help. The announcement:

For some people, ArbCom's unilateral creation of a Policy Council, was divisive; for others, the recent RfC regarding the Council was divisive. I think the good news is it gave many people a venue to express their belief that Wikipedia needs reform.

In an attempt to create something positive out of a conflitual situation, I have created this new project page, WP:Areas for Reform as a space for members of the community to identify and analyze important areas in need of reform.

The immediate objective is to identify specific problems, and then make possible the broadest, open discussion by the community.

My ultimate hope is that after adequate discussion here, editors will be ready to propose new policies or revisions of existing policies.

I have identifies a number of areas that may need reform, based on both the discussions of the Policy Council and the discussions surrounding the RfC. Since my list cannot be exhaustive, I have made it possible for other editors to add other areas for reform, using the same templace as we are using for the rest. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 21:46, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. I've been avoiding that particular maelstrom. After a quick glance, my first question would be: How does your page relate to the other 6 "alternative forums for discussing community issues" listed in the intro at Advisory Council on Project Development? (Will those pages all want announcements & links to their discussion pages at the CBB too?)
 * As for how to do it, see Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board. Instructions in the wikicode. -- Quiddity (talk) 07:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Answer to your question: my page is an already begun collaborative project open to all editors to identify and discuss specific areas that need reform. Of the six links to which you refer, three are personal essays, one is a link to an old and now defunct project that is kept for historical purposes only, one is a link to an active forum on a separate issue (what should Jimbo's role be/should he be replaced) which is a valid topic but different from mine, and the final one is an alternate proposal to the Policy Council. Mine is comparable to the one on governance, but mine covers a different set of issues. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 10:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Complaint against Wikipedia France administration
I need to know what is the procedure to complain against the admins of Wikipedia France. It has become obvious for me that the administrators have formed a kind of "cast" that rejects any criticism from the normal contributors and use their admin position as contributors. I want to know if I can talk to some higher lever administrator about this huge problem for Wikipedia. For example I was banished for 1 week with no explanation and for 1 more week when I tried to ask explanations in my own page of discussion, though this is the normal procedure. Also it is common now to see a contributor make several reverts then call a "friend" admin to help him get the final word, if you contest it, you are fired for any pretext, that happened to me today and I can easily prove every single word in this post. Who can help me ? my page on Wikipedia Fr: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Drac LoDrac (talk) 21:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Internet Post

 * Help please. As the article originator, I entered the date of birth for Harry Dennis.  He has decided that he does not want the DOB listed/displayed.  Now that it is searchable on the internet, it has the date of birth displayed.  How can this be changed?  I changed the way its displayed on the wiki page, and I deleted it completely from the bottom of the article.  I do not have access to pages displayed following an internet search (or at least I don't know how).  How can the DOB be eliminated from showing up on an internet search?  I tried bypassing the cache (refresing only from the server), but to no avail.  Help.  Thanks.  20:40--DA01 01:37, 6 August 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DA01 (talk • contribs)

Problems in Italy
Greetings to all. There is a real problem of democracy in the italian wikipedia (All here has the same problem). Do you know where I can write to have an help? --F.noceti (talk) 07:34, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Taco(musician)
Taco was born as Taco Ockerse, on July 21, 1955, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Taco was born to a Dutch couple. Indonesia was once a Dutch colony. He gained his fame when he released the cover of the record of Irving Berlin’s Puttin’ On the Ritz, in German, in 1982. The record made him famous the next year, in 1983. The record hit the U. S. Billboard chart at number 4. It was stated that Taco did not speak any English in the song, her read the lyrics from transliterations. Taco’s first language is English and although he has nearly always performed in English, he can also speak German, having recorded some songs for German Eurovision in 1981. He also is fluent in Dutch and French. Two of the songs he recorded in German were, Traume brauchen Zeit, Blauer Vogel, and others.

Taco fronted a Berlin based band called Taco’s Bizz before he recorded his big hit, Puttin’ On the Ritz. The band performed oldies from the depression era, only in a more contemporary style. After that the record companies were after him to sign with their label. The bidding war was on. RCA Records funded the entire album’s expenses of the song, Puttin’ On the Ritz. The album and the single both were big hits in Europe and America. There were over 500 thousand copies of the debut album sold. The debut album was called, After Eight. RCA released another of Taco’s albums in 1984 and it was called, Let’s Face the Music. The album failed to get the success of the first album. Taco left the American music market after that. This didn’t stop Taco, he just focused mainly on the German market. He released the albums called, Swing Classics and In the Mood of Glenn Miller, in 1985. In 1986, he released the album, Tell Me That You Like It. In 1987, he released his self titled album, Taco. He released two singles in 1989 and they were called, Love Touch, and Got To Be Your Lover. The singles were in the style of disco music. Taco has never been able to succeed in any country after his gold release of, After Eight. After the two singles he decided to change his style to a swing, soul style. He has collaborated with Geff Harrison who was from, Kin Ping Meh fame.

Taco presently lives in Germany and occasionally performs in Berlin. He also still records and appears in theater, usually in the musical genre. Taco has been mentioned on the tv show, The Simpsons, and in an episode of, The Venture Bros. Although Taco has only had the one hit album, he has definitely left his mark in the music industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liberpool84 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Yu Ge
She is a Chinese attress who won the highest film reward in China. Chen's main works are "Hero", "Kill Bill", and "Die Hard". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.32.141 (talk) 05:14, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Possible page streamline?
Following some discussion at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details, it seems that some editors feel that the Watchlist notices are being abused for things that really should be advertised either here or at the Village Pump. I brought up the concern (with which a few people agree) that as the Community Portal (in particular) is currently laid out, it's difficult to find debates which are "hot topics" or which have wide-ranging ramifications for the community. As an example, one watchlist notice invites users to comment on alternatives to the current Main Page design; but I can't find a notice of the discussion on the front page of the Community Portal. (Perhaps I'm just missing it - which reinforces my point that such information is difficult to find.)

When it was the last time the Portal went through a major re-design? Does anyone else (other than the few of us who commented on the talk page above) feel that the page is cluttered and hard to find things in? -- MatthewDBA (talk) 18:44, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Specifically, do you mean overhauling the whole thing, or just the Bulletin Board (WP:CBB)? I'm the main maintainer of the bulletin board currently, and it grows and shrinks a tremendous amount from month to month, so keep that in mind :) As long as it works at all screen sizes, anything is possible.
 * The whole portal was last overhauled in early 2006 (2 months after the WP:CBB was invented. the community portal wasn't used for "announcement" type things before that). See Community Portal/Redesign for details, including a handy list of previous iterations. Feel free to have a stab at cleanup at Community Portal/Draft or in your sandbox.
 * There were also some merge suggestions at Template talk:WP nav pages (header bar), if we were to overhaul the whole thing. -- Quiddity (talk) 22:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This discussion obviously is related to the one directly below. Even though the proposal itself is unlikely to go anywhere, the table at User talk:RichardF/Main Page/Community could be useful background for any streamlining discussions here. RichardF (talk) 15:52, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Header redesign
I've redesigned the Community portal header on the draft page. Could this be considered to replace the current one? P retzels Talk! 19:44, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe without the giant cartoon icon. Perhaps something like this? That would keep the standard appearance of the TableofContents box, that users are most easily able to recognize.
 * Not sure though, would want to hear feedback from more people first. Removing the individual VPump links might frustrate many people who are accustomed to finding them at the top of this page. -- Quiddity (talk) 22:43, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Could we try it out on the portal? That would be the best way to get feedback. P retzels Talk! 00:32, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure. This page tends to be pretty quiet until there are complaints ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 05:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * OK! I made a few more tweaks and put it up. To anyone who's unsure about it, compare it to the old one :) P retzels Talk! 18:26, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought we had agreed there would be no giant cartoon icon?
 * I replacing it with the design that I understood you were going to implement. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Appearance-wise this new header is an improvement, but I think that over-all it is not an improvement because the buttons "Read help and docs", "Ask a question", etc. are too cryptic. Things were better-explained before, and I think the additional explanation is necessary. For example, "Ask a question" isn't for any kind of question: it points to the Reference desk, which is for questions about the outside world, not about Wikipedia itself. This needs to be stated or we send people to the wrong place half the time. It was stated before. I would like to keep your improved visual format but make the buttons more informative. Renaming some or all of them might help a little. Also, could we stand to have maybe four to six words of explanatory text on the buttons in a smaller font? -- Ong saluri (talk) 19:09, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Idea: New editors' portal
When I was a brand-new wikipedia editor, I wanted to help out wikipedia, but the places I could begin weren't easily apparent. I clicked "community portal" in the sidebar because it seemed to be a reasonable place to get information on that sort of thing. The problem was then (and is now), though, that the community portal is poorly designed for new users and includes all sorts of arcane processes that new editors probably are uninterested in and could not help too much by their participation, at least at first. Would it make sense to create something like New editors' portal (linked very prominently from the the front of this page) to have little boxes giving ideas about how to help, maybe a rotating box of editing tips, and other lists of simple ways to get started (find a wikiproject's todo list, look through cleanup categories, how about starting with some basic wikification, etc.). Has this ever existed elsewhere? Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You have a point. There is a new users page here but it's dated and not geared particularly towards new editors. It includes a rotating tip box, like you mentioned. I think it would be a good idea to merge the Community Bulletin Board (which is basically requests for help) and Help out, with more explanation of each type of task. What would you say to that? I think it would be over-complicating things to create and maintain a whole new portal. P retzels Talk! 22:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The Welcoming committee page certainly should be geared towards new editors... I'd suggest updating that page to be what you want it to be (and I agree that it needs updating). -- Quiddity (talk) 19:13, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Recent GA articles
Would it be possible for the Notices section to prominently display recent GA promotions? I think that would be a way to promote the process, reward those who worked hard on the articles and encourage more timely reviews. Thank you.&mdash;RJH (talk) 21:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This information is in the Wikipedia Signpost, that's almost at the top of the Community Portal. P retzels Talk! 21:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Mmm... I couldn't find it, and I rarely look under there anyway. It'd be nice to have it more prominently displayed on this page.&mdash;RJH (talk) 21:28, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Please please include links when asking about something or explaining something! It helps everyone, including those who do and don't know what you're talking about. It is why shortcuts exist, and it lets you verify your statements, and point out useful context.


 * Pretzel: new WP:GA are not mentioned in the signpost, only WP:FA are.


 * RJHall: I'm looking at Good_articles/Log, and there are between 25-40 new GA every 3 days. That's a lot of lines to fit into this already near-overwhelming page. Ahh, now I see the template Good articles/recent has hidden-comment instructions that restricts it to 15 items, and provides it in a handy linear format.
 * Now, the problem here, is if we add the new GA list, we're also going to need to add the new FA list, and it looks like this: Template:Announcements/New featured content.
 * We could maybe squeeze them both into (or following) the "collaborations" section; however, I'd object to putting either/or both of them in the WP:CBB's ("Community bulletin board") #notices section, as it would push the "help out" and "collaborations" sections down too far. (and make the page significantly larger)
 * Those are my first thoughts, anyway. -- Quiddity (talk) 02:37, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'm surprised it's that high a rate considering how many haven't been reviewed in over a month. In that case I think it would be nifty to have a clickable ticker-tape style display for recent FA and GA pages. But that may be more trouble than its worth.&mdash;RJH (talk) 21:08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Under "Things to do", there is an entry, "Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment." Would it be reasonable to insert, "Review a good article nomination"?&mdash;RJH (talk) 21:22, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure. Or expand the GA mention that is already there to include that and other aspects. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I have to say, this is a brilliant idea. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Which part? There are 3 separate proposals above. -- Quiddity (talk) 01:04, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I mean the general idea. Still need to digest the 3 proposals. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:43, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Dumbing down
Could this be moved to the end of the relevant list - to avoid "misreading linkage to next entry"? (Such accidentals, however, might be "a good thing" for WP April 1). Jackiespeel (talk) 17:01, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The entry is at Community Portal/Opentask/Original research. You could edit it yourself, or just wait for the list to be refreshed. Personally, I think the comma separating the entries is sufficient. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I know it is a quirk of the WP system combined with "creative misreading" (and if "WP Bad Jokes etc" still operated this would be a viable candidate.) (g). Jackiespeel (talk) 22:34, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Adding a link to Wikipedia merchandise
I think there should be an own box introducing Wikipedia merchandise on this page, since it otherwise is very hard to find to. Preferably I'd have it below Donate to Wikipedia at the menu at left - after all, all proceeds from Wikipedia stuff that we sell go to the project, and could generate at least as much as donations - but having it here would perhaps be sufficient. Mikael Häggström (talk) 18:02, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, it could fit in the collaborations section of this article, in the form of helping to give suggestions of designs of clothes or other ideas for merchandise. Mikael Häggström (talk) 19:38, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Anyhow, it's done now. Thanks Quiddity! Mikael Häggström (talk) 19:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Link to the introduction instead of the community portal in the sidebar
Please see and comment here on this proposal. Thanks, Cenarium (talk) 23:04, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Picture upload
Hi,

A guest here.

Can someone with the appropriate authorizations please receive from me by mail a serie of photographs I've created and upload them globally & freely, so one can use them within some relevant articles on several language-wikis?

It should be noted that I'm an active editor on some 4 language editions.

Thanks in advance

/O 02:21, 13 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.0.113.254 (talk)
 * For global access, you should upload to Commons, our Free media repository. You should be able to do that yourself, if you already have an account at any other language projects. Ask them for help if you have any problems. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:21, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Motto of the Day
Please could could you have a look at WT:MOTD? Simply south (talk) 14:02, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

HELP Please
I am attempting to create a new account in Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu (ms). It seems like all IPs from my school have been blocked. What happened to Wikipedia sysops there? 158.143.167.250 (talk) 15:57, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the slow response - you can get an account set up for you at Request an account. &mdash; PretzelsHii! 22:32, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Copyright copyer?
-oh.. i thought it might be Illegal..cuz it looked almost exacttly the same... hmm? Same set up and stuff... i just wantws to make sure. thanks (RIS-Lt.JG CODY 21:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)) http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page (RIS-Lt.JG CODY 23:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC))


 * (Cancelled helpme; not a help request  Chzz  ►  23:10, 10 March 2010 (UTC))


 * I'm not quite sure what you are asking here; if you are concerned that some part of that site may be using Wikipedia content, then it might be ok - Wikipedia is free for use, subject to conditions; see Reusing Wikipedia content. If you do have a specific concern, please explain further.  Chzz  ►  23:13, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Pass this along. I like the new look, and will get a gander at the new features. Looks good. Streamline is good///Great!!! Thanks again. --24.7.84.95 (talk) 08:16, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Times and Sunday Times references going behind a paywall
The Times and Sunday Times have gone behind a paywall. Wikipedia references to the old timesonline site still work, but these will disappear behind the paywall too eventually. Is there any plan to identify Wikipedia references to these papers and to see if we can find alternative links to papers that are still open?
 * See archived discussion at the Village Pump (miscellaneous). I have emailed them again.  Ty  12:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Update at Village_pump_(miscellaneous).  Ty  17:39, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. It seems old references are safe for the time being. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 07:12, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Listing upcoming meetups
I would like to suggest that we list upcoming Meetups here, maybe through some shortened version of the Meetup template.--Pharos (talk) 20:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * A shortened version would be great, possibly just the "upcoming" items could be listed? I can't think of a way to make the maintenance non-complicated and non-duplicated though. A definite possibility for the bottom of the WP:CBB, if someone can work out how, or volunteer to do it all manually.. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm....
For What serves this page ? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by KnuxD (talk • contribs) 18:29, July 24, 2010


 * This page is for discussion/improvement of the Community portal page. -- &oelig; &trade; 21:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohsin1200 (talk • contribs) 20:29, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Some suggestions
Someone has suggested adding Signpost to the community portal. Please see Talk:Main Page. Whilsty we are on the subject, should MOTD be added here? Simply south (talk) 20:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Signpost: The Signpost is already included, at the very top-right. Making it any larger would overwhelm the other content.


 * Motto: I objected at Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 11, and 3 people (including me) objected at Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 12. I'd say the objections are all still relevant, and hence would continue to object. MOTD (eg Motto of the day/Schedule) is filled with subjective varied-quality wit & humor, and belongs in userspace only. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * If that is the case, why is the 'tip of the day' included? I'm not a particularly big fan of the TOTD, even though I do read them sometimes. Many of the tips are not very high-quality. Look at tomorrow's, for example. They did not say anything about the gadget that lets us edit the lead section. Should TOTD be removed?  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 14:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I withdraw my comment, because the MOTD is already in the community portal! Look carefully, it's right beside humour.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 14:27, 28 July 2010 (UTC)


 * MOTD is definitely linked from here, but none of it's variety of rotating templates are embedded. That's what I and others object to.
 * I actually agree that WP:TOTD is often of a low-quality and should possibly be removed (Even more so, that it should be removed from Help:Contents as being an unhelpful distraction for people who are actually looking for something specific there). I don't feel strongly enough to actually start the debate though. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:29, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

It seems that I am a bit late to this party, but I would like to say something. I'm extremely active with commenting on mottos, and with deciding what to do with them after two weeks. At this point, our standards have raised considerably (mine have, at least) on what mottos to let through. I don't think that their quality is as inconsistant as before, and quite often, they have good messages for people to follow. If you look around, you will see that many users, even administrators, use one of the MOTD boxes. Some people who use them: OlEnglish, Jac16888, and Roux. Obviously, many people seem to think that the mottos are fine, and as such, I think that a MOTD template should be added to this page. Hi 8 7 8  (Come shout at me!) 02:38, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Indeed I enjoy the dynamic content. I want users to have a different experience each time they view my userpage. I don't know if it has a place on the community portal page however, it's more of a userpage thing. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:01, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:Wikipedia ads
Has anyone thought about adding a banner with Wikipedia ads to display random ads for projects? It could be a nice graphical element on a page full of text...--Kozuch (talk) 22:44, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I consider these to be immensely distracting (visually grabbing); It's hard enough to find what one is looking for already. Secondly, Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox contains much that I wouldn't want to be shown to random visitors to our community portal, eg File:Qxz-ad167.gif and File:Qxz-ad166.gif. So that's a no from me, the resident grumpy maintainer. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:59, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:CREEP
I don't think it's exactly the most important essay in human history. Its usefulness, as compared to the other pages, is very low, and has very little to do with 'working with others'. I think it should not be kept here.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 12:21, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's an informal explanation for the rationale behind WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY, and is linked to from Policies and guidelines. It's related to working with others, because people argue over "rule intention/meaning/interpretation", a lot. Preventing the guidelines from growing and growing, and turning into dense legalese, is important.
 * That said, I have no specific objections to discussing its removal/replacement, if anyone else agrees with you. -- Quiddity (talk) 22:16, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Adding something to the task list
I can't figure out how to add a task. Noloop (talk) 17:15, 28 August 2010 (UTC)


 * You have to edit the page Community portal/Opentask. -- &oelig; &trade; 07:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Inactive collaborations
I've removed all the inactive collaborations from Template:Announcements/Current collaborations, and there are only five left. Any thoughts on anything else to put there? --Banana (talk) 20:46, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Well, we could manually check some projects to see if there are active collaborations that we're missing (and/or put a call out in the CBB and Signpost), or we could think about merging the Collaborations and HelpOut sections, or (? something else ?). -- Quiddity (talk) 22:30, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Opentasks inquiry
Left an inquiry at Wikipedia_talk:Community_portal/Opentask, Sadads (talk) 14:56, 30 January 2011 (UTC)