Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April

Selected anniversaries/April Cache purge -

If I click on an "edit" link, edit a page and save it, then come back here, my edits don't show up. What makes those changes appear here? I've Refreshed. RickK | Talk 06:00, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * See Reload. --mav

"Nationality" of the pictures
Today, 18 May 2005, I did a little statistical research on this page, on the nationality of the pictures chosen to illustrate each day. They are:


 * 1) United States 12 (1 picture not related to a bolded article)
 * 2) Germany  3 (1 picture not related to a bolded article, 2 pictures related to Nazi Germany), United Kingdom  3 (2 pictures not related to a bolded article), France  3
 * 3) Japan 2
 * 4) Cambodia  1 (1 picture not related to a bolded article), Ireland  1, Greece  1, Jordan  1 (1 picture not related to a bolded article), Portugal 1, Soviet Union 1


 * 1 article science-related
 * all-America picture

This means that 40% of the images are U.S.-related.

Then, re-calculating the same statistics for the 25 February gives:


 * 1) United States 13
 * 2) United Kingdom, Japan 2
 * 3) Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Pakistan, Poland, Soviet Union, Uganda, Vietnam 1
 * science-related 2


 * Hey, User: Panairjdde, wanna do the stats for March ?
 * Done.--Panairjdde 13:25, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Excuse me, Panairjdde, is this a complaint ? Are you less unhappy about the images in March ? Or in May so far ? Hmmm... I can only say that I do put in some efforts to diversify, and I would avoid using images of middle-aged white males (we have too many ! ... regardless of nationality) if an alternative can be found. Often, there aren't much to choose from. (The use of a logo of some space mission sometimes means that I've given up searching that day.) Copyrights and resolution/appearance at 100px are additional problems that need to be considered .... To suggest images, please make use of the SA talk page for each day. Thanks. -- PFHLai 01:12, 2005 May 20 (UTC)

P.S. You may want to check out WikiProject Countering systemic bias.
 * No, it was just that I had nothing to do, so I decided to count the Nationality rather than genre, and choose April because May is still a work in progress. Actually I did the count for March too, after request. This is English wikipedia, so I espect to find a high percentage of US and UK-related images, as well as many more baseball-related images that any other sports. This is not a problem for me, is it for you all? Frankly, I don't understand why Miracle onIce gets an image (22 February), and Dolly the sheep doesn't, but it is a matter of taste.--Panairjdde 11:08, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


 * It was the 25th anniversary of Miracle on Ice this year. Let them have it for 2005. :-) Dolly's pic is back now. -- PFHLai 13:05, 2005 May 20 (UTC)

1 April
I think someone has been screwing with these. If not, many are unintentionally hilarious. --Helenalex (talk) 04:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I do believe that Wikipedia should cancel the April Fools traditions this year out of respect to the Coronavirus victims. SpinnerLaserz (talk) 21:30, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Easter
Why was Easter removed from the front page in OTD? - Therealscorp1an (talk) 22:56, 9 April 2023 (UTC)