Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-10-04/News and notes

Article feedback tool
The testing of the article feedback tool on U. S. public policy articles—but including many articles relevant worldwide, such as immigration—is a bit strange. &mdash;innotata 01:40, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * WikiProject United States Public Policy includes a lot of broad articles that are highly relevant to aspects of US public policy although not exclusively devoted to US issues.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 02:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I mean, why test on one topic, one project? &mdash;innotata 16:38, 9 October 2010 (UTC)


 * For anyone looking to hide the article feedback box, you can the following line to your skin.css page:  div.article-assessment-wrapper { display:none; }  Rockfang (talk) 02:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sage : there's a significant issue with boxes. On Firefox, it cleaves into two rows. Standard IE vs. Firefox etc. crap. Res Mar 03:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Not a problem on Firefox for me. &mdash;innotata 18:12, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ResMar, that was a last-minute change to make sure it behaved reasonably on 800px-wide screens. Hopefully the next iteration will solve that problem more elegantly; I don't like the two row version either.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:24, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

The above says: "An interesting early result is that ... experienced Wikipedians might on the average be "tougher" on articles than casual readers.  DUH!  How much did we spend on this?  -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:03, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It goes well with last week's 'debate' about coloring testicles on Commons...sigh. Res Mar 04:17, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Where was this debate? Powers T 00:49, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

"Share this" box

 * The Share This box overlays part of the article making that part unreadable. --88.130.179.41 (talk) 07:30, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hint. Do you have JavaScript turned off? (This feature was introduced only recently, I have noted your comment in the existing discussion about it.)
 * Regards, HaeB (talk) 11:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You're correct - this is only a problem for users browsing without JavaScript. However, the issue should now be resolved and text will flow around the box. &mdash; PretzelsHii! 22:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Italian Wikipedia now the fourth largest
It's good to see that Italian WP has surpassed the Polish one, since the depth there is several times greater (76/12). The Polish WP, in fact, has less depth than any major language, leading one to think that it's created primarily by dumping great numbers of translated stubs from other languages. Lampman (talk) 15:24, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Where did you get these numbers...? Res Mar 15:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)