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I've begun a revision of Egyptian language which is incomplete (but the previous version is still at the bottom) because I am an amateur person interested in Egyptology, and having a single paragraph on what is still the longest known recorded language is rather silly (in my opinion).
I've also fixed Marburg, Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan because I find Fourth Level Infectious diseases rather fascinating (although deadly).
I've just revised the pages relating to the Library of Congress classification and set up a number of sub-pages to show the sub-classes of each letter class. The term is properly a title used by the Library of Congress itself, and as such should have a capital "C" on "Classification" but I do not view that as a difference that is serious enough to merit a series of redirects. Admitedly, I was inconsistent myself until I came to the conclusion that it was a title. I am, however, redirecting from the term "catalog scheme" and would request that the main page be amended to reflect that. ---user:Eclecticology
The main page seems to have either been vandalised or is subject to some strange bug, as of 08 Feb 2002 13:18 GMT - Alex D. Baxter
Soemthing to do with cacheing: recent changes sometimes reports the wrong edit, too, which might be related. Reediting (no actual change) flushes the cache so we get the proper page, I think, - Malcolm Farmer
Hello? If anybody reads this, has anybody else realised that the home page is completely unprotected? Vandals, having read the bit at the bottom about 'this page is read-only because of vandalism', will probably see the 'edit right now' link and delete the whole front page. Can't someone read-only it??? - Mark Ryan
Don't worry too much about it, Mark. The home page has been unprotected for most of Wikipedia's existence. If someone vandalized it, we just restored it from the history two seconds later. It was only read-only for about a month. Anyway, Jimbo will protect it shortly, I suspect. --Stephen Gilbert
Can someone with admin access fix the accented chars in the list of international wikis? They presumably got broken during the time entities were fubar'd. Should be Català, Français, Portugês. --Brion Vibber
- Fixed. Home Page is unprotected, BTW. --Magnus Manske
- Really? Guess I figured that had already been fixed... In retrospect, I must have read the bit at the end about it being protected as an actual message from the software. Someone should probably make it true again. Anyway, thanks! --BV
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Mmm i had few subpages which really does not belong to any arrticle (like: more about me or literature). Since i see subpages are discouraged, where should i put them? Don't tell that onwhere and i should delete themm user:szopen (and i have to sign now with user:szopen what a !@#!@#
- I'm not sure about the subpage question, but you can sign by typing three ~ symbols back to back... I thought they were going to allow subpages on the user space, but I don't know what happened... --Chuck Smith
- What do you mean three ~ symbols? Could you explain a little better? --Luis Oliveira
- Three ~ symbols like this: ~ ~ ~ (without spaces)
- You can't use subpages anymore, but you sure as hell can create pages with titles that contain a "/" ;) --Magnus Manske
Parapsychology should be removed from the main page. It is far too controversial and too exotic to make sense in the first level of a directory. Let's use the space for something more important.
I have linked parapsychology from psychology and pseudoscience, and soon protoscience, to ensure that it is well-linked prior to removal from the front page.
New Topics has more or less been supplanted by the New Pages link on the right hand side, so we probably don't need that link any more --Malcolm Farmer
Front page has had a whole bunch of categories that belong there removed. Somebody with administrator priviliges should fix it.
I just did, and I'm not an administrator: it needs to be locked. Dreamyshade
Hmmm. I notice we invite people to upload a file on the front page. Is this wise? --Robert Merkel
- I don't think it is wise. We certainly don't want new users to wildly start uploading stuff before they have gotten a feeling for the place. I'll remove it. --AxelBoldt
Has someone made a comparison of number of new pages/ edits before and after the new software installation? I think it would be useful. --AstroNomer
I want to add the Slovene wikipedia link to the front page and also add that we now have over 25,000 articles, but I can't. --Chuck Smith
- Done. --Brion VIBBER 2002/03/26
To someone that can edited the Main Page, should the link to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games be removed since it ended a while ago? And should a link to Operation Anaconda be a good idea? - Peter Winnberg
We need more people with Main Page access for the aforementioned reasons...I'd consider opening it to registered users if possible. --The Cunctator
- I would still be a little more restrictive than that. Perhaps the requirement might be that the person has 1. Been registered for a reasonable predetermined, 2. Achieved a predetermined amount of contribution, and 3. Shown by the nature of his contibutions that he is not a vandal, nut-case or other seriously undesirable individual. The first two involve fairly objective criteria; the third may be a matter of some debate.
"We started in January 2001 and already have over 27,748 articles". Let me take a wild guess: at the time I read this, we had 27,749 articles?
Either name the exact number, or use a number that is easier to the eye when you give an estimate: "We [...] already have 27,748 articles" or "We [...] already have over 27,500 articles".--branko
I agree, the current wording is odd. --maveric149
Changed. the code said { { NUMBEROFARTICLES } } articles--without the spaces between the { {, so it's not something I could convert into an estimate. Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, March 31, 2002
Could somebody add a link to April Fool's Day on the front page? If somebody wants to pull a hoax as well, all well and good :) --Robert Merkel
Regarding the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, the part in brackets should probably read (srpski-hrvatski) Eclecticology
- Well, for that matter the Slovenian Wikipedia should be at http://sl.wikipedia.com (ess ell), not http://si.wikipedia.com (ess eye), which is the language code for Sinhalese. Brion VIBBER
The link "Technology Review" (almost at the end of the main page) does not work ("File not found") --Tobias Hövekamp
- I've removed it. If someone can find it's new location (if any), it was formerly " - MIT's Technology Review". Brion VIBBER, Thursday, April 11, 2002
- They just moved it, here: http://www.techreview.com/articles/heim090401.asp
Shouldn't the Chavez Coup be on the front page? Some might consider it at least as important as the Queen Mum's passing away.