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fuck all ya

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Errors in the summary of the featured article

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Errors in the summary of the featured list

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General discussion

Why is the Main Page in Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2007?

{{sudo}} -- Gurch (talk) 17:55, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Fixed.-gadfium 18:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

News

"A bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 17 people and injures at least 47." That should be changed to "kills 29" and "injures over 100" asap. That's what our article says at least. Death tolls have a way of rising. . . --S.dedalus (talk) 19:49, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Pls suggest re-phrasing at WP:ERRORS (or WP:ITN/C.) Posting here doesn't always get you the attention of the right admins. --74.14.19.137 (talk) 20:02, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

donations

How long is the donation bar going to stay up? I've been refreshing for a few minutes and no one has donated, I think Wikimedia has to bite the bullet here and realize that everyone who wanted to donate has donated, and that there isn't really a way they're going to get to 6 million dollars without some sort of corporate sponsorship before next years donations are needed. Just a thought, 125.239.54.243 (talk) 10:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Get an account and in your preferences you can remove it. Count Blofeld 10:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't see the point of these instructions. I mean creating an account or even logging in is a much bigger pain in the neck than clicking collapse or simply SCROLLING DOWN for God's sake.

One more thing: If the U.S. government can donate 700 billion $ to banks and car companies, surely they can contribute 3 million $ to keep a WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE up and running. Someone should tell them that!!!!!!! 59.96.138.42 (talk) 12:21, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Well if you can't be bothered to join the community and log in which takes just seconds then don;t expect to have privelages Count Blofeld 12:23, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Funny. I'm an admin in reality. I just have a policy of not logging in when it isn't needed. Like now! Coz I'm not supposed to be writing this here as a responsible admin. Anyway the point is, being able to make the "Donate Now" box disappear is NOT a privilege!!! 59.96.138.42 (talk) 12:53, 6 December 2008 (UTC) (anonymous)

You can always create another account for when you are not editing Nil Einne (talk) 08:05, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

You certainly have a point about the U.S government. $3 million is like 3 cents to every body else. Count Blofeld 13:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't it usually run until the holidays? Besides, it's pretty inconspicuous once you've hit the "Collapse" button. You can do that even as an IP. APL (talk) 21:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Adding Telugu to list of 20K+ languages

Telugu (te) Wikipedia has 40,000 articles, but it has not been listed on the homepage. Can one of the admins add it? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.95.161 (talk) 23:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Each Wikipedia must also have a depth of at least 5 to be listed on the main page. Telugu's currently has only a depth of 4. See the FAQ linked at the top of this page for further info. --Siradia (talk) 00:22, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Access to Wikipedia from UK being blocked

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Major UK ISPs reduced to using 2 IP addresses, which surely deserves mention on the main page. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 01:22, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Why would this deserve mention on the main page? Where on the main page do you want this? This is current event, so forget OTD. You obviously don't have a featured article yet, so forget TFA. If you don't have a brand new article or a recently expanded article about this, forget DYK. If you don't have an article substantially updated with news-related materials, forget ITN. Go take some pictures. Good Luck at TFP.  :-) --74.14.19.137 (talk) 01:42, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree this is worrying, but I don't think a note on the main page is actually necessary. In response to 74.14..., I think Andy was meaning a general notice at the top of the page, alerting users to the fact that major corporations are telling us what we can and can't view. For what it's worth, the pages have been blocked for me, but I believe you can get around the block by logging on to the secure server. J Milburn (talk) 02:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Whilst I'm glad to have had this brought to my attention, I can't see why or how it should have anything to do with the main page Modest Genius ^talk 08:07, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

The suggestion was to put mention of it on the main page. The consensus is we shouldn't put it on the main page, but the discussion was on topic Nil Einne (talk) 09:49, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

I see no consensus. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:49, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Here's one for you: We are not attention seekers. WP:BEANS. Message from XENU^{complaints? leave me a message!} 20:53, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Four people (at the time, now apparently six) who understand what the main page is about counts as a consensus when there is only one opposing who seemingly doesn't really understand what the main page is for and has made no solid policy based arguments to counteract the policy based arguments made by the other editors. Note also the discussion was likely seen by more people who didn't voice their opinion because they felt the existing discussion was sufficient to establish there is no reason to put a notice on the main page. Remember consensus is not a vote. Nil Einne (talk) 09:09, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

You appear to dismiss both my knowledge and understanding on the sole basis of disagreeing with them. Consensus is indeed not a vote, which makes your choice to state of numbers somewhat unfathomable. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:58, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Not really, no. It has no particular importance when compared to other world news, and is not worth a section of its own. --Kizor 20:54, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh and, WP:POINT. Message from XENU^{complaints? leave me a message!} 21:01, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

• This discussion is continuing at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/2008 IWF action. -- Pretzels^Talk! 21:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

This would hardly be the first time that groups have blocked access to part/all of Wikipedia (e.g. Chinese government, Arab governments) - this is just raising a fuss because it's the UK and the technical method caused us noticeable problems. the wub "?!" 21:16, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Remind me again what percentage of edits come from UK IPs? Have you seen today's press coverage - including the single most popular news story on the BBC website? It links only to http://www.wikipedia.org/ Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:12, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Given that the media has picked this up and interest - at least in the UK - does indeed appear to be widespread, there seems to be a case for submitting this to WP:ITN/C, which I would encourage you to do. However, it wouldn't surprise me if the editors there reject it on the ground of being a) non unique and b) mostly of interest to UK readers. Good luck though. Modest Genius ^talk 12:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Guys, WP:SELF. This event has to be notable on its own, not notable and interesting just because it's about WP. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 16:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Paradise is Lost on Milton's 400th Birthday? Poor Brits.... --199.71.174.100 (talk) 04:30, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

What's going on here? Are we delusional? The Wikipedia block is in the main news? Guys, get out of your wikiworld and get back to real-life! --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 05:07, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Pls see WP:ITN/C. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 05:13, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Design Suggestion

How about we make the main page bulky and terrible-- stripe the links down the center as a floating table, add a flashing News Alert marquee on the bottom in javascript, articles read in the left frame but always a little too wide so you have to scroll from side to side each line, in your right frame you have your "status", "friends", and a small microsoft banner ad in the bottom corner, and, to finish 'er off, crowned top and center we'll place the new Wikipedia globe: an animated gif that tweaks a little each time it spins all the way around, forever hanging there in its infinite loop-- so that we'll be all jazzed when the after a month when they bring the old Wikipedia back. Any takers? -Bordello (talk) 10:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)