Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Hay (Husky)
Hi everyone, great to see that people are already starting up to clean up some of the worst areas. Thanks! I would remove the bullet points in the sitenotice though (i'm not an admin, so i don't have access to the sitenotice). Detecting languages is not that easy, and afaik most websites tend to

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Does the page need any of the banners on the main page, loosing these would bring all the information up the page. Could there be a Java sript box to cycle through a few images rather than just one. Hacked something:

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Does the page need any of the banners on the main page, loosing these would bring all the information up the page. Could there be a Java

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I love it :) Thanks, GerardM On 16 May 2010 17:04, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Does the page need any of the

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Gnangarra
Thanks Magnus That works really well I sat there for 10 minutes just watching the images, with the variety it highlights what commons really is about On 16 May 2010 23:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I love it :) Thanks, GerardM On 16 May 2010 17:04, Magnus

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Gnangarra
Also its enough to encourage me to make the change to vector skin On 17 May 2010 00:14, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Magnus That works really well I sat there for 10 minutes just watching the images, with the variety it highlights what commons really is about On 16 May 2010

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Walter Siegmund
The left most image in the slideshow overlaps with the sidebar for me on Safari 4.0.5. The overlap is not affected by the window size. It's very cool. Best wishes, Walt On May 16, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: The idea looks great, unfortunately the left most image in the

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread David Gerard
On 16 May 2010 16:04, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry, should be: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?withJS=MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js Nice idea, a bit broken in Vector - overlaps the left sidebar. - d.

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 May 2010 16:04, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry, should be: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?withJS=MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js Nice idea, a bit broken in Vector -

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

2010-05-16 Thread Hay (Husky)
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Hacked something: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_PagewithJS=MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js Nice :) Although i guess maybe only one image instead of a few might be a bit easier on the

[Commons-l] About MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js

2010-05-16 Thread Krinkle
Hi Magnus, I've checked it out with Web Inspector in Safari (ala Firebug in Firefox) and noticed it tries to load in (one or more times each loop) an undefined thing to url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ undefined . This sometimes causes a questionmark-image to appear in the flow. Not