Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote: The portal doesn't select from all featured articles, only those that have been on the main page. I do agree that the Featured Content portal is under-promoted though (in fact portals generally are) Yes, I don't

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yes, I don't really understand the decision taken on en not to show portals on article pages. On fr, for example, if you read a chemistry article, there's a Chemistry Portal banner at the bottom of the page. It works quite well. ...there's such a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: 2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yes, I don't really understand the decision taken on en not to show portals on article pages. On fr, for example, if you read a chemistry article, there's a Chemistry

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: snip On en, I can't think of any path I'm ever likely to take that would lead me to one of the portals. Which really is a pity. I would support more use of the more unknown featured content on the main page, such as

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Durova
I have a standing offer to assist the conversion of featured pictures to featured media so that it highlights sounds as well as images. There appears to be a moderate but surmountable obstacle with the monthly roster template; Howcheng knows the details. In order to facilitate the change with

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote: deteriorating from brilliant prose into mediocre prose).  If the community approved a featured star display for caption boxes the problem would Has this been proposed? It seems logical and inoffensive. Steve

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Amory Meltzer
Proposed by Durova: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Featured content stars for featured pictures Inoffensive? To some, not to others. ~A On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:04, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-14 Thread Carcharoth
Probably (without looking at the discussion) the same objections as for photographer credits or an more information link next to pictures. Or, even, the objections people raise to having featured articles marked with a star. Carcharoth On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Amory Meltzer

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-13 Thread Peter Coombe
The portal doesn't select from all featured articles, only those that have been on the main page. I do agree that the Featured Content portal is under-promoted though (in fact portals generally are) Pete / the wub 2009/12/13 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: As Quiddity pointed out, we

[WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Bod Notbod
What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have a random *featured* article button? As anyone who uses the random article link knows it often turns up places of small geographical interest. We now have a pretty damn good library of featured content. I'd really enjoy being

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread altally
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have a random *featured* article button? As anyone who uses the random article link knows it often turns up places of small geographical interest. We now

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Amory Meltzer
These two links may be of interest to you: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-featured.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-good.php As found on [[User:Csörföly D/random featured article]] ~Amory ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Bod Notbod
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Amory Meltzer amorymelt...@gmail.com wrote: These two links may be of interest to you: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-featured.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-good.php As found on [[User:Csörföly D/random featured

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread quiddity
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have a random *featured* article button? It's essentially already there in the sidebar (3rd link down): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_content

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Carcharoth
As Quiddity pointed out, we have this random featured article feature already. Question is, why is it not obvious? Does it need to made clearer that we already have this? To be fair, I was unaware of the toolserver ones. Is that something different, meaning we have *two* ways to access a random