Ok, I have condensed the overly long sitenotice and edited the landing pages it directs to. Then i have moved the huge language box to the bottom of the page. Those are quick fixes, which may need some finetuning (or reverts? ;-) ) Over all I do not think that we have a major problem with our mainpage. It just needs a more regular clean up. We should not forget to expire the donation notices Crystal guy / Tropenmuseum after reasonable time.

Platonides, 15/05/2010 23:30: en.wikt hides the sitenotices to non-logged users, if I understand correctly (how?). Nemo

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. I followed thorugh to the Simple English option, the went to the talk page all that is there is; *This page is not completed in its development. Please help in conversion from English to Simple English. This page is NOT protected, so you are free to improve it --Anonymous101<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anonymous101>11:59, 21 December 2007 (UTC) *I hope 2 half years later the page isnt still under developement, should not these talk pages redirect back to the mainpage talk page so that people can actually make contact with someone.... On 16 May 2010 07:16, Casey Brown &lt;lists(a)caseybrown.org&gt; wrote: -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hacked something: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&withJS=MediaWi… Feel free to alter. Cheers, Magnus

Hoi, I love it :) Thanks, GerardM On 16 May 2010 17:04, Magnus Manske &lt;magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote:

Also its enough to encourage me to make the change to vector skin On 17 May 2010 00:14, Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com

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:

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Gerard &lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Well, it was designed on a 1920x1200 screen in Google Chrome - incompatibilities of version 1 are to be expected :-) Glad that there is serious interest, I'll work on it some more soon. Magnus

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Gerard &lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Fixed now - it reduces the number of images until the bar fits on the screen. Magnus

On 17 May 2010 11:24, Magnus Manske &lt;magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: Much better! Not sure I like the visual effect (swooping away suddenly), but that may be just me - and, in any case, is endlessly tweakable. But yes, something like this is a very good idea indeed. - d.

Hi Hey, he withJS-param only allows from a MediaWiki-namespace (because of security reasons, think XSS) From our own userspace one can simply wrap a script within an if()- statement of (wgTitle == "Main Page") and the script will load when on the Main Page. NB: Magnus' script already has this ifstatement anyway because the script should (ofcourse) only load on the Main Page, so copying as-is should work). If you'd like to keep your vector.js (and it's history) clean, you could ofcourse also put it on another page (ie. Special:MyPage/ sandbox.js and importScript(User:You/sandbox.js); it like that in vector.js ) -- Greetings, Krinkle Op 17 mei 2010, om 00:54 heeft Hay (Husky) het volgende geschreven:

Hi Krinkle, thanks for working on the script, I hope you'll keep helping out :-) The reason I'm not using the direct thumb.php route is that it only accepts thumbnail width, not height. So, an image that is, say, 300x900, will be thumbnailed as 120x360, which is not really pretty in a row 120px high. The API call allows me to specify both maximum width and height, thus guaranteeing the thumbnail to fit into the row height. I guess the API call is a small price to pay. Cheers, Magnus On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Krinkle &lt;krinklemail(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hoi, Please be bold, go where noone went before ... <rousing music> Thanks, GerardM On 5 June 2010 18:16, Gnangarra &lt;gnangarra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

I'm currently not at home. When I get there in about 4 hours and it isn't been done yet, I'll put the slider up on the frontpage. (whether or not as a trial) -- Greetings, Krinkle Op 7 jun 2010, om 19:11 heeft Neil Kandalgaonkar het volgende geschreven:

Great :-) So now we know what the status is. Thanks for your quick response. -- Greetings, Krinkle Op 7 jun 2010, om 22:06 heeft Daniel Schwen het volgende geschreven:

Just added that functionality to Mediawiki:MainPages.js I'm sure it could use a bit more love. A link is added to the Welcome box for anonymous users if the browser language is recognized.

Yes, but only if the full code cannot be found. I'll try that later.

On 18 May 2010 02:51, Guillaume Paumier &lt;gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: oh please not another main page contest, havent we been able to learn from the experience on en.wikipedia about main page redesigns whats been happening at the moment is fantastic the page is evolving through simple unhindered co-operation let it continue and lets just be bold in making changes. -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com

all up it consumed about 7 months of discussion see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:2008_main_page_redesign_proposa… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:2008_main_page_redesign_proposa… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:2008_main_page_redesign_proposa… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:2008_main_page_redesign_proposa… the proposal first gained sufficient momentum to be formalised in July 2008 by December in had slowed down many people had lost interest or just drifted away over the holidays, in febraury the discussion just stopped the result was no change to the main page. Every week editors would drift through questions would be asked designs would be propogated and agreement would appear to ensue, then the designs would be reduced to a couple of choices a poll would commence then it would be follow by a poll as to how long the poll should run.after a couple of designs were chosen more question(mostly repeats) would be asks and those designs would be thrown away the process would be repeated. There was straw polls, the was an RFC, there was a straw poll to have an RFC. What all the discussion came down was that people had their own wants and barrows to push, there was no clear objective, there was no leadership in the process, there much discussion about goals in fact they were changing so fast at one stage there was two ongoing discussion about goals. Basically if you want to stop a process reaching a result via consensus increase the number of people involve, the leason here is - to keep the group small - have a clear objective - be bold to quote user:Auburnpilot *After seven months of back-and-forth nonsense, the only proposed changes are so insignificant that bringing them to the attention of the wider community would be utterly pointless. It's a shame so many editors have already wasted their time on this thing, but keeping it going will not change the fact that it was a wasted effort. It was a nice idea in theory, but the execution killed it. *Compar to that what has occured in the last week - a couple of tweaks have been done - a suggestion was made, it been created, tested, tweaked -- it could be added now except for those reading this list these changes would probably go unnoticed, because most people arent interested in the main page until a big deal is made of it. If you need a proccess to emulate for changing the main look at how the vector skin was done and how successful it introduction has been. There was no big voting process for the upload form changes, as such no drama. * * On 19 May 2010 00:12, Guillaume Paumier &lt;gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com