Frankly speaking, "Main Page" sounds very foolish.
Apparently "Today's Top Page" or "Today's Page" is better
than "Main
Page".
"Main Page" is, therefore, very harmful to the reliability of all admins
(except Mgm and someone) and all Wikimedia Projects.
So, I think, "Change it, however difficult, as soon as you can".
Sincerly
Peter Rocky7
Ummm... what?! I think you're entirely missing the point; "reliability of
all admins"? I have no idea how moving it to "Today's Page" will affect
my
reliability.
The entire idea of moving the page is absurd.
Glen
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:53:51 -0500, Pilotguy <pilotguy.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Indeed. Keep it the way it is now. There's no harm being done anyway.
On 1/15/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, we can always create these articles as [[Main Page (book)]],
> [[Main Page (film)]] and so on. It really is a non-issue - there's no
> definite reason to move our Main Page.
>
> Jm2p...
>
> On 1/15/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > It might be just me, but I don't think a movie or book titled "Main
> Page"
> > would actually get sold to a editor or studio representative. Titles
are
> key
> > to drawing in an audience, and when someone came to me with that as
a
> title,
> > I'd ask them to change it.
> >
> > Mgm
> >
> >
> > On 1/14/07, PeruvianLlama <peruvianllama(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Luna wrote:
> > > > Right. But since we're obviously going to need such a redirect,
what
> do
> > > we
> > > > gain from moving Main Page? It's a lot of work for...?
> > > >
> > > The idea would be that such a redirect would be temporary. The
problem
> > > of having Main_Page in the
namespace wouldn't be solved overnight,
or
> > > even in a matter of days. But at
least it would be solved a year
(or 6
> > > months, or whatever) down the
road. That's a long time, but like I
> said,
> > > I haven't seen anyone claiming that this is really any kind of an
> > > immediate worry. It's just a good idea for the sake of long-term
> > > consistency.
> > >
> > > If we wait until the movie/book/etc. called "Main Page" is made
and
> > > suddenly wants to be in that
article page, then we no longer have
the
> > > luxury of doing things at a
reasonable pace. Then it really will
be
a
> > > big issue to update all of our
internal links, and to hope that
> external
> > > links update quickly enough. If we're proactive about this, we
might
> be
> > > saving ourselves a headache. At worst, like I said, we're at least
> being
> > > consistent.
> > >
> > >
> > > MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > > > And it still doesn't open up the page for any potential films,
books
> or
> > > > articles on anything else, because leaving a redirect is what we
> need to
> > > not
> > > > kill incoming links from outside of Wikipedia.
> > > > Mgm
> > > Not immediately no, but it opens up the possibility of doing so in
the
> > > future. After a year we can drop
the redirect, since most/all of
the
> > > external links will have updated.
Those that haven't, well, a
broken
> > > link or three isn't going to
bring either Wikipedia or the
internet
at
> > > large to its knees. The reason I
posted this idea was because the
main
> > > three objections to moving
appeared to be:
> > > 1) It will be too big a strain on the servers to move such a big
page
> > > 2) It will be too much of a hassle
to update internal links
> > > 3) It will be too much of a hassle to update external links
> > >
> > > I think that if it came to it, we could enlist the help of devs or
> other
> > > technical wizardry to eliminate the hurdles of objection #1.
Objection
> > > #2 has already been rebutted. I
was taking aim at objection #3.
> > >
> > > There isn't any wildly important reason to move Main_Page
somewhere
> > > else, and I say again, it
certainly isn't a terribly
time-sensitive
> > > issue. But on the other hand,
there don't seem to be any wildly
> > > important reasons to _not_ move Main_Page, other than things being
too
> much of a hassle.
>
> Cheers,
> - PeruvianLlama
>
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