Timwi wrote
The Main Page is specifically not an encyclopedic article. True, we are not a newspaper, but there is no reason to not have a little section that points at articles that are relevant to recent happenings. It shows visitors how up to date we are!
I don't see how one could prove that the current style of Main Page is _necessary_; but it looks pretty _useful_ to me. Kudos to those who work on it.
Charles