Hi,
Have a look at my wikis where I changed "Recent changes" to "What's New": http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org or http://jnana.wikinerds.org
I suppose that Wikipedia should do the same because most web surfers are familiar with the "What's New" link but they may not clearly understand what "Recent changes" is about.
Also, I think that the "Community portal" link could be just "Community". Shorter, simpler and less clutter.
One problem is that "What's New" isn't accurate, because it's a list of changes, most of the time to articles that already exist. Therefore, they are not "new."
As for "portal," I agree the word portal should probably be deprecated, in the same heap as "push media." :)
-Andrew
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:30:35 +0300, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
Hi,
Have a look at my wikis where I changed "Recent changes" to "What's New": http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org or http://jnana.wikinerds.org
I suppose that Wikipedia should do the same because most web surfers are familiar with the "What's New" link but they may not clearly understand what "Recent changes" is about.
Also, I think that the "Community portal" link could be just "Community". Shorter, simpler and less clutter.
-- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
"Community Portal" describes what is there. "Community" is just unnecessarily vague.
-- ambi
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:29:21 +0800, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
One problem is that "What's New" isn't accurate, because it's a list of changes, most of the time to articles that already exist. Therefore, they are not "new."
As for "portal," I agree the word portal should probably be deprecated, in the same heap as "push media." :)
-Andrew
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:30:35 +0300, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
Hi,
Have a look at my wikis where I changed "Recent changes" to "What's New": http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org or http://jnana.wikinerds.org
I suppose that Wikipedia should do the same because most web surfers are familiar with the "What's New" link but they may not clearly understand what "Recent changes" is about.
Also, I think that the "Community portal" link could be just "Community". Shorter, simpler and less clutter.
-- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
-- Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com
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On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:29, Andrew Lih wrote:
Therefore, they are not "new."
Even if a change occurs in an existing article, it may be the inclusion of a new paragraph or new information.
However, you are right that in some cases "What's New" might not be accurate. For example: spelling fixes.
There is of course Special:Newpages what's new is far too similar. Recent changes is really only of interest to those who are to a degree already familiar with the wikipedia format so the name is not a problem.
It is worth noting that, despite requests from four different posters, NSK has still to respond to us with the User ID he/she uses on Wikipedia. Could it possibly be that NSK does not post at all on Wikipedia and is, in fact, a troll?
RickK
NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote: Hi,
Have a look at my wikis where I changed "Recent changes" to "What's New": http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org or http://jnana.wikinerds.org
I suppose that Wikipedia should do the same because most web surfers are familiar with the "What's New" link but they may not clearly understand what "Recent changes" is about.
Also, I think that the "Community portal" link could be just "Community". Shorter, simpler and less clutter.
Watch out! They're under your bed too Rick!
--- Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
It is worth noting that, despite requests from four different posters, NSK has still to respond to us with the User ID he/she uses on Wikipedia. Could it possibly be that NSK does not post at all on Wikipedia and is, in fact, a troll?
RickK
NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote: Hi,
Have a look at my wikis where I changed "Recent changes" to "What's New": http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org or http://jnana.wikinerds.org
I suppose that Wikipedia should do the same because most web surfers are familiar with the "What's New" link but they may not clearly understand what "Recent changes" is about.
Also, I think that the "Community portal" link could be just "Community". Shorter, simpler and less clutter.
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