On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Amory Meltzer <amorymeltzer(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yay! Absolutely excellent. I had wanted Good Articles too but didn't want to ask for too much. They're perfect and duly bookmarked. Thanks very much!

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki(a)googlemail.com> wrote: 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. 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. Steve

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote: Whoops, I stand corrected. Still a bit subtle though. Steve

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 minimal inconvenience to anyone else, I would withdraw my own featured pictures from the main page queue. Now that museum partnerships have developed to where institutions are providing material upon request that offer would need to be modified. But basically no other featured picture contributor would need to wait much longer for a turn on the main page. If the community supports this shift it would help the featured sounds program. Also, there is an ongoing problem with removal of featured pictures from articles. The only way to tell that an image is featured is by clicking in at the file hosting page. Many editors never check, which means that on a somewhat random basis featured pictures get taken out or replaced with lower quality material. (This is the media corrolary to featured articles deteriorating from brilliant prose into mediocre prose). If the community approved a featured star display for caption boxes the problem would decrease significantly, and casual readers would have the advantage of a cue to the site's best illustrations. Non-featured pictures are rarely worth a view at full resolution, but featured pictures reward a close examination. -Durova On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote: -- http://durova.blogspot.com/

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 <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote: