May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia? I think that layout looks much better. I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]], but not many people look there that often, and this would be a huge change.
Note for non-Esperantists: Aktuale is where the current events should go, but someone from the UEA (big esperalto association) just wrote about wikipedia itself there for some reason. The rest of the things there are fairly obvious, but the explanations in different languages would be left out. -LDan
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On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 11:07 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia? I think that layout looks much better. I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]], but not many people look there that often, and this would be a huge change.
Oh, please do! The layout of the English mainpage isn't disagreeable at all, but the E-o one is just amazing IMHO.
Benjamin Esham wrote:
May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia? I think that layout looks much better. I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]], but not many people look there that often, and this would be a huge change.
I'd say go for it. The only reason the main page is protected is to keep it from vandals, so in theory, it's just as editable as any other page. You've followed the right (cautious, courteous) convention by asking here first, since as you say, it would be a huge change.
The only risk you take is that if people really freak out about it, and a general consensus develops that it should be turned back completely, then your work would be for nothing.
But I'm looking at eo.wikipedia.org, and it's sweet.
Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia? I think that layout looks much better. I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]], but not many people look there that often, and this would be a huge change.
Just a note: the current layout used on the Esperanto, Danish, Czech, Chinese, Spanish, and Polish Wikipedia homepages was IIRC based on the fine work started at the Francophone Wikipedia.
I'm pretty sure I saw a work-in-progress version of the English Wikipedia front page with the new layout at some point, but it may have gone away...
Hmm, http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Temp is similar.
Anyway, food for thought: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_pages_considered_harmful
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Daniel-
May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia? I think that layout looks much better. I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]], but not many people look there that often, and this would be a huge change.
The current layout on en: is the result of long, long discussions and many, many compromises. It's not made for eternity, of course, but I'd prefer gradual changes to massive ones. While I like the Esperanto main page from a purely aesthetic point of view (because it's more colorful, and uses the aesthetically more pleasing Cologne Blue skin by default), I prefer the English Main Page layout from a logical point of view, because it manages to present a very nice mix of information on little space. The "Selected articles" box on en: is IMHO unmatched by all other Wikipedias.
In any case, please use [[Main Page/Temp]] for working on this, and not the live Main Page. Otherwise you might provoke a few edit wars.
Regards,
Erik
Looks real good to me. After Mav's comment I expected some gaundy nonsense, but I like the layout of the Esperanto Wikipedia.
Fred
From: Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:07:06 -0700 (PDT) To: Wiki Pedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] wikipedia homepage
May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia? I think that layout looks much better. I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]], but not many people look there that often, and this would be a huge change.
Note for non-Esperantists: Aktuale is where the current events should go, but someone from the UEA (big esperalto association) just wrote about wikipedia itself there for some reason. The rest of the things there are fairly obvious, but the explanations in different languages would be left out. -LDan
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LittleDan wrote:
May I change the layout of the homepage of the English Wikipedia to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia?
My choices, from best to worst:
# July 25 version of [[Main Page/Temp]] # Current version of [[Main Page/Temp]] (mav's experiment 1) # [[fr:Accueil] # Current [[Main Page]] # [[eo:Cxefpagxo]]
Note that the default skin is a separate issue, so be sure to compare things in the same skin (or both).
-- Toby