Hello !
I just wanted to introduce you to our new HomePage at http://fr.wikipedia.org/
We went over quite many transformations, and I think we are still not done with all of them yet :-)
Specific french features are * the logo (which I hope we'll update to better fit our new colors) * a quite colourful design, with our special colored little dots and text areas * a brand new reorganisation of the different headings, with move and creation of items. * an announcement community area
In particular, we proceeded - to make less proeminent "sciences" (in particular technics and applied sciences) which were maybe a little bit overrepresented compared to real life and lay wo-men concerns. - move such fields like philosphy to human sciences where it seems to us to belong; add cognitive sciences to human sciences - introduce ecology and universe sciences in the natural sciences heading - separate fields such as "industry" and "business" (which at least in France represent the 2nd and the 3rd sector in economy, and as such are separated) - make more proeminent an entire heading dealing with Politics, Law and Society (and introduce notions of family, defense and environment management) - give more room to religion... - make a brand new heading about daily life (with topics such as nutrition, health, sexology...) - to get more in touch with everyday matters and questions ...
The announcement community area is still a bit controversial. It seems there is an agreement for the existence of this area (when there is need for an announcement that is...), but not on what should be allowed to be in. For example, Francis put an announcement for last saturday Peace March (with either official support from some, or silent support or misinterest from others), announcement which stayed there for nearly 24 hours before Curry removed it for being non-encyclopedic. However, this argument doesnot hold any more if the announcement is clearly set in the community area :-)
Anyway, the new homepage is welcomed, and the refactoring opened quite a few wide areas, on which all french-speaking are invited to get wild.
Anth�re
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