[WikiEN-l] wikipedia homepage

[Richard Grevers]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:21:05 -0700, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> 
gave utterance to the following:

> 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.
>
> IMO that is HMTL madness -- WAY too many spurious colors that mean 
> nothing and whose only purpose is to look "purty" in the eyes of the 
> designer. We have already worked out a more conservative color scheme for 
> the Main Page but were waiting for some earth-shattering announcement to 
> make to go with the upgrade (such as "The Wikimedia Foundation is open 
> for business and is now accepting donations!" - not that we would say 
> that on the Main Page but we would have a link to a press release).
>
> See: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Temp
> Which is based on: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
Why do the section headings "Encyclopedia" and "Community" have a line 
height smaller than their font size? Text is really rather difficult to 
read when all the descenders are truncated.
-- 
Richard Grevers
I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere!