[WikiEN-l] Re: New sidebar poll

[Ray Saintonge]

Timwi wrote:

> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> Michael Snow wrote:
>>
>>> Since some people on this mailing list have previously asked to be 
>>> made aware of polls on the wiki, here is a new one. It addresses 
>>> what links to remove from the sidebar so we can add a link to the 
>>> Community Portal page. It's actually a revised and restarted version 
>>> of the old poll, which ended up being too confusing and did not have 
>>> a clear result. Vote at:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Community_Portal#New_sidebar_poll 
>>
>>
>> I hadn't followed this debate until now.  Some people have other 
>> things to do.  But I see that the vote avoids the whole issue of 
>> alternatives to having  a "Community Portal" page at all.
>
> Such as, for example?

Such as merging the community portal with the main page.  We don't need 
the news section there; this is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper.

Ec