[Wikisource-l] Changing the Main Page

[ThomasV]

Luiz Augusto a écrit :
>
> I've created the page
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Changing_the_main_page , that
> intends to be a starting point for those with no time or patience to
> read the entire discussion on wiki and here at the mailing list. This
> may be helpful specially for those that will be known this issue only
> when spamming their local Village pump, for example. My intention is
> to make a detailed page like the
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Wikipedias
>

In addition to the debate about how we should rank
subdomains, I think we should discuss whether it is
really useful to display a main page that gives so much
importance to ranking.

I believe the main page should not be a 'hall of fame'.
It should not be an incentive to inflate number of pages.

To illustrate this, I have made a new proposal for the
layout, where only the top 10 languages are displayed.
I think this simplified layout is much easier to read.

This relates to my previous comment :
http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=247906&oldid=247810
<http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=247906&oldid=247810>

This proposal is only about layout : it is independent
from the choice of criterion that we use to select the
top 10 languages.


Thomas