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User talk:Trevor macinnis/sandbox/community portal fixup

I've just moved "Help portal" to Wikipedia:Help portal. I would suggest that we implement the changes proposed at User talk:Trevor macinnis/sandbox/community portal fixup in the following order:

1. Polish Wikipedia:Help portal
2. Move Wikipedia:Help portal to Help:Contents
3. Remove The "Help" and "Writing resources" material from the Community Portal and add a pointer to Help:Contents instead.
4. Merge Wikipedia:Goings-on into the Community Portal
5. Pull recent Wikipedia:Announcements into the new Community Portal, to make it a one-stop shop for community information.

This will help us keep Help and Community info pages in usable condition while they are being improved. -- Beland 23:54, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• FYI, work on this suggestion is ongoing, but slowly. There's lots of things to be sorted through at Wikipedia:Help portal. -- Beland 01:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sort of a newbie to Wikipedia, but I have been noticing that the Community Portal gets hammered, as I'm sure other pages do as well. I almost view the community portal as a second home page as far as importance to Wikipedia goes. Is there any way that we could get it locked, and then setup a Wikipedia:Community Portal/Development page that would allow people to still participate in making the Portal? I just think the main portal is getting changed and reverted way too much and it is too important to have to worry about it, of all the things that there are needing maintenance on Wkipedia already...

...what do you guys think? --ymmotrojam 05:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• For the moment, I prefer to keep things as they are.--File Éireann 10:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's just would be a complete hasle to get admins to change some little thingies on the portal. As for vandalism... take a look at George W. Bush... Renata3 12:20, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I understand other pages are not doing so great, but the portal is important to Wikipedia because it brings a lot of useful Wiki related help/support/maintenance information into one place. Regular articles shouldn't be locked, but I think this should be one of those exceptions. It seems someone has locked it already. --ymmotrojam 14:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It gets protected once in a while because there might be some persistant vandal interested in this page only. Like any other page. It think its quite enough to have main page protected. And it's a hassle to get an admin to change it... So, I think we can deal with portal unprotected. Renata3 19:07, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we should try out our shiny new semiprotection feature? — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 04:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As a developer of WP:AID and WP:COTW I notice Community Portal is dull. I have therefore inserted two images to exploit technology to make someone more likely to stop at the portal and look around. This needs further work...suggestions please....--File Éireann 10:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The ===Other collaborations=== subsection wastes space because it ends up below the open tasks template in another table, leaving a giant gap in that blue table cell. Other than looking ugly, it's a giant waste of space, more so because there is quite a lot of space on the page already. x42bn6 Talk 08:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

agreed. it should be moved off the page and simply linked to. I don't think it's of dire importance to have all those links on the community portal. --ymmotrojam 08:54, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it should be removed, but I agree it takes up a lot of space, so I've made the text smaller. Talrias (t | e | c) 16:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it still looks like it takes up a lot of space. -.-; x42bn6 Talk 02:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I shifted things around quite a while ago (now it looks pretty ugly as templates have changed; but idea is still good). But dear Talrias reverted everything. So you decide. Renata3 18:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, your version appears to have two ===Article Improvement Drive=== headings, so that was why it was reverted, my guess. Personally, I think it's best if it was something like Template:Afd, where we can put it in a dropdown, but that also looks ugly. So I really don't know. Now that this page is protected, there isn't a lot we can do, anyway. x42bn6 Talk 02:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, I say have a link. This also means that we can have other collaborations (like those of the WikiProjects) listed without wasting space on the very valuable CP.--HereToHelp (talk) 21:43, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think the links should be kept on the CP as they provide invaluable exposure for the smaller collaborations. However I agree the current layout is a bit of a mess but I can't think of any way to make it better. the wub "?!" 12:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

how do i get free notes on AS/400 how do i get free e-materials on AS/400 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.131.103.174 (talk • contribs)

Please try the Reference desk next time. This is questions only pertaining to the Community portal. I have moved your question to Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#AS.2F400. x42bn6 Talk 13:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In the About Wikipedia section, there are two 'About Wikipedia' links, one pointing to Wikipedia:about, the other to Wikipedia. -- Ze miguel 15:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually one is a link for Wikimedia --ymmotrojam 15:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry about that. -- Ze miguel 19:07, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktioary is revamping its dull old community portal, and the changes are taking place at here. It's taken this page's colour scheme, and maybe you guys could help out making it prettier? Cheers! --Dangherous 15:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some way to take out the table of Contents all together? Happy someone got around to doing this.Banana04131 01:49, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody swapped the "Wikipedia:Most wanted articles" link for the "Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles" in the requests section. Could you swap it back please? The most wanted articles are clearly in the nature of a request by the community, whereas the encyclopedic links are only requests by that project. I was a little irked to find that one of my favorite section had been arbitrarily displaced this morning. Thanks. :) — RJH 15:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

REQUEST REQUEST REQUEST REQUEST Can someone tell me how to request a page?

Just go to Wikipedia:Requested articles, just place it under the right section and sub-section. Renata3 06:40, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

is there no way to get a better interface? most people have javascript its just that its all so very confusing- maybe that is supposed to put most people off? NO indication where one is supposed to join up/post/ pages and pages....protocols... and all the jargon offputting you need to attract people who dont necessarily have computer knowledge but subject knowledge you should make it easy for eg. my grandfather, who is an expert on aviation history to contribute to this online resource- its all so very confusing!!!!!