Talk:Www.wikipedia.org template/2005
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[edit] Language neutrality, search, logos
1. This page makes NO ATTEMPT to be language-neutral (it even gives its content language as EN at the top). 2. A search and a logo and sister projects are not needed, they will be provided upon arrival at the appropriate Wikipedia. Node ue
- The EN should probably be changed. Search and logo are useful to make the portal more immediately usable. In web page design, one should ALWAYS make a search box prominently available [1]; if you want the users to come to you, you can't steer them - David Gerard 19:51, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- Again, this is a portal, not a sitewide mainpage. Its sole stated purpose is to direct people to a different Wikipedia. The problem here is that people like you continue to circulate wikipedia.org as the URL for "Wikipedia", rather than using the proper language-specific URLs based on which language medium you are advertising in. The only people who end up at wikipedia.org should be those who guess the URL, or those who pressed "I'm feeling lucky" at Google. The lack of popular distinction among English speakers between Wikipedia and the English Wikipedia is the issue here, NOT whether or not this is a portal or a frontpage. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/static/-/gateway/international-gateway/ref=gw_subnav_in/104-2193524-1431902 is a great example of what this page's function actually is. The search box is limited to the local site (which doesn't exist in the case of our portal), and is located AFTER all the languages, not in the middle (as Catherine proposes) or directly to the side (as in the current version). --.
[edit] Image longdesc links don't work right
The longdesc parameters for the images are relative links within meta, and don't work right when it's placed as www.wikipedia.org, as someone pointed out on en:Talk:Main Page. They need to be turned into absolute URLs that point to meta. 68.64.220.69 23:06, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wrong name
The name of Friulian language (fur.wiki) it's 'Furlan', not 'Furlane'; please change it thanks Klenje 13:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
- By the way, you can fix any mistakes on this template at the test page. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 03:33, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Unintuitive Text Box
I suggest that the code for this page be changed so that the text box for searching Wikipedia contains the browser's insertion point by default rather than requiring a user to click. This reduces my productivity when I'm trying to search Wikipedia quickly because I must either hit the tab key tons of times or lift my hands from the keyboard to use the mouse. Matt R Hall -- 01 December 2005 02:13 PST GMT -0700
- I added a touch of JavaScript to the temporary version of this template that does what you ask. Now we have to wait for an administrator to approve the change. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 00:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
- By the way, Matt, you can easily attach the date at the end of your comments by typing out five squigglies (
~~~~~). – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 05:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] удмурт
At the moment Udmurt is spelled with a small letter on the front page - shouldn't it have a capital "У" like all the others? 80.186.33.84 19:57, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry, I probably did that not realizing that it wasn't capitalized. The fonts on my computer don't distinguish capital and lowercase Cyrillic letters very well. I've fixed it in the temporary version; now we have to wait for an administrator to approve the changes. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 00:33, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
