Wikipedia talk:Community Portal

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(previous designs) Please draft layout changes here: Community Portal/Draft

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Contents 1 Comment from Boguscommunity 2 Sorry! 3 Grammar editing 4 Navigation template question 5 browser topic 6 Research requests (tentative offering)

[edit] Comment from Boguscommunity

Can we please remove the word "community"? Boguscommunity 17:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

No, because then it would just be called "Portal", which would be confusing, because we have an entire namespace called that – Qxz 05:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry!

Sorry for the no-summary, no-change edit I just made. I was trying to use the search function in WikiEd. Instead I'll be using the delete button in Firefox and going back to ordinary editing. Cynical 23:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure you actually did make an edit (at least, I can't see one in the history). If you click "Save" without changing the page it doesn't actually save an edit. You have, of course, made an unnecessary edit now, but on this talk page instead :) – Qxz 12:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar editing

I think what we could really use, in addition to a Peer Review section, is a Grammar Review page. If an article is of solid quality, but the writing is somewhat less than adequate, it would be a handy place where wikipedians with strong grammar skills could give a PR'd page a good polish (prior to moving forward for FAC). Any thoughts on this? — RJH (talk) 17:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds fair enough to me. If you think there should be a page, by all means go ahead and set one up; once you have done so, you may wish to let people know about it by posting a message on the noticeboard. This page, though, is intended for discussion of the Community Portal page itself, so is probably not the best place to discuss new projects. The Village pump has a section for discussing proposals, which may be of use – Qxz 08:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Navigation template question

Over the last few days, someone's been futzing with the template that contains the links into Wikipedia such as Recent changes, Random article, etc. Now the link to Community Portal has vanished -- which is one of the principal links I follow. Who is playing around with his & where are they discussing these changes so I can add my input? -- llywrch 22:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

It appears to be there now, in the "interaction" section. Have the headings there always been uncapitalized? Huh. --Maxamegalon2000 00:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I still don't see it; I don't see an "interaction" section. I'm using the Classic skin; before I start griping, can someone direct me to the proper place to ask about this? -- llywrch 00:55, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I use the MonoBook skin, and I see exactly what Maxamegalon saw. The sidebar's location is MediaWiki:Sidebar, so the best place for questions is probably MediaWiki talk:Sidebar. Picaroon 01:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] browser topic

Very recently this page had an item about a browser for Wikipedia.. can someone please give me a wikilink? Tks!--Ling.Nut 22:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean this talk page? In that case, see the most recent archive. With regards to the portal itself, try its history or the history of the pages transcluded onto it. Picaroon 22:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I think he means the Community Noticeboard, in which case he's looking for either wikEd or AWB. If he was looking for the Wikisuite, that was deleted as spam. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

You mean the Community bulletin board. The Wikipedia:Community noticeboard is something else entirely ;) --Quiddity

Noticeboard, Bulletin Board, same thing. Stop being so picky. :P —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 19:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Research requests (tentative offering)

• User:Blaxthos/Research requests

In my spare time, I am offering my services to perform research requests. I'm just kinda doing a trial run right now, to see if anyone is interested in utilizing the resources I have available. Basically, I'll run requirements through a rather thorough academic search engine (encompasses JSTOR, EBSCOhost, others) for peer reviewed reliable sources (I will not provide the actual article, but it could be a good way for researchers to find starting points when working on articles). I have no idea where to float this service for community reaction/feedback/interest levels, so I'm posting it here. Check it out, leave me a note on my talk page if anyone has comments/concerns/questions. I'm not opposed to this notice being moved or re-posted in a more appropriate place, if there is one. Thanks. /Blaxthos 08:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

There are 3 places related to your offer. Wikipedia:Research resources, Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange and Wikipedia:Newspapers and magazines request service. They're all in the need of a good merging though (along with related pages like Wikipedia:Library), so I'm not sure beyond that. --Quiddity 18:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Yea, that's exactly why I'm keeping this as a single-person userspace project. Those both look like ambitious undertakings that went nowhere (offense not intended). Is there some way we can get a bullet point thrown up on the BB or CP or PUMP just to let people know? Is that a good idea or not so much? /Blaxthos 16:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)