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1,000,000th article

  • I'm just a regular user, but I was wondering if there was anything going on for the 1,000,000th article. We're getting real close to it.

Richardkselby 01:22, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if anything special is planned for the MainPage, but you may be interested in a little fun at Wikipedia:Million pool and Wikipedia:Millionth topic pool. :-) -- PFHLai 16:52, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Something should definatly be planned!!! -- Adjam 08:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Presumably we'll use Template:Main Page banner, as previously. — Dan | talk 08:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yo here's an idea. Lets add suggested spellings to the search if the search turns up no results. :)Sherwharr 12:50, 22 February 2006
Miilionth article, sounds pretty cool :) --Andeee 14:49, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ONLY 10,000 more articles till a million. Yea!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.83.114.215 (talk • contribs) 08:01, 2006 February 24 (UTC).

Bank Robbery news headline

Can we say either "in British history" or "in the United Kingdom's history". It does not make sense to say "in United Kingdom history". After all, you would not say "in France history" or "in Russia" history; the use of "in United States history" is the only exception to the rule. Polocrunch 09:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to "in British history" as suggested. Thank you for pointing this out. -- PFHLai 18:12, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is "British" not the term for the island of Britian? This does not include Northern Ireland. It should be either "in the history of the United Kingdom" or "in the history of the British Isles (including Ireland)". 20:29 UTC 23-02-06
Well, British means .... Never mind, it's now "one of the largest ever in Europe." -- PFHLai 01:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested addition to mainpage

I'm very new to this posting business and apologise if this has already been covered or is in the wrong place!

I've been searching wiki pages forever trying to find out if it's possible to add a Wiki search box to the toolbar in one's browser. IF this exists, perhaps it would be something to mention on the Main page so that people would know that this is possible and know where to look for the information. I'm sure it's probably mentioned in some obviuos place, but I've been frustrated in my attempts to find it and there are no links from the main page that seem like the obvious choice to click when looking for such information.

(If this isn't possible, perhaps someone clever might consider implementing it? I know I end up turning to Wiki more and more these days and often use my Google search box as a wiki search box by typing 'wiki xxxxx'.)

Thanks much--and again, sorry if I'm making noise in the wrong places! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.51.49 (talk • contribs)

If you download Mozilla Firefox you can have a wiki search (amongst many others). There's also one here by the look of things. Jellypuzzle | Talk 14:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

InterWiki

Hi!

Why are here no InterWiki-Links to other Mainpages? (Like de:Hauptseite)

--84.176.3.145 14:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC) (de:User:Athalis)[reply]

there are. sorted by number of articles. dab (ᛏ) 14:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

South Dakoda Abortion news need correction

The information presented in the front page is incorrect. Exception is made in case where the mother's life is at risk [1]. FWBOarticle

Seems to be fixed already (not by me). -- PFHLai 18:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia speed

I don't get it, Wikipedia started working fast again last night, but now it's slow. It's really killing the incentive to edit when I have to wait so long for it to open. I don't think it's a problem with my local server, because every other website works fine. Please fix this really annoying speed problem. JackO'Lantern 17:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]


It's still way too slow! Why won't anybody listen? Fix the server or whatever and get the regular Wikipedia speed working again. PLEASE!!! JackO'Lantern 18:13, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to try the Village Pump instead of Talk:Main Page. -- PFHLai 18:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia makes me mad! Why can't we edit or change featured articles!!! Ugh! So much for the website of the people BY THE PEOPLE and for the people! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mizuphd (talk • contribs) 21:18, 2006 February 23 (UTC).

Don't be mad. Only the lead paragraph of a featured article is protected from editing because it's on the Main Page. This protection is meant to prevent vandalism. You can still edit the feature article itself. You just can't change what's on the MainPage by yourself unless you are an administrator. -- PFHLai 01:43, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Al Askari Mosque bombing

Reference to bomb

Perhaps you could change the phrase bomb attack to link to Al Askari Mosque bombing instead of bomb and move the bolding from Al Askari Mosque to bomb attack? Thanks in advance. joturner 00:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re-wikified as suggested. Thanks. -- PFHLai 01:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading headline

The Headline "Over 100 bullet-riddled bodies, including 3 journalists, are found by the Iraqi Police the morning following the bomb attack in Samarra, Iraq that badly damaged the Al Askari Mosque (pictured), one of the holiest sites in Shi'a Islam." is tremendously misleading. It implies that 100+ bodies were found in one place, when in fact it was several separate incidents, which are suspected reprisals for the bombing. How about this:

"Over 100 civilians are killed in Iraq in several incidents suspected to be reprisals for yesterday's bomb attack in Samarra, Iraq, that badly damaged the Al Askari Mosque (pictured), one of the holiest sites in Shi'a Islam."

Also, the link should go to the page about the bombing, not the mosque.-Matthew Cieplak (talk) (edits) 01:04, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was indeed misleading. I've re-written that headline on ITN into two simple sentences. I hope it's okay now. -- PFHLai 01:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mexican flag

Why about the Mexican flag? Gdatta 01:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's the problem ? -- PFHLai 04:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
See Wikipedia:Featured articles for an explanation on why the articles are chosen, Gdatta. κаллэмакс 12:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"The preceding unsigned comment was added by..."

Is some sort of robot adding this signature to unsigned comments? Or is it a person with too much time on their hands? I have an account at Wikipedia and I sign 99% of my comments. But when I choose not to, I don't want to find my comment altered with this blurb. Thank you.

Whether you sign your comments or not, your user information is logged in the history, thus not signing comments doesn't serve any purpose other than to be slightly annoying to other users who want to know who they're talking to and when the comment was entered. freshgavinΓΛĿЌ 05:48, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
The majority of people who don't sign comments are newbies who don't know that they should or don't know how to, and occasionally an experienced contributor forgets. Adding {{unsigned}} lets them know how to sign if they return to see any answers, and makes it much easier for everyone to communicate. It doesn't compromise anyone's privacy because the author of the original comment can be found in the page history, although on busy pages that may take some searching.-gadfium 06:09, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
"This page is for discussion of the Main Page only."—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Greasysteve13 (talk • contribs).
  1. While this is not a comment about the Main Page, it is about the Main Page's talk page. Where else would I ask about it?!
  2. "The majority of people who don't sign..." I really don't care about that. Fact is, if I don't wish to sign something, that is my right to do so. On the Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages page is clearly states "Although it may be advisable to follow it, it is not however policy."
The help desk would be a good place to put these sorts of questions. Many things we do are not policy, but just common practices. We aren't blocking you for not signing, so clearly it isn't mandated or required, but then again we don't have a rule against adding "The proceeding comment was added by..." so people may add that to your messages. You could explicitly add "please don't add {{unsigned}} to my message.", but people don't have to listen (they probably would). I'd ask why you care? but this isn't the place to discuss it. BrokenSegue 03:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There may be no policy dictating that you must sign your comments and you may be within your rights not to, but if you're following that line of argument then there's no policy dictating that other people must not slap {{unsigned}} templates on them and they are within there rights to do so. You still lose.--Cherry blossom tree 10:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You may not sign deliberately, but most people fail to sign accidentally. How can we tell the difference between you and everyone else, if you don't sign?-gadfium 03:56, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Today's (Sat. Feb 25) featured picture is showing up wrong--it's last Saturday's featured picture. Osgoodelawyer 00:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good its not jsut me 160.5.247.213 01:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
nor me!!

Feature Article

Most English speakers know this organization as Doctors Without Borders. Would it be a good idea to put this in parentheses after the French name? Thanks. --Nelson Ricardo 00:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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