Talk: Main/Archive 2011

Revision as of 12:16, 18 November 2011

Peer review mock-up

This is based on an idea from Forum:Overhaul of PR, FA, & AotW#Peer reviews. The "current peer reviews" part of this mock-up would ideally be displayed in a frame like the other templates, though I'm not sure how to do that, programming wise. If this is still too big, the <small> format could be used for the text. --Defiant 12:00, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

I think it's a fallacy to assume that anything on this main page is still being read. A real main page should, in the optimal case, fit on a typical screen, or be twice as long in the worst case. Our current main page is 9(!) screens long on a 1024 width resolution (and it doesn't get much less with higher resolution because of a fixed width viewport). So, if work is being put into a new main page at all, it should include a severe reduction of content, probably by moving most of it to further portal pages (we could create a Portal:Editing MA, for example).

That said, even just discussing the suggested addition here, I don't think it's a good one. It adds a "contributor-level" resource (a list to peer-reviewed pages) in the middle of two "reader-level" resources (Example article & Trek News). It doesn't belong there, but should be grouped with other links that address contributors. -- Cid Highwind 12:16, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

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 This is based on an idea from [[Forum:Overhaul of PR, FA, & AotW#Peer reviews]]. The "current peer reviews" part of this mock-up would ideally be displayed in a frame like the other templates, though I'm not sure how to do that, programming wise. If this is still too big, the <nowiki><small></nowiki> format could be used for the text. --[[User:Defiant|Defiant]] 12:00, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
+:I think it's a fallacy to assume that ''anything'' on this main page is still being read. A real main page should, in the optimal case, fit on a typical screen, or be twice as long in the worst case. Our ''current'' main page is 9(!) screens long on a 1024 width resolution (and it doesn't get much less with higher resolution because of a fixed width viewport). So, if work is being put into a new main page at all, it should include a severe reduction of content, probably by moving most of it to further portal pages (we could create a [[Portal:Editing MA]], for example).
+:That said, even just discussing the suggested addition here, I don't think it's a good one. It adds a "contributor-level" resource (a list to peer-reviewed pages) in the middle of two "reader-level" resources (Example article & Trek News). It doesn't belong there, but should be grouped with other links that address contributors. -- [[User:Cid Highwind|Cid Highwind]] 12:16, November 18, 2011 (UTC)