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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors with "In the news"

9 May 2024 (UTC) In protests, could we link New Caledonia for accessibility? Brandmeister^talk 16:24, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I’d regard that as MOS:OVERLINK, as I think of it as a country (which, admittedly, it technically is not). Schwede66 18:29, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

It's rather less known than, e.g., France or US for MOS:OVERLINK purpose, but anyway... Brandmeister^talk 18:36, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not settled on it and invite other views as well. Schwede66 22:32, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I second the motion to add it. —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:15, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

... in the French territory of New Caledonia. Not spoonfeeding those who already know; offering a one-click solution to those who don't. Moscow Mule (talk) 04:08, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Support Moscow Mule's suggestion. On the one hand it's said to be an overlink, yet we provide a verbose explanation of a territory of France in the Pacific.—Bagumba (talk) 04:48, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Done. The whole "never link a country" thing, irrespective of the size of said nation, should probably be revisited in any case. But that's not for here. Stephen 05:08, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

One of the first RfCs I ever closed found a "crystal-clear, essentially unanimous consensus" that there's nothing wrong with linking lesser known countries, for what it's worth. MOS:OVERLINK only applies to "major examples" of countries. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 09:16, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

In the caption: "her 1917 story The Underside formed"; change to "her 1917 short story "The Underside" formed" (wording, italics to quotation marks) per:

• Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 648. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

Edit: This is for {{Template:POTD/2024-05-20}}. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DocWatson42 (talk • contribs)

Partially  Done. I've added the word "short" but short stories are not shown in italic font as per MOS:NOITALIC, DocWatson42. Schwede66 03:48, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Pardon me–I meant "change the italics to quotation marks", but was trying to be brief on the (mistaken) assumption that that was clear enough. :-/ —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:56, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Based on MOS:MINORWORK. —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:57, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I read your (somewhat cryptic) instructions as "apply italics to the quotation marks as well". Schwede66 03:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

"Головна сторінка" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Головна сторінка has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 3 § Головна сторінка until a consensus is reached. Fork99 (talk) 11:54, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

POTD

The second sentence says "window wearing a red cape." That is a dangling modifier. It should read "wife, (name), wearing a red cape, passing . . ." Wis2fan (talk) 03:58, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Wis2fan, you need to post these reports at WP:ERRORS. Schwede66 04:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done — Voice of Clam (talk) 14:58, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Dark mode is coming!

If you haven't seen the news, natively-supported dark mode is coming. I think if you want to try it without opting in etc. this is a link you can try (it worked for me in private mode of Firefox).

This means the main page needs some styles. Previously it was basically how any old page in the main space looks (e.g. Facebook: just a black background and borders). I took an hour or two to give it a color theme reminiscent of light mode with some use of this web theme maker (I got the "value" for the light mode colors in the spectrum, then flipped them relative to 1000) and then made a single tweak (the purple used for TFP). Wikipedia:Main Page/styles.css has the colors (which are duplicated for the "OS" selection) if you want a readable summary.

Visited links are not necessarily accessible currently, but they aren't accessible on the current dark mode either (contrast of 3.5), so I don't think it's worth spending a ton of time on that.

If anyone thinks things aren't ideal (and I suspect they aren't), feel free to nudge things in the relevant style sheet with an admin request (who has to nudge them twice). Ignoring the link accessibility, I think right now the border for section headers on the blue side and TFP aren't great, and the TFP header background is too bright. Also, bullets aren't visible but that's going to be fixed in the next deployment. Izno (talk) 23:49, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

One of the tools that's essential for my main page work is User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js (documentation) and it's important that with coloured backgrounds, this still works. Schwede66 00:43, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Not directly relevant to this section, but if you want to ensure that looks some reasonable way, you should discuss with Anomie. All the link colors are the default here. Izno (talk) 01:03, 20 May 2024 (UTC)