[WikiEN-l] A facelift for the Main Page: Wikipedia Day and 100,000 articles soon

Fri Jan 3 15:21:10 UTC 2003

I think the new main page is looking pretty good, I wouldn't mind changing
the current one for it. I think going live with it on Wikipedia Day (if
people agree, obviously) would be great. It would certainly great if we
could get 100,000 articles by Wikipedia Day, but unless we got thousands
of bot generated articles, I can't see it happening. We definitely need a
press release though. Some statistics (like in the PG newsletters) would
be nice, what we've achieved, what we need to do. Has anyone drafted
anything yet?

ASB [[User:Smelialichu]]
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> Several of us have been working on improving the Main Page and are
> pretty  satisfied with the results. See
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Temp
>
> And also a before and after screenshot:
> http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/1/1e/MainPageTemp-800pxWide.png
>
> Comments about added improvements and edits are welcome.
>
> It would be great if we could work on this some more and then go live
> with the  new version on January 15th aka Wikipedia Day. It would also
> be great if we  all concentrated on trying to make 100,000 articles by
> the 15th.
>
> Speaking of which, a press release is also in order for Wikipedia
> Day.....
>
> Power to the Wiki and Happy New Year!
>
> --Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
>
> WikiKarma Payment. Have you had your Wiki today?
> http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=January_2&diff=551217&oldid=551172
>