Talk:Main Page
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2022
Thinking about how to make this page more attractive, how about modifying the SMW code to exclude pages without an image or logo? This might also have a side effect of encouraging editors to give new pages an image, which is good practice. -- Robin (talk) 18:29, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
How about some of the features that appear on the wikipedia main page. I think they could make the page more attractive and engaging; like featured articles/images, what's in the news etc. - UKpeacelibertyfreedom (talk) 23:58, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
How to refresh this page (Administrators only)
Some edits to the source refresh this page. I just did it by changing '15' to '16'. I'm not sure why all edits don't refresh it. -- Robin (talk) 21:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
2021
This has not been reliably rendering as a tabstrip for me 100% of the time. I think it's possibly browser dependent. Is it rendering OK for you? -- Robin (talk) 14:50, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- Actually, I do remember odd behavior for non-standard characters, or display of <ref> in unexpected places, such as properties. That might be it. Anyway: -- Robin (talk) 16:21, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- Chromium - 2021-07-27 - Top tab rendered above the rest, which are normally tabbed, so the page is twice as tall as it should be
Are we gonna do a "happy new year" banner on the main page, and maybe smth like a news overview (similar to wikipedia?) similar to the "topics in the news" banner of this page; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events? Or maybe copy the 2021 page for a 2 days? --Jun (talk) 12:16, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- Good idea. Let's improve the 2021 page and link there. -- Robin (talk) 18:41, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
2019
What does the title "Main Page" add to the coverpage? -- Robin (talk) 10:07, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
- Nothing, but we're stuck with it just now. The
No TitleExtension crashes the site. There is probably a simple solution but I haven't looked for it yet --Peter (talk) 10:17, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Is there a list of articles with no content in the bio? I am working on filling in missing bios but they are somewhat hard to ID. There are a lot of outstanding VIPs especially for the more recent bilderberg meetings. -- Dan (talk) 02:01, 18 August 2019 (EST)
- We don't really do static lists, since it's too much work to maintain them. To generate live lists (this is how Template:SMWDocs works), you need to go to Special:Ask, the interface to semantic querying. It's very flexible once you learn the syntax to type into the Condition box. Here are some to get started:
- * Any page who describing a person: [[Has objectClass::Person]]
- * Any page with less than 512 bytes of content: [[Has revisionSize::<<512]]
- * Any page (i.e. anyone) who attended the 2019 Bilderberg: [[-Has participant::Bilderberg/2019]]
- * Anyone who attended 8 Bilderbergs: [[Has bilderbergCount::8]]
- * Anyone who attended the 201? Bilderberg: [[-Has participant::~Bilderberg/201?]]
- * Anyone who attended any Bilderberg: [[-Has participant::~Bilderberg/*]]
- These can be stacked, so for anyone who attended the Bilderberg since 2010, has attended at least 5 Bilderbergs, and has a page with less than 512 bytes of content:
- [[-Has participant::~Bilderberg/201?]][[Has bilderbergCount::>5]][[Has revisionSize::<<512]]
A good place to see what sort of queries are possible is at https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Selecting_pages Alternatively, if you've any particular queries you'd like to make, feel free to post to my talk page. -- Robin (talk) 19:54, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
- Another approach would be to make a project of giving each Bilderberger of interest a description (add {{!}}description=... to that person template at the top of the page). This sets the line of text that appears in the Participants section of each Bilderberg meeting, so it's easy to see who is missing a still description (most of them). -- Robin (talk) 20:02, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
