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[edit] Architecture

... should appear below "Society • Culture", not (only) under en:Engineering. It is a combination of Art and Technology, to reduce Architecture to the technical aspect is IMHO wrong. TomAlt (talk) 01:37, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

• I don't think this idea got much traction. Evrik (talk) 21:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

sounds like a good idea to me. I think most people would think of architecture as an artistic design process more than strictly science/technology. DroEsperanto (talk) 00:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Today in images

I suggest we add a box with a link to either side of the main page title "Today in images." It would link each day to the gallery for that day, see December 17 as an example. Thoughts? Evrik (talk) 16:29, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Supports, sounds like a nice idea. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 18:48, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Suppport, good idea. — Rlevse • Talk • 09:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I like the idea, but I think it's a little too much to have a huge section header and just one link in it. An alternative might be to put today's date on the page somewhere, like underneath "A database of N freely usable media files...". So have the next line be, "Today is [[{{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTDAY}}]] [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]]". howcheng {chat} 16:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I like the idea too, and also Howcheng's suggestion for avoiding an-overlarge box. Will Beback (talk) 18:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Today in images Heroes' Day (Namibia) Battle of Crécy Women's Equality Day More images from October 3

The line would only go halfway across the screen and [[{{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTDAY}}]] results in the redlink 10 3. Apparently there are no redirects? Also, the date would always be wrong in half the world on average, unless one was in UTC.

Just to complicate things, I came up with what a full-fledged "Today in images" Main Page box might look like. This seems like it would be a large-scale project to set up, though largely self-running once there was a template for every page. Just to clarify, I'm not volunteering - just daydreaming. In any case, I like the idea and will support regardless of what form it takes. - BanyanTree 06:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Oops, I meant {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}. howcheng {chat} 23:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

• I fixed the image box so the link would work. I think the box looks nifty ... but programming something like that is beyond me. How about adding the text box to start out with, or the date underneath one of the existing headers for now? If someone then wants to create a template for an image box, we can add that later. Right now, there appears to be room on the left for the larger bar and date box. Evrik (talk) 03:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Good idea. Today in image would be FPs, am I wrong? Kwj2772 (msg) 11:52, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
    • That may be a bit strict, I'd personally suggest including at least valued images as well. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:05, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
    • Only FPs? I don't see that happening unless you want to make it Bug of the day. I'd even expand to Quality images. You need a reasonably big pool to choose images from, that have a strong connection to the current date. --Dschwen (talk) 13:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
      • The current date pages have images dealing the date, and that seems to be a sensible criteria for the purpose. Unless someone is hiding a lot more valued and featured pictures somewhere, I don't see any point in making this harder than it needs to be, especially since the initial proposal is to not even include images on the Main Page. Hopefully, just the fact this exists will encourage people to subcategorize into Category:Days. - BanyanTree 13:54, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
      • O.o My comment was just a question. Please don't treat this sensitively. :) Kwj2772 (msg) 13:59, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

If folks would like to maintain it, it sounds great to me. I'd recommend that all images be eligible. Of course FP and QI should be the first choices, but I'm not sure that we have enough FP+QI to find material for every day. --Gmaxwell (talk) 05:46, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Me too. I like this idea. I think the last couple comments up missed what is actually being suggested here. It's media related to each day in history. That's impossible to do if want them to be FP/QIs also. Photos of bugs would never make it on this (unless it's the anniversary of some well-known discovery of some species or something). This isn't an extended "picture of the day" thing. Rocket000 (talk) 06:31, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

You must have missed the irony... --Dschwen (talk) 04:06, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

What irony? I see potential sarcasm or pun (bug), but nothing ironic. I wasn't referring to your comment anyway. Rocket000 (talk) 12:44, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

To rephrase what BanyanTree said, “the current date pages have images dealing the date,” and the initial proposal was simply to create a self-updating link - especially since it requires no maintenance. I think that it may encourage people to subcat images by date. Evrik (talk) 03:52, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry Evrik. I think I derailed the conversation about the original proposal with my daydream idea above.

On my screen at least, the right hand column on the Main Page is always a little taller than the left-hand column, so would suggest adding your idea (formatted above for only half a page) to the left hand column below Media of the Day and above Participating. In any case, I support such an addition, however you want to do it, without prejudice for any proposal in the future to have the new section include images, once such a system of templates is created and coded.

Since absolutely nobody seems to be against this idea, you might as well just do it. At that point, somebody will undoubtedly complain, but such is the wiki. ;) - BanyanTree 04:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

• Can someone with admin priveleges do this please? Evrik (talk) 02:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

 Done Just wandered back onto Commons and it looks like I'll be the one to stick my neck out... - BanyanTree 06:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I tweaked your CSS a bit, I think it looks fine now. I do rather wish we'd go with the fancier box idea you suggested above: all we need is one template and 366 subpages. Shouldn't be too have, given that it'd mostly just be a matter of copying two or three images from each of the existing "Today in images" pages. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 08:35, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

• I think the fancier version can be something to be worked on in the future. As it is, I have spent about 60 hours in the last year getting the galleries up for each of the pages. :-) Thanks everyone. Thank you! Evrik (talk) 17:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] News: Tropenmuseum

w:WP:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-08-10/Tropenmuseum partnership could replace the somewhat dated phototek item on the main page. Especially since the upload seems to be on hold. -- User:Docu at 22:33, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

At this moment the uploading still has to start. So this is not the best of times. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 15:48, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 5,000,000 files

Since no one else had done it yet, I've replaced the Fotothek announcement with one about the five million files milestone. Feel free to improve it (and to use {{editprotected}} if you have improvements you can't make yourself). See also discussion at COM:VP#5.000.000. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman ! not Harry Truman

 Done Thanks for your help. Yann (talk) 21:32, 15 September 2009 (UTC)