[WikiEN-l] Re: New sidebar poll

Fri Mar 12 20:22:46 UTC 2004

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>>Such as merging the community portal with the main page.  We don't need 
>>the news section there; this is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper.
>>
>True, we are not a newspaper, but I suspect that I'm in the vast
>majority when I say that I often get my daily background information
>about what's going on in the news from Wikipedia's homepage.
>
>I learned a lot about Basque separatists and ETA and so on in the past
>two days.  I read a lot about the South Korean impeachment.
>
>The "In the news" feature on the homepage is one of the best things
>that we do, in my opinion.
>
I have no interest in belaboring the issue, and will keep quiet after 
this letter.  I would prefer something like the layout that is being 
used on fr where the two immediately apparent boxes are the encyclopedia 
topics, and the recent news section.  As long as we are an encyclopedia, 
that point needs to be made prominent.

Ec