[WikiEN-l] oh joy, oh rapture, oh bliss: the userbox wars are reignited

Sat Dec 2 02:52:52 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 12/2/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was kidding. But imagine at the bottom of an article instead of just
>> listing the categories it belonged to in "boring" text each category had its
>> own pretty colored box with some goofy icon.
>>
>> That would be AWESOME.
>>
>> Again, I'm not being serious.
> 
> May not be a bad idea. Something similar happens elsewiki with portals:
> 
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement_des_d%C3%A9mocrates_socialistes
> 
> Note the two portal links down the bottom. Is there a reason we don't
> do this? Personally I never ever see portals, because I never come in
> the front door. Does anyone use portals?
> 

Newspapers occasionally point people to our Cricket portal...

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