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[edit] Suggestions

[edit] August 24th/29th, 2004

Isn't it time for a new one? I vote for Search for the Xindi superweapon, in order to reflect the events of ENT's third season and to prepare for a new one. -- BlueMars 21:17, Aug 24, 2004 (CEST)

Actually, I think I'll go for Maquis this week, since the events category has sort of dominated the box for a while now. I'll do the write-up a bit later. That article I think would be better suited for the week of September 27th, as a recap before the new season. -- Michael Warren | Talk 22:29, Aug 24, 2004 (CEST)
Good idea.. I like thinking that maybe some people will start working at Maquis ship designs here.. There's a lot of conflicting non-canon data that people beleive about the ships, but there's a lot of cool DVD caps coming forward helping us identify just what's going on with those ships (like Chakotay's Ju'day class raider).. -- Captain Mike K. Bartel
Well, whichever it's going to be, it had better be changed quickly, because we are already days behind.
My apologies - some personal issues prevented me from making a good go at this until today. -- Michael Warren | Talk 19:44, Aug 29, 2004 (CEST)

[edit] September 7th, 2004

  • Q - why not? -- Michael Warren | Talk 19:44, Aug 29, 2004 (CEST)
  • Support good Featured article about a interesting and important figure in Trek. Also, I don't know where to add this, but: How do I nominate for AOTW. and what is the policy? Am I even observing proper procedure by placing this vote. I can't find where on MA it says anything about nominations for AOTW. Tobyk777 03:35, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

[edit] September 14th, 2004

[edit] September 21st, 2004

[edit] September 28th, 2004

[edit] October 8th, 2004

[edit] October 15th, 2004

[edit] October 22nd, 2004

[edit] October 29th, 2004

[edit] December 6th, 2004

[edit] December 13th, 2004

[edit] December 20th, 2004

[edit] December 27th, 2004

[edit] Comments

[edit] October 2nd, 2004

I've edited the dates for replacing it, so it will fall on Mondays, start of the week, from now on. Hope that's all right. Now let's hope we'll get around to editing them on time. -- Redge | Talk 10:50, 2 Nov 2004 (CET)

[edit] August 29th, 2004

Why don't we adopt the system used by Wikipedia, using the link {{ArticleOfTheWeek/{{Currentweeknumber}}}} or the likes and creating Article of the Week texts in advance. That way, we'll never be late changing the artcile of the week again. -- Redge | Talk 16:11, 29 Aug 2004 (CEST)

great idea. the current one is becoming an article of the month... again. --BlueMars 18:25, Aug 29, 2004 (CEST)
It was slightly less than two weeks - don't exaggerate. Why don't you try condensing one of these articles down to less than 200 words, and see how difficult it is? -- Michael Warren | Talk 19:44, Aug 29, 2004 (CEST)
On that subject, you might want to condense the current one even further. It's almost half longer than the previous ones. Line breaks isn't a wise course of action either, I'm afraid. Back on topic: I've checked, and there isn't a {{weeknumber}}. Is there another veasable way of getting the msg changed automattically every week? -- Redge | Talk 17:10, 30 Aug 2004 (CEST)
I would suggest removing the last of the three paragraphs from the current Article of the Week. I think it would look better that way. Ottens 11:35, 30 Aug 2004 (CEST)
I can't. The article is extremely complicated, and even this amount of data cutdown is pushing it. The paragraphing was to avoid information loss - ie, having it all crammed together can make readers eyes water :) I have removed it, but you can now see how cluttered the blurb is. It is, in fact, only about five lines longer than the Operation Return blurb. -- Michael Warren | Talk 19:59, Aug 30, 2004 (CEST)

[edit] August 16th, 2004

Since I'm about to change the AOTW, I thought it would be useful to post a list of the featured articles, and strikethrough those that have already been featured, so we don't feature the same one twice in a rotation. (This should be updated as new FAs are added.) -- Michael Warren | Talk 21:33, Aug 16, 2004 (CEST)

[edit] August 4th, 2004

I added some info to the article, since it was a bit to short for such a main event. It din't take more than half the available space on the Main Page. -- Redge 16:19, 4 Aug 2004 (CEST)

[edit] July 25th, 2004

Heads up, its been over a week since the last replacement. -- Redge 14:45, 25 Jul 2004 (CEST)

I noticed this as well.. hopefully i did it appropriately, i chose another featured article to replace it. Could the Equinox summary use anything else, i abbreviated it severely to make it fit this format --Captain Mike K. Bartel 15:05, 25 Jul 2004 (CEST)

[edit] May 16th, 2004

(moved from Portal talk:Main) This is an idea that I've taken from Wikipedia's front page -- I thought it would be cool if, every week, we could feature one article from our infant list of Featured Articles. I've put together a temporary example page to show how the layout might work. What do you guys think of this idea? -- Dan Carlson 15:44, 16 May 2004 (CEST)

It would work better if the area were boxed, and perhaps with a grey background. -- Michael Warren 18:16, 16 May 2004 (CEST)

Okay, I've tried to take your suggestion into consideration, by making all of the tables into the boxed style for the front page. But because the "Featured Articles" table was getting so cramped, I ended up making a separate row for the Article of the Week, and I added another box for the latest episode. (If someone has a better idea for something to put in that box, please speak up!) -- Dan Carlson 16:31, 23 May 2004 (CEST)

The new front page is much improved. However, I have one suggestion. The article of the week summary should have a link directly to the actual article. Currently, the fastest way to get to the entire Khan article would be to go to Featured Articles and then to the Khan article. Just a thought. -K 16:59, 9 Jun 2004 (CEST)

Surely there should be a link to this weeks article included in the write-up! --Steve 16:57, 9 Jun 2004 (CEST)

Gyaah! Thanks for catching that, Steve! ;-) -- Dan Carlson 17:26, 9 Jun 2004 (CEST)

Ehm, guys? The 'article of the week' is getting close to being the article of the month. It's been there for 3 weeks already. Time for a change perhaps? -- Redge 16:14, 18 Jun 2004 (CEST)

Redge, you should try reloading the front page. It's been updated every week! (Granted, I missed the update this week and just did it now, but that's only two days, not three weeks... ;-)) -- Dan Carlson 19:34, 18 Jun 2004 (CEST)
I'm so sorry! I use Opera and I had forgotten that I need to reload the page. You're right, I still had Khan as the article. As a side note: Is there any page or such where we can vote on/nominate articles of the week? Or would that be to much trouble? -- Redge 23:03, 18 Jun 2004 (CEST)
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